Macro Question

[perry]

I have a question regarding macros.

I currently have two macros that I use constantly. One that provokes and counts down to 30, and one that simply cures myself.

When I start a battle, I provoke with my provoke macro, then I usually end up curing myself to keep hate.

When I do this, my provoke macro stops responding, meaning I have to guess when my 30 seconds is up.

The "Provoke in 15", etc, is there for the party to know if I am about ready to provoke or not, and I dont want to get rid of it.

Does anyone know a way to allow me to use both of these macros?
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macros
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Provoke:
/p Provoke in 30
/ja "Provoke"
/wait 15
/p Provoke in 15
/wait 15
/p Provoke Ready


Cure:
/ma "Cure" <me>

[Kagi]

Actually, my provoke macro is just: /ja "Provoke" <bt>
nothing to countdown or anything because it's usually taken for granted that I'll be the one tanking since I'm the pld. I just keep spamming it until it works.

You might want to try using the /ma "Cure" <st>

[Lan'Urk]

Countdown doesnt work.... and the reason why is... once you activate another macro, the first one is canceled... for example: you use Provoke macro... you get the 15 seconds notice, and you have to heal yourself... by activating the heal macro you cancel the provoke macro meaning it will not show up the Ready notice. so spaming is the best way to know when provoke is ready.

another point that i would like to bring up is /echo. I dont spam the PT chat anymore, because its quite useless and annoying, because quite frankly no one cares to see in the log if you provoked or not, or if your provoke is ready... they can already see it and hear it... the only thing i have in /p is the <t> im provoking which can help on links and what not... but ALL my other macros (except Cover) are in /echo. that way its easier to pick out the color in the log, and its separated from the normal and more important PT chat, like leader commands and renkeis.

I hope this help you some, and if you have any questions, shoot i will be glad to answer ^_^

[perry]

OK. I see your point about reporting time left to provoke, and your point about spamming the log. Ill change them right away.

As for the <st> I will have to play with it cause I am not familliar with it. I read the thread below about macros and like the idea that I can scroll through my pt and cure whoever especially if its defaulted to me. Right now, I only cure myself, dont know if that changes later in the game.

By the way, I have been on these forums for months now, playing the game about the same amount of time, and I didnt know that <bt> selected the monster that pt is attacking. I told people in my party about that yesterday and NO ONE knew about it till I said something. There was two minutes of down time after that while everyone changed their macros

Thanks for the help.

[Lan'Urk]

to tell you the truth all my cure macros i use <me>, its easier to time... and when im curing somone else i use the menu... i just organize my spellls in easy order.... because if im healing some one other than me, i usually can afford the little delay of pickng the spell from the menu.... probably not the most efficient during emergencies, but makes the normal curing easier... and as far as healing other people goes, usually my WHM beats me to it anyways:confused:

~Lanurk

[ichnob]

Explanation of &lt;st&gt; since i use it...

I'll try to make this clear as possible. When fighting, you'll notice when you are engaged in the battle that there's a selction of options on the left side of your screen just above the chatlog. One of them says "Switch Target" which is essentially the <st> tag anyway. Here's how my Cure macro goes for my Paladin:

/ma "Cure" <st>
/wait 4
/p <|Cure|> used on <lastst> /#/ MP: <mp>

Breakdown:
line 1--Starts the actual "Cure" process, but when the compiler reads <st>, it activates the Purple/Blue arrow above my head that allows me to change targets and still be engaged in fighting. From there, I hit F2-F6 to select a party member, or just hit Enter to select me. If I need to cure someone that isn't in my party (helping someone out or whatever reason), I just use the 0 key on the numpad to select them.
line 2--The wait tag is put in there so that the MP stated in the third line will reflect the MP after Cure was used, not before Cure was used.
line 3--<lastst> shows what I targeted last, mainly to show in the chatlog who I cured. The MP display is also there so that my party will know that I need to rest if my MP is low. Later on, hopefully it'll tell Bards and Red Mages that I need MP regen soon.

[Deodorant]

Personally I dislike using <bt> in /ja or /ma macros. They're perfect, until you get a link, and then <bt> ends up possibly targeting the 'wrong' mob. I've had mages cast spells on a link moments after I sleep2 them, because their <bt> targeted the link instead. Worst scenario was a blm who casted bio2 on the link - that almost killed us because it was impossible to sleep the link after that.