QoL Macros to Enhance your Combat Experience in FFXIV

Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Quality of Life Macros. This video will show you some examples of macros I personally use, along with a quick guide to making macros to set yourself up on crafting your own! Along with some honourable mentions at the end
0:00 Intro
0:34 the DONTs
2:46 Types of Macros
10:11 Crafting your own Macros mini walkthrough
12:05 Honourable mentions
13:26 Outro
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[@slaverlinx2487]

As an added note, when your typing in the action name, instead of using quotes you can hit the "TAB" key to bring up the auto translate. This will help you check the spelling, you only need to enter a partial word before hitting "TAB" for it to bring up a small list of words and actions related to those letters, and when you select the action that you want it will put it in coloured brackets for you and you will not need quote marks.

[@AzuriteTV]

This is brilliant, I completely forgot about this! Definitely a fool proof way of miss spelling ability names and the likes

[@CetteSara]

Using the auto translate feature does help as well when you're switching game language as well. I play in both French and English, so I can keep using my macros seemlessly.

[@LuminNox]

Just adding that it's R1 / RT on controller

[@arcmar8327]

@@AzuriteTV To add to this, the reason you don't need quotes for some and you do for others is because quotation marks are only needed for abilities that have more than 1 word in their name.

[@astra.3212]

oh i dont think the raise macros are for roleplay. they're for letting people know that you're taking care of that raise so no one wastes a swift cast or double raises

[@LuminNox]

That just makes no difference though. With Endwalker you can see the healer's res target in the party list. Same goes for a res buff on a party member. In the heat of the moment you don't look at chat before using your swiftcast res anyway.

[@astra.3212]

@@LuminNox might not make sense but still. it's more likely that than for 'roleplay' reasons. in the heat of the moment, they might not even look at the party list and it could be easier to get attention with macros bc of the noise that goes off when used

[@LuminNox]

@@astra.3212 It all has its pros and cons. Raise macros are just not super reliable because it delays the raise and queueing might not work properly.

[@obeytheknight749]

@@LuminNox id also note that the healer's target being in the party list was new to this expansion and a large part of the playerbase isn't used to that being there or it just gets neglected in the heat of battle. Usually a sound effect in chat is a great way to alert the rest of the party without requiring the healers to play chicken with whoever pops swiftcast first. Also as a rez mage main I use a raise macro religiously so both healers can recognize that I'm doing their job for them and to save their mp on more useful spells. And even further, raise "usually" isn't used often in any event so the second delay for a macro most likely won't be the deciding factor when you're already taking the time out of your rotation to revive someone anyway

[@obeytheknight749]

God that was much longer than I intended

[@sagemouse3207]

Most healer mains I know (including me) use Raise macros for non-RP reasons. Raising tends to be mildly panic'd (a reactionary thing since we dont normally preplan raises); so them macro makes sure we don't miss the swiftcast and tend up hardcasting Raise or needing to cancel it to try again. The macro also means we only have one button to press in reaction to deaths instead of two. So in general I agree with not macroing multiple abilities together; I have seen the opposite endorsed for Raise macros specifically.

[@samwilkinson9309]

I did this at one point but got rid of it, unfortunately on controller it's quicker to light target them but just scrolling down the party list and then casting without clicking to select them. This is good because it casts that 1 ability n them and goes back to being locked onto the target you do have selected, but this doesn't work with the rez macro because it says you're rezzing the boss or whoever you were targetting before light targeting the dead person

[@Punkadelic2112]

I think the Raise macro text is not only for RP reasons, it makes it easier for the other healer to know that person is already taken care of.

[@rivenoak]

also for red mages, they are technically raisers and healers too. always let the party know if you use an ability the others do not expect yet

[@brunolidade]

@@rivenoak this kind of stuff, to me, is redundant. as a healer, seeing two people die, I'd just wait a couple seconds for the other healer to raise, then raise the other one. as a rdm seeing 3+ dead, I'd consider priority (healer > tank > dps) and raise the one in the middle if both healers are alive. critical and quick thinking makes this kind of stuff pretty much automatic, tbh.

[@tyriaxepheles7996]

​@@brunolidade except when the other healer is taking their sweet time to raise them or not raise them at all. Then someone is just wasting away on the ground. It's much more convenient to inform each other what you are doing

[@stellarstar6553]

Not a fan of Raise macros. It's much better to do it manually. Also, there should be the slightest discussion between Healers on really hard content about who raises in what order and who raises first. I for example play Whitemage a lot, so my static Sage knows to res after I do because I can thin air the mana cost and they can't. When there's 2 dead people, we also know to raise in a specific order. Sage starts from bottom going up, Whitemage starts from top going down. This is 100% better than a Res Macro, because by the time I hear your Macro go off I'll already have manually res'd that person anyway. It really just announces our fuck up in chat, that's about the only thing it's done for me as a healer. More importantly, it's a common sense solution that every healer can understand regardless of knowing whether your partner has swift up or not. The first death is on me as the Whitemage, further deaths after this are on the Sage. 3+ deaths are on us both to figure out who resurrects the third person, but usually 3 deaths is a pretty big issue for hard content and debatably a wipe anyway.

[@grunakthorakthorak4284]

veteran healer here and i still use ress macros. and i love it when another healer does too. i usually just play normal content thou. and for roleplay reason and a little bit of fun i use some funny texts like : " wake up (player name), this isnt your final fantasy!" or something like : " the (myplayername) corporation would like to inform (playername) that the afterlife is extremely boring and not worth visiting". i like that stuff. but i have to be clear that i just use those makros for the text. is still push swift cast and ress. :) well have a nice day!

