Help With Macros, Please!

[ChaoticCrimson]

So, I've never used any macros before and I finally got my RDM levelled up enough to use Verraise. I don't plan on using it often of course, but I figure it might be good to set up a macro to automatically let the party know when I'm going to rez someone. I've seen regular healers do it before, but I'm not totally sure how to set up a macro for that. I'm also playing on PS4, if that matters for anything. Thanks in advance!

[Karshan]

In macro, select a slot

/micon "Verraise"
/ac "Verraise" <t>
/p [your text] <t> [more text if you want]

You can also, as you play on PS4, and not being a healer you don't target often the team, use a little trick to rez without selecting a target by introducing a priority:
If I say Tank 1 is 2, Tank 2 is 3, heal 1 is 4 in party list, etc.., parenthesis are an explanation

/micon "Verraise"
/ac "Verraise" <t> (always prioritize control just in case, if you didn't select a target in party : )
/ac "Verraise" <4> (rezzing heal 1 in priority, if not dead then : )
/ac "Verraise" <5> (heal 2)
/ac "Verraise" <2> (tank 1)
/ac "Verraise" <3> (tank 2)
/ac "Verraise" <8> (a SMN or RDM, ie another raiser, is most likely in 8)
rest as you please

[ChaoticCrimson]

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Ah, okay that doesn't seem so bad! Would there be a practical way to set it to use Swiftcast before Verraise while it's available, too? I'm guessing you could probably just put /ac "Swiftcast" before the line to cast Verraise, right?

[CelestialWyrm]

Ah, okay that doesn't seem so bad! Would there be a practical way to set it to use Swiftcast before Verraise while it's available, too? I'm guessing you could probably just put /ac "Swiftcast" before the line to cast Verraise, right?

Correct, however macros can get wonky sometimes and if you try to use it when Swiftcast is on CD, you won't be able to cast Verraise with the macro and have to resort to the normal action. Personally I don't include Swiftcast in the macro and just manually use it before using my Raise macro, in case I need to raise when Swiftcast is still on CD.

[ChaoticCrimson]

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That makes sense. I wasn't sure how practical it'd be to add it in, but it's not a big deal to just pop Swiftcast manually first before using the macro. Thanks for the input everyone!

[StragoMagus]

Correct, however macros can get wonky sometimes and if you try to use it when Swiftcast is on CD, you won't be able to cast Verraise with the macro and have to resort to the normal action. Personally I don't include Swiftcast in the macro and just manually use it before using my Raise macro, in case I need to raise when Swiftcast is still on CD.

It will still cast Verraise even if Swiftcast is on cool down. In fact, I know tanks that use this fact to place all their defensive buffs in one macro to rotate their abilities that’s not on cool down. The issue might have to do with latency for some.

[ULoki]

Ah, okay that doesn't seem so bad! Would there be a practical way to set it to use Swiftcast before Verraise while it's available, too? I'm guessing you could probably just put /ac "Swiftcast" before the line to cast Verraise, right?

Why do you need swiftcast when you can proc dualcast and that's instant too?

[ChaoticCrimson]

Why do you need swiftcast when you can proc dualcast and that's instant too?

Well, that is true. The thing is if a situation has deteriorated to the point where I'm going to need to do any resurrecting I'm probably going to need to act as fast as possible, especially given that I'm probably saving a healer. With Dualcast, that's still at least a two second delay for me to Vercure someone before Dualcast gets its proc. With Swiftcast, I can immediately rez and then heal or rez someone else as needed. At least that's my figuring.

[Rongway]

You can also, as you play on PS4, and not being a healer you don't target often the team, use a little trick to rez without selecting a target by introducing a priority:
If I say Tank 1 is 2, Tank 2 is 3, heal 1 is 4 in party list, etc.., parenthesis are an explanation

Karshan's macro is excellent and is almost identical to the one I use as a RDM main. It allows you to Jolt/Verfastspell > Verraise > Jolt/Verfastspell without changing target.

One suggestion though, if you're going to include a message, do it after all the Verraise lines, and after a full line /wait.

/ac Verraise <mo>
/ac Verraise <t>
/ac Verraise <tt>
/ac Verraise <4>
/ac Verraise <5>
/ac Verraise <2>
/ac Verraise <3>
/ac Verraise <8>
/ac Verraise <7>
/ac Verraise <6>
/wait 1
/p Verraise  Just used it.   [ <<< My macro uses auto translate phrases here]
/micon Verraise

Then you can spam the button near the end of the previous cast and it won't spam the party with your raise message. It'll wait until after the last press.

[Misstique]

/mlock
/ac "swiftcast" <wait.1>
/ac "Verraise" <t>
/p "what ever text you want in the comma" <t>
/micon "Verraise"

1st line is a macro lock. This makes it so the macros are locked in order and have to activate before you can do anything else.
2nd line is to autocast swiftcast then wait for 1 second after. Unfortunately, the 1 second delay is the lowest you can go with a macro.
3rd is to raise the target
4th is to send out a message to the party. (if you're going to macro a rez message, please keep it short and simple, ie "Raising Nessa L'Venne")
5th is short for macro icon which shows what icon you want to use

I would't recommend using a swift cast rez macro as it can get wonky and not always work as intended.