Resurrection Macro Assistance

[Sub-Xero]

So I have a macro for Resurrection that goes like:

/macroicon Resurrection
/ac Swiftcast
/wait 1
/ac Resurrection <t>

The macro hasn't been working on the first try. I tried adjusting the wait time to /wait 1.5 and /wait 2 but it still did not work on the first try.

Honestly, due to the nature of the macro and the fact that I need dead... sorry, "KO'd" bodies, I haven't been able to do much testing to find out what the problem is. I believe that it may be because I am normally not actually targeting the person I'm trying to Resurrect but instead I am subtargeting (?) them. Is there a way to make a macro for actions on subtargets or is there any other way I can adjust the macro to have it go off without needing to separate the pieces and/or take up any more space on my Cross Hotbar? I play with a gamepad if it wasn't obvious from mentioning the Cross Hotbar

[Eidolith]

I have the exact same macro exept with Raise, it seems to work fine out in the open world, but oftentimes messes up in instances mostly just activating swiftcast and not raise, found that weird but thought that i prob just wrote the macro wrong or something.

[LunarEmerald]

Keep in mind that the spell has a range. If the target is out of range then only swiftcast will go off and it will be wasted.

[Sub-Xero]

I have the exact same macro exept with Raise, it seems to work fine out in the open world, but oftentimes messes up in instances mostly just activating swiftcast and not raise, found that weird but thought that i prob just wrote the macro wrong or something.

Yeah I found that most of my macros weren't working properly while in an instance. I had to change all my Summon macros to /wait 1.5 because they weren't going off.

[Sub-Xero]

Keep in mind that the spell has a range. If the target is out of range then only swiftcast will go off and it will be wasted.

Yeah but I was definitely within range most if not all of the times... It was a bad DF dungeon run so a couple people (2/4 mind you...) kept dying repeatedly thus giving me plenty of opportunities to Res.

[Eidolith]

Keep in mind that the spell has a range. If the target is out of range then only swiftcast will go off and it will be wasted.

Well the problem is if i buttonmash the macro, it'll work, and i usually run up to the person i'm raising, but yeah i need to check the radius of it, thought it was the same as cure.

[AkashiXI]

Is your game lagging? Are you below 30fps during DF? Is your ping naturally high? All of these issues can create lag within the macro. If there's even a tiny amount of lag, a macro that's optimally set (in your case, /wait 1) will fall behind and not register the next move. My suggestion is get rid of the wait, and just repeatedly hit the macro until resurrection comes out. In your case

/ac swiftcast me
/ac resurrection

This insures it'll activate, you'll just need to be a little spam happy.

[Tari-F]

Yeah I found that most of my macros weren't working properly while in an instance. I had to change all my Summon macros to /wait 1.5 because they weren't going off.

Just so you know, the /wait command (unless they changed it recently) only accepts whole numbers, and it rounds up from 0.5 to the next closest whole number. "/wait 1.5" is the same as "/wait 2".


I've been manually casting the Swiftcast + Resurrection combo, and I haven't run into this issue, so I'm pretty curious about it now.

[Sub-Xero]

Is your game lagging? Are you below 30fps during DF? Is your ping naturally high? All of these issues can create lag within the macro. If there's even a tiny amount of lag, a macro that's optimally set (in your case, /wait 1) will fall behind and not register the next move. My suggestion is get rid of the wait, and just repeatedly hit the macro until resurrection comes out. In your case

/ac swiftcast me
/ac resurrection

This insures it'll activate, you'll just need to be a little spam happy.

My FPS while in a dungeon are right around 60FPS all of the time except for a couple of dungeons. I haven't actually checked my ping but my connection when logging in is normally "excellent". I've had no macro issues outside of instanced dungeons regardless of how many people were around, my FPS or anything else. I suppose I could just take out the /wait but I'd really rather not be all spammy. Of course, if nothing else really works being all "spammy" is exactly what I'll have to do.

[Sub-Xero]

Just so you know, the /wait command (unless they changed it recently) only accepts whole numbers, and it rounds up from 0.5 to the next closest whole number. "/wait 1.5" is the same as "/wait 2".


I've been manually casting the Swiftcast + Resurrection combo, and I haven't run into this issue, so I'm pretty curious about it now.

Hmm... Well I've seen around the net other people using 2.5+ second /wait(s) in their macros to account for (G)CD and they went back to working just fine after I slapped a .5 in there so I don't know. Really wish SE had detailed instructions about EVERYTHING pertaining to these kinds of things...