[@muhannabasalem574]

the sprint macro is a lifesaver for me example: if you want to get out of a mechanic and you just double weaved, the sprint macro guarantee that it activates and the normal one you have to spam it and it will be delayed

[@Pandamancer224]

Not a combat macro, but I use a QoL macro scheme that creates a expandable/collapsible menu on the hud that allows me to change jobs easily, without much clutter. It involves using the base class hotbars to store the buttons and using a macro to swap them into a shared hotbar.

[@TintagelEmrys]

I have a keybind to the gear set list. I click a key and the entire list comes up and I can select one.

[@NoobAlchemist]

I use the hud macros too and you can actually take it further with summoner and scholar. Make macros that switch to the gearset, wait .3 (to account for your mana maybe being empty from the other class), then summon carbuncle/eos.

[@GreyFoxVinzin]

The Raise macro "roleplay" i usually have where Swiftcast ISN'T on the macro, but instead only the Revive action itself in the first line with a /p & command in the 2nd line, purely to let the other healer know "I gots this man/woman" and HOPEFULLY they don't use their own Swift. Short, sweet, and to the point. Great overall list.

[@AzuriteTV]

Honestly I completely missed the point about this not just being "role-play" but also being an easy form of communication, so my bad on that one!

[@LuminNox]

EW made it so you see the raise target on the party list now.

[@FarZeroDark]

Honestly that doesn't help me at all and I don't know anyone who find them helpful. The chat Box is a far off corner of the screen where I don't want to look mid combat. The party list is way closer which displays this information and way more. As a healer you already have an eye on it constantly.

[@Shampoodark]

i just normaly wait 5 sec and wait what other ppl do because the most healer just panic when someone is dead. I play on PS and still i dont like rez macros because it can make stuff worse when it failed to rez someone. I am a WHM/SGE main so on WHM the macro is just a hell since i need TA befor if not i gonna run out of MP (base Piety full dps build lol) so waiting is the best option for me or to weave it in a dot window instead of losing any uptime

[@GreyFoxVinzin]

@@FarZeroDark I usually use it as a means with the to help notify that a raise is happening. The only time the icon on the party list has helped me was when the other healer was in the middle of hard-casting a revive.

[@topher3291]

For console or controller players, will work in place of mouseover macros.

[@MrElmosDaddy]

One I think is great for tank is this will use your action on your focus target. Say your tanking and you want to focus target a mob and watch for a skill to stun or interrupt. You can use /ac "interject" without ever deselecting your main target.

[@AzuriteTV]

Actually a good one! Although I still think I would rather just target the mob manually for more reliable control, but I still think this is a good alternative!

[@Shampoodark]

depends on the Situation for Shirk you can also use (Target of the target) to shirk the target of the boss. But i would stick with the number because my Party List never change. But first i would have to play with shirk more since i do easy swap with just turning the stance off xD

[@Shampoodark]

The is also useful for healer to use oGCDs on the MT like for TB to stick with the boss as target as a side note :)

[@Ishi112]

​@@Shampoodarkif You were to use shirk, Youre probably target of the target in the first place :D

[@Shampoodark]

@@Ishi112 Hmmm no because evrey tank use provoke befor shirk so the new rank is TT then :P Also a little side note i never use shirk i always turn off/on stance which is easiert and less weaving (i play this game since ARR so im used to stance dance xD)

[@garbagebandit5934]

Mouse-over macros are really good for movement skills, like Black Mage's Aetherial Manipulation or Sage's Icarus. So are focus target macros for when there are a lot of group mechanics.

[@qamarqammar7629]

Make BLM much more fluid yes! And I also use a leylines one to save on clutter.

[@AzuriteTV]

Really good suggestion! Gets rid of the whole process of having to target someone which can take away from the flow of BLM

[@righthandoftyr947]

Can also sometimes be useful to have a second line that uses the movement skill on your focus target, so in fights you're not familiar with you can just designate someone that knows what they're doing to be your safety dorito that you can rush to at any time with a single button press.

[@Vsh__]

The macro icons next to party members is REALLY good imo on astro. When you want to give card buffs to people. Its nice to just click the play card next to whichever person you want to give it to, that being ranged or melee dps. Makes it really easy to be on top of it even when mechanics are happening. At first I was using mouse over macros but in chaotic situations sometimes I would mouse over the wrong person. This method also saves keybind bloat so you don't even need to keybind play.

[@Sibula]

I would imagine it's just as easy to mouseover the right person in the party list as it is to hit the button next to them on the party list, plus you save a hotbar for other uses. Anyway, if it works for you, good.

[@dragonhearthx8369]

A good one for healers is this allows you to still attack while still targeting the tank.

[@Tommy090888]

Fun fact: /merror and /micon stands for "Macro Error" and "Macro Icon". Also, you need to put quotes on anything with a space in the name. Single-word actions do not need quotes :)

[@HellOnFourLegs]

You need macros that spam anime attacks names for your samurai abilities, it will help increase your dps if shout the name of the attack before you do it

[@BadCatArmin]

True. And healers shouls as many snarky rez and single target heal macros as posible. It will help DPS to learn not to take damage.

