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VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Wed Nov 05, 2003 12:01 am

Anyone think FFXI is attempting to improve rudimentary programming skills? (was about to add "among youth", but I have no idea what the average age MMORPGer is). Alternatively, that'd be a nice company reimbursed training class

tasheren · Post by **tasheren** » Wed Nov 05, 2003 10:55 pm

Dave wrote:use f1,f2,f3,f4,f5 to select ppl in your party! bad white mage!

now if there were a quick "attack who is attacking your target" button lol

Umm I use F1-F6 all the time, but we were talking about being in combat mode and trying to use spells like cure to cure yourself. If ou press F1 to select yourself during combat mode it won't work you need to disengage. You can do as alan suggested by using <st>, WHICH defeats the purpose of having a macro because you still have to select...hard to do so in a big party with everyone standing next to each other.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Wed Nov 05, 2003 11:36 pm

If you want to make separate macros to heal each party member you can use <p0> through <p5> or <a10> through <a15> for alliance members above you and <a20> through <a25> for the ones below you.

That's a lot of macros.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Wed Nov 05, 2003 11:37 pm

Also when you use <st> in your macro you can use the macro, THEN use f1 to f6 and select people that way.

Yes it works, I've done it.

tasheren · Post by **tasheren** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 7:04 pm

Alan wrote:If you want to make separate macros to heal each party member you can use <p0> through <p5> or <a10> through <a15> for alliance members above you and <a20> through <a25> for the ones below you.

That's a lot of macros.

I have lots of spells as it is, filling up just about all the slots in ctrl #1 and alt #1 macro slots. Don't like to use #2 and above so having a party member per slot is not something I want to do

tasheren · Post by **tasheren** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 7:05 pm

Alan wrote:Also when you use <st> in your macro you can use the macro, THEN use f1 to f6 and select people that way.

Yes it works, I've done it.

You can select f1 to f6 with <st> when you're in combat mode? never tried <st> before but if that works that would be good. Then again when I'm in a party I never go in combat mode anyway.

Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 7:07 pm

Me warrior. Me just click on goblin till he dead. Me wish Shield Break actually did crap.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 7:07 pm

It helps to be able to cure yourself while soloing so I leave all my curative/defensive magic with <st>, except for the self only magic, which I macro with <me>.

You could also use <me> with Cure if you're just soloing to cut down on one step. And then change it to <t> when you're in a party.

Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 7:09 pm

Why does self only magic even require a target?

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 7:10 pm

So you can press tab over and over again to accomplish nothing.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 7:13 pm

must keep that cute little mort alive so he can panic!

tasheren · Post by **tasheren** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 7:32 pm

Dwindlehop wrote:Why does self only magic even require a target?

because for every action there must be a ...oh wait wrong quote