Help with Ninja Mudras

[Zufferia]

First off I know its frowned on to use macros for your ninjutsu's (and a dps loss besides) but I was wondering if there was a way to macro the individual mudras with something like a stop command. I am a compulsive button masher when it comes to having skills go off due to lag and this is biting me in the ass when it comes to mudra combos. Is there a way to set up a macro that allows the cast of a mudra but prevents you from doing it a second time in a row? This would help me endlessly with not fluffing my ninjutsu.

[Ashelia_Ferron]

Theoretically yes, but the problem would be you would need another button to reverse the stop.

The best way to implement a stop is to have a macro where after you press it, it performs the action but then takes off the action from your hotbar at the same time (hence you need another macro that puts them back)

[Zufferia]

So say I have the mudra set to f1-f4 with f4 being the ninjutsu ability, would it be possible to set it up so that as I press the order for Huton to have the keys disable themselves as pressed and have using Ninjutsu to finish and cast it reactivate them all for use when the cool down finishes?

[NintenPyjak64]

I had the same issue you have. I was, and still am, a button masher. This habit kept making me screw up Ninjutsu and only made me angry, when I had enough I decided to physically fix the issue.

Just train yourself to not press F1-3 or F3-1 more then once without the use of macros (That coupled with PingZapper really helped me out.) It takes some getting used to but once you do you'll be firing off successful Ninjutsu without messing up because you pressed one more then once. Good luck

[Viridiana]

I mean, training yourself not to would be best, but a macro like this should work:

/ac "Ten" <me>

Should activate Ten, and not queue it if you mash, so long as you don't hit it again after the .5s CD is up. Do one for each of the three buttons and it should save you from double-tap issues. The only resulting issue is that they won't queue at all with this, so you'll be losing fractions of a second per combo, but that's better than losing a full ninjutsu…

[Aiselia]

I think the biggest problem if you use something to disable/remove the thing from your bar would be that if you hit the button too early and it doesn't use the action, it will continue to the next step regardless. Like, say you're trying to cast Suiton with Ten > Chi > Jin, and you hit Ten but hit Chi just a bit too early, it won't queue Chi or use it but will go on to the next step and remove it. Then you'd have to hit your macro button that puts the skills back then try again. If you've macroed that to your Ninjutsu button, then you're using Fuma instead of Suiton.

[Rongway]

There is a way to make all jutsus always be a basic ALT(1-2-3-4) (for example).

Example: Huton macro

/micon Huton
/hotbar action Jin 3 1
/hotbar action Chi 3 2
/hotbar action Ten 3 3
/hotbar action Ninjutsu 3 4

When the Huton macro executes, bar 3, buttons 1 through 4 will become Jin-Chi-Ten-Ninjutsu.

The Huton button itself will not perform any actions, and because of this, can be used in the same manner as an off cooldown ability to prime your four ninjutsu buttons for the next use.

So when your jutsu is several seconds away from being ready again, you hit the Huton button at any convenient point in your combo to change the buttons to the right configuration. When ninjutsu is ready again, you just do a 1 2 3 4, no matter what the desired jutsu is.

For jutsus with fewer than three mudras, fill the extra slots with Ninjutsu.

Example: Katon macro

/micon Katon
/hotbar action Chi 3 1
/hotbar action Ten 3 2
/hotbar action Ninjutsu 3 3
/hotbar action Ninjutsu 3 4

This method eliminates the problem of lost time that arises when using wait macros, and does not cost any cooldown time whatsoever.
I know it doesn't eliminate the problem of compulsive over-mashing, but it should be easier to train yourself not to overmash if you make every single ninjutsu a simple 1-2-3-4 combo.

For more details on the /hotbar command, type
/? hotbar