[@bioeinfachgeil8651]

Additional note for /micon: You see the remaining cooldown and amount of stacks of your ability on your Icon. Like "Life Surge" or "Draw" recharges.

[@warmachine5835]

I needed this badly for healing. I just picked up Sage and the idea of click-targeting party members to cast terrifies me. This will fix things up for me very nicely.

[@crisnmaryfam7344]

oh yeah, this is staple for healing. Anyone trying to heal a big raid, by click targeting is doing it wrong.

[@kelmirosue3251]

I think the hotbar macro one for specific party members is REALLY useful as a whole. I play SCH and it will make it MUCH easier to heal specific people I need too

[@Imbabator]

Hi, i am a returner from 2017 2018 and i found your videos really helping me a lot! This and HUD arrangement videos are really informative and clear! Really like it and subbed

[@mizuwisver9141]

I saw this video recommended and I had to check it out, as I like to know what macros are useful and what ones are not, of course I was lured by the thumbnail! Love your Au'ra! :D extremely useful macros! Definitely getting a sub from me!

[@KazumiKiguma]

HUGE note for controller players: There's a setting in your controller options to set left stick click and right stick click to "Macro 98" and "Macro 99". I, and I think many people, use this to just put sprint on a stick press instead of taking up a cross hotbar slot. You should still put it on, say, a normal bar somewhere though, so you can see the cooldown.

[@ShierakQiya]

I use a similar macro for this, but I have it set to either summon a mount (in locations where I can mount) or sprint (in locations that I CAN'T mount).

[@Art2D2]

As a controller user, I don't see the issue of just putting it on hotbar. In the settings for hotbars under custom tab I have the expanded hold controls set to display Cross Hotbar 8 - Left when holding L2 then R2. Which on top of two other bars always visible, it allows me access to a third bar in a split second. I barely have anything on that bar so I put Sprint there.

[@tyverus89]

@12:09 I use this type of macro ONLY for my AST cards. I don't really see a use for it outside of that, as a WHM main it's never been a huge concern as most of my macros (Asylum, Divine Benison, Aquaviel and the like are set to , or )

[@DoktorWieg]

My favorite use of macros and hotbars has been to make a kind of automated sidebar menu where I have different categories in one sidebar and the second sidebar showing the last clicked category. For example, left of my chatbox, I have two vertical hotbars side by side. The left one has the tank, healer, 3 DPS, crafter, gatherer, minion and mount icons set in it, spaced for readability. If I click the tank icon, the bar on its right updates and displays all my tank gearsets; if I click my healer button, then it shows all my healer gearsets, etc. Then I can click those icons to switch to that job and gearset. The reason I have 3 DPS icons is for melee, ranged and magic DPS since they all couldn't fit on a single hotbar. As for mounts and minions, I just have my favorite minions and mounts in those along with the last icon being the actual Mount and Minion menu shortcut. The way I make it work is that I pretty much 'sacrifice' one hotbar from every crafting job and turn it invisible. However, in those hotbars, I have the content of each category button set in them and when I click a category button, the macro simply copies and pastes the content of one of these hotbars into the right vertical hotbar, overwritting its content and showing what I've set for that category. It's less cluncky overall and much more clean in my opinion that having 2 hotbars cluttered with gearset icons and some random mounts and minions left and right. And besides, I pretty much have access to more content on 2 hotbars than I would with 3 or 4.

[@sayokadi2370]

Oh you can do this? Thank you!

[@geraldmarroquin4085]

If you could explain how to set up the macro a bit more pls? I'm new to FFXIV so I'm not too sure how to do it

[@KazumiKiguma]

I believe the reason gtoff is a macro option is because there's an actual option in the settings to just have ground targeting always go to where your mouse is, with no need to click. Similarly, there's a macro option to turn off facing your target when using an ability. The only time I'm aware of that this comes in handy is that heals don't require you to face your target for the cast to go off, making it easier to heal people when glare (turn away) effects are going off. Damaging spells however will give you an error if you're turned slightly off from facing the target so it's not worth it in my opinion, but still an interesting thing to note and possibly usable for some ogcd heals.

[@skcansMachine]

There's actually a setting in character settings where you can double your ground trageting skill to put it down. I found this out recently and it was a complete game changer. With this you don't need to macro skills like asylum, sacred soil, and star at all cause you can just double tap the skill and it'll put it down where your cursor is and there's no delay whatsoever!

[@ricard_fp]

where is that option? D:

[@skcansMachine]

@@ricard_fp Esc>char config>target on the top tab>ground targeting settings>press action twice to execute

[@Verpal]

I also used this setting, especially on SCH and WHM, for AST star the aoe is way too large to warrant another button press..... like, if it is not hitting you, it is literally your fault.

[@qamarqammar7629]

Thanks! I didn't watch the previous video this is good info.

[@LuminNox]

@@qamarqammar7629 time to give it a watch then if you have the time it has really useful information. 😊

[@Enthapythius]

The Aurora with multiple target idea at the end has another good use: If you still have hotkeys left you can easy your Blackmage life a lot. I use Strg-Shift and a number to Aetherskate to the partymember of that number. Makes it far easier to react to stuff and get around. Then again it basically eats a whole hotbar so beware of that. Nice video though really informative.

[@qixaqyx]

If you want to see this taken to an extreme, look up the one button summoner. It's a series of macros that swap skills on your hot bar so you only have to spam 1 button to perform the summoner skill rotation. It's not optimal, but it does perform at a rather adequate level for DPS output.

