so I got kicked today for...

[XxSliphxX]

Dude, you do you and if you want to role play you do it till your hearts content. people are to damn sensitive now a days, if they are "annoyed" with your macros then ignore it and move, and if they kick you that's against TOS, you pay monthly for the game.

Yea no. I pay for this game just like they do. I should not have to be FORCED to be subjected to your annoying rp emote spam because YOU want to force that on me. It's not rp way or the highway. You could just as simply stop doing it instead of being an ass to everyone else because little Johnny wants everyone to know he's throwing magic missile into the darkness over and over.

[Musashidon]

throwing magic missile into the darkness over and over.

i got a ogre slaying knife!

[Atlaworks]

I have friends who do these RP macros. They're kind of embarrassing to party with in DF runs and all, but it's not too bad unless it's a very commonly used skill. In fact, for some things like Berserk, Raise, and limit breaks, it's possibly even helpful. But, those common ones...

Please don't macro text about how you marked a target and you should attack it to your marking macro if you're a tank. I will know what to attack by the number above it's head without you shouting sound effects and "helpful" text in my face every 7 seconds. Please don't talk about how you're The Mothercrystal's Shining Shield of Justice every time you use Flash, or I will want to punch you in the fathercrystals.

[Gamer3427]

That's nothing. I was running WoD once and got a really bad group. We very nearly wiped during the Ahriman fight, and the only reason we didn't is because I had to spend most of the fight reviving our healers and tanks, (across the entire alliance), rather than DPSing. We managed to make it through the fight in the end though without wiping, (somehow). And less than a second after, I got kicked. Why? (As I found out from a friend of mine I had went in with who didn't get kicked, thank you Linkshells.) Because I didn't get all of the hourglasses killed at one point when there were only about 5 DPS up across the entire Alliance. No one got killed by the hourglasses, and I managed to swiftcast revive one of the healers in my party right before the countdown on the hourglasses ran out. This was the only time I've legitimately rage quit a game, as I logged out for a few hours after I had been told why I was kicked.......

EDIT: Not really on topic that much, I know. I just felt like venting a bit......

EDIT2: On topic, the only text macros I use are for Resurrection, (mine is literally just "Reviving <t>"), and Convalescence. And I only ever use Convalescence if I'm below half health, and the macro on it is basically just saying that if anyone is free to heal me, any heals on me are boosted temporarily. I'm thinking about shortening my Convalescence one though, as sometimes I have to hit the button twice due to it not activating the skill properly sometimes, yet still displaying the text. I really wish there was a check in place, (in the form of a simple "did previous action activate" Yes/No with a different path for each), that would keep text from activating unless the skill itself activates first. It would cut down on a lot of accidental macro spam. I've seen more than a few people who accidentally press a button and even though the skill doesn't activate, the text pops up. It's pretty common with revive macros in particular it seems......

[KisaiTenshi]

So I never been kicked before in FF14 .....so I Rp with my character and for one move I use macro to say an attack. The tank gets mad and says i need to turn it off and "saying this isn't naruto." I don't respond im playing the dungeon fine...and then i get kicked. and before I get kicked he says "something party kick no jutsu."

So I report him b/c I think for the most party the ff14 is great and don't want want people like him ruining this community esp. with the exp around the corner. I send him a tell telling that i reported him and that people should play they want to play. Its a fantasy game for godsake.

RP Macros are annoying and you should realize that.

The only "chat" macros you should have are ones that other players need to pay attention to. Mainly Raise/Resurrect, and Virus. because otherwise those casts are wasted if someone else does it. DPS have generally no reason to do this.

[Ashkendor]

RP Macros are annoying and you should realize that.

The only "chat" macros you should have are ones that other players need to pay attention to. Mainly Raise/Resurrect, and Virus. because otherwise those casts are wasted if someone else does it. DPS have generally no reason to do this.

