I avoid using /party macros unless I feel they're absolutely neccessary... TP reports I do, only because we can't assume everybody has the windower with the TP plug-in loaded. I don't even bother with /party chat on my WS though. The WS is obvious enough. And if the BLM/RDM/SMN can't land the magic burst, no amount of saying what weapon skill you're using is going to change that.
Unless your WS macro goes something like this:
| Quote: |
/p Starting skill chain in 20 seconds!
/wait 20
/p You can stand up now.
/wait 5
/p No, don't cast freeze.
/p Skillchain in 60 seconds, once BLM gets their MP back!
/wait 60
/p DAMNIT, enough with freeze! We're not even doing distortion!
/wait 5
/p Screw it.
/ws "Raging Fists" <t> |
Anyway... I got a bit carried away there. I like the limit on party chat to be for useful information to the whole (or at least half) of the party only. I don't care if you're summoning an avatar. Avatars announce themselves quite well as it is. I don't need to know you're boosting. I don't even really need to know if you're provoking. (If I'm on BLM, I'll keep track of if you provoked or not by hearing the distinctive sound.)
I don't even do macros to prevent overlapping spells any more. I couldn't get people to stop wasting MP during LS events by casting raise III on people I had just started casting raise on a few seconds ago with this macro:
/l (x_x)p (|Raise|)@<t> _/>O
And raise takes forever to cast...
...I'm ranting again. Switching subjects slightly... My chat log goes past too fast on WHM to deal with people having random flavor text for every macro they do. Yeah, I can filter more stuff, but I'm already down to as many things filtered as I can without effecting my preformance. I like seeing how much damage people take because it's a lot easier than remembering every melee's max HP and doing mental math every time they get hit... I have to see special effects caused by/on party so I don't miss debuffs landing on the party. (They really should make those seperate filters.)
Double Post Edited:
| Originally Posted by Telal |
| Understood, I have no idea what the translator is, or how to us it, or what it does (other than translates things), I assume, from screen shots a translated text shows up between the green and red arrows? |
Yeah.