Warrior macro stances change

[Bahamutretsu]

Hello everyone

im kinda new to the game and im playng like warrior which is a very fun class to play to me, anyway like the title says i just wana ask if is possible to create a macro to switch between defiance and deliverance and viceversa like:


"if defiance is active, activate deliverance,if deliverance is active, activate defiance"

Thanks all and good game

[Yasminou]

Instead of having two buttons? You can but you will lose the abiility to queue your stance swapping.

First let us assume that you want your macro to be on hotbar X (Where X is between 1 and 10).
We will also assume that MRD has two free hotbars Y and Z (again, Y and Z between 1 and 10); this should not be a great constraint either.

If you are playing with a controller, replace any /hotbar with /chotbar.

1. Make a first macro with lines
/macroicon "Defiance"
/ac "Defiance" <wait.1>
/hotbar copy MRD Z WAR X

2. Make a second macro with lines
/macroicon "Delivrance"
/ac "Delivrance" <wait.1>
/hotbar copy MRD Y WAR X

3. Put the first macro (the Defiance one) on your WAR hotbar X, where you want it to be, and then in the chatlog write
/hotbar copy WAR X MRD Y

4. Put the second macro (the Delivrance one) on your WAR hotbar X, where you want it to be, (so in place of the first one) and then in the chatlog write
/hotbar copy WAR X MRD Z

5. Enjoy

To explain what it will do, each time you press on the macro, the stance will activate and then your full hotbar will be replaced by the exact same hotbar but with the other stance macro.

Beware that if you press your macro too early, you might miss the stance change but will activate the hotbar change. Meaning you could stay in Defiance but have the macro (de)activating Defiance on your hotbar :-(.

[Elkanah]

You really don't need those for Defiance and Deliverance. At low levels, you won't notice the change much since you'll be using Defiance up till pretty much 52 anyways. Your game changers come at 60 and 70 for the amount of times you can crush Fell Cleave in 1 go. You can create a macro set as it is, but I would not advise it. Easier to actually manually click on the icons since timing is and can be everything on content you run.

[Rongway]

It's just

/ac Deliverance
/ac Defiance

Case 1: No stance active
Activate Deliverance.

Case 2: Defiance active
Activate Deliverance.

Case 3: Deliverance active
Deactivate Deliverance, forfeit remaining gauge, activate Defiance.



You can lose a whole GCD swapping back and forth with macros though, which will cost you more DPS than you gain by not having to deal with two buttons.

[Kouhai]

It would be in your best interest to learn how to stance dance without a macro, as other people have said, it's costly to your dps. That picture you see above is my UI and everyone says it's horribly cluttered but it's what I work with when I play warrior. You can remove 5 of the hotbars and functionally be the same. The issue with Macros is that there is a delay of about a second between when you click it and when something happens so it's best not to macro skills to it except for a very small amount of exceptions.

[Yasminou]

It's just

/ac Defiance
/ac Deliverance

If Defiance is not active, will activate Defiance.
Otherwise, will activate Deliverance.

You can lose a whole GCD swapping back and forth with macros though, which will cost you more DPS than you gain by not having to deal with two buttons.

I remember having this kind of macro during 2.x for PLD. However, if the first stance was active it first deactivated it and then activated the second one. This is risky now since deactivating any stance means losing any job gauge points.

[Rongway]

I remember having this kind of macro during 2.x for PLD. However, if the first stance was active it first deactivated it and then activated the second one. This is risky now since deactivating any stance means losing any job gauge points.

Oh, you're right; I hadn't considered that.

It would be less of an issue with them in the opposite order though, since presumably you would be more likely to have emptied your gauge first if you're in Deliverance.

/ac Deliverance
/ac Defiance