Macros Guide by Egomzez

Macros Guide by Egomzez

The key to playing any job well rests in using your macro pallets and macro sets. This will probably come easiest to PC users who are accustomed to using the keyboard.

At the initial levels of gaming it may not be essential to have macro sets, but as you go it is imperative.

To go through the effort of making macros you should first learn to back up our work. As you are in the ffxi menu where you can pick the character to log in with, you can save or load your macros to the server.

Losing your macros

The most common way the most recent macros changes are lost is by being disconnected. After spending more than 5 minutes changing macros log out to the character selection menu and save your macros to the server. Platform Specific Instructions This will save a great deal of extra work. But writing and writing macros is proabably the best way to learn how to write them.

Macros that don't work

The most frustrating macros experience to be had would be crafting up a bunch of new macros and then running out to party situation only to have the macros trip you and your party up into a total wipe. It can happen and it ain't pretty. Gotta test your macros out.

Tips on multifacted macros Before getting into the grits of writing macros I just want to point out that a set f mutifaceted macros can make a huge difference on how easy it is to earn game mechanics and how well your character emobdies its abilities.

A simple macros woud be something like:

/ma cure 

A multifacited macros woud be something like:

/equip Main "Light Staff /ma "Cure V" /wait 4 /recast "Cure V" /equip Main "Fourth Mace"

Simple macros do simple things, but mutifaceted macros customize and inform. Good macros help and bad macros get you killed.

Starting or organizing your macro sets Starting fresh is the neatest of approached, but organizing a jumbled bunch of macro pallets is where most people will start.

''Macro Pallets" Typically each macro pallet is for a specific job/sub combo. But it is also helpful to set a few pallets aside for specia cases.  Such as - a pallet for a lvl 40 job so you have something to take to NM fights or to capped areas.  If you like leveling in level sync at a certain area then consider making a pallet for that so you are ready for action at the drop of a hat. Best method of pallet naming is to put the latest level value in the name such as whm74sch.  This will help laster when you cannot remember what pallet was last used for what.

Macro Sets Another reoccuring macro nightmare is when the sets get rotated without notice so that as casting is attempted the macro set is wrong so there is no macros to execute. This is followed by a frantic search to get the right macro set to continue play. It could be the death of a party. More recently I found that it is possibe to write macroset rotating into the code. Which is awesome for scholar where one ability can change the whole array of spells available. So I now have a mutifaceted macro that rotates my macro sets to the right one and I don't have to fumble around in the middle of some fight.