Yonko, your pre-battle macro is identical to mine except I cast protect then stoneskin. It's invaluable, but I can't tell you how many times people rush out of range before I can get stoneskin on them (or maybe it doesn't cross their minds), so I figure I get protect on them immediately as soon as the lasso (or whatever that circle is called) drops away. Yeah, I didn't go into the 8 party macro only because the WHM I have is only LVL 43, so no 8's for me yet. That said, I'm working on it. I need more buttons on my PS4 controller interface. LOL.