I need macro help ^^;

[blumoon]

I'm trying to make a macro for protect, telling my party to gather and then to actually cast it. I've got saying it down. I just can't get the action part to work! I've looked at the macros at a few sites but I can't seem to plug it in right. I just want it to cast on the currently targeted player.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

[Norack]

/p Party Gather together for Protect in 5!
/wait 5
/ac "Protect" <me>

for anything yo u wanna do u put /ac infront of the action and you need to put the name of the spell or ability in quotes and than use <me> to cast it on yourself <st> to select the target etc..... also what i use for my stoneskin macro i put in a echo to remind me when i can recast it on my party members that would look like this

/p Stoneskin <------ tells the party im gonna cast stoneskin
/wait 2 <---- the system will wait 2 seconds until executing the next line
/ac "Sacred Prism" <me> <---- casts Sacred Prism to make stone skin AoE
/wait 2 <----- wait 2 or maybe ever more because of system lag you wont be able to cast stoneskin right after casting sacred prism, if you put your /wait to low of a number and theres alot of lag the system will scip over your next line and go straight to the /wait 60 line so stoneskin wont go off, if this happens just update that line to be /wait 3 or /wait 4 which ever you find to work the best
/ac "Stoneskin" <me> <------ /ac (use the action) Stoneskin on myself
/wait 60 <----- wait 60 seconds until executing the next line, (this will be to set the echo reminder i forget whta the recast time on stoneskin is but just pretend its 60 seconds like I did here. the max u can /wait is 60 so if you had a recast time of something that was 90 seconds you could do this, (/wait 60, than on the next line do /wait 30)
/echo Stoneskin macro is ready! <----- will send you a system message that only you see saying "Stoneskin macro is ready!"

Hope this helped you

[REDace0]

If you want it to cast on the target instead of yourself, use the commands listed above, but with <t>, e.g.

/p (Gather together!) (Protect) <t>
/wait 4
/ac "Protect" <t>

Usually I just type /p Gath[tab] and that'll do "Gather together!" I think, but I see how that could be inconvenient. I do have a macro for Stoneskin which I've reproduced below. Helps the other players know if you're using Stoneskin or Regen. Note that I'm using auto-translate for all of these.

/p (Sacred Prism) (Stoneskin) <t>
/ac "Sacred Prism" <me>
/wait 1
/ac "Stoneskin" <t>

I've thought about using /wait and /echo to give myself a cooldown notification, but I think only one macro can be running at once, so if you started using another macro you would never get your echo.

[Norack]

I've thought about using /wait and /echo to give myself a cooldown notification, but I think only one macro can be running at once, so if you started using another macro you would never get your echo.

O dang really? hmm i guess i never really noticed lol i only really use the notification on my WHM when i am soloing or doing a light party when i can see. during dungeons and stuff things get so hectic im hardly ever able to even look at my logs.

[REDace0]

I could be wrong. I think this is the case because I used to (before my macro palette got so full), use one empty macro to cancel a running macro. I'm missing that function, so I'll probably reorganize my macros so that Alt+0 or something is always macro cancel. Hopefully it still works!

[blumoon]

It works! Thanks so much for your help!