[@inazumatan7050]

6:00 For controller, I’m half sure that if you tab-target a specific person/enemy but not press X (on PlayStation) you can use an ability on them but it immediately snaps back to your “selected” target without breaking Auto-Attack

[@oricoriander]

hey thanks to this video i made a mouse over thunderclap macro! i can't have it spam as much or it might use it multiple times but it's way more applicable now for quick out and in.

[@kawaiilightnya]

i thank you so much for that gtoff macro i searched for something like this since endwalker release

[@RyuNoZero]

3:20 you also can turn this off in the Character Configuration under Chatlog, Server Error Messages, no need to waste a line in the macro^^ 9:55 I like to use Macros on Sage so I can shield the Tank and Toxicon the enemy back to back 11:06 Auto-Translate works for macros aswell so you don't need Quotation Marks and you can use your Macros on All Clients for example: on a german client /ac "shirk" does nothing but shirk written in auto-translate will work! 13:05 I miss the Old Sprint: 20sec duration on 30sec cool down.. and 1k TP cost but now we don't have TP anymore

[@Danny132]

Yeah a and combo macro for Healer DPS skills is very nice. I for one use a , and combo as a healer this way i can attack the target i have targeted or attack the tanks target or attack the Focus target if i end up un targeting the monster or tank

[@TianarTruegard]

is one of my most used macro parameters. I setup single action macros for my WHM so I don't have to switch targets while healing the main tank. I can just easily attack what ever the main tank is fighting while still healing the main tank. FFXIV really needs to make DPS spells automatically attack the target's target when you're targeting a party member.

[@ru3487]

Thank you for the sprint Macro- gonna most definitely use that 1…

[@ZyrYoutubeAccount]

Thank you for the video. 2 things really helped me. one: The macro about doing a spell at groupmember X. I had a macro before where put in to target a groupmember, use the action and then retarget the last enemy. that was quite clumsy to use, much better now. and two: the multiple times doing an action in a macro helped too. very cool. thanks :)

[@callmegoats]

Oh wow. I just made MNK Thunderclap a mouse of macro and it is so helpful to fluidly use it.

[@hanginlowe4799]

Thanks for these tips. I subbed!

[@AzuriteTV]

Appreciate you friend!

[@nobody-xh6ii]

"I didn't say you can die yet" is my main macro as healer. Its basically telling the party that they arent staying dead if i have anything to say about it! Its also the most fitting for the character that uses it.

[@NemesisTWarlock]

IMO, there is *one* situation in which it's okay to macro a GCD. Using a controller, and DPSing as a healer with and /Focustarget . in this manner, you're able to spam stone/aero/malefic/gravity/whatever *while still having the tank highlighted as your primary target*, and can switch back to casting heals on them with a single button press, without needing to mash the D-Pad re-targetting your tank or your enemy. I don't reccommend you do this in endgame content, for obvious reasons, but it's great for casual/levelling content or your daily roulettes.

[@TheBorzoi]

A better option is to put on your oGCD heals that you would be using (Tetragrammaton, Haima, Divine Benison, etc) so you're always targetting the enemy.

[@renycilfay9773]

I swapped off of controller after playing it (and clearing three ultimates on it) for over 8 years. As of now, I'm playing with the tactical assault commander (ff14) hori keypad. The most useful macros for me are ones which change my hotbar loadout, similar to how you would on a controller with the R1 trigger. I've set it so that my middle-mouse button will swap all of my single-target actions to their AoE versions, and vice-versa. The TAC does not have issues with button limitations, but it still allows me to be fully comfortable with zero hand strain on every job. The most notable of classes that perform well with this is Samurai, who has pretty much an AoE version of every skill in its arsenal. I had gotten used to this hotbar swapping style from playing on controller, and was surprised to find not many people do this same thing on keyboard and mouse when it can save me a solid 7-9 buttons on some jobs like this. Just for the record, this does NOT invoke the issues of input delay, as the macro only swaps the hotbar's actions around, it does not actually try to use them, I still need to press the button which is not itself a macro.

[@LuminNox]

As a controller player I can relate how good it is to easily switch between hotbars. I also use one hotbar dedicated to my single target rotation and another one for AoE and helps a lot with reducing buttons to press on your main hotbar. I can definitely see this kind of macro being helpful for mouse and keyboard players

[@danielpikel7628]

There is a macro you can make to set sprint to left joystick on controller to completely remove the sprint icon off your hot bar

[@mcgregor1000]

Great video, I'm going to try some of these out. I was wondering, why do you have the macro'd GBR abilities doubled on your hotbar? Just for reliability if the macro fails?

[@MrPetpet111]

I went like getting a macro with the command not only for raise but also for the role action sleep to let people know to not use AoE's yet to wake up the monsters while the tank recovers after it died.

