FFXIV: DO's and DONT's of Macros 

If tanking you should make a "Hello!" macro that does the o/ Then end it with something that turns on tank stance

Im gonna do it! Im gonna say the S word! Sssshh-adow clone juts-! -You have been kicked from the party.

Back in storm blood; I ran into a dark knight that had a macro for dark arts; so the entire chat quickly filled with “Embrace the darkness!” “Embrace the darkness!” “Thy hate consume!” The screenshots were golden though.

As a healer main in FFXIV, mouse-over macros for healer skills are life. All I have to do is bring my mouse cursor over to the party member's name in the party window and bam, they're being healed and I haven't even switched targets. That was something I was taught in Heavensward and it still works today. Example: /micon "Cure" /ac "Cure"

Here's a tip for using macros that announce raise/invuln in party chat. Put your /ac in the second line before the /p line and add a at the end of the /ac line. That will allow you to spam the button to make sure it doesn't fail and it won't spam party chat because once you press the macro again it resets that 1s timer before the /p message goes out.

"Don't use anime quotes for skills you use often..." *remembers the "Omae wa mou shin deiru" LB macro I made* I feel attacked

48 gunbreakers are mad you exposed their foolishness.

PLEASE DON’T USE ANNOYING SOUND EFFECTS

I personally think raise macros are HIGHLY underrated. Even a simple lets your potential co-healer/rdm/smn know you're raising so they don't do it at the same time.

/ac "Asylum" /ac "Asylum" fallback to manual target for ground target macro if you're not focused on anything.

The one DO that I'm surprised wasn't mentioned was: if you do use a macro with text that's specifically for when in battle, remember to add a /party or /p otherwise, it'll essentially type to your currently selected chat (FC, linkshells, etc.)

The only problem with using the Double-Cross Hotbar on controller is that it will eventually betray you. 😁

"Don't put anime quotes in your marcos!" -hides my Gundam quotes in the bushes-

OMG! Had no idea you can set a ground AoE macro on a target! My Salted Earth is going down a lot faster now!

Mr Happy: "Don't have annoying, cringy quotes in your macro." Me as a DRK: "Please end my suffering. *Living Dead has been used* "

You don’t pay my sub! *yells EXPLOSION after every Fire cast*

I was that guy who had anime macros in ff11. I was 14.

@MrHappy1227 on your final point, you can "/macrolock" to prevent a macro being overwritten (useful for raise macros)

my favorite healer macro for my direct heals and esuna is. /macroicon "spell" /ac "spell" /ac "spell" /ac "spell" This causes the spell to go off on whoever im mousing over first even mousing over names of people in other alliance raid groups. This allows me to keep the boss targeted to see what abilities they are casting while also healing / removing debuffs. If I dont have anyone moused over it will go off on my target. You can also hold down right shift to disable mousover completely causing it to prioritize target. Now if i dont have a target or someone moused over it will cast it on me instead. There are things you must be cautions of though with this set up. Ive had it decide i wasn't mousing over someone when i was and it instead cast the spell on me. So use at your own risk. But Ive had it be rather efficient for me in the long run.

AST Macros: Buff Notification/Useful Warnings or A Full Episode of Yu-Gi-Oh in one dungeon run. Hmmm! :3

ah reminds of the days of Warriors and their ear murder "BERSERK INCOMING PLEASE USE ESUNA!!!"

When I play a healer, I love to use mouse over targeting macros for my healing spells. It makes transitioning from healing to damage to healing again almost instant, I can just leave my mouse on the main tank in the party list and never untarget the boss, and if I need to adjust, I just need to move my mouse up or down very quickly. It makes healing to be very efficient for me.

one macro i like using for dark knight is popping Blackest Night on my target's target. if i'm main tank, that's me. if i'm off tank, that's the MT. /ac "The Blackest Night" it's been really useful in keeping my blackblood up and keeping whoever's main tanking alive through tankbusters

The only macro i need. /micon "Dragonfire Dive" /ac "Dragonfire Dive" /y YEET!

