Cross hotbar change macro

[professorrev]

Hi all

I'm trying to set up a macro on my RDM that changes my cross hotbar to set 2 when I corps in, and back to set 1 when I Displace out. I've set the macros up to read

/micon "corps-a-corps"

/ability ""corps-a-corps"

/crosshotbar change 2

and

/micon Displacement

/ability Displacement

/crosshotbar change 1

The abilities fire when I Use the macro, but the bars don't change.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions, cos I'm stumped

[Jason33w]

That's a great idea, however, I don't have an answer for you.

[Jas710]

It's possible. I have macros that switch entire crosshotbars, as well as some that dynamically swap specific slots.

If I am understanding your setup, what I think you need are copies of those two hotbars places elsewhere (i.e. #7, #8, etc), and then use them as your macro source for swapping in and out to your #1 and #2 bars. You will probably also want those source hotbars to not be in shared mode. Keep it contained to your RDM job.

If it's something else, let me know. I can log in later and check my macros to provide you with more details.

If you only need to swap out a couple of skills back and forth, there's a way to do it. As an example, on my WAR I have defiance-only skills macroed to replace deliverance-only skill slots when I switch into defiance from deliverance. And vice-versa.

The macro command help list in-game shows how to set that up. Each hotbar slot has its own prefix.

[professorrev]

Thanks for that, I';ll try when I get home. I only need my three melee abilities and Displacement on the second bar, my main bar will have all the ranged stuff. I'm pressing r1 as I reposition at the moment, so no dead loss if I can't get it to work, but wopuld be a good QoL improvement

[Jas710]

Ahh ok, so I just tested the macros, and they worked for me. Here's what I did:

/micon "corps-a-corps"
/ac "corps-a-corps"
/chotbar change 2
(Then I mapped it to a slot on hotbar 1)

/micon "displacement"
/ac "displacement"
/chotbar change 1
(Then I mapped it to a slot on hotbar 2)

Try them out. The issue could be that you used "/ability", or maybe the macros somehow weren't mapped to your crossbars and it was still using the normal action buttons.

[professorrev]

Thanks everyone, it turned out it was me being a cretin. The macro commands were correct, but only the top one was firing as I had left a line between each command. Once I closed the gaps up it worked perfectly