New Essential Macro

[StouterTaru]

/micon "Basic Touch"
/ac "Precise Touch" <me>
/ac "Basic Touch" <me>

Works for all crafts, saves finding a place on the hotbar for a new skill, keeps you from accidentally forgetting to use unsaid new skill, and it has never been convicted of a felony.

[Aeyis]

It works without a wait time then? I have something similar, but with a wait time of 2 in case it would otherwise try to activate basic touch.

Ah my bad, thought you ment in use for a longer macro.
Still very useful to have, thanks.

My own macro for longer sequences of crafting:

/ac "Steady Hand II" <wait.2>
/ac "Precise Touch" <wait.2>
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Precise Touch" <wait.2>
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Precise Touch" <wait.2>
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Precise Touch" <wait.2>
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Precise Touch" <wait.2>
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3>

(touch x5)

I havent tested the wait times properly, so im not sure if it can be done with less.
All I know is the above will work for anywhere you want a Precise Touch>Basic Touch.

It will activate Precise Touch if a good condition is present, and otherwise use a Basic Touch in its place.


Edit:
Wait time on the Precise Touch can be lower to 1 it seems. Basic Touch cant be lowered to 1 or it will cause the touches to ''collide and cancel each other''. From one test Basic Touch with a wait time of 2 seems to work.

Im guessing the total wait time for [Precise Touch + Basic Touch] needs to be atleast 3.

[StouterTaru]

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You can just drop the wait time off Precise Touch in your macro, the wait on basic will still happen even if you don't use basic, as long as the syntax is proper for the rest of the macro. The wait 2 only works out because it's under 3 seconds, otherwise you would get all 5 basic plus any precise procs, using some after SH expires.

/ac "Steady Hand II" <me> <wait.2>
/ac "Precise Touch" <me>
/ac "Basic Touch" <me> <wait.3>
/ac "Precise Touch" <me>
/ac "Basic Touch" <me> <wait.3>
/ac "Precise Touch" <me>
/ac "Basic Touch" <me> <wait.3>
/ac "Precise Touch" <me>
/ac "Basic Touch" <me> <wait.3>
/ac "Precise Touch" <me>
/ac "Basic Touch" <me> <wait.3>

edit - and I just realized I can stop using the <me> in macros because they changed abilities to self target when no target is selected about a year ago

[dspguy]

Yeah, if you use two abilities in a row (like in the first post), if the first can't be used, it fires the second. And there really is never a reason to use basic touch if precise touch is usable.

[LineageRazor]

/micon "Basic Touch"
/ac "Precise Touch" <me>
/ac "Basic Touch" <me>

Works for all crafts, saves finding a place on the hotbar for a new skill, keeps you from accidentally forgetting to use unsaid new skill, and it has never been convicted of a felony.

I'd substitute /micon "Precise Touch" for /micon "Basic Touch". The Basic Touch icon doesn't have any special functionality to it, but the Precise Touch icon lights up whenever a Good or Excellent procs. It's helpful to have that reminder available - especially if you use a lot of Hasty Touch.

[Mhalak]

And there really is never a reason to use basic touch if precise touch is usable.

While that's true in a macro, that's not necessarily true if manually using Specialist actions. Suppose Whistle Stack is 7 and Inner Quiet is 5 when Good appears. Precise Touch isn't optimal since it would raise Inner Quiet to 7 and lower Whistle Stack to 6, meaning you'd miss a chance to use Trained Hand. Basic Touch, however, brings Inner Quiet to the same value as the Whistle Stack at 6, allowing use of Trained Hand.

[EvianEverdeen]

So much sadness for only 15 lines of macro commands...

and only 100 macro slots lol

[Katlyna]

I like this macro but I use it simply as:
/micon "Precise Touch"
/macroerror off
/ac "Precise Touch" <me>
/ac "Basic Touch" <me>

For reducing my bar down. I prefer the icon to be Precise Touch so I can clearly see when its procable.