A little macro I like to use. (Video)

[ariaandkia]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v...54467583127110

Macro is at the end of the video because well.. Umm yeah...

Will post to my blog in a bit. (Whenever I can post since it won't let me post right now)

Anyways, it should be a fairly simple macro, but it works pretty well.

[PROBOUND]

Can you explain how and when you use this? How does this help you? Mark all your targets at once? with no priority?

[Spoekes]

I understand it like this:

Mark your targets one time 1-2-3-4.
When target 1 is down, press the macro.

It will mark former target 2 now with 1, former 3 with 2, former 4 with 3... until only 1 is left.

Good effort, but one might aswell just keep the initial numbers.

[PROBOUND]

Ahh i see! Thanks for the tip. I personaly just macro Target 1 to my shield lob (PLD) then once 1 is dead i shield lob the next target. Works well.

[ariaandkia]

Can you explain how and when you use this? How does this help you? Mark all your targets at once? with no priority?

It doesn't actually mark the targets so much as change the markings.

So say you started the battle with all the targets already marked, which I suppose I could show another macro for marking targets quickly. (Though only the first target gets proper priority, the others are semi-random (not a big deal for most encounters)).


=Quick Sign=
/focustarget
/nexttarget
/enemysign attack2 <t>
/nexttarget
/enemysign attack3 <t>
/nexttarget
/enemysign attack4 <t>
/nexttarget
/enemysign attack5 <t>
/enemysign attack1 <f>




Now, I have three versions of the number changer macro obviously. Though I use the same macro and just change it.

The shown version-how it works is say you have 5 targets. They are marked 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Use it once, now it is N (not marked), 1, 2, 3, 4. Again it is N, N, 1, 2, 3. N,N,N,1,2. NNNN1.

I mainly play with DFs and it seems to help people understand which enemy they are supposed to attack without me having to use a marking macro each time.

Now, there are two other versions (More really but let us just say 2).

Second version is more of a cycling. 1 becomes 5, 2 becomes 1, ..., 5 becomes 4. This version is a bit more complicated so I'm not showing it right now since not everyone can use that version.

Other version is pretty much expanded version. Instead of going from Attack 1-5, It goes Attack 1-5, Bind 1-3, (Shapes, Ignore 1-2.

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Now, the main reason I posted this in the first place was because I noticed that people were manually doing this. They'd spend a good say 10 seconds after each kill doing what takes me a moment.

This can also be combined with other things with a few tweaks.

Example: Provoke/shield lob/tomahawk. Mark the target as 1, Change 1 to 2, 2 to 3, 3 to 4, 4 to 5.

=Provokesign=
/enemysign attack5 <attack4>
/enemysign attack4 <attack3>
/enemysign attack3 <attack2>
/enemysign attack2 <t>
/ac "Provoke"
/p (Provoke) -> <attack2>
/s No, <attack2>, I do not bite my thumb at you, <attack2>, but I bite my thumb, <attack2>.
/p Give me a moment to get aggro on <attack2>


=Lob Sign=
/enemysign attack5 <attack4>
/enemysign attack4 <attack3>
/enemysign attack3 <attack2>
/enemysign attack2 <attack1>
/enemysign attack1 <t>
/ac "Shield Lob"
/p Please attack <attack1> marked 1 first.


That being said, it CAN be used to designate targets as well with a few minor changes, but it wouldn't be automatic (though it might still be faster than manually doing them on a ps4, it wouldn't be faster than the macro that prioritizes one target and then selects 4 random ones). This macro you designate from the last to the first.


=Mob Numbers=
/enemysign cross <square>
/enemysign square <triangle>
/enemysign triangle <circle>
/enemysign circle <stop2>
/enemysign ignore2 <stop1>
/enemysign ignore1 <bind3>
/enemysign bind3 <bind2>
/enemysign bind2 <bind1>
/enemysign bind1 <attack5>
/enemysign attack5 <attack4>
/enemysign attack4 <attack3>
/enemysign attack3 <attack2>
/enemysign attack2 <attack1>
/enemysign attack1 <t>