As someone who plays on ps4 with controller, and wound up being the group's healer for a long time, I made a macro button that swaps to focus target (usually the MT). It's much faster and much more responsive than pressing the up/down directional buttons to try and select the player who's tanking for a faster heal/esuna/barrier. It's also decent for when you have an enemy that moves around, as you'll instantly target them so long as they're your focus target, and can get back to DPS'ing. /target

Another great macro is: /ac Superbolide /statusoff Superbolide

Due to my physical disability I just using healing macro's. As dps I don't need any. I've 8 heal macro's which are almost the same as a healer, but thanks to this I can heal easily the player which needs to be healed by clicking on the correct button without losing target on the boss or mt. Also for raise I ve a macro with swiftcast + raise, and it targets the first death player in row. I ofc have also the normal raise on my actionbars aswell as the healing skills as backup. All this makes me a pretty decent healer who can keep the group alive (most of the times). I also am a Warrior, a Red Mage and a Bard atm, I try to learn as much as I can and use only macro's which are helpfull for me.

One thing I'd suggest, when playing a healer, is to have a macro for your attack spells to use them while targeting your tank, if they're taking enough damage that you need to keep an eye on them. /ac "Spell" You can still DPS this way without having to change your target or focus, and you're guaranteed to hit the one your tank is wailing on.

I find that on Bard the macro /ac "Nature's Minne" can be quite useful, was at least last expansion. means you use the ability on your target's target. When you're focusing the boss this is in most cases the main tank which is convinient when they are about to tale a solid beating.

Happ, A super good macro to spread to tanks who struggle with tank swaps and shirk: /ac "Shirk" With default party sorting this will /always/ hit your co-tank in 8 man content.

Maybe mentioned (if so, added for emphasis), but some more tips: -You can use the autotranslate function instead of typing "action" . This really helps with oddly worded skills or really long ones and prevents mistypes, also you don't need the parenthesis anymore. -For healing (under a majority of circumstances) I use a macro for dpsing or putting up dots. That way I don't have to untarget my tank, but I can still get in some dps. -For skills used on other players (Mainly use these while tanking): I'm not a big fan of mouseover (just how I play), but I do use a party order , etc, for shields. Like Cover and Intervention (PLD) or Blackest NIght (DRK) that way all I have to do is hit a key to trigger the effect on someone without clicking on the party list and taking my attention off the boss (or whatever my main target is)

As a healer the two macros I use the most are 1.) Swiftcast then Rez and 2.) Target of target for my offensive spells . Makes it so I can stay selected on the tank/party member and throw stones at enemies. Only issue is woth some fights where the foe I'm targeting is targeting something else. In those I have to target a party member in order to do damage to what I want to target.

I do have an interesting question for folks out there and the mention of macros being used by handicapped players. First, a bit of background info: my mother has had multiple surgeries in the past and has what we casually call 'anesthesia brain', which has made it both difficult for her to remember the effects of some of her bard skills, as well as severely affecting her reaction time. That, combined with surgeries on her hands and her inability to use a mouse with added buttons on it for efficiency, has made partaking in fight and dungeons nearly impossible for her. It's hit her a bit hard because she truly loves this game, but has become very self-conscious because of her inability to do well in most later dungeons. My question to you all is, do you think, in her case, macros that condence a series of skills together would help her? Allow her to focus solely on avoiding AOEs while the macros themselves do most of the skill work? Of course, she'll not be running any savage raids or whatnot, and her damage wouldn't be the best, but just something that may allow her to do, say, a leveling or trial roulette.

As a ps4 player targeting macros for me have been game changing for battle efficiency over the years of raiding

Man, I’m loving these new videos from Haps. Guides to things beyond the fights!

Oh shoot I’m bad, I didn’t even know you could place ground aoes with the command... my life has been way more complicated than it should’ve been.

