A handy Macro for 4.0 Healers [Protect]

[Rawrz]

Since, for whatever reason, Yoshi and the development team kept protect, exactly as it was, aside from having it cost 0 mp. (Like the drastic Weakness change wasnt enough punishment.)



I used to use a macro to switch between Stoneskin and Blizzard II in one click. In the removal of skill swapping penalties outside of sanctuaries, this should be a handy macro.

/macrolock
/macroicon Protect
/echo You are now switching to Protect.
/aaction Swiftcast off
/aaction Protect on
/ac Protect <wait.3>
/aaction Protect off
/aaction Swiftcast on
/echo Protect has been disabled. The following skill has been restored:
/recast Swiftcast


This macro should be used at the start of a dungeon or before a boss pull. It quickly disables an action (swiftcast in my macro) then enable protect. It then Casts protect. It then confirms with you that it is disabling Protect and returns your swiftcast or whatever Role skill it was. The entire macro will take about 4 seconds (which includes the time to cast protect.

I chose Swiftcast, because it should be your first or second slot at this point. I made a similar macro that switches out surecast/erase for casters for my RDM.

Enjoy your fluff skill that adds nothing to the gameplay (at least in casual dungeon runs xD.)