Cleric Macros
 

I am a first time Cleric who played a warrior/necro way back when, so my knowledge of the Cleric class is fairly newb.

Could I get some suggestions on macro's that are helpful in group situations. I assume there is some mechanism that allows me to cast spell X on group member Y while annoucing to group/raid I am healing them. I am only 20 right now, but am interested in higher level macros for future use too.

Also I went looking around last night on the internet wayback machine on cleric theory/play as it was back in classic times, but not finding much luck. I want to read up on the higher level healing and raid healing as it pertained to EQ back then.

This is just an example of a pretty simple one, put this on each line:

/g Casting Complete Heal on %T
/cast 1
/pause 110
/sit

That will tell the group that you are casting, say complete heal on "%T" = your target, cast whatever spell is in spellgem 1, for this say complete heal, and the /pause is x10 so a pause 110 = 11 sec, to be safe since complete heal is a 10 sec cast, then you sit down

The group will see it as "Casing Complete Heal on Soandso"

In the actions window the furthest right tab looks like a speech bubble
Click that, choose a blank box, right(?) click it, it opens a macro box
Type
/cast <#1-8> (which ever spell gem is appropriate)
then on the next line:
/"channel" <your text>


Also, inserting '%t' into the chat line will substitute the name of whatever you have targeted.

On live, as a joke when I grouped with my RL cleric friend, my shaman had a macro that said:
"Don't stress yourself, you lazy cleric, I'm healing %t for you!
/cast 8 (heal spell loaded in bottom spell gem slot)

As for 'higher level macros'- there aren't any really. There can be some fancy stuff done, but for most mortals, if it doesn't fit on the 5 lines of the macro box, you can't do much beyond that.

The basic commands are
/cast <#gem>
/"channel"
/pause <time in 1/10 of a second>

Due to fizzles I always had 3 /cast lines.

when you start raiding in kunark and especially in velious this is all you will ever need.

Line 1 - /gu Casting C-heal on %T

Line 2 - cast 1

Line 3 - cast 1

Line 4 - pause xx (where xx is the number of seconds (10=1) that you will pause, this will change depending on the encounter. For example AoW i think we used like a pause 30 and maybe i think we had to get down to 20 or maybe even 10 before we killed him. For other mobs that can be slowed and aren't crazy DPS it will be like 50 or 80 or maybe even 100.

Line 5 - /gu Soandso Cast now (where Soandso is the next cleric in the C-heal roto)


and that is how you raid end game EQ post vanilla.

We used to eschew the /pause as server lag could screw that up - we had a separate macro to prompt the next cleric in the chain. You counted in your head...

/pause in CH rot does absolutely nothing for you but create issues; if you can't count you shouldn't be in the rotation. You need to be able to adjust for server lag, the always present slow (or fast) casters in the rot, dead tanks, etc.

I always use mulitple /casts to help catch fizzles. Other than that there is nothing tricky or innovative that you can accomplish with macros. It's mostly just a way to announce what you're doing to whom.

;) Z

You can insert /pause before a command on a macro line to have the game pause after that command. This lets you fit more into your macros. For instance I have a macro that casts Cannibalize 5 times, waiting 4 seconds between casts:

/pause 40, /cast 7
/pause 40, /cast 7
/pause 40, /cast 7
/pause 40, /cast 7
/cast 7

Even though the /pause command is inserted before the /cast, it will actually be performed after the cast. Separating two commands with a comma only works with /pause by the way, you can't use it for any other commands.

ya ive had other guilds ive joined when i came back to live say they counted instead of pause but we used the shit out of pause and never had problems.../shrug