[@AdamRoss30]

actually works on other abilities too, not just ground targeted ones. A popular WAR macro is /ac "Holmgang" because if you're tethered target dies during Holmgang, you lose the effect but this prevents that because you cast it on yourself instead. A few other "honorable mentions" I think worth looking at would be to use a sprint/mount macro in slot 98 and 99 and mapping those to your R3/L3 buttons on a controller. This let's you click your joystick to use those macros. I keep the mount one on R3 (the stick used for camera) since I definitely won't move for the cast time and put sprint on L3 (the stick used for movement) since I'm already running when I need to sprint somewhere. Mostly for crafters, but you can macro a proc ability without a wait time and it works like a sloppy "if" statement/conditional. For example, if you wanted a macro to use precise touch which is only allowed when quality is good/excellent, but otherwise use basic touch (or something else), you could do two likes like /ac "precise touch" /ac "basic touch" .... This will attempt to do precise touch and if it works, you'll be animation locked an not do basic touch, but the wait command will still happen, so you'll still wait 3 seconds before doing the 3rd line. If you can't do precise touch, it'll fail and there's no animation lock so you'll go into basic touch. Lastly, for controller people who don't know, up/down on the D-pad without hitting X to confirm with select your party member without deselecting the enemy. I don't know if there's a name for this, but I call it a soft select. Then after casting on someone, it will snap back to the original target (for example, an enemy). You could use this while healing to glare at an enemy until your tank needs healing, hit down twice to soft select him, ogcd heal, and you're already looking at the enemy again. This is about as close to a effect we have on controller, but not nearly as good.

[@TheBorzoi]

> actually works on other abilities too, not just ground targeted ones. A popular WAR macro is /ac "Holmgang" because if you're tethered target dies during Holmgang, you lose the effect but this prevents that because you cast it on yourself instead. This is incorrect. If your target dies, you still have the effect active. All that is lost is the immobility that was given to the target (since it's now dead).

[@AdamRoss30]

@@TheBorzoi Well, that's not what the Balance Discord says under WAR resources and they're pretty reliable.

[@regnimar]

For Heart of Corundrum i use a

[@Disig]

I thought rez macros were primarily for letting your party know who you are rezzing so the second healer doesn't accidentally rez the same person, not for RP reasons. I just thought the text was just a fun bonus thing you could do with it. And yeah of course you can use it for RP reasons but it was more for practicality. Unless you're going for World 1st or something I think the benefits of the macro to alert other healers who you are swift raising outweighs the loss of DPS. Of course I am thinking of situations when you do not have contact with the other healer like Discord or something. In that case that macro is not needed.

[@eureka5635]

I'm a mute in my discord so it's the best way to tell my co healer what I'm doing.

[@inoob26]

mouse over is definitely going to be a game changer as a Healer for me since I dont have to click back and forth between enemies and party meembers

[@loftyn7369]

idk if it is noted in the comment or not but for pc you can drag the ability/skill/spell to the macro page and the name will be written there, so you can for crafting macro put down the rotation as whole then do "/ac" after everything is set up, i recommend for crafting macros to put " on GCD action and " for OGCD action, GCD = global cool down and OGCD = off global cool down,

[@samwilkinson9309]

The MO and for off tank actions is huge, I need to see if the controller's light target counts as MO, if it does that can save a lot of head aches. I used the to to for these abilities and bound them to F2 to F8 but then have the on hotbars still as I'm used to that. I use controller so the F2 to F8 was a compromise to make it quicker than scrolling down the party list. I do 100% have to make it spam the abilities on my macros too, I may have to try the sprint on too, I'm a button spammer as it is but if I don't have as much time to spam sprint that would help to confirm it goes through

[@marielucchetta]

Really helpful! Thank you, brilliant! :-)

[@AzuriteTV]

You're brilliant!

[@Rotomoo]

Thanks for the gterroroff, I didn't even know that was an option. My healer friends will like that

[@wolvetica]

Some time ago my mate introduced me to a 'ride party pillion' macro that spammed through all available seats of a mount

[@Masanian]

Something useful to add to the end of the 'target certain party member' macros is /targetlastenemy . This will automatically make you re-target whatever you were targeting (most likely the boss) before using the macro

[@rabidcentrist]

If you macro Shirk, put in a text notification. It just gives that added heads up to the other tank (and healers).

[@ralphED93]

this is so cool. thanks alot!

[@GaleGrim]

hmmm. Can you /micon indivual ast cards? like [/micon "The Balance"] ? if so that might be use able with an [/ac "play" ]macro so you never have to remember the cards function, just "Icon go bur" Like if you set ranged and healer to be party member 2-4 or something and so bowl,ewer, and spire are micons to [/ac "play" 2 /ac "play" 3] ect?

[@alexandercurtis4671]

I've been using macros that swap hotbars. Ideally, I'd be able to make a macro that swaps hotbar one and hotbar three and put that macro on a keybound hotbar two, but I haven't worked out if there's a way to do that yet. Anyone got any pointers for that?

[@jeffbatista]

There is one macro that I started to use to remind me when a skill with 2 min cool down is available: /macroicon "Arcane circle" /merror off /ac "Arcane Circle" /echo Arcane Circle 60 sec /echo /echo /echo

[@AzuriteTV]

Not a bad idea! The only problem is if you use another macro in between, it will cancel this macro (I think? Unless they changed it) so it could be good if you don't have any other macros on your reaper. Another good alterative to this is adding an extra hotbar to your HUD, just make it 1 button, the arcane circle in this case, and make it BIG, and above your hotbar so its hard to miss, that way whenever your look at your hotbar or the encounter in general, you'll always see that cooldown ticking :)

[@gb1oke]

Might as well use plugins at this point

[@TheBorzoi]

@@AzuriteTV You are right. If you use another macro when one is active, it cancels the active one and starts the new one.

[@darlentenstrife5929]

Is there a way that instead of your combo combat weaponskills that you can set them all in 1 Marco and when you use the first ws. Then the 2nd is ready to select and use? I've noticed that was a thing in the pvp. I'm having trouble finding that in just normal game play.

