Help needed with a DRG macro

[Kleeya]

I see, seems like we have mistaken "given how I'm not very knowledgeable with macros" for "does he want to know if macros are good or bad ?" XD

So, with this one you can gain one button since they are following each other in a random order :

/ac "Wheeling Thrust"
/ac "Fang and Claw"

When you are in a bad situation, press this one several times, it is a gain of 4 buttons :

/ac "Second Wind"
/ac "Bloodbath"
/ac "Feint"
/ac "Arm's Length"
/ac "Leg Sweep"

And the best for the end, between each of your GCDs, press this one or two times, it is a gain of 8 buttons :

/ac "Lance Charge"
/ac "Battle Litany"
/ac "Dragon Sight"
/ac "Geirskogul"
/ac "Stardiver"
/ac "Jump"
/ac "Mirage Dive"
/ac "Spineshatter Dive"
/ac "Dragonfire Dive"

Of course there might be a chance that someone will ask you "why are you launching this at this moment ?", but it should be very rare since like already said most people dont have a clue of how to play properly. Also i didn't make dragon sight targeting someone on purpose because getting the best person to launch it on can be a bit too much difficult to do.

Total gain : 13 buttons. There might be more to get, but since it has been a while i didn't play DRG it is all that i can come up with for the moment.

[Monsalvato]

Love this <3

[Renkei]

I'd avoid it completely, the only ability you can really macro is Dragon-sight and even that isn't optimal.

I think it's important to note that i said it wasn't optimal but still get singled out. I'm not going to tell you that you can't play like that though i was just offering advice.

I'll do you a solid. and share my bar.



I have RIGHT + LEFT = SET 2, and LEFT + RIGHT = AOE 1-2-3 + Geirskogul + LB, Feint, Stun, Pericing Talon. I Didn't Include a Picture of it.

[Stepjam]

Unless you also have a non-macro'd version of True Thrust on your bar that you use primarily, you are gonna be clipping your damage a ton throughout the fight.

[Stepjam]

I see, seems like we have mistaken "given how I'm not very knowledgeable with macros" for "does he want to know if macros are good or bad ?" XD

So, with this one you can gain one button since they are following each other in a random order :

/ac "Wheeling Thrust"
/ac "Fang and Claw"

When you are in a bad situation, press this one several times, it is a gain of 4 buttons :

/ac "Second Wind"
/ac "Bloodbath"
/ac "Feint"
/ac "Arm's Length"
/ac "Leg Sweep"

And the best for the end, between each of your GCDs, press this one or two times, it is a gain of 8 buttons :

/ac "Lance Charge"
/ac "Battle Litany"
/ac "Dragon Sight"
/ac "Geirskogul"
/ac "Stardiver"
/ac "Jump"
/ac "Mirage Dive"
/ac "Spineshatter Dive"
/ac "Dragonfire Dive"

Jesus, no don't do this. This is a terrible idea. I'm not even gonna get into how bad it is to put your buffs and ALL of your jumps on a single button, because that's just all wrong, and focus on why you shouldn't put all your role actions on a single button, because each one does something completely different (aside from bloodbath and second wind, which both heal you in different ways, but don't stack them either). Feint lowers the target's phys attack for a few seconds, outside of savage and EX to a lesser extent, it isn't that important. More important is that Arm's Length and leg Sweep do two entirely different things, both of which you'll want on command for when they are needed. Arm's length makes you immune to most knockbacks and (less important to non-tanks) applies a slow to trash that hit you during the duration, and Leg sweep is a stun. All 3 of the above skills are situational that you will want to use at very specific times, to put them all on a single macro makes it impossible to achieve that, at least without possibly wasting another skill pointlessly.

I gotta be as genuine as I can and say just practice and get used to having a lot of skills. This may seem like a shortcut, but it's a terrible idea that will hurt you in the long run.

