/hotbar action not working as of 4.1

**Naberrie** · 10-12-2017 08:59 AM

Originally Posted by Rawrz

Oh god they are ninja nerfing protect swap instead of fixing the actual imbalance of the skill...

Are you referring to healers swapping in Protect on macros to save the assigned role ability? Because mine still works. I used it last night with no problems.

**Lambdafish** · 10-12-2017 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by Naberrie

Are you referring to healers swapping in Protect on macros to save the assigned role ability? Because mine still works. I used it last night with no problems.

Are you 100% sure that your macro swapped the skill? Because that sounds exactly like the macro that I linked in the OP

**ricklessabandon** · 10-12-2017 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Lambdafish

Because that sounds exactly like the macro that I linked in the OP

No, Protect macros generally never change hotbars because they're just used at the start of an instance to cast Protect without using up one of your Role Action slots.

Example:

/micon "Protect"
/mlock
/merror off
/aaction "Largesse" off
/aaction "Protect" on
/ac "Protect" <wait.3>
/aaction "Protect" off
/aaction "Largesse" on

**Lambdafish** · 10-12-2017 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by ricklessabandon

No, Protect macros generally never change hotbars because they're just used at the start of an instance to cast Protect without using up one of your Role Action slots.

Example:

Right, so it is the same without using /hotbar action, that would be why it still works but mine doesn't

**Rawrz** · 10-12-2017 02:01 PM

Originally Posted by Lambdafish

My macro is:

Code:

/macroicon "Shirk"
/aaction "Reprisal" off
/aaction "Shirk" on
/hotbar action "Shirk" 2 4

So if your only issue right now is that its not setting it on your hotbar correctly I guess I can help with that. ASSUMING you swap shirk and reprisals spot on your hotbar or whatever this is the macro you should do.

First put shirk on your hotbar in the correct place. ASSUMING its on hotbar one type:

/hotbar copy PLD 1 GLD 6

then put Reprisal in its correct place.

/hotbar copy PLD 1 GLD 5

Then heres your ghetto "toggle" Macro.

/macrolock
/hotbar copy gld 6 gld 7
/hotbar copy gld 5 gld 6
/hotbar copy gld 7 gld 5
/hotbar copy gld 7 pld 1

What it does is:

GLD 5- starts as Reprisal
GLD 6- Starts as Shirk
GLD 7 has nothing in it.
PLD 1- Starts as Reprisal

us the macro

GLD 7- Becomes Shirk hotbar
GLD 6- Shirk hotbar is replaced with Reprisal hotbar
GLD 5- Reprisal hotbar is replaced with Shirk hotbar from the "Toggled on" hotbar of GLD 7
PLD 1- Shirk replaces Reprisal.

Press again

GLD 7- Becomes Reprisal hotbar
GLD 6- Reprisal hotbar changed to shirk...

ETC : D

Hope this helps if they dont fix your issue in maint!

**Spiriel_Basanda** · 10-12-2017 02:09 PM

I didn't even know you could do that with macros. My solution to this problem isn't as elegant, but it works.

I just made it so I have hotbars 1-3 always showing with the abilities I use, and the cross class skills on hotbar 1. I then recreate hotbar 1 on hotbar 4, replacing the cross class skills to what they should be, then when I make the macro, it switches the role abilities around and shifts the 1st hotbar to show the 4th hotbar instead. I have a second macro that readjusts it back to the first way, and changes the 4th hotbar to the 1st hotbar. It WORKS, it just isn't as nifty as what you used to be able to do, apparently. It could be used in the meantime, if need be, I suppose.

**Lambdafish** · 10-12-2017 03:31 PM

Originally Posted by Spiriel_Basanda

I didn't even know you could do that with macros

Yeah, it's really handy, a lot of people used to use it to change WARs hotbar when changing between defiance and deliverance in 3.x (replacing steel cyclone with decimate and inner beast with fell cleave)

**Rawrz** · 10-13-2017 09:18 AM

Originally Posted by Rawrz

First put shirk on your hotbar in the correct place. ASSUMING its on hotbar one type:

/hotbar copy PLD 1 GLD 6

then put Reprisal in its correct place.

/hotbar copy PLD 1 GLD 5

Then heres your ghetto "toggle" Macro.

/macrolock
/hotbar copy gld 6 gld 7
/hotbar copy gld 5 gld 6
/hotbar copy gld 7 gld 5
/hotbar copy gld 7 pld 1

Forgot to add in the toggle part of the Role actions.

/macrolock
/hotbar copy gld 6 gld 7
/hotbar copy gld 5 gld 6
/hotbar copy gld 7 gld 5
/hotbar copy gld 7 pld 1
/aaction Reprisal
/aaction Shirk
/aaction Reprisal on
/recast Reprisal
/recast Shirk

I didn't see that they fixed the issue in the patch. :[

You may have to manually switch to Shirk or Reprisal with the correct hotbar showing its active, if you did anything out of order.

**Rongway** · 10-13-2017 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by Rawrz

I didn't see that they fixed the issue in the patch. :[

UmbreonMessiah's bug report regarding this has been moved to the Accepted Bugs subforum at least.

**Spiriel_Basanda** · 10-13-2017 01:38 PM

Is it possible to relocate macros using this command? That'd be pretty helpful, but it doesn't seem like that would work. I've got all my healer abilities turned into macros to be mouse over casts, so being able to swap the locations of macros on the hotbar is pretty relevant. Clearly not useful right now, cause it's broken, but when/if it gets fixed.

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