PLD Macro help

[dragonseth07]

Hello! I'm well past the limit of how many buttons I have the dexterity to press on my keyboard, so I've started some macro work. I was hoping somebody could help me out.

/ac "Shield Bash"
/ac "Shield Lob"
/ac "Cover"

So, I was trying to figure out how to do macro conditions like I'm used to in WoW, but no dice. So, this is the closest I could come up with. Since it goes line by line, Bash has priority over Lob. So, if my target is in melee, I will bash. If not, I will Lob. If my target is friendly, neither will fire and I will use Cover. I've tested it in a few runs, and it seems to work perfectly. Is there a way to cram more out of this?

/ac "Fight or Flight"
/ac "Bloodbath"

I tried forever to get these to pop together, to find that I can't animation cancel, so no dice again. I originally tried a wait command, but that didn't work out. The best solution I've found so far has been this, and mashing the button to get both off. It's not elegant. Is there a better way?

[Launched]

Get rid of your macros, they work horribly in this game.

[Jpec07]

Unfortunately you can't make actions work together. Every action has an animation lock, and only very few oGCD actions can break the animations of GCD actions.

For the Bloodbath one, you'll need to add a wait call in there:

/ac "Fight or Flight" <wait>
/ac Bloodbath

That way you can either hit it once and let it do both CDs, or you can spam it until both actions fire. But keep in mind: any action or macro you fire while this is running will exit the macro.

I don't believe they've added logical statements to the macro language, unfortunately, so what you have there is probably the best bet. You can specify the target of your ability with relation to yourself, your current target, or your focus target, but that can get tricky.

Get rid of your macros, they work horribly in this game.

NO U

Besides, it's a bit rude to tell someone not to use something when they're asking how to use it.

[aleph_null]

NO U

Besides, it's a bit rude to tell someone not to use something when they're asking how to use it.

To be fair it's true though, macro is bad for gcd skills, and rather clunky even for ogcd skills. It might be due to my latency (~70ms) but I don't have much luck with double weaving ogcds when one of them is on a macro.

[The_NPC]

Macro'ing some moves for space or funcional use is a shound idea just don't go making 1 for an actual combo (like fast blade-savage-RoH)

My PLD macro's are for 2 def cd's, 1 attack buff, 1 AoE arrgo & 1 Ranged arrgo recover (only 2 of with use the /wait 1 inbetween, thats the arrgo recover & AoE arrgo) these 5 are:

Convelence/Foresight (2nd press used to activare Forsight)
Bulwark/Awaerness (2nd press for Awaerness)
Fight or Flight/Bloodbath (2nd press for Bloodbath)
Provoke/Shield lob (uses wait macro to auto-use 2nd)
Circle of Scorn/Flash (uses wait marco to auto-use 2nd)

I find "not" using the wait macro for atk/def buff moves more useful as I can eather faster use or not use the 2nd & the pairing of each buff macro is based on their repective recast timers thou awaerness does have a slightly short recast timer than Bulwark. the 2 /wait users are for ease of use in a pinch (u gota use arrgo move after Provoke anyway & u can't predict the distance all the time, plus I use a controller so I put Shield lob & cut the marco I found to make it down my 1 skill) & yes I still have flash on my hotbar anyway I just macro'd 1 to Scorn for ease when AoE arrgoing in my early tank days & never saw a need to remove it.

[Rongway]

Waits are a very bad idea for several reasons. Ignoring the obvious arguments of macros at all interfering with the action queue, there are no guarantees that an action sequence macro will perform all of its actions. This means far more than 0.1s lost if your sequential actions don't fire.

The above two macros combining Provoke with Shield Lob and Circle of Scorn with Flash could just as easily remove the wait and require two button presses, since the first action in each case is an oGCD ability.

For the OP's macro combining Fight or Flight with Bloodbath, the same is applies. Don't use waits. Just hit the button twice.

[Warkupo]

You shouldn't use macros for global cooldown (GCD) abilities since a macro cannot be queue'd, which means that you will be significantly slower at executing actions.

Macros are fine for non-gcd cooldown actions like Sentinel, Bloodbath, or Fight or Fight though since those actions are optimally preformed BETWEEN GCDs.

[repoe]

I'm assuming your not using any shift or ctrl modifers or rebinding?
I use 1 thru =[6 thru = are abilities least used] , shift + 1 thru 6, ctrl 1 thru 6
QERT, shift+ERT. V, B for Stances since I play mainly WAR but also pld n NIn

[dragonseth07]

I'm assuming your not using any shift or ctrl modifers or rebinding?
I use 1 thru =[6 thru = are abilities least used] , shift + 1 thru 6, ctrl 1 thru 6
QERT, shift+ERT. V, B for Stances since I play mainly WAR but also pld n NIn

I definitely am using both Shift and Ctrl as modifiers. The issue is that I simply don't have the dexterity to reliably hit many buttons on the keyboard. Realistically, any number past 4 when I'm hovering WASD only has a chance of being the right button, and 7+ is impossible. I've struggled with limited button accessibility through many MMO's before this one. :P

[Valenth]

I definitely am using both Shift and Ctrl as modifiers. The issue is that I simply don't have the dexterity to reliably hit many buttons on the keyboard. Realistically, any number past 4 when I'm hovering WASD only has a chance of being the right button, and 7+ is impossible. I've struggled with limited button accessibility through many MMO's before this one. :P

You may want to try slotting some skills to the buttons around WASD then. QERFVCXZ for example. If you use a shift/ctrl/alt modifier for those, together with what you have, you should have enough buttons for all your skills. I can greatly recommend giving Taugrim's keybinding guide a read, should help a lot (and no need for fancy mouse/keyboards): https://taugrim.com/2011/04/07/guide...d-keybindings/