A light party clears Twintania (and macro icon question)

[Morningstar1337]

http://youtu.be/_anqI7oY7nc

Okay So a Light Party actually managed to suceed where 99% of full parties flailed; defeating Twintania. an aimpressive feat I;m but the video showed me something interesting...

On the upper right of the Tank HUD, you'll noticed that there's a macro with the icon fr the skill "Convert" However the icon isn't darkened (despite the fact that job abilities can't be crossclassed) or showing the HP cost. The question is: How can I configure the macros so that the cooldown and hp/mp/tp costs don't show? (like the Convert Macro seen in the video)

[Maarkyrus]

I think that would be a macro made before square enix removed the ability to use skill icons for your custom macros. I have a few of those still and they don't show any costs nor do they show the cooldown. Why they removed those icons is beyond me.

[Gilraen]

They removed them because they didn't show costs or cooldowns. Had to use /echo to tell you when the abilities in the macro were ready, or have the pictured skill on your bar somewhere. /micon is superior in every way and I never make a macro without it. Now if only /micon would work multiple times in the same macro...

[Edenholt]

Okay So a Light Party actually managed to suceed where 99% of full parties flailed; defeating Twintania. an aimpressive feat I;

Not trying to be a party pooper but check their gear and the dmg they're doing. They overgear this NERFED fight by far and their dmg is way above what the avarage raid team PROGRESSING throught T5 do, or at least the same amount what a full raid should be doing. Nice they did it, but nothing much of a "feat", sorry.

[Morningstar1337]

They removed them because they didn't show costs or cooldowns...

WTF? That's the kind of macro icons I want to use. (paticulay for different-classed/PvP abilities since tost cannot be lit in any other way)

[CrowRider]

WTF? That's the kind of macro icons I want to use. (paticulay for different-classed/PvP abilities since tost cannot be lit in any other way)

They never removed them...

They just changed it to... /macroicon "<move's name>"

[Morningstar1337]

They never removed them...

They just changed it to... /macroicon "<move's name>"

Okay I know that. It;d just that I'm a little disappointed that they always stay perpetualy dark because the class can't use (in because out in PvE in certain cases) While I understand the need for the costas and cooldown on amcros I wish there was an option to remove them for macros that don't need/have cooldowns (Like gearset macros)

[PArcher]

Oh no, 4 people who can farm T9, all probably in full i110, can clear T5.

TBH, I'm not terribly impressed. Gear alone probably puts them at the same damage output as a full party in i90...then add the Echo, which is another 20% boost. Then add the fact that they know exactly what they're doing...Heck, the only real difference to what they're doing is they're down 2 DPS. I know a bunch of people who have solo-healed/been in solo-healed T5 before (in maybe i97 gear [was a few months ago I saw this the most]...and I was asked to solo-heal it once, with my i90 SCH...didn't try it), so its not something I haven't seen.

It may make for a good video, but isn't something to really brag about IMO. If they removed the Echo and did it, however...

EDIT: If I were in a T9 farm group I'd probably do something like this just for fun. But yeah...its not as impressive as it initially sounds.


EDIT2: I've always used /micon even when they had the old icons; was always annoyed at their lack of showing cool-downs on the macros.

[Sessurea]

Gotta love the " is this on Excalibur?" comment xD

Odin ftw baby <3

[SeleneVenizelos]

In 2.28 they made macros show their icon regardless of ability availability. Before this, the macro would show the default M icon if you weren't on the job that can use the icon's ability. Any macro can use any icon now and this macro in the video won't actually be a convert macro. It will be a generic macro that just has that icon without "/action Convert" anywhere in it. One of my macros on Dragoon uses Flare as it's icon and is always lit. The moment I add "/action "Flare"" into it, the icon darkens because Flare, the macro's icon, is not available on Dragoon.

TL;DR: Icons only darken if the icon's skill is in the macro and unavailable on your current job.

And about the video: It's a nice battle and they did a good job. Do we really need to find reasons to hate on it?