I play with a controller, and I've only heavily used macros during Stromblood when we could only have 5 of the cross-role actions set. I had macros that let me quickly swap between them. I also used to have a macro on Paladin in early Stormblood that had like 3 off-GCD defense buffs because Paladin suffered from massive skill bloat, but when they gave the jobs full access to the cross-role actions I got rid of it since I had to use a third cross hotbar to fit them all anyways.

RIP Shadowflare indeed :(

For Dark Knight the target macro for Salted Earth is good but doe a target instead.. works wonders and prevents you from having to place it manually on big targets that you can't use the macro on.

Thanks again Mr. Happy!! This is amazing!!

I play on the JP datacenter and I freaking love the fight macros. Makes things so simple when PUG-ing EX/Savage content.

I would have like you going over the tank shared mitigations, like heart of stone on targets target. That kinda thing c:. But I like this vid, I don't use em but I didn't know about the crafting ones.... I uh... May have a crafter at 80 by the end of today now.... Ahem...

one thing i really like with ground macros is to add a second line with the regular action, so if you dont have anything targeted it will bring up the mouse placement thing anyway its really good for pets too

In the past, i used them for: - Damage reduction skills of tanks used on cotank - Shirk to cotank - "Cover" (PLD) the tether dude/dudette in O11S (health reduced mechanic) - "Salted Earth" (DRK) - DRG Line - I tried an insta-ress macro but often died while waiting for it to work in tight situations - Astro: "Play card" for each position in the party List also Queen/King for each position in the party List

I got a comm yesterday for my Nineball LB macro in LotA Surprised that Armored Core is popular among the FFXIV community

Continuation macro!? That ruins the fun imo on GNB!!!!

One of the worst macros I had to deal with was a Black Mage cast spamming Blizzard 3 in Palace of the Dead where it would say "Stay cooled off!" or something over and over and over in the chat.

Congrats on your channel growth. Been watching your videos for about a year now glad your going big time with content/sponsors :D

And yet the game clearly has the ability to properly set up attack chains as a single button as shown when it makes you play as Thancred in his gunbreaker class. A similar option for actual player characters without using macros would be fantastic.

"Don't add anime quotes-" aw shit that's a good idea

To expand on the macro for ground target AOEs, back when Shadowflare was a thing (rip) I would use a + macro. This is useful for bosses like Cloud of Darkness that have gigantic hotboxes or have their hotbox centers off a targetable surface. That macro allows for targeting of the boss first, but if it fails, it will then target the target of the boss ( = target of target) and typically place the ground aoe right under the tank. I don't recommend this for defensive bubbles, but it's quite useful for salted earth, etc. is also quite useful for certain targeted defensive abilities that you want on the target that is being attacked, so you don't need to swap off the boss.

As a controller player the only macros I have are for the ground AOEs and target for Skirk and other tank cooldowns for off-tanking. The latter is especially important for tank switches and shields and you’re not fumbling in the party menu ever.

I recommend the party chat macros to be placed after the action, the millisecond difference could hurt really badly

Thank you for acknowledging people with disabilities who play this game! It's very nice to be seen. ^.^

Best macros are when something is only available if it procs off a pre-req skills. So that proc'd skill goes into the macro line first and then the "3rd final" skill goes second. So you hit the macro, it looks for the 3rd skill, if its available to use, then it uses, if its not then the macro instantly moves onto the "2nd" skill again in the macro (no wait time for something like this). Monk is a good example because of the way its skills chain and only become available when used in a certain order 1-2-3 (heavy hitting 3rd & 2nd skills) /macroicon "Snap Punch" /ac "Snap Punch" (3rd level skill) /ac "True Strike" (2nd level skill) (buff/debuff 3rd & 2nd skills) /macroicon "Demolish" /ac "Twin Snakes" (3rd level skill) /ac "Demolish" (2nd level skill) (Self heal and heal buff) /macroicon "Second Wind" /p Mantra HEALS ARE BUFFED /ac "Mantra" /wait .5 /ac "Second Wind" /ac "Bloodbath" And for healers - namely Astro for me, i macro Swiftcast in with Raise skills /macroicon "Ascend" /ac "Swiftcast" /wait 1 /ac "Ascend" /p Raising