[@AzuriteTV]

Something I think I forgot to mention is you should be wary about double weaving with macros, you can get away with it depending on oGCD animation and good ping, but just be aware of your ping and the oGCD animation and identify this for yourself

[@raexau6634]

ok i gotta know, WHERE do you get that gunblade XD

[@AzuriteTV]

@@raexau6634 The Gunblade is from The Epic of Alexander Ultimate :)

[@MeteorX1234]

This is actually the reason for the existence of a sprint macro for many. It makes it possible to double weave Sprint considering it's unqueue-able nature.

[@tyty8484]

Are you saying you *Shouldn't* do mouseover healing macros?

[@suplexsuarez3384]

I use controller wbut also have a mouse connected, will mouse over macros still work if I'm using controller for combat but mouse to target allies?

[@mellonhead287]

is it worth using a macro (mo) for things like benific 2 or the card system for astro?

[@Hardivh]

I like using the macro to sprint and mount on the same button. Then I put it on my R3. Helps a lot with button cluttering on gamepad

[@rivenoak]

you may include the _peloton_ ability in the macro as well if you are dancer bard etc.

[@qamarqammar7629]

I wasn't sure if hybrid macros were even a thing (even if very controversial) in FFXIV, so thanks for the info! Also didn't know about gtoff at all, which is great when I don't want to use or .

[@AzuriteTV]

I really like them a lot! I think they can be controversial because sometimes they can be unreliable, like going to the target you didn't want it to, but imo that's just the nature of macros sometimes, if it proves a problem for me, I'll have to cut it into 2 separate macros, but so far it's been really good to me. Either way, glad to have taught you something! :)

[@qamarqammar7629]

@@AzuriteTV yes I will try and see. I'm used to mo macros in other games this is a good way to keep what I'm used to while combining it with other options. Thanks!

[@SC-cx9ti]

I got the confitieor combo on one button and it works well enough.

[@Spika94]

12:20 I love that idea, I might experiment with that.

[@Yris_Miretn-jer]

Little of this has use to me being a console player, but the shirk macro was super valuable for me in the time I was raiding Asphodelos savage as OT.

[@TrueHunter999]

I've tried that hybrid macro almost exactly the same, but it was functioning terribly probably cause i was using 13 lines of and 1 line that had nothing between the to give it to myself (blackest knight). I had to stop using them since they were hurting my overall gameplay but might try it again and see how it goes!

[@LuminNox]

just try 3-4 lines instead of 13, it'll do wonders for hybrid macros :)

[@AzuriteTV]

Hmm, usually when I do these macros I can only manage to single weave them and I still have to kinda spam them religiously, but they work out for me so far! Maybe doing what Lumin says could be a good alternative and I might have to try that myself too!

[@kalimae4243]

Try instead of , it's been working well for me

[@TrueHunter999]

@@LuminNox I will try that thanks. I have a keybind on my mouse to scroll down the party list to target whoever I want to give my buffs and it has been doing wonders atm. If i am doing a raid i use a mouse over macro but never tried a hybrid one since it was working really badly haha :D

[@Gwydion_Wolf]

What i do for the Rez macro, is that i dont macro swift-cast, but i 'do' put the Party message into a macro that also casts the Raise. Its not so much for RP Purposes, but to let any other healers know that "hey, ive already started rezing X", as a way to try to avoid double-rezes.

[@tyriaxepheles7996]

Macros are not for roleplay. They are for communicating with your party members, so they know not to raise the person you just raised or that the damage buff is up and it's a good time for your burst window or LB or that the boss has been stunned and melee don't have to run from the AoE. Yes, there may be other ways to see these but most people (especially Sprouts) don't pay attention to tiny markers and using the chat is much better

[@emmajones8708]

Ok um I don't combine swiftcast and rez but I do have a macro for swift cast to warn the other healer who I am rezzing. I don't role play at all. So there is text with my swiftcast but I hit the normal rez button. I tried the combo of the two once but it was not good. And my text shows up if I make silly mistakes like accidently hitting it while targeting the boss. But I like having it to let the other healer know whats going on.

[@wavesofbabies]

Anyone know a good macro to like "toggle" Ctrl or another modifying input? Holding Ctrl or shift during a fight to switch between actions hurts my hand (old injuries flaring up). Right now I have a macro that rotates two sets of hotbars (move hot bar 1 to 5, move 2 to 1, 5 to 2, 3 to 5, 4 to 3, 5 to 4) so the keybinds essentially have two different actions depending on which hot bars are rotated in (similar to pad players) Problem is that it is just a tad too slow to be reliable. It works when I'm single weaving and the animation is short, but double weaving I have to just try to do with a mix of clicking and keybinds (depending on which is being used). Sometimes even double weaving just by clicking (which is terrible). Any other ideas to approach this?

[@BlaquePauldron]

How did you get your target marks on your UI at the top?

[@ZurilasZone]

The hybrid macros are a have-to for me, i always macro MO together with just in case for my personal mit, and then an only for my co-tank

[@patrickgideon8584]

This was a great video

[@darkling-studios]

If you hotkey sprint with the same button that walks forward you could auto sprint yeah?

[@ayamekyubei]

Just because I haven't seen it mentioned, but you only need to put quotes around the name of the skill in the macro when the skill name has multiple words in it. So Aurora is only one word, so it wouldn't require quotation marks, but "Shake It Off" is multiple words, so it would require quotes.

