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Warren Castille · **05-05-2015, 08:25 AM**

While I used it a lot more in FFXI, I find the /echo command very useful for a lot of things, from reminding myself when abilities are up to leaving myself a placeholder if I need to step AFK from a roleplay with a lot of scroll cough Grindstone cough.

You could take this macro

/party [Swiftcast] used! "Time to move it!"
/ac swiftcast
/wait 60
/party [Swiftcast] is now available!

and make it

/party [Swiftcast] used! "Time to move it!"
/ac swiftcast
/wait 60
/echo [Swiftcast] is now available!

then after 60 seconds, you'll get a visible-to-you-only line saying Swiftcast is up.

I tend to shy away from macros in XIV, but I'm wondering if they fixed some of the stumbling points XI had. You used to not be able to have two /wait portions going on at once, for example. If I had a macro that was

/ac Thing
/wait 10
/echo Thing Ready!

and another that was

/ac Thang
/wait 10
/echo Thang Ready!

and hit them within a GCD of each other, the command on Thing would be overwritten and there would only be a Thang echo. Now that I'm at work and unable to play with this myself, I'm curious.

I only have two macros that see any use, and those are Provoke and Hallowed Ground. The inability to buffer commands with macro use makes me not want to use them for attacks.

Post your Macros!

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