Everquest: Setting up useful Macros

A video on macros, how to create macros for many different situations like grouping, soling, and multiboxing.
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[@scottrowland2787]

Fez, Thank you for this. As a growing newbie, the macro has been the most intimidating tool for me to learn. I'm going to try to start with a simple one. I'll catch on soon enough, but I appreciate your video. I haven't found Macros for Dummies yet. 😅😅😅

[@FezzelwhigsForum]

I'm glad this helped.

[@quocdang5820]

If you have access to a guild test dummy, I recommend you test your macros on it before you put your faith on the macro in battle.

[@raulflores5737]

So i can pull off casting 4 spells on a single macro. The formula is rather simple. Take the casting time of the spell in question, lets say 3 seconds in spell slot one, then add the global refresh of 1.5 seconds to give you 4.5 seconds. The first line of your macro will be /pause 45,/cast 1. You need the comma and no space between it and the slash. Eventhough the pause number is written before the /cast command it will take effect after the spell has been cast. Ie even if you have a /pause 45,/cast 1 you will attempt to cast the spell immediately after the button is clicked, not after the pause.

[@TrunchNMunch]

If you add main assist's target to your xtar window, all you have to type to assist is /xtar # and the number of the target slot you put main assist's target into. I have main assist's targets set as xtar 1 because its in the first slot of my xtar window, then when you assist all you have to do is have a hotkey that says /xtar 1 (in my example) and you will instantly switch targets. It faster then /assist main and its faster then /target MainAssistsName. With /assist main and /assist playername the macro has to find the target first and it takes about 0.5 or more to do that, because you have the main assist's target in the xtar window, the UI instantly targets the main assist's target with the delay. Most people might not think it makes much a difference, but it is helpful for soloing on some classes like shaman/bst and if you're in a prog guild or high-end guild, the added time will increase dps with target switching. Allows melee attack targets faster.

[@FezzelwhigsForum]

I will give this a try. Thank you for the tip.

[@jeffreyrayborn1871]

nice and all, but what are the commands available??? is there a list of what commands can be used ? and where is it? because i dont know what commands do this or that thing. abilities are /do ability (1 thru 10 ?? ) what about spells? what is the command for the 8 spell slots? what is the command for the bars buttons 1 thru 12????

[@FezzelwhigsForum]

Great questions that will probably appear in a new video, but until then you can try typing /help in game and you'll see a list of commands types. For spell casting you would type, /cast 1 for spell in slot 1, /cast 2, for slot 2 and so on. Press CTRL C to open combat abilities window. these abilities are also numbered 1 through 10.

[@chriss6857]

Love your into !!

[@FezzelwhigsForum]

Thank you.

[@Inmate533]

@@FezzelwhigsForum I agree. The intro is fantastic.

[@FezzelwhigsForum]

@@Inmate533 Thanks

[@jeffreyrayborn1871]

i was runninga single beastlord, i could get up to 8 qattacks lined up, but the order the pet did them could change. - i think its the next closest target in the pets list. i dont know how many targets yet , but i was definately up to or above 6 . ( this was in the gloomingdeep mines i was trying this. in the room with bats n rats , then again in the spiders. but after those 2 rooms i nevver had another opportunity to get long lists of qattacks.

[@jeffreyrayborn1871]

you can use macros to learn languages too right?? set up 2 or 3 characters with a different language, then have them say 3 lines of text, . i wonder??? if you put 3 h0t buttons of text macros and a 4th hot button to trigger the 3 previous buttons could you get 9 lines of text per one button press?? and how many times can you step the macros?? ohh i'm gonna have fun playing with that soon.

[@FezzelwhigsForum]

A macro won't trigger another macro, but you can learn languages with macros. I Have a video on it. You can click this link I set it to start 10 minutes in where it shows the language macro. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZjJn2yurciZd7Msi=1bz-cSBZ7u9nXbSr&t=601

[@rawwhide]

/pause 5 is not 5 seconds. /pause 5 is .5 seconds or half a second. /pause 50 would be 5 seconds.

[@phillipbechtold789]

So having to come back to this video, what is the possibility of throwing some in the description or time stamping, you had a great idea of combining foraging with auto inventory…and I’m just now trying to set it up…

[@FezzelwhigsForum]

I don't know how to add time stamps. I'll need to look into that, but I can explain that here. Say you set Forage as ability number 4 /pause 5,/doability 4 /autoinventory

[@phillipbechtold789]

Of course the one I wanted to relearn was 56 mins in 😂

[@phillipbechtold789]

@@FezzelwhigsForum yeah I already made it to the end of the video and saw it, I had to put /autoinventory 3 times but it works. I have no idea how time stamps work either but they are nice and might be more work then it’s worth for you since this is just a fun side project for you. But thanks for your content it really does help

[@FezzelwhigsForum]

@@phillipbechtold789 Did you add a pause in the line above /autoinventory command? /pause 5,/doability 4 /autoinventory That pause gives time to forage then it goes into inventory. You may even need a longer pause like 5 or 6 seconds for it to work best.

[@phillipbechtold789]

@@FezzelwhigsForum well since I typically only do range and not melee I didn’t do the /melee off…I tried adding a pause but you should know by now my keen ability to screw things up

[@Inmate533]

Have you had a chance to take a look at an upcoming MMORPG called Monsters & Memories? It's very EQ-esque!

[@FezzelwhigsForum]

I watched some videos about it, but I have a feeling that it will never be released as a live playable game. Too many games promise us the moon only to take our money and run.

[@Inmate533]

@@FezzelwhigsForum Very possible, although they just had a stress test a couple of weeks ago, and they seem to be making fairly good progress over time. On the other hand, the game that did promise the moon and the stars, Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen seems like I might need to add that one to my will in case I die before it's released. 😅

[@FezzelwhigsForum]

@@Inmate533 I just know that I'll never preorder again. We even got fleeced with Everquest Next. A game will need to be out for a few months before I consider buying it. 🤣🤣🤣