Astrologian Draw Macros

[Superlol]

How can you add all those macros to one macro (so it could be on the same buttom with draw)

[VanilleFang]

But... Its not that hard to remember what they do. It took me like 5 minutes. I looked at them, labeled them by colour, went into a fight and pulled Arrow and since its blue I forgot what it did exactly (between that and the Spear), so I checked again and was like "Well, their names make it easy" and since then I've remembered what they all do.

It would be helpful for everyone else who doesn't know, but imo it doesn't really matter because you are playing it on them and they should just accept that.

[Seezur_Undies]

Healer's motto:

"There's a time to take damage. There's a time to deal it. There's a time to ignore all else and do your best to heal it... Then there's a time to laugh while they all BURN."

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[Buff_Archer]

How can you add all those macros to one macro (so it could be on the same buttom with draw)

Actually these are seperate macros (one per card) that are on a seperate crossbar I can flip to really fast. The regular unmacro'd Draw command exists by itself on my main crossbar so I can use it to draw, and then use it again to use the card without having to use one of the macros to use the card if I don't feel like it.

And I agree it's not that hard to remember what these cards do, but I've heard from others who haven't played AST but have run dungeons with one that they seem to get random buffs and don't know what they are. When I did a dungeon as machinist I recognized like The Balance when I had it played on me as Damage Up, or when the Tank had The Bole, but if someone in a party has The Spear or The Arrow played on them and they don't have Astrologer, they probably won't know what that even means or get them mixed up without mousing over the symbol next to their name in combat. I figure eventually what these cards mean will be second nature to Astrologers and people in parties with them and at that point these would become obsolete.

As for how it's helpful to know what's cast on you- if you get the one to make TP cost go down 20% (Spire) you might increase utilization of high TP skills like Wide Volley on bard... or if you get the Spear and know your recast is shortened, might be a good time to use Enkindle on SMN with its long cool-down. So the message that goes to the party for that in the macro I use when I draw the Spear and play it says '... cooldowns on abilities you use during next 15s are 20% shorter'.

[Roxas_Andrade]

And I thought it was a nightmare when I macroed all my mudras... #EpicFail

Well, using macros for the draw skill seems too dificult, but maybe if you use them on that skill that holds the card indefinitely... (I think it's spare or something)

But my advice is: Don't try to make it more complicated than it already is. Macros are there to make it easy...