Experiments with macros

[Humorless]

Macro's are bloody awful and you should feel bad for using them.


Stop being a detriment to everyone you party with by lowering your damage for no good reason.

[Arkann]

Macro's are bloody awful and you should feel bad for using them.


Stop being a detriment to everyone you party with by lowering your damage for no good reason.

I haven't tested them in real combat situations (only on a dummy), and they are NOT viable if you want to be really effective at your job, but who knows, someone could find a use to them, or make them better.

Read the bolded and red part...

[Rawrz]

Macro's are bloody awful and you should feel bad for using them.


Stop being a detriment to everyone you party with by lowering your damage for no good reason.

Macros aren't bad. Chaining skills with the wait command are typically the bad parts. I use a bunch of macros to fluidly switch between hotbars! Half the fun in a new class for me is designing a chotbar layout. Intuitive design breeds great results.


I don't have a Ninja, but looking at their skills its not very practical to use a macro like this, but most classes that have skills that are only good using combos work VERY well with switching out for the combos. Imagine on a Dragoon having:

True Thrust = x
Impulse Drive = o
Vorpal Thrust = Triangle
Full Thrust = Up

Using True thrust would make the non macro'd combo skills Vorpal Thrust and Full Thrust appear.

Pressing Impulse Dive would change the button layout to:
True Thrust = x
Impulse Drive = o
Disembowel = Triangle
Chaos Thrust = Up

There is no situation where you can use those skills without first using Impulse Drive. Pressing True Thrust will bring back True Thrust's Combo Rotation. Macro's can really cut down unnecessary clutter, and just keep the game more fluid on a controller. Some people like toggling through hotbars to access their skills, this is just my way! <3