Learn Macro-ing in 5 minutes. Short Macro/Button guide for newcomers!

[Dikai]

I have limited mobil in my fingers so i have to click more than normal is there a way to write a macro the i can place a 4 cure buttons on my bar and when i click it it will heal each player example F1 cure F2 cure etc instead of pressing the F key and clicking i want a button on my hot bar i can click

Yea, I believe the proper adjustment would be

/ac "Cure" <#1>
/say "Now that's a quality Vanilla vlan!"

or

/ac "Cure" <1>
/say "Frozen Tuna, to the face!"

just replace the number with the party member number.


BTW: Thank you guys for being so helpful to everyone, its truly great to see what an awesome community we are becoming even before launch!

[HellKrasher]

Thnks for the info

[Mellotronscratch]

Macros always confused me in windows, I hope that I can spark my micro brain to grasp this with this excellent guide.

Thanks!!

[Dikai]

Macros always confused me in windows, I hope that I can spark my micro brain to grasp this with this excellent guide.

Thanks!!

You're very welcome, if you ever need any help let me know and I will try to help you out

[MysteriousCharacter]

Thank You Dikai!

Good guide. I played during the beta 4 and wanted to set some macros had some setup in FF11 and also had gear setup on FF14 after it had launched (The First Time) for a while. Love the armory system wont have to macro my gear anymore, and can setup some spells and whatnot to some macros.

Thanks for the refresher course!

[Fenseven]

Never got an answer to my question so i'll try again.

whats the command to set a focus target?

also what would be a macro to use to assist my focus target?

In other mmo's i like to set the tank as my focus target then use a macro to assist him to stay on the right target when dpsing.

[ChaozK]

Never got an answer to my question so i'll try again.

whats the command to set a focus target?

also what would be a macro to use to assist my focus target?

In other mmo's i like to set the tank as my focus target then use a macro to assist him to stay on the right target when dpsing.

An alternative to that would be to use

/assist <2>

and then move the position of the tank in the group list manually to spot 2 (you only need to do it once at the beginning of the dungeon, if he isnt already)

[Fenseven]

An alternative to that would be to use

/assist <2>

and then move the position of the tank in the group list manually to spot 2 (you only need to do it once at the beginning of the dungeon, if he isnt already)

I suppose that would work as well. Now if i could set it to a button on the controler, like up on the dpad that would make things super easy.

[Skies]

Never got an answer to my question so i'll try again.
whats the command to set a focus target?
also what would be a macro to use to assist my focus target?
In other mmo's i like to set the tank as my focus target then use a macro to assist him to stay on the right target when dpsing.

Let me try to be helpful, i'm a keyboard player so i'll work with keyboard controls:
ctrl+F when you have a target selected will make it turn into your Focus Target (on default bindings)
F will make you target your focus target (on default bindings)
The <f> placeholder makes the command you execute be executed on your focus target (I'm not 100% sure if that is the correct placeholder but I believe it is)
The /assist command makes you target your target's target (that is actually the T key on default bindings)


So once you've put him as focus target manually you'd do something like /assist <f> for your macro. Although if he's your focus target going F -> T will do the same. If you use T while targetting an enemy, you will change your target to that of his, so if the tank has hate on the target if you press T twice you will quickly switch to whatever he's attacking right now.

Alternatively, as the guy above said, you CAN use /assist <2>, the game allows you to reorganize your party list (go into the Social menu and then Party, there are two arrows in the bottom that let you rearrange everyon except yourself) so you can always put the tank on spot 2.

Hrm... That should be all

[Fenseven]

Let me try to be helpful, i'm a keyboard player so i'll work with keyboard controls:
ctrl+F when you have a target selected will make it turn into your Focus Target (on default bindings)
F will make you target your focus target (on default bindings)
The <f> placeholder makes the command you execute be executed on your focus target (I'm not 100% sure if that is the correct placeholder but I believe it is)
The /assist command makes you target your target's target (that is actually the T key on default bindings)

Ahh, ctrl+f sets the focus target. I was trying /focus while i had the tank targeted and nothing was happening.

I use the xbox game pad on my PC for dps classes. Are you able to set a certain button on the controler to do a macro, or does all macro need to be put on a action bar?