Sound effects can be put to good use, just be careful not to throw them in unnecessarily. The line allows you to tap the button a couple times (to make sure it goes off) without spamming the chat. I’m sure there are lots of people who would appreciate the tip. 222. /micon “Asylum”. I'm Banesworth, an avid gamer who loves to think about efficiency, planning, and general geekiness applied to my favourite video games. I just decided to add an extra second to my wait commands. So, you cannot wait 2.5 seconds, it will round up to 3. That makes this type of macro extremely niche, basically only useful when you have one single combat skill (cooldown <60s) macroed and you want to use it every time it’s up. In this instance, you can tap the button repeatedly to make sure it starts (regardless of any animation locks or being unable to queue the GCD) while only sending the chat message in the last line of the macro once. It is just mechanically inferior. In this post I’m going to introduce you to macros and how to set them up. Sourcecode on Github. You can also choose others which I’ll talk about in the next section. You can put these either on their own line or at the end of another line and they should be functionally identical. Here is a macro for gathering collectables that requires 600 GP to use. Unfortunately not all items in a category seem to work. /hud scenarioguide toggle. This is pretty useful for tank swaps. Some titles I play include FFXIV, League of Legends, Fire Emblem, and Minecraft. Eventually figured out that the game rounds up fractions, when tried 2.4 and 2.5. This makes chatting super inconvenient, so these players may find it useful to set up some messages when they aren’t in the middle of a duty. This gif shows someone spamming a non-macro GCD vs a macro GCD and you’ll see it’s inevitable that you fall behind and lose casts over time. benefit to anyone in the real world, so limiting macro functionally is absolutely crap. Updated July 23, 2020 By Banesworth 7 Comments. Some people discover macros in this game and they try to be a little too clever with them, thinking it will be a definite improvement with no drawbacks. I set this to a mouse keybind (ctrl+M3) so I can hover over players and open their character screen: You can make a macro that changes your gearset and HUD layout all at once. Crafting an item 10 levels below your current level can now be HQ in 2 easy steps. You can press your macro keybind a moment before your GCD is rolling and….nothing happens. This is great if you’re the type of person who uses different HUD layouts for different roles (some people do this when they heal for instance, as the party list becomes more important), or if you prefer your crafters’ or gatherers’ HUDs to be setup differently than your combat jobs. First, let’s start with the housekeeping stuff. /macroicon “Dragon Kick” That’s also making the assumption that: They can quickly be activated with the press of a button. The most basic thing new players can do to improve damage output is to make sure you are always keeping your GCD rolling (ABC: “Always Be Casting”). Here’s a visual representation. Essentially you get a message in chat with a sound effect that only you can see and hear, because it’s an echo (/e). Remember that macros are not meant to completely automate combat. This tool is created by Mireiawen Rose of Lich, Special thanks to Aurorah Rose for testing everything, improving the generator, example macros and all the other stuff, This tool is loosely based on the FFXIV Heavensward Crafting Macro Generator by Serra Avenger of Tonberry, but all of the code has been written from scratch, Thanks to the XIVDB and Garland Tools for their item databases, this tool imports some knowledge from both them as well as XIVDB tooltips, This tool uses jQuery, jQuery IO and Bootstrap frameworks, JavaScript Templates, sprintf.js and Bootbox.js helpers, Please report any bugs, issues, requests to the GitHub project. If no player is moused over, it will go on your cotank. That way you don’t have to bother any party members while you test them out. Starting with "A Realm Reborn" and the expansions include "Heavensward", "Stormblood", and … This happened to me several times when I would do a set of macro crafts, and the odd one would fail here and there. You probably see where this is going. Strategies change as people try new things with the fight, and come up with more efficient tactics.