Setting up chat to show when shield falls off?

[animeprime]

Is there any way to set up chat so when it says "You shield arm falls" its a different color? I used to do this in FFXI to know when debuffs were gone. If that doesn't work does anyone have tips on keeping track of it going up and down? Also, I've been trying to turn some chat features off so there isn't clutter, does anyone know which ones tells you your shield goes down. Like "beneficial effects on you ends"

[Ferth]

At somepoint in the future the function of having to activate your shield via the guard ability is going to be removed... I haven't looked too much into changing the font color for it... if you've looked and haven't found it then probably not, but if you can wait it out soon you won't need to worry about it.

[animeprime]

Yeah, I didn't know if that was in 1.19 or later on. Is there anyway to show when you block an attack?

[Big-Beach]

Don't remember the exact chat text category it falls under, but here's a trick. Enable all battle text then engage a creature. Use Guard to ensure that you block at least once. Then, when the battle is over, go into your chat log configuration screen and switch hide/display each individual battle text category until you find the one that hides the red text showing "You block something something's attack for...". The reason you can do this is because the chat log updates right away. This also works for trying to identify which category shows the "Your shield arm falls" green text.

Something else you could try is setting up a Guard macro that works like:

/ac "Guard" <me>
/wait 10
/t Your Name Your shield arm is down. Son I am disappoint.
/echo By the way your shield is down in case you missed the last message.
/s Third warning!

What that does is after it activates Guard, it will wait 10 seconds* and then send you a tell, which appears in pink so it might be more visible. You can also use echo for a blue system message that only you can see, or regular say but that could get annoying. Hope this helps.

You can modify the wait time up to 60 seconds; however I don't think there any shields that have such a one minute wield rate...

Lodestone Macro Page:
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...e/macro01.html

[animeprime]

Thanks alot, that will help a good deal!