I'd tend to agree. There's no reason to have a macro announcing you're using Dragonfire Dive any more than there's a reason for a BLM to announce that they're using Flare. There hasn't even really been a use for a Blunt Arrow/Spirits Within macro since the days of High Voltage being an actual big deal in T1 and T2. Extraneous text in the chat box is distracting.

@OP - I understand that you enjoy RP, but you should similarly understand that not everyone does. :3

[RiceisNice]

If you're going to continue using a macro regardless of when people ask you to stop, you're more or less doing it just to spite them. Combine that with a bad temperament or a sour mood (and I drift into this occasionally), something's going to give.

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There has to be more behind this reasoning, otherwise everyone else would've gotten kicked. I mean I remember you wanting to play as arcanist with a topaz carlbuncle. You could've been the outler on overall damage output that you did even less than the people that were dead.

[Gamer3427]

There has to be more behind this reasoning, otherwise everyone else would've gotten kicked. I mean I remember you wanting to play as arcanist with a topaz carlbuncle. You could've been the outler on overall damage output that you did even less than the people that were dead.

I do still play as an Arcanist, and I do still use Topaz. Even so, my DPS was still well above half the other DPS in the party. My guess on the matter is that they simply assumed that my DPS was so much lower because of that, and didn't even consider that it was because half the alliance was dead that caused the failure to kill the hourglasses. I did manage to kill one of them solo while the other DPS were working on the other two in that instance, but we were too slow over all to kill the fourth.....

EDIT: I should say "well above half the other DPS, even with me spending most of my time reviving everyone"......

EDIT2: Either way, it seems to me that they simply wanted to blame someone for something, and I was kicked unjustly after having spent the entire fight trying to save the rest of the group.....

[RiceisNice]

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You're still not helping the overall situation though is what I'm saying. Maybe you wouldn't have been too slow if you had access to summoner abilties and used an actual dps pet. In the end when it boils down to that, you're a dps that's not dpsing. I mean you even know this and admitted that you'd run into problems, you should be expecting this sort of flank for playing an arcanist with topaz; I don't understand why you find the need to need to vent about that after getting kicked for purposely not pulling your weight.

You would've probably saved the group anyway if you were pulling your weight in damage to get those hourglasses down with the occasional raises (because a summoner can raise just as well as an arcanist) . The bottom line is that you're not more than likely not capable of so because you don't have the means to.

[Gamer3427]

Words.

I'm honestly tired of trying to defend my DPS. I still do far more DPS in my current play style than most of the SMNs and BRDs I've seen, as well as a good portion of the NIN I'm constantly having to raise. You're assuming that I have the lowest DPS simply because of my role is part of the problem I'm getting at. I may have lower potential DPS than others, but in practice I put out more than most, because I take the time to learn and study my rotation, and put out full effort when implementing it, rather than the way most DPS play. I'm also consistently one of the last if not the last person alive when groups I'm in face a full party wipe. This is in no small part thanks to the defensive and healing buffs that my style offers me in comparison to others......

EDIT: My point in this is that I'm starting to get quite annoyed with people such as you that completely dismiss an idea because it's "not how it's done", without giving it a fair chance. The bottom line is that while I may end up having issues with content I've yet to try, so far with the content I have tried, I've seen very few SMNs who can outdo me in an actual run, and with the exception of maybe one or two, that is purely in burst DPS rather than consistent survivability and constant DPS throughout the run. If I do have issues in content later on, then I'll cross that bridge when I come to it......

About the above post: What about SCH? (since they're the mostly healer counterpart to SMN)

I do in fact use SCH as a secondary class when I'm running the DF on old dungeons to speed it up, or when I'm helping friends with their relics. But after trying to heal WoD with a bad group once. Never again.......

EDITING THIS IN HERE BECAUSE I'VE REACHED MY DAILY POST LIMIT:

the adds will do evil eye which will chunk your party if they don't die fast enough.[/B]

It wasn't the adds that were killing people. It was the Light/Dark switch, and the Doomgaze. We didn't even get the adds out before half the group was down......