You should always spam the action in the macro so it has more chance to go off, for example instead of 1x /ac salted earth , you can put 8 lines of that so it queues 8 times within the ogcd slot

My favorite tank one is a shrink macro: /Micon "shirk" /Ac "shirk" This will target the second person in the party list, which if you haven't changed it at all, will be the other tank

I have a "spam" macro for almost every dps class. Mch has reassemble/drill/air anchor/ricochet/gauss round (i think that's it) in it. My HW Ninja had a ~9 skill spam macro that included an entire opener, hide/teleport/trick attack/mug(and whatever other instants)/and some other shit in it that no longer exists, ending with the poison debuff. It worked incredibly well and I had other high level ninjas asking me how I was doing my opener so quickly. I know exactly how inefficient it is, and I do it anyway. Don't tell my static, nobody knows I'm one-button spamming my way through everything.

for salted earth. /ac salted earth /ac salted earth this is useful for if you run into a boss that is off the platform, wont work, but if you have right after, if the fails, it will just drop it on you. same button, 2 functions.

Here's afew tips about macros. 1: using /em makes all following text only apply to you. Example: /em wait 30 This will result in you being pinged in 30seconds. Noone else will hear it. Great for ast cards, important CD like No Mercy or Delirium. 2: Keep combat macros as 2 actions tops. Though I suggest only 1 action since you have to wait and entire second for the next move. However some people like their swiftcast res. 3: In chatlog settings you can try out all the sound effects and see the number they are. 4: Remember to always put channel name for your macro if you want it said in a specific chat or it'll say the text in your currect channel. This is however not always good to do as I like being able to switch between telling a party to tank swap in raids or telling other alliances in shout.

I use macros as a healer, allowing me to still have the tank targeted and cast my damage spells on the tank's target as well as a swiftcast+ress macro. I also use a target macro with Salted Earth. I didn't know about the spell que though, so I might want to rethink the damage macros.

Raise macros with disparaging responses or quotes is my biggest pet peeve in 14's chat. Thanks, healer(s), I know I died for x or y reason, and yes, it is embarrassing, so you don't gotta make dying feel worse.

/ac "Asylum" is also useful. Wish it would let you target the ground with this too, but it only works if you have your mouse over anything targetable.

Thank you for being a huge part in finally discovering why I cannot reach the machinist dps rotation.

Adding a shirk macro for makes tank swap mechanics sooooo much easier, provided you prioritize tanks at the top of the party list.

My favorite healing macro! (for controller users) Let’s you dish out damage, pop to the tank for some quick heals and pop back so you can get back to business. /macroicon “Target back” /target

Couple macros I have on my bars: - Next to the party list, Cover through , positioned so that in an emergency I can just click the Cover icon next to someone's name and it'll Cover that person - Shirk so it'll target the other tank

One macro I know I have used in the past was the (Target of Target) Macro for my healers. Its not 100% but it allows you to stay on you person you are healing (most likely the tank) and cast DMG spells on their Target. While this has a draw back of if the person you are targeting has no target = no spell casts. Its hit or miss but was really useful for me when I was healing periodically in Raids from 2.X-4.X (not a HC Raider) Prob isn't needed as much anymore however just thought its something I would bring up.

SWTOR at one point introduced a feature that let you "cast" GTAoE spells a second time after enabling the target marker to have them pop up on the current target. That was the best change they ever made to the game, and something I sorely miss in XIV every time Sacred Soil gets stuck to the mouse.

I love the macros. For those who dont know you can set a attack skill to target your targets target. So let's say your on Sch, you can set your broil to target the PLD target, aka the boss most times. This prevents you from having to untarget the tank and DPS between healing. I know for myself I sometimes forget to switch back and the tank drops super low then I'm scrambling to get them healed back up to safe levels.