[@Inferiis]

from 12:07 as a healer main, that makes me wonder if it would be possible to set up a whole healbar for each member. Basically like Healbot in WoW (well, that's closer to mouseover, but close enough)

[@orangemc9358]

It would work, but prepare to either click all of those abilties, or have 500 keybinds.

[@Fransens]

I used to do that macro with the buttons right next to the party members (resized so it fits properly) on my AST. I find it really neat to give out the cards that way. But I am not even remotely an AST main so it's more for my own convenience than efficiency.

[@Nasgatemk2]

it's very cute and probably really nice for DPS classes or even tanks. But as an AST main, too many double weaves to even consider macros.

[@raarasunai4896]

Most useful combat macro I’ve found as a console player is Dragon Sight. Console players can’t click their target obviously, so rather than mashing the up or down button however many times to pick my target, use dragon sight, and go back to my enemy target within the short time the GCD is rolling, I pick my target at the start of the battle as my Focus Target and have Dragon Sight in the macro set to always fall on my focus target. The last line of the Macro is to just execute the action as normal for solo content. /merror off /aerror off /ac “Dragon Sight” (x11) /ac “Dragon Sight” (with no target tag) /micon “Dragon Sight” I’m still leveling Dragoon(only level 72 right now) so I haven’t been able to use it for any end game content, but the few times I’ve used it in dungeons, it works well when I actually remember to pick a focus target. That’s not on the macro, though. That’s my scatter(impact) brain

[@RelatvityUnset]

I’ve always wanted to play a healer, but the task seems quite daunting (I use a controller) but macros might be the way to go for me. Thanks!

[@0423ryanlee]

What is your opinion of the 1 button Summoner macro set up by PuffPastryPrince? I'm using it and find it quite enjoyable.

[@regulator18E]

Well that's pretty lazy and braindead. I can understand why each patch makes this game easier and more casual. Pressing 1 button over and over is enjoyable. Ffs lmao

[@AzuriteTV]

I haven't tried SMN yet, maybe for the memes I'll try this macro, but I doubt I would use it over just pressing my buttons as it still will have an effect on DPS... I think, idk how many oGCDs SMN actually has to have a negative effect, played around with the hotbar the other day and seemed half empty...

[@delix8869]

But are you actually doing adequate damage? I doubt it, you’re probably doing around 50% less dps than you should be doing and making all the parties you’re in suffer.

[@Aftershock416]

Useful if you're mentally handicapped.

[@aiellamori]

6:28 another way to avoid this is turning on the setting that lets you untarget by clicking on nothing and have auto target turned on so when you use a gcd attack, it will automatically target the boss

[@walterkrueger5947]

Swiftcast into rez is very useful for controllers. The way I have it set up is there are 36 slots and I have no room for swift cast.

[@bsmf-gaming]

can you tell why not macro swiftcast n ress in one?

[@whitemageserenia]

As a controller player, I don't really use macros other than for Sprint and Raise (not swiftcast). TECHNICALLY I don't use a "macro" per se with Sprint, at least... not in the traditional fashion. See, as a controller player there is an option to change my thumb stick presses function, ranging from draw/sheathe weapon/lock on, to sit/lockon, or just lockon, OR, and this is where sprint comes in "Execute Macro #99" so I have my right thumbstick set to execute macro 99, and made a sprint macro conveniently on macro 99, so I can sprint at the touch of a button. Though, thinking about it now, I might revamp it to spam sprint instead of just having it once. Other than that, I find macros to be wayyyy too clunky to actually be useful for me personally. I've tried some of the QoL macros like for quick ground targeting for Asylum and the like but... Iunno... I just didn't like it. I'm pretty quick at setting those down where I want them without macros anyway so, ymmv. I've also tried those weird healer DPS macros that use and so that you can attack the enemy either by targeting the mob or the main tank or w/e cause it'll either attack the target, or the target's target, but I just didn't like how it messed with my overall flow so I stopped using those ones as well. SO yeah, I just don't really use macros lol

[@odinmaveth6224]

Enjoying ya vids

[@plaidr]

I think you need a macro to extract materia from your gear!! Just teasin' - this was a great video. :D

[@Danny132]

I disagree a Swiftcast + Raise with a small and without the party msg does not really have that much of a delay and makes it so much easier

[@agentstepp]

100% same here…I don’t even use wait, just tap it multiple times and I’m always the first to get a res off since it targets the first dead player so I also don’t need to target. It’s reflexive at this point and trying to do it manually seems nuts since it’s so much faster. If you have a good connection (like I do) I notice no difference when using macros with GCD abilities and just hitting the skills and it allows you to get very granular with how your skills behave.

[@LuminNox]

@@agentstepp with that setup you must've already noticed you sometimes starting to hardcast the raise without swiftcast actually going off first. If not you were lucky on that side. I'm glad it's working out for you though. I can just say from my own experience that GCD macros are typically not used in optimal gameplay due to how unreliable they are in general because they have a slight delay and don't queue like normal skills.

[@SC-cx9ti]

Why not just have the message appear after you begin casting raise?

