All Combo Skills On One Hotkey?

[OnyxStrife]

Basically, Aion.

For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, in Aion (MMO) you have chain skills kinda like in FF14. However, when you use the first skill in a combo, that skill on the hotbar turns into the next skill in the combo for a limited time. Thus making it far easier to manage your hotbar because you aren't clogging it with 2 combo chains.

For example, as Lancer :

You have True Thrust on your hotbar for key 1. When you use it, key 1 turns into Vorpal Thrust. When you use Vorpal thrust, key 1 turns into Full Thrust. Once you activate Full Thrust, the key turns back into True Thrust.

[Eruantien]

How would this work for say monk who's abilities combo to about 3 different abilities

[Carnassial]

You could write a macro for it. You just won't be able to continue the combo if you had to stop midway through for whatever reason. As far as I know, xiv's macros don't support conditional actions.

[Retrograde]

It sounds good at the onset, but it's exploitable, and won't be robust enough to work in all circumstances without a complex priority system as well.

Exercise, bind these to a key:
Haymaker
Bootshine
True Strike
Snap Punch

You don't need Haymaker, but it starts to show why this is abusive. So you have a single button that runs through an optimal damage rotation based on effects active. The API needs a way to know if a skill is "valid/preferred" and progress to the next skill if not - it usually wouldn't be implemented the same in code as the range or "active" border in the hotbar. Draw the state machine; your API needs to provide a lot of detail in order to progress accurately.

For the other classes it's a bit simpler. Take a conjurer, I want to cast Thunder, Aero, Stone. Those aren't combos, but I'd still like to use it the same way. I get hit during this macro exchange; then what? I suppose a 2 second timeout and reset. Clumsy.

[FullmetalMuse]

Interesting... i need more info on how this can be done lol... playing on laptop w/mouse using these macros are a pain sometimes...