As a healer main working on ps4 controller one I found useful is setting your attack spells to then in the next line to or target of target. So when doing open world I hit stuff as normal but when in dungeons it hits whoever I'm healing target

2 high value macro types that I use as a tank: First the macro for skills like shirk/intervention/nascent Flash. This macro will make it so that your skill that you're pressing will always apply to whoever is number 2 in your party (in 8 man content this is always the co tank which is why it works) /micon "Shirk" /ac "Shirk" /ac "Shirk" /ac "Shirk" (Max out all 15 lines of this, to ensure that the skill fires since, as mr.happy stated, macro's ignore the games queuing system) the other one: the Target of Target macro this macro makes it so you don't have to drop target to apply an ability to a desired member, in this case I put it on Aurora because it's a nice regen for whoever is tanking the boss/add what have you because it applies to the target of the enemy whether that be you/the other tank/a party member. /ac "Aurora" /ac "Aurora" /ac "Aurora" /micon "Aurora" and Finally a nice, niche meme one: This is the weapon glow glitch ;D use this simple 2 line macro to glitch glowing weapons so that they glow while sheathed /bm /sit

6:45 I will now proceed to macro each and every single one of my skills to constantly spam Anime quotes.

Macro "FALCON PUUUUUUNNNCH!!!!" into the party chat for every monk weapon skill

A handy one for controller users is to make a macro for "ac/ sprint" in macro slot 99. You can then bind this macro to your left stick and just have sprint work almost the same way it does in every other game ever :D System Config > Controller Settings > Button Config "Begin" > Change L3 to "Execute Macro #99" > Done Saves a hotbar slot also.

I main DRK and probably my most useful macro is /ac “The Blackest Night” to help my co-tank. Also, my salted earth macro is set as /ac Salted Earth instead of so that I’m pretty much dead center and hits anything near.

You can use /macrolock in the macro to prevent a macro from interrupting another macro

a HUGE macro right now is a hotbar collapse macro for hiding stuff like stuff for jobs and stuff.

I macro earthly star with a variety of options. In order: , , Also, I used to macro Embrace on the same button as Physick, prioritizing mouseover for Embrace for maximum flexibility

i legit spit my coffee when you talked about crafting macros and showed off Ashe10's XD

So I listened to the latest State of the Realm at work today, and from what I gathered this video is a tutorial for how to make helpful macros for your party. Let me see if I got this right. /ac "Summon Eos" /p "Please, Eos, I need you!" and /ac "Summon Seraph" /p "O loveliest of branches, please grant me your succor!" Then press the key a bunch of times to make sure the ability goes off, right? :P

The /echo works with sound effects too, i do that to keep up BRD songs; /ac "the Wanderer's Minuet" /wait 26 /echo >>>>> new song !

I admittedly used a combat combo macro and my biggest complaint with it was when I'd execute it if I was trying to run out of an AOE it'll still try executing it, turning you back around towards the enemy so youd have to turn around again, more often than not ending up getting hit by the AOE. One macro I love using when doing single target content is the Caster LB .

My Excog and Fae Union are macroed with . Very helpful for single tank healing. BE VERY CAREFUL though. - Since 5.0 allowed Excog to be placed on the caster, if you are targetting the tank instead of the enemy, it will put excog on you. - Same deal with Fae Union. It will put Fae Union on you if you’re not careful. It’s got its downsides but fairly useful for me at least.

I should macro my Salted Earth. I am atm just often to lazy to place it, since I play with controller.

Should I not use macros for healing?