[@Songforyall]

that shirk macro though playing on controller and doing it normally is pain that will help lol

[@Antiv1rus165]

JP macros for invul + countdown to let healer take note when they need to heal are awesome

[@AzuriteTV]

These aren't bad! My only concern is the slight delay to macro when using something like an invuln can mean life or death, but a good alternative if you just use invuln earlier rather then later

[@maallos334mi8]

I do like having some delay in the timer just so I can cancel it if I need to. For example: I have a macro that when use will activate “Enshroud” (Reaper) and after 1 second “North Wind.” Let’s say I use the macro, but I’m going to be using the AoE attack so north wind would be pointless. All I need to do is activate the macro, have enshroud activate, then queue up an attack, and have the North Wind activation fail.

[@LuminNox]

I think you're talking about "True North"? RPR skills lose their positional requirements under Enshroud so you actually don't even need that :)

[@maallos334mi8]

@@LuminNox... Ok, besides that. point still stands on having some delay in macro

[@2tendo]

As tank main i'm used to 2in1 macro for mounting/tank stance.

[@scifisyko]

The only thing I use that hotbar party macro thing for is Play on AST. Huge gamechanger for the job imo!

[@crisnmaryfam7344]

6:27 not only auto attacks but the minor amount of time you would have to spend to click and target each person to use each ability, adds up rather exponentially fast. .25 sec each time, say.. 8 person team, if you are trying to cast a HoT on each person single target like, 8x.25 seconds is a LOT of time vs, being able to mouseover and cast mouseover cast, and this is just in the "im standing perfectly still" situation...

[@Nasgatemk2]

the literal only time clicking actually slows you down vs mouseover is if you need to triple weave. In your given scenario you have the entirety of a GCD to click on the next person.

[@TRNFloyd]

Literally the first "don't do this" is something I was trying to do for lazily playing my job(blm). Automated dps. It's garbage dps for sure, but it was more of a "can I do this to the point where it flows perfectly fine" over actual dps. After coming up with something, I told a buddy of mine - who apparently can't play blm for some reason - and he wanted me to share it with him so he could play the job. Apparently he was so bad at it he needed a 4 button macro that would run through roughly the spells I use so he could be better. At the time, my dps was something like 12-13k or maybe 14k on a dummy(pre endwalker), can't recall. All I do recall is that the dps from the macro's was about 7-8k. xD Again, I never used it in any live situation. Never got past testing phase, but it sure as shit was funny hearing "Don't put GCD's in your macro" when literally that's what I was doing. xD

[@gabrielacelasi1792]

regarding the combat macro. It saves a lot of butons. take MONK. he has 5 -6 [punches depending on lvl. u could have 6 butons. or...make a macro with 3 and 3. that would save it from 6 to only 2. less crap to focus on. or archer. has one special ability tied to a proc of anothr ability. well i macro the 2 togheter and save 2 to 1 buton. it may not seem much but end game ull have 36 butons.

[@Xport9]

EZ macro for AST. Cast and forget. Mind you, you'll need to keep your mouseover until everything is casted, otherwise, you'll have to use Draw manually to benefit from it. Saves you a lot of hassle. /merror off /ac "Draw" /ac "Play" /ac "Astrodyne" /micon "Draw"

[@GHRebel]

what could you probably do with sprint? I had never problems with... ok just spam it, what did i expect haha

[@Ruehh]

My sprout brain doesn't understand what has RP have to do with the macros. I guess you could for example dance and activate an ability at the same time for flare?

[@warmachine5835]

I think calling it "RP" to call your res/dance partner/whatever party buff in chat is a misnomer, since regardless of what you put in the text, the point is presumably to inform your target/other healers/tanks that you're doing something that affects them. Sure, you can do what the other poster suggested of put your anime attack names in chat every time you use a SAM attack or something, and that would fit the bill, but the example given of resurrection casts misses the mark I think.

[@Ruehh]

@@warmachine5835 Ok, so what you are saying is that for raids which I have yet to attempt, people have in a same macro Custom emotes so when they press it for example they res someone and the others know what is happening via the chat? Hopefully I am kind of following, you are underestimating my sproutness.

[@BigB158]

Are macros on console worth using? If so any particular ones I should be looking at? I know there isn't much in term of mouse over since using a controller defeats that.. But is there are way around it?

[@LuminNox]

Macros for things like Shirk that will always go on a specific party member (the other tank in that case) are always worth thinking about.

[@obeytheknight749]

For console the most use of macros I've had was used for blm and having a few macros set to take me to a different party member with aetherial manipulation. And raise messages... mostly raise messages

[@BlaBlaBla-76]

Any spell that needs placing on ground NEEDS a macro to make placement easy. And yeah, rezz macro to let others know you rezz so they hopefully dont waste their own swiftcast

[@LuminNox]

I wouldn't recommend raise macros because they tend to be a bit unreliable and you don't really look at party chat in the heat of the moment. For the target area ground AoEs Azurite covered a good alternative setting for them in one of his previous QoL videos ao make sure to check out the channel!

[@CubicleJ0ckey]

For controllers: go to button configuration and you can change L3 and R3 (joystick press) to macro #98 & 99. This is HUGE. I bind a lot of movement skills to L3 (some with and/or ). You can bind tons of other things here as well. As controller players we need all the buttons we can get!

[@TK_TK811]

The mouse over macros do work on console if you have a mouse plugged in.

[@LuminNox]

They also work if you hover over people with the touchpad. It's just very uncomfy to do

[@theholydragoon5475]

The only macros that i personally use are for Dragon Sight on dragoon and for GNB and DRK's invulns so that my healer knows to actually give me a passing glance when I'm dying lol.