Protect Macro

[jackass1203]

Hi, I'm not sure if many people created this but I'll just post it here.

/micon "Protect"
/aaction "Cleric Stance" off
/wait .5
/aaction "Protect" on
/ac "Protect" <me>
/wait 3
/aaction "Protect" off
/wait .5
/aaction "Cleric Stance" on

[Taika]

This was posted in early 4.0: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ealers-Protect

[Rongway]

Fractional waits aren't a real thing. Your pointfives are really just ones.

Also, you can save lines by appending wait tags to the previous line, instead of dedicating whole lines to the wait. Not a big deal in this particular case but could make a difference in the case of special long sequence macros.

/somecommand <wait.1>
performs /somecommand, then waits 1s before continuing.

[Roxas_Andrade]

Also use /micon at the end of the macro. Effect doesn't change and it's one less command for the game to read before doing wht you want it to do...

[LathusWHM]

Um, why do we need this macro exactly?

[Rawrz]

Um, why do we need this macro exactly?

It gives you a 6th roleskill outside of battle. A better macro would be:

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


That way the ability won't mess up the swap if it's on cd. I made the macro during 4.0 launch maint so i didn't know that you couldn't swap out a skill on cd and used swiftcast in my example.