Macro Target's name in chat

[LellRyosuke]

So I've noticed a lot of healers now are using custom macros for healing people that announce what they are doing and who they are doing it to. usually with some extra flair that makes sound cool. Ex: "Don't you die on me (player name here)!!!"

Was wondering how to do that myself. Or rather how do you Macro a targets name to show up in the chat bar. I've looked all over and can't find an answer to this anywhere.

Any help would be useful. Plz and thank you.

[Rasferian]

I'm not really an expert in macros, but it probably has something to do with setting up a macro that does something like revives a player using the raise skill, and then somehow adding a code that adds a chat message in whenever you use that macro.

I don't know how to program macros myself, but if what I said puts you on the right track, then yay?

[Grayve]

Use /p to send messages to chat. For the name, just use <t>. "Don't you die on me, <t>!" IIRC

[AniCelestine]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest.../text_command/ Go there and look for "Place holders" tab, there's everything targetting/inserting a name to chat related commands.

i.e If I have a played called Jackie Chan targetted and I type <t> in my chat. When I press enter the game changes the <t> into Jackie Chan.

[LellRyosuke]

Thanks for the help. I'll try that. ^__^ this was really nagging me.

[Buff_Archer]

By the way you can also use party slot numbers to pull player names, though this wouldn't make sense in a revive macro since you don't know in advance who you're reviving. But if you type out something in party chat and want to reference player 3 in your list for example, if you type <3> you get their name and ppl assume you actually typed it super fast. Also if you're a healer and have skills you only cast on the tank, you can make the tank be in slot <2> by default and cast it on them without targeting them. So a macro that does this:
/ac "Eye for an Eye" <2>
/ac "Eye for an Eye" <t>

Will cast on tank if no one is targeted, and will cast on target instead if you choose a target. You can even have a macro throw a sign like <bind2> and then cast on <bind2> as target, there's tons of options a lot of people don't take advantage of.

[Niwashi]

/ac "Eye for an Eye" <2>
/ac "Eye for an Eye" <t>

Will cast on tank if no one is targeted, and will cast on target instead if you choose a target.

I think you got those the other way around. In order to cast on your target when you have a (valid) target, the <t> line should come first. Then let it default down to <2> on the second line of the macro for when you don't have anything targeted or have an enemy targeted.

But you're quite right on your overall point about how flexible these macro options are.

[LellRyosuke]

thanks this is a very useful.