Summoner Macro discussions

[xxalucard]

Wow...how bad is it that I didn't even put two and two together that on Titan fights you can still control your pet even if you are jailed? Great tip - thanks...I need to start thinking a little more creatively.

You can't control the pet but you can quickly hit aerial slash before you're disabled from using actions, so it hits your own jail too.

[Thorauku]

Not really a summoner specific macro question, but.... Is there a way to use the icon of pet skills in macro?

[Muzy]

Yes, it's the exact same way as doing it for a normal skill.

[Thorauku]

Yes, it's the exact same way as doing it for a normal skill.

Doesn't seem to work with Contagion icon though.

[Muzy]

/micon Contagion pet Garuda-Egi doesn't work? Odd. I know on the PS3 you can't macro Selenes embrace, but you can Eos's, could be an issue like that, since it's on both Carby and Garuda but with different icons for each.

[Thorauku]

/micon Contagion pet Garuda-Egi doesn't work? Odd. I know on the PS3 you can't macro Selenes embrace, but you can Eos's, could be an issue like that, since it's on both Carby and Garuda but with different icons for each.

Ohhh! It does work!

What I did was
/micon "Contagion" pet Garuda-Egi

what I'm previously doing,
/macroicon "Contagion"

Thanks alot for this! Really helped me alot.

[SolarMisae]

Yeah I tried. Doesn't work with the contagion icon it seems. It's weird. :x

[Cons]

I would like to see a 'drag and drop skills' type macro system

[AniCelestine]

Oddly enough no-one has said this one yet:
/micon "RuinII"
/pac "Obey" <t>
/ac "Ruin II" <t>

That makes your pet to target the target of yours and go all obey on it(does the "main" attack, i.e Wind Blade if you are using garuda). Even if you were on gcd and unable to cast ruin II or the target is out of range, the pet still starta to attack the target. Very useful in Garuda HM/EX to have your pet attack the razor plumes too.

That one can be done like this also:
/micon "Ruin II"
/pac "Wind Blade" <t>
/ac "Ruin II" <t>

That one is more restricted to only garuda egi, thus I prefer to use the Obey version

Pardon me for all typos, but I'm too lazy to go through the text, as I'm on phone.

[NorthernLadMSP]

I have a question on this related to summoner. I'm very used to Scholar and have awesome macro's with the fairies, especially one I found that makes controlling her a breeze. She follows me everywhere, only does Embrace on her own and I manually control the other abilities. I love it and it's so easy.

However, after over a month of not playing summoner at all, last night I decided to give it a go using Garuda egi. Previously, I had let Garuda just go on auto pilot, and it was ok.

But, I thought it would be better to manually control her. So, I went in to Labryinth (CT) with her. What a disaster. I was using Obey, she would only fly over the poison pools and die. She would not stay near me. So, I tried placing her. Well, she stayed for awhile, then when I started attacking skeletons, she would fly back out into the poison again and die.

Then the next two battles with the Thanatos and King B went perfectly smoothly.

Then at Acheron, I had her on Obey again. That was fine up until when we have to run back on the platform behind the safe wall. Well, I quickly figured out I had to heel her, so she flew back into the safe zone. But, only for about 10 seconds, before she decided to fly back out into the danger zone on her own and ended up dying again by Acheron's super attack.

All in all, it was pretty frustrating for me considering how simple I have it with the fairies on Scholar.

So, is this really the only way to control her is by constantly pressing the Obey, Heel, Steady, etc. buttons? Are there no macros for her that make her behave like my Eos/Selene do?

I play on PC but use a controller. Works perfectly fine with my other classes, including Scholar.

Last night, I was using the pet hotbar for the Obey, Heel, etc. But, if there's no macro, would it be simpler to have those commands on my secondary controller hotbar? Any tips would be geatly appreciated =)