On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Reece, Tom CPT - 30th Signal Bn wrote:
>
> I haven't worried about macroing songs because I can click on them with my
> mouse just as easy as hitting the hotkey.
I prefer to have my fingers over the hotkeys to twist, and my
eyes on my (and my party's) status bars. If I had to
mouse-click to change songs, I couldn't keep track of battles
as effectively.
> I'm beginning to think that I should place /assist on my main macro bank but
> don't like the idea of moving Sense Heading or Forage to another bank.
What level are you? Once you reach about L10, sense heading
starts to max out just through normal use. Forage is nice,
but I find it more convenient to buy 20 grapes and flasks of
water and just not worry about it. It saves me weight, time,
and inventory space, and the cost is really negligible at
later levels (less than 1pp for two night's supply roughly).
I also play a druid and a monk so my setup is a bit of a
concession to keeping things consistent between all three.
My first bank is made of skills/commands. Sense heading,
forage, hide, sneak, sit, bind wounds. I will probably
replace hide with the spellbook once I get the invisibility
song (so I don't have to switch out of full-screen just to
change songs).
My second bank has the two melee slots on top and four
inventory slots for holding weapons and my instruments. I
would say three inventory slots are the minimum (two weapons
or weapon/shield, drum, lute). That makes a total of five,
and at that point I figured heck, just make it six.
My third bank has six primary songs.
My fourth bank has my ranged attack (rarely used now that I
have bellow), the two remaining songs, and assist. The reason
I keep all 8 songs macroed is because you can rearrange them
without leaving the full-screen mode. Just pick one up and
exchange it with another. e.g. I usually keep lullaby,
bellow, accelerando, and restoration in the third bank. The
two remaining slots I usually swap between anthem, whistling
warsong, and guardian and elemental rhythms. If we're
fighting primarily melee mobs, I'll keep anthem and whistling
warsong on bank 3. If a spellcaster pops up, it just takes me
a couple seconds to swap in guardian rhytms for the warsong
and everything I need to twist is still on bank 3. If we're
facing nasty spellcasting critters (like things that can
charm), I'll add elemental rhythms to the mix, demoting bellow
or restoration.
I should probably use the other slots for /who friends all and
other inane social stuff since I seem to be doing that quite
often. :-)
--
John H. Kim
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