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]

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...

[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.

[Pyitoechito]

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

ControllAST: Playing cards on controller by Aly/Erdene

It uses cross hotbar swapping to simplify card-targeting down to pressing two buttons. Pressing the Play macro swaps your hotbar to the selection hotbar, then choosing the target (via another button press) will immediately swap the hotbar back to normal. It's made my life so much easier and more pleasant on AST. It takes some getting used to, but it's so much better than manually targeting, and more compact than having 8 play buttons on your bars 24/7.

For personal preference, I use the Healer 1 macro icon for <1> (yourself). If you use the normal party list setup of tanks → healers → DPS: set <2> to Tank 1, <3> to Tank 2, <4> to Healer 2, and <5-8> to DPS 1-4, respectively. In 8-man trials and raids, the icons will be accurate to each party member. In 4-man dungeons, Tank 1 and Healer 1 will remain accurate, while Tank 2 is your first DPS (ideally a melee) and Healer 2 is your second DPS (ideally ranged/caster). For alliance raids, everything is accurate except for Tank 2 (which becomes the other healer) and Healer 2 (which is the first DPS).

For efficiency/comfort, be sure that all 8 of your party member targeting buttons are on the same trigger you hold down as the Play macro. That way, you don't have to swap which trigger you're holding to choose your target after hitting Play.

For fun, you can even set a macro to target your Chocobo companion using <c>.

The guide mentions only using non-shared hotbars for storage, but I'm 99.9% sure you can store your swapping bars in shared hotbar slots as long as you specify where you're copying from/to (because that's that I do). This means you can store your hotbars used from swapping on AST itself (as long as you have at least two hotbars designated as shared). For example, if you designate cross hotbar 3 as shared, you can use

/chotbar copy ast 1 ast 3

and it will copy to the hidden AST hotbar while the shared (visible) hotbar will be unaffected. You can also copy from the same hidden hotbar with

/chotbar copy ast 3 ast 1

I believe this works because the shared hotbars are just another regular set of 8 hotbars. You can even copy to and from them using "share" as the name. For example,

/chotbar copy ast 1 share 1

[Carbon-based_Lifeform]

Hey Roxas,

I used this Macro from Bok:

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

I honestly hate those. I would feel like I can't actually play.
Currently I'm using a logitech G600. My entire hotbar is on it, set to the num pad, which leaves the 1-2-3-etc above QWERTY free for me to set as the party list, and so I did. From the first character (single quote) to the number 6 is my entire party list and it's just so easy that I really can't fathom how people can play clicking through the screen. I only use the left and right button on the mouse to rotate the camera and move from ordinary stuff (by clicking on both simutaniously, if i have to just take a step foward).

[Kele_Star]

This is what i use, i only keep 3 and 4 on my main set of keys because in dungeons thats usually all you need. Usually its ok to just have 5-8 in trials and 8 person content, it makes cards less cumbersome

[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)

[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?