Macro usage

[Tam_Hawkins]

Hi guys,
I've just started making some macros for myself and wanted to get some Input from the community about one Thing:

/micon deckung
/ac deckung <mo>
/ac deckung <tt>
/ac deckung <t>
/gruppe Deckung used, stay close.

This is one of the macros i made (Deckung=cover), and i wanted to know about the last line.
As I know some people dislike the use of annoying macros (me too) as they spam the Chat and sometimes make some anoying noises.
I planned for some of my macros to give Messages to other party members.
This macros would include: cover, holy ground (when it is triggered and after 10s), clemenz as well as divine veil.

Most of These only give one line of info to make playing together with pugs easier.
My question now: is that already seen as annoying or not?

Another question: as you may see in my example cover will be cast on my mouse over target, my Targets target or my target depending on the situation. would it be possible to get the Name of my target in the one line?
(I know that i can display names with <mo>/<tt>/<t>, but i would like to avoid giving the wrong Name or three different names)

And final question^^:
Is it possible to display the skills info in the macro (when hovering your mouse over it as it happens with the standart skills)

[ElHeggunte]

1) No, as long as it's not a skill you'll use often.

2) I'm not sure I understand this one.

3) No.

[Moonleg]

One of the big annoyances with "I used this skill!" macro is when you add sound effects. Only add sound effects if they are REALLY necessary, like warning macros for boss abilities (think Ramuh Ex, GET ORBS NOW!<se.10>).

When your macro has multiple different possible targets as your example then no, you can't output with 100% certainty who it hits.

[Serilda]

One of the big annoyances with "I used this skill!" macro is when you add sound effects. Only add sound effects if they are REALLY necessary, like warning macros for boss abilities (think Ramuh Ex, GET ORBS NOW!<se.10>).

This. If you PVP I'd also like to add that it would be lovely if you could disable any sound effects (and chat log text) for when you're in a match as it's very disorientating to hear alerts for things which have nothing to do with you sometimes in there. I don't mind sound effects and text alerts when it's something important and relevant, of course.

A lot of PLDs I play with use a text alert for Divine Veil but not for things like Clemency.

[gtfoinstance]

use /wait1 so if you spam something (e.g. cover) the party chat line will only show up once. I like it when people use macros to tell me what they're doing tbh, useful for healers/tanks, not so much dps.

To clarify:
/macro ability here
/wait1
/p using "ability"!

You can spam it and the chat will only appear once.

[Miles_Maelstrom]

use /wait1 so if you spam something (e.g. cover) the party chat line will only show up once. I like it when people use macros to tell me what they're doing tbh, useful for healers/tanks, not so much dps.

To clarify:
/macro ability here
/wait1
/p using "ability"!

You can spam it and the chat will only appear once.

Pretty Clever.

[KeluBehemoth]

use /wait1 so if you spam something (e.g. cover) the party chat line will only show up once. I like it when people use macros to tell me what they're doing tbh, useful for healers/tanks, not so much dps.

To clarify:
/macro ability here
/wait1
/p using "ability"!

You can spam it and the chat will only appear once.

This is what I hate about my macros with notifications

This is good I'll start using this.

[Gilraen]

Well, <se.#> is useful if you're coordinating with someone else, like Silencing a recurring ability (chimera's voices, ADS' High Voltage) so that people can focus on what's going on around them instead of having to look at chat every couple minutes. Aside from that I can see the annoyance of it. And yes, <wait.1> after the action usage is very nice.

[Tam_Hawkins]

Thanks for all the answers^^

1) No, as long as it's not a skill you'll use often.

2) I'm not sure I understand this one.

3) No.

2) I meant that after using the macro a text Comes out saying: "Cover used on [playername], stay Close"
Playername would always be the covered Player no matter if i use mouse over, target or Targets target but it seems that is not possible.

One of the big annoyances with "I used this skill!" macro is when you add sound effects. Only add sound effects if they are REALLY necessary, like warning macros for boss abilities (think Ramuh Ex, GET ORBS NOW!<se.10>).

When your macro has multiple different possible targets as your example then no, you can't output with 100% certainty who it hits.

I'm not planing any sounds in my macro (they really annoy me to)

use /wait1 so if you spam something (e.g. cover) the party chat line will only show up once. I like it when people use macros to tell me what they're doing tbh, useful for healers/tanks, not so much dps.

To clarify:
/macro ability here
/wait1
/p using "ability"!

You can spam it and the chat will only appear once.

Thanks thats a good idea^^

This. If you PVP I'd also like to add that it would be lovely if you could disable any sound effects (and chat log text) for when you're in a match as it's very disorientating to hear alerts for things which have nothing to do with you sometimes in there. I don't mind sound effects and text alerts when it's something important and relevant, of course.

A lot of PLDs I play with use a text alert for Divine Veil but not for things like Clemency.

Not playing pvp but I'll try to remember this in case i ever take it up.