Astrologian targeting macro

[Roxas_Andrade]

Hi,

I was working on my AST yesterday and I came up with something:

/ac play <t>
/assist <t>
/assist <t>
/micon play

With this macro I got a good way to use play to throw the card on whatever member of my team and then the macro will switch target to anyone he is targeting (whatever mob or boss) and then change the targeting again to whoever the mob is targeting (the tank, if he's got aggro). The chang occurs instantly and you get to keep healing...

In my tests I saw it not happen once or twice, maybe if you have a high ping it might have some issues. Usually I wouldn't recomend this kind of macro on high end content, since you can't queue Play, but there's a video going on the forums of a Noct Astro solo healing high end content, and he uses macro targeting all the DPS...

Also I have another macro /ac Gravity <tt> and it works best for me. Again I don't recomend to macro spammable actions because of queueing problems, but it work for me...

If someone can test and add some feedback I'd appreciate.

[Seraphor]

Soft targeting works for playing cards, which means you will automatically go back to who/whatever you were targeting before, without a macro.

I personally use <tt> macros for DPS spells and that's it, so I only ever have to target party members, mainly the tank.

[Heilstos]

Hey Roxas,

I used this Macro from Bok:



That was for me the best way to use the Cards.

[Roxas_Andrade]

Soft targeting works for playing cards, which means you will automatically go back to who/whatever you were targeting before, without a macro.

I never tried that. I'll test it tonight.

(Best case scenario I'll save one more button push)

[Roxas_Andrade]

Hey Roxas,

I used this Macro from Bok:

That was for me the best way to use the Cards.

That is great indeed, but it's only useful for mouse users. I forgot to mention I'm on PS4...

[Sancho_Nyanta]

I also play on PS4 and what I have done is similar to what Heilstos did as far as a macro. I just assigned it to my hot bar as apposed to a hot key and added a partysort line in case my party became unsorted for some reason. That said there are 2 other things I did to make this work for me. I sorted my party list as DPS - Healer - Tank. This way my Dps were in slots 2-5/6. Additionally I sorted my DPS list so that ranged would be towards the bottom and Melee towards the top. By doing this, if I need to get to the MT quickly, I utilize the "Assist" button that I assigned to my L3 button or press up 2/3 times on the D-pad. If I'm in 4 man the 2-3 will let me select the proper part member without having to adjust my macros and they work as normal in 8 man content.

[Rivxkobe]

I personally use <tt> macros for DPS spells and that's it, so I only ever have to target party members, mainly the tank.

You can't "queue" macro casts though. That would drive me insane.

How do you even?

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

I just use a mouseover macro for my "draw/play" and bound to ctrl+mousebutton4

/merror off
/ac "Play" <mo>
/ac "Draw" <me>
/macroicon "Play"

when I dont have a card drawn it draws a card, when I do have a card drawn it gives that card buff to whoever I mouseover on the party list.

[Rongway]

That is great indeed, but it's only useful for mouse users. I forgot to mention I'm on PS4...

Why not just up/down through the party list for a soft target, then use Play? This is exactly why soft targeting exists--so you can perform a one-off action on a secondary target then go right back to your main target.

[Sancho_Nyanta]

Why not just up/down through the party list for a soft target, then use Play? This is exactly why soft targeting exists--so you can perform a one-off action on a secondary target then go right back to your main target.

Because if you are on PS4 and want to be playing cards between GCDs while you are trying to heal different targets, then unless you are using a keyboard and mouse then using a macro like this is your only option.

Unless you can somehow heal a person or atk a target, click up/down 1 or more times on the D-pad, and click to use the card all within 1 second to not clip the next GCD.