I use a few on my DRG. For Dragon Sight I use focus target and focus a player of my choice for each encounter. I also successfully condensed the two third combo actions together into one button based on which second combo action was selected. This is done without losing the ability the queue using the following general strategy: 1) When you press the macro, it swaps its self out for the normal skill which you can then press again to queue normally. Basically double-tap to queue it. 2) You use a /wait 1 line that is still running in the background even though the macro removed its self from the action bar. 3) after the wait line, you copy a hidden action bar to the original action bar that includes the original macro button (thus replacing the ordinary skill with the macro again) Unfortunately it's a bit clunky for condensation as you need to use an action bar for each possible variation of the action bar. With DRG 1-2-3 combo (where action 3 is being swapped), you need to make 2 hidden action bars for it to work. To do it for GNB you would probably need a hidden bar for each stage in the combo, and you'd be screwed if you needed to start the combo from scratch unless you set up a hotkeyed macro to get back to stage 1 on demand. Even if that tank cooldown macro worked in the desired order, I still wouldn't use it for two reasons. (1) the cooldowns have different functionalities and you want to to control which ones you use when, and (2) You often need to weave multiple cooldowns together to ensure you activate everything in time for a tank-buster. The inability to queue really screws with how fast you can activate them all within a global or two.

If you're crafting many items, I tend to hit the macro before the Synth window has opened, so the first macro command may be missed. Put a 1-2 second wait at the start of the macro, then you can hit synthesize and then the macro immediately without waiting for the window to open.

Only time I ever use shirk is in raid or extreme trial content that requires a tank swap. So I have my shirk set to do it on as the other tank will always be the second party member. That way I never have to click off the boss to effectively tank swap.

Sometimes you just need every tank CD bound to a single mashable button.

Sidenote: if you're going to make a macro for something like a defensive cooldown, do set the action in the line before the text alert, and add before the text so if you spam the macro to activate the cooldown, it won't show the text until 1 second after your last macro press. Example: /Micon "Holmgang" /ac "Holmgang" /p "Just used Holmgang, get ready to bene!"

I macro buffs but only in twos and only certain ones so I still have a level of control and not get hurt by latency. Or like the Dragonsight one, to either pick amongst the party list or mouseover so I don't have to click off a target. Also have a few for my tanks for things like Cover and that other party skills where it uses my target's target so if I'm off-tanking I can bubble someone or if picking up an add or aggro issues I can potentially protect and/or save a non-tank from dying.

I use a dragon macro that sets the eye buff to either party position 4,2,3 or me in that order.

i have two separate heart of stones on my bar one normally for targeting myself and one to target the main tank as a macro would you recommend? just makes it easier for me to dps the boss

I've got some heal macros for when I'm targeting boss. /ac Tetragrammaton /ac Regen when I need to go back to power healing I switch away from my dps cross bar which doesn't use the macros to stop the macro lag. keep meaning to add one to Afflatus Solace

I only macro movement abilities. For example, I've got Shukuchi macro'd to R3 (right stick click on controller, Macro #99 by default) since I aim it with that stick anyway. I've got it set with both regular use and with in the same macro so that I can move to a target immediately or free aim if I choose. Additionally, I put all of my job movement abilities into this one macro (Elusive Jump, Between the Lines, Repelling Shot, Corpse a Corpse, En Avant, etc)and it will only function for my current active job. I just start the macro with /merror off so that it doesn't keep telling my job can't use the other abilities. It works great.

"Don't add quotes to skills you use often" Learned that the hard way a while ago... took it off right after that fight when I looked in chat...

I can concur on the crafting macros. Most people gather some 100 items to craft with, write a macro that gets the item to HQ with a small sound effect alarm when it finishes. They then press the macro every time it finishes and watch youtube videos about macros while waiting and having lunch :). Then sell the items on market board and get rich in your sleep. For combat, I only use them on oGCDs with longer cooldowns that aren't used on cooldown and require a party member to be targeted. Examples are abilities like Shirk, Raise and Synastry. I NEVER use them on GCDs. as explained, that's a big no-no.

Ran titan extreme one time. Someone made a macro SPECIFICALLY for that fight, making a ping sound accompanied by a message in party chat that he would use when the gaols went up to warn everyone that upheaval was coming soon

Playername beams a smile at . Playername says 'Ah, I feel much better now!' Everquest players will know that one.