[Blues Hawk]

ALT 1-7 i have Carbuncle and all the avatars in the order i defeated them

CTRL 1 - Assault Macro
CTRL 2 - Release Macro
CTRL 3 - Attack
i put each level 1 attack for non-carbuncle avatars in this one
/pet "Axe Kick" <bt>

CTRL 4 - Magic Macro
here i put each level 10 magic attack for non-carbuncle avatars here
/pet "Blizzard II" <bt>

CTRL 5 - Buffs Macro
here i put each non-carbuncle avatar's good buffing move
/pet "Aerial Armor" <me>
etc

CTRL 6 - Debuffs Macro
each non-carbuncle avatar's most useful (in my opinion or at my level) debuff attack
/pet "Thunderspark" <bt>
etc.

CTRL 7 - CarbyBP
here i have all of carbuncle's blood pact abilities macroed and each of the lines are broken except the one i'd like to use. when i change my mind i'll unbreak one and break the current one. i havent worked a final idea for carbuncle's abilities so this is just an idea right now

CTRL 8 - Astral Flow
/ja "Astral Flow" <me>

CTRL 9 - MegaAtk
each of the avatar's 2hr blood pacts
/pet "Diamond Dust" <bt>

CTRL 0 - MP report
/p MP ***<mp>***<mpp>***



these work well for me and i welcome anyone to try it

[Akiro]

this is a site that i went to that helped me with macros and my upcoming summon battles

http://www.ukg.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ability.htm

[tazirai]

Originally posted by Akiro
this is a site that i went to that helped me with macros and my upcoming summon battles

http://www.ukg.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ability.htm

pretty good website and probably best NA summoner page, ive seen.

[Rai-Jin]

that site is down quite a while now does anybody know when it goes back up i really need it now >.<

[vadrek]

The site is up.

[tazirai]

Originally Posted by vadrek

The site is up.

great its the best NA site out their for Summoners

[KaworuNagisa]

Hmm.. Down again - Granted this was a few months back. Any news on that?

[Diemond:Fenrir]

My main summon macros were kinda unique but they got annoying to me so i just now have it that i press the macro, it changes my weapon to the appropriate staff and then it begins summoning, 5 secs after the saying was said it would say I Summon Thee!!!!
Carbuncle = Guardian of the Grand Light
Shiva = Goddess of the Deadly Frost
Garuda = Ruler of the Vengeful Gales
Titan = Beast of the Mighty Tremors
Ramuh = Elder of the Great Storm
Ifrit = Demon of the Merciless Flames
Leviathan = Serpant of the Raging Tides
Fenrir = Being of the Forgotten Abyss
Diabolos = God of the Apocolypse

[Andvari]

Thanks for that Tazirai I never thought of doing it that way..

I just had all my summons on one line and used menus.

[Likibiki]

One thing I noticed is that as I rose higher in level, I didn't have the macro space for bloodpacts anymore in my macro set.

I'd advise you to get used to using ctrl-b for your bloodpacts as soon as possible because there's just that many to macro... you just won't have room to put them along side your avatar summon macros (all 9), Assault/Release (I don't use retreat), Cure spells, maybe a /heal macro if you use cookies/darkstaff/other gear... some -na spells, regen and so on.

And that's not even including Blink/Stoneskin/Raise + Reraise (which I don't macro) and all the other -na spells which won't fit into a macro set.

And yes, anything in /p for SMN macros is pointless.

[SharMarali]

I use 3 sets of macros for my SMN. One set contains each avatar with a macro swap to the appropriate staff, assault, release, retreat (which I do use quite often for link-free pulling) Cure2 & 3, and some of my more commonly used buffs like Earthen Ward. Another set contains all the high-end attacking blood pacts with various equipment swaps, and I haven't added a lot else to this set. The third set contains some of my less-used buffs that I still want macros for nevertheless, such as Noctoshield, Dream Shroud, Hastega, Spring Water, etc. It also contains -na spells, erase, and Divine Seal.

I use 3 macro sets for my RDM also, and I am able to cycle through them with ease. It takes a bit of getting used to, but once you're used to it, your brain is just automatically trained to press the right sequence of buttons and you don't really think about what you're doing, you just DO it. ^^

[KitaKaze]

If you want to save space for BP macros (and don't switch equipment for attack bonus on them), then put them all in one macro. I only need 2 lines of macros because of this.

EX.
Alt1 Ward
/pet "Earthen Ward" <me>
/pet "Healing Ruby II" <me>
/pet "Hastega" <me>
/pet "Spring Water"me>
ect...

If you have af2 boots you best put them on before you do your bp (I switch between AF2 boots and AF+1) or macro it into it.

[Razalom]

Originally Posted by Akiro

this is a site that i went to that helped me with macros and my upcoming summon battles

http://www.ukg.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ability.htm

Best site ever for smn. Used it to get my avatars @ 20. Everything is clear and well written.

[Sir Cledwin]

with the new 20 macro books and 10 macro pages per book, couldn't we in theory have a macro page dedicated to each of the main avatar's at this point (unless we get some additional avatar's I really only count 9 Avatar's so that is 1 less than the 10 pages that we need, so we could actually dedicate the 10th page to something entirely different!)?

[Taskmage]

Since you can switch macro sets from within a macro now, you could technically have a "root" book with summoning macros for each avatar that would switch to an avatar-specific set when used, then have each book use a release macro that reverts you to the root book when used.

Summoning macro:
/ma Carbuncle <me>
/equip main "Light Staff"
/macro set 2

Release macro:
/ja Release <me>
/macro set 1

SE has said that there are new avatars coming in the near future though, which throws something of a wrench in the works if you want every avatar to be represented with its own book.