Dragoon Macros

[seekified]

I don't use macros either. For one, it's inefficient and produces terrible DPS, but I'm pretty sure I'd find it to detract from the fun of the job. I play with a controller (on PC though) and I have all the Lancer skills on the main crossbar in the order they were unlocked while levelling up, with the jumps and crossclass skills on a second bar. Perhaps not the best setup, but it's become so firmly ingrained in muscle memory between closed beta and present day that changing anything for me would mean performing like crap for a week.

I'm actually hoping we get more off-GCD attacks in 3.0, there's not enough stuff to do inbetween the GCD for the second and fourth TTT combos. I'll also redo my crossbar setup once I hit 60 and figure out what to do with the new skills.

[Krindor]

I use 1-5 for TTT, HT and Phle
QER for CT combo
CTRL+Shift 1-5 QERT for oGCD skills like jump and BfB. I feel that anything further than 5 is too much och a stretch.
But it is all depending on what you personally feel is comfortable as you can see that most people have different setups

[JimboTCB]

Thrust rotation on 234, heavy on 5.

Chaos Thrust rotation on shift + 234, phlebotomy on shift + 5

OGCDs and jumps on F1-F4 and shift combinations thereof. Other stuff scattered around depending on how much you use it.

Really you just need to play around and find a setup that works for you, then practise like crazy until it becomes a matter of muscle memory.

[Alice_89th]

I use the NUM Keypad (NUM1-9, /, *, -)

1,2,3: TT, VT, FT
4,5,6: HT, Ph, empty
7,8,9: ID, Dis, CT
/,*,-: RoT, PT, Sweep

Ctrl+numlock: buffs and jumps
alt+numlock: only has doomspike, life surge, and power surge atm.

[spelley]

My setup is as follows, using a gaming mouse with 6 mouse number keys. I currently set things up so that most of the oGCD skills are on the mouse for easy weaving, and main combos are in easy to access places. Jumps/Limit Breaks/AoEs are on "harder to reach" buttons because they are less common and I should have time between using them to re-position my hand.:

Main Combo
1 - True Thrust
2 - Vorpal Thrust
3 - Full Thrust

Buff/Debuff
4 - Heavy Thrust
5 - Phleb

Emergency
6 - Mercy Stroke (oGCD)
7 - Bloodbath (oGCD)

Second Combo
Q - Impulse Drive
E - Disembowel
R - Chaos Thrust

oGCDs
M1 - Leg Sweep (oGCD)
M2 - Jump (oGCD)
M3 - Blood for Blood (oGCD)
M4 - Life Surge (oGCD)
M5 - Power Surge (oGCD)
M6 - Internal Release (oGCD) (I currently have Doom Spike here)

Jumps
Ctrl+1 - Elusive Jump (oGCD)
Ctrl+2 - Spineshatter Dive (oGCD)
Ctrl+3 - Dragonfire Dive (oGCD)

Limit Break
Ctrl+5 - Limit Break

AoE
Shift+1 - Doom Spike
Shift+2 - Ring of Thorns

[Syfer22]

I like that layout, Midlander. Maybe I'll try something similar once I figure out how to re-do everything. Thanks so much for the replies so far guys, it's really helping me out!

I haven't gamed like this in quite some time, so I'm still feeling it in my thumb since I took away the macros yesterday. I know a lot of it is finding something that works for me and practicing, but picking your brains and seeing what you do is giving me some ideas to make myself more efficient.

[Spayd]

I'll follow the trend, here's my hud!
Hud!

I basically only use 1 to 5 for TTT, HT and SSD, and you can see some M5-M4-*M5 those are my side mouse button, for CT combo and jump. Otherwise, i click everything else!

[Evantide]

I'm a little curious, if you use the other offensive abilties between the macro cast times, how would that harm your dps?

For ex: if you have it set wait 2 seconds between abilties, and use a non macro attack that doesnt share the same cool down timer between the preset macro abilities, then you would essentially be attacking non stop.

[Maero]

I will say my same reply as the Nin Macro thread, macros for dps in general are a bad idea as you are gimping yourself of dps

[m3eansean]

I'm a little curious, if you use the other offensive abilties between the macro cast times, how would that harm your dps?

For ex: if you have it set wait 2 seconds between abilties, and use a non macro attack that doesnt share the same cool down timer between the preset macro abilities, then you would essentially be attacking non stop.

It doesn't work Evantide. For one, you dont have enough off GCD skills to fill the gaps in your rotation. For two, there is no one who has a GCD wait time of 2, if they do, they are gimping themselves with way too much skill speed. Your GCD is probably something like 2.38 - so your wait time of 2, will immediately be rounded up to 3 by the game, so you are taking 3 seconds between each skill, where a manual player can get it exactly at 2.38 everytime if they hit the buttons early, as the server is "queueing" your request for action. This queue does not happen with macros either.