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Beginner Macro Guide
Welcome, today, I will be writing a beginners guide for Macros in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, Macros are a nice feature you get in quite a few MMORPG's where you can pretty much create a custom 'button' that preforms a series of commands or actions determined by 'code' you input. I know it sounds scary, but it pretty easy once you get use to it.
Next, yes, from what I know and read, macros can be used on both the PS3 and PC Versions of the game, so fear not worry about "i'm on ps3, crap no macros for me."
Why macros, well, here are a few good ideas for why to use macros
- Use a set f commands in a set order at a start of each battle? wouldn't it be easier to hit one button and for it to do all this for you?
- Healers, wanna heal the person the monster, then use a macro that does this for you rather than trying to target somebody
- Because you want to do awesome things, be epic and be the coolest guy in town
Now next, how do we get to macros, well, you just enter the system menu and hit 'User Macros'
Once you enter the macro menu, you should see this
Now, lets create a basic macro, we are going to create a macro that gets our player to wave, and say hello to the free company chat, I know it simple, but it a great command to get started
Pick a empty macro slot, and then name it, i'm going to call it Hello FC
TIP: I would recommend that PS3 users use a keyboard for Macro inputting, saves time
then in the big box, it time to input our commands, type in
/wave
/fc Hello everybody!
/wave means the wave emote command, while /fc will input anything that goes after it and send it to the Free Company chat, give it a try
TIP: Auto Translate will work in Macros
Let's try something that might be more useful shall we xDD, here is a nice one, gathering everybody around for Medica, it can be a pain, so how about a macro that automatically adds a message in the chatbox before casting! Healers listen
go to a new macro, lets call it Medica Gather, feel free to give it a icon too be selecting the m sign next to the name box, and chossing a icon
Now type in the following:
/p I am going to group heal in 5 SECONDS! Everybody gather
/wait 5
/ac "Medica" <me>
this sends a message to the party chat, waits 5 seconds, and then casts Medica, pretty cool huh!
here are a few other basic macros which might help, i'll add a list of basic commands in the next post
Basic heal macro:
/ac "Cure" <mo>
/ac "Cure" <tt>
/ac "Cure" <me>
What it does: for PC users only, heals the member who your mouse cursor is over, if that is nobody heals the target of your current target (if your targeting monster, and monster is targeting party tank, the party tank will be healed) if your not targeting or got the mouse over somebody, macro heals you
Arcanist Debuff rotation:
/ac "Bio II" <t>
/wait 3
/ac "Miasma" <t>
/wait 3
/ac "Thunder" <t>
/wait 3
/ac "Bio" <t>
What it does: casts spells on the current target in the following order: Bio II, Miasma, Thunder and Bio, you could add this to the end to
further use it
/wait 3
/ac "Aetherflow" <me>
/wait 3
/ac "Bane" <t>
4 macros for party member healing:
1:
/ac "Cure" <1>
2:
/ac "Cure <2>
3:
/ac "Cure" <3>
4:
/ac "Cure" <4>
What these do: heals the member in that party slot (1 = first in party list, 2 = second party member in list and so on)
Telling party members who you casting Raise on:
/p I am casting Raise on <t>
/wait 2
/ac "Raise" <t>
Full command list: http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/1h7cf9/the_macro_thread/
