my spell macros wont work

[pearlsea]

I cant get my spell macros to work, my text/emote ones work fine but not the spells ones, is there a macro program that you can make macros outside of the game and can someone give me an example of how to macro stone and i can figure it out from there, thanks alot ^^.

[TheGrandMom]

/ma Stone <t>

Now if you have 2 parts to the word like Stone II then it would be like this:

/ma "Stone II" <t>

Notice the "'s around the word. If the spell, ability, etc. has 2 parts then you must use them or it will not work.

/ma = magic

/ja = job ability

/ws = weapon skill

Here is another handy macro for a mage:

/p Black Mage's MP @ <mp> = <mpp>

The /p puts it in party chat and it will say to the party Black Mage's MP @ 100/200 = 50% (just an example of how much mp you may have). You can use this macro to let your pt know if your low on mp.

One other thing, many people use calls in their macros. If you do <call> in a pt (only in a pt), you will hear a sound. Then you can put numbers behind them so <call1> <call2> <call3> etc. Some of the calls are VERY abrasive. <call> is and many people use it in their macros. I would suggest using something like <call10> or <call11> when using a call in a macro. There is nothing worse than a melee that has an annoying call in his TP macro and he spans it to pt a lot each battle. Whats even worse is if your like me and wear headphones! Gives me a flippin headache every time!

[sevenpointflaw]

You said that the text works fine, but the magic doesn't? I will use Stone as an example, and assume your macro looks like this:

/p Casting Stone!
/ma "Stone" <t>

This will cause problems sometimes for various reasons. Make sure you have a wait line in there, so the macro reads like this:

/p Casting Stone!
/wait 1
/ma "Stone" <t>

In the first example you basicly have two commands so close together, that the system is still dealing with the first command when the macro tries to send the second command. Since you are already "doing" something, it drops the second command. There are a few situations where it dosn't loose the second command (like equip swaps + healing), but those are exceptions to the rules.

[PotentPotables]

Not to be anal retentive, but if you have to use a "/wait ?" command during a spell between /p chat and /ma, be sure you put the /ma first.

/ma Stone <t>
/wait 1
/p Casting Stone!

That way, you will actually cast when you want to without the delay, plus the text server will update faster and you'll probably see your /p chat at the same time as your cast.

But, unless you're internet connection is really slow, you shouldn't have to worry about wait between text and action commands. I haven't really ran into any problems until you have 2 of the same type of command back to back.

Make sure that you watch your capitalization of everything. Macro initiators always start out lowercase, i.e. /ma, /ja, /p. You should use quotation marks with everything, until you're more used to it, like Gramma says, i.e. "Stone", "Stone II", "Ginger Cookie". Notice also that all the words are capitalized. In the macro, they need to be spelled EXACTLY as they appear in the menu.

Finally, some other macro enders to help you out.
<t> = Target = Whatever target you're arrow is on.
<bt> = Battle Target = Whatever target is Red to you.
<st> = Select Target = After macro, an arrow comes up to choose target.
<me> = Me = You.
<p1>-<p5> = Party Member = Counts from party member below you.

[Susurrus]

Please don't use text in macros unless it is necessary such as pulls, TP/MP notices, or WS notices.

Nobody cares you used Spell X or Job Ability Y.

[pearlsea]

Ok even my cookie macros work fine but i cant get the spells to work, im 100% sure i wrote "/ma "Stone" <t>" but it still dosent work, and when i ment my text ones worked i ment my serperate text ones, but even when the spell is by itself i cant get it to work.

[Aeolus]

if /ma "Stone" <t> doesnt work call a GM or check you actually have the spell :)

[sevenpointflaw]

Ok even my cookie macros work fine but i cant get the spells to work, im 100% sure i wrote "/ma "Stone" <t>" but it still dosent work, and when i ment my text ones worked i ment my serperate text ones, but even when the spell is by itself i cant get it to work.

I dun remember if its been said yet, but spells -are- case sensitive. /ma Stone <t> will work, however /ma stone <t> will not work. A mistake I make a lot when I'm typing a spell instead of going to my magic list.

[pearlsea]

^ ok il check if i made it a capitol.

EDIT: i checked it and it still wont work, il call a GM when i have the time.

[Balfree]

are you targetting the mob?

[pearlsea]

My spell macros just started working ^^, thanks for the help.

[neighbortaru]

lol, Balfree hit the nail on the head didn't he? ;)

[bikkebakke]

That's why I use /ma "Stone" <bt> because I'm too lazy to target battle monsters >.>