Antipika said:
Lilbusta said:
I just want to stick with gear that works with minimum macroing.
Not gonna become a decent BLM that way :< If you don't/can't use Windower, sure you need to gear yourself taking in consideration the macro'ing part. But even that way you need to force yourself to macro as much as you can, even manually.
Using only one single macro per spell (without windower script off course), with no sub-macro for equip = being lazy. Most of blm spells got a long casting time, long enough to enable you to force yellow, swap the correct obi, AFv2 legs, etc. Just don't end up using sleep in Errant body because macro'ing AF body was too demanding :<
Ontop of this dont sell yourself short on planning your macros and how many rows youre willing to scroll up and down with.
Even if you know you will never have windower or youre on console you can macro 11 pieces in 2 macro presses, or as mentioned 5 with one.
Layout for a macro set as blm without windower needs to be able to be used fast whilst pressing least ammount of macros for best gear, and scrolling between the common spells to be as small a gap as possible.
Basic suggestions would be to have each row ctrl and alt side to be of 1 element only with obi macros on ctrl and alt close to hand. Ive done this for all 8 elements starting top : water, fire, wind, ice, dark, thunder, earth, light. As you can see the more common used elements wind ice dark thunder are close with 3 rows up or down of each other.
Another suggestion would be to have all elemental dots and dia parallel with each other vertically, and bind grav sleep2 stun also parallel vertically in correct row for its element. The rest of the macro set can be finished with same vertical spell similarities ; water 3 fire 3 wind 3 etc.
Eventually with this layout as you aquire more gear there will be spaces left on ctrl alt side for each element to add an additional macro for another 6 slots of gear. This does mean 3 macro presses incl the obi one but this all becomes fluid and second nature.
But yea plan ahead because rearranging existing layouts to accomodate more macros for more gear is a pain later.