Macro

[Comsix]

How do you sit up macro's with out putting wait in them I seen so many utube vid's and some pic's on web's site;s but I can/t not use skill's with out the wait please explain thank you

[monochromicorn]

For macros, coll down times aren't taken into account, or when you want to say how long something will last (be seek and hallowed ground are 2 examples where a timer is usefull). So, if you wanted to do more than one skill, and wrote the macro like this:

/ac "blizzard 3"
/ac thunder

It would attempt to cast both of them at the same time. By adding the /wait 3, the system will be able to separate the cast times for the 2 spells and it won't result in an error.

This is my post from back when I asked how to make macros:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...to-make-macros

[ExiledOne]

my understanding is that by not including a /wait the macro will only perform the first command if it has a cool down, while it is in cool down pressing the same macro again will activate the next command on list (assuming it has not shared in the cool down)

I found the following site to be helpful:

http://guide-source.com/ffxiv-guide/...g-ffxiv-macros

[Comsix]

ok how are peeps that sit up guide's on macro's getting away with not adding wait 2 the marcos what I seen and read there is no wait
/ac skill <t>
/ac skill <t>
one more thing when I am using the macro after the mob dies the macro won/t shut off it keep's look for <t>
adding the wait handicap's the player waiting for 1 sec for the skill to pop

[monochromicorn]

By nature, macros are prone to error. I spammed my provoke macro 9 times, and it didn't go off once. I add several lines of /ac provoke <t> it does the skill as many times as you put in it, making it less likely to fail. By making my macro with /ac provoke x10, it didn't faik, but came off a bit slow sometimes.

You don't *have* to wait for the /wait to do other skills, if you only want a macro to do swiftcast+raging strikes (blm), then you only have to put in the wait for 1 skill, and as soon as the second goes off you can start casting, or you can interrupt a string of skills/spells at any time with any manual action/movement. Macro will keep going in the background, but if you are already doing something else, it will just error

[Niwashi]

adding the wait handicap's the player waiting for 1 sec for the skill to pop

If this is about GCD (2.5 second) skills, then using macros to string them together does indeed handicap you, not by a full second, but by the extra half second. That's intentional to prevent macros from being as efficient as playing each skill directly.