[AleXwern]

I see, seems like we have mistaken "given how I'm not very knowledgeable with macros" for "does he want to know if macros are good or bad ?" XD

So, with this one you can gain one button since they are following each other in a random order :

/ac "Wheeling Thrust"
/ac "Fang and Claw"

When you are in a bad situation, press this one several times, it is a gain of 4 buttons :

/ac "Second Wind"
/ac "Bloodbath"
/ac "Feint"
/ac "Arm's Length"
/ac "Leg Sweep"

And the best for the end, between each of your GCDs, press this one or two times, it is a gain of 8 buttons :

/ac "Lance Charge"
/ac "Battle Litany"
/ac "Dragon Sight"
/ac "Geirskogul"
/ac "Stardiver"
/ac "Jump"
/ac "Mirage Dive"
/ac "Spineshatter Dive"
/ac "Dragonfire Dive"

Of course there might be a chance that someone will ask you "why are you launching this at this moment ?", but it should be very rare since like already said most people dont have a clue of how to play properly. Also i didn't make dragon sight targeting someone on purpose because getting the best person to launch it on can be a bit too much difficult to do.

Total gain : 13 buttons. There might be more to get, but since it has been a while i didn't play DRG it is all that i can come up with for the moment.

These have to be the absolute worst macros i've seen in a while. Whatever you do, don't use these.

OP, as contoller player, proper hotbar layout and practice does more better in long run than messing with macros. If you just take everything off, then put them on one by one in some logical manner (combo skills near one another, then skills related to those combos. Most used and important ones like combos at front, less used and ones with long cooldown on back) and hit some dummy to the get the feel, you'll have way better time using your job.
OP hasn't posted his layouts but I've seen it over and over where people complain that they have issues with managing crossbars and then they have stuff like tank stances and invulns on main bar and different GCDs spread across multiple hotbars. Poor management of hotbars leads to poor results and macros don't really solve it.

[Silberzerox]

The truth about "true north" is thats is a good skill on paper,in practice surprisingly insignificant. The dmg-lost, by not using it, most talking about is mainly theorectical.
But its fine to use it, just dont use it in macros. On its own button it'll work better.


Tipps for macros:
-avoid more than 3 ac in one macro, more and the game starts to struggle going through it
-/micon always at the end
-avoid more than 1 GCD-ac
-dont use the "wait"-command
-as less lines as possible
-there is no save activation for macros

putting oGCDs befor or after GCDs into macros is a personal thing. Try out what works better for you.

[EmmetOtter]

Full disclosure: new to the game. Only created 1 FF14 macro of my own and it doesn't work (yet).

The problem I'm having here is that True North is an ability with charges.
So if I have 2 charges up what's gonna happen is that True North will be used 2 times in a row.
I was wondering: is there any way I can avoid this?

It sounds like you want: Press keyboard and activate spell A. Press Keyboard again and activate spell B. Press keyboard again and activate spell A. Etc....

I'll take a shot at answering this question with a "sort of". I don't think it can be done with 1 action bar and 1 macro, but it could be done with 2 actions bars and 2 macros.

This assumes that you are putting the 1st ability macro on hotbar 1, because that's the one that can be rotated to show a different hotbar without changing position. Not sure if this will work if you are using a different hotbar

1st Macro "Test1"

/micon "True Thrust"
/ac "True North" <me>
/hotbar change 2

2nd macro "Test2"

/micon "True Thrust"
/ac "True Thrust" <t>
/hotbar change 1

NOTE: could also have used "hotbar change next" and "hotbar change prev" if you are switching between hotbar 1 and 2

You basically have 2 hotbars that are identical except for the spot you put the macro. On one bar you put Test1 and the other you put Test2. They will not flip bars every time you hit the keyboard # its assigned to. The downside is you're basically using 2 bars to do this and if the spell can't be cast just yet, it still flips. Also if you have "happy fingers" and repeatedly press a button when trying to activate this ability, you may end up on a random bar showing.

Edit: I guess now I have created 3 macros and 2 work! 2 out of 3 ain't bad.