Help needed with Bard Macros Please :)

[JalapenioCheetoes]

My old macros just are not doing enough damage anymore. Does anyone have and are willing to share a good rotation and macros for level 60 Bard?

Thanks

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Macros tend to lower your dps, I don't use them on any of my jobs.

[Gilraen]

A macro I use is to put Battle Voice with the three main songs. No /waits, the idea being you spam the button you put the macro on twice. If Battle Voice is ready, it's used and if not, it's not. Another arguably vital macro is announcing when you use Blunt Arrow. Put a /p then a /wait 1 then Blunt Arrow. This helps when timing Silence actions with other players. As for rotations... you have 2-4 main attacks you're going to be doing with the off-attacks every so often so it's really pointless to macro attacks.

[Tigerlilyb]

A macro I use is to put Battle Voice with the three main songs. No /waits, the idea being you spam the button you put the macro on twice. If Battle Voice is ready, it's used and if not, it's not. Another arguably vital macro is announcing when you use Blunt Arrow. Put a /p then a /wait 1 then Blunt Arrow. This helps when timing Silence actions with other players. As for rotations... you have 2-4 main attacks you're going to be doing with the off-attacks every so often so it's really pointless to macro attacks.

Another way might be a macro with blunt arrow, then wait 1 and {Just used it.} A wait 1 before blunt arrow might make you miss the ability you were trying to silence in the first place. I love the idea of the battle voice macros though.

[Gilraen]

Eheh, yeah, had that backwards. ^,^ The /wait is to keep you from spamming chat while you spam Blunt Arrow.

[bounddreamer]

I have a lot of problems getting some of my macros to fire properly, probably latency issues as others have surmised. Best solution, sadly, is to not macro your skills together.

[KonaMochi]

here are some I use:

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Here's how my bar looks:

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I only use macros because i use controller- it helps to keep me from using too many of the crossbars (I have three that I use as a bard- this one, one for songs and anoher for misc things like my chocobo bars and items). I keep one hotbar on, so I know when my cooldowns are avalible to use.

Ive been told I have decent dps for a bard by various FC members. Maybe not OPBard (Ive seen some bards pull 5k on some attacks), but decent enough to where you wont have any problems with any of the content, so long as you know how to move with wander's on.


(Disclaimer: Ofcourse, I dont know how well these will work when placing latency into the equation. I have the luxury of living "relatively close" to the NA datacenter and I have decent wifi to play the game. I can use these with easy in movement heavy fights like titan ex unsync, and other HW bosses who have alot of aoes in their fight. Use at your own discretion and experiment! GL.)

[Aethaeryn]

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What's the point of the venomous/wind bite one? O_o It's mostly going to default to using VB first since there's no cooldown beyond gcd. Does it work without capitalizing the first letter of each word?

Anyway, OP: I'd recommend steering away from the habit of using macros for most things. The only ones I have on bard are for buffs (Raging Strikes, Hawk Eye, Blood for Blood, Internal Release--all on one macro) because of my bad wrist, but even then they fire off in the wrong order sometimes, and then it ruins my opener. If your ping isn't really low, you also really don't want macros on attacks because they don't take advantage of the game's skill queue system.

I guess if you're not doing savage, it doesn't really matter...In which case, you can still use the misery's end > bloodletter > heavy shot one (or bloodletter after heavy shot...? bloodletter is better to use before heavy shot now with WM, right? My bard is an alt character, so I don't play it beyond roulettes/alex ;; ), but I can't think of anything else that's really helpful for bard.

[AskaRay]

Here's my list of bard macros:




Yep there you go. I used to have the skills macrod with songs/BV but I gave up on that. No point.
I ALSO use a controller so space is no issue for me...all my skills fit on One main crossbar, one extended crossbar (that's eight slots instead of sixteen), and about half of a second crossbar (songs and aoe stuff)

As soon as you get used to switching (which I don't do most of the time since..... it's either AOEing or I need a song, so rarely) then you are golden.

[KonaMochi]

What's the point of the venomous/wind bite one? O_o It's mostly going to default to using VB first since there's no cooldown beyond gcd. Does it work without capitalizing the first letter of each word?

It works...on occasion. Even I still have trouble with this one.
I mostly only made it for the influx of new HW abilities and trying to make everything fit on two crossbars.
There are times in where it'll work, with windbit hitting first and then venom, but that's still just a 1/3 chance.
I still keep windbite on the crossbar, just incase it fails.
Works nicely when it does work tho- one less button press.

As for the capitalizing- I do beieve it doesnt matter if it's been capped or not. So long as it's spelled right.
I generally dont have any issues with my macros(aside from the venomwind one.)