[Shroudy]

I quit FFXI a couple months ago, came back tonight, and had to redo my windower macros. Now while doing my DNC macro's I just cannot seem to find the right combination of lines to make it so I press the macro, select a target, equipment changes > Heals target > changes equipment back. I read a thread on KI about this, where user Trendy figured out a good macro, which seemed to work, and then I tested it out, and I'm still getting the "You cannot preform that action on the selected Sub-target"

As of now, my macro for Curing waltz 2 looks like this:

input /ja "Curing Waltz II" <stpc>
input /equip body "Dancer's Casaque"
input /equip hands "Marine F Gloves"
input /equip ear1 "Melody Earring +1"
input /equip ear2 "Melody Earring +1"
input /equip feet "Crow Gaiters"
input /equip neck "Flower Necklace"
input /equip head "Dancer's Tiara"
pause 1
input /equip body "Scorpion Harness"
input /equip hands "Battle Gloves"
input /equip ear1 "Spike Earring"
input /equip ear2 "Spike Earring"
input /equip feet "Dancer's Shoes"
input /equip neck "Chivalrous Chain"
input /equip head "Empress Hairpin"



Now I really hope that the something I'm doing wrong is really obvious and easy to fix. I do remember when I played months ago that I had a macro that did this. Thanks in advance.

[DaEvilOne]

Just going for the obvious answer here, were you testing this in whitegate? with like no TP?

[Seibar]

put the /ja after the equip swap? but leave it before the pause obviously, u might just be losing your <stpc>

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input /equip body "Dancer's Casaque"
input /equip hands "Marine F Gloves"
input /equip ear1 "Melody Earring +1"
input /equip ear2 "Melody Earring +1"
input /equip feet "Crow Gaiters"
input /equip neck "Flower Necklace"
input /equip head "Dancer's Tiara"
input /ja "Curing Waltz II" <stpc>
pause 1
input /equip body "Scorpion Harness"
input /equip hands "Battle Gloves"
input /equip ear1 "Spike Earring"
input /equip ear2 "Spike Earring"
input /equip feet "Dancer's Shoes"
input /equip neck "Chivalrous Chain"
input /equip head "Empress Hairpin"

[Vigilia]

"You cannot perform that action on the selected Sub-target" usually means you've not targetted right, i.e. in case of curing waltzes either a party member or yourself. If you don't have TP then it will just say "Can not perform that action".

[luckykrazy]

Don't use <stpc> on Dnc, please. Use the new targeting macro <stpt> on Dnc so that it won't kick you off your target if they change equip or you change equip. I had SO many macro problems with losing targets because I would change equip too late from lag, or the person I was going to waltz changed macros..

After finding out about <stpt> I'll never do anything else. The only thing is you have to get use to using the up/down arrow keys to select your PT member but trust me, it's SO much easier.

[Arian/Armel]

I still perfer <stpc> due to Fkeys/BMN personally, I'm usually fast enough to do it before they swap anyway even without BMN.

But as for macros, what Vigilia said, and also put /ja blah after gear swaps, not 100% sure, but i'm pretty sure you lose the target after you blink.

But for console/notwindowar/controller, yeah <stpt> all the way.

[Shroudy]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, at about 4-5 AM last night I came up with this, and it seems to work.

input /equip body "Dancer's Casaque"
input /equip hands "Marine F Gloves"
input /equip ear1 "Melody Earring +1"
input /equip ear2 "Melody Earring +1"
input /equip feet "Crow Gaiters"
input /equip neck "Flower Necklace"
input /equip head "Dancer's Tiara"
input /ja "Curing Waltz II" <st>
pause 2
input /equip body "Scorpion Harness"
input /equip hands "Battle Gloves"
input /equip ear1 "Spike Earring"
input /equip ear2 "Spike Earring"
input /equip feet "Dancer's Shoes"
input /equip neck "Chivalrous Chain"
input /equip head "Empress Hairpin"

Whether it's <st> or <stpc> or whatever, I used F1~F6 for targeting for cures, and this is probabbly the old macro I had. I posted it incase anyone wants it for reference.

[Sakka_Valefor]

I use, when I'm on PC(which is rare):

input /equip head "Panther Mask"
input /equip body "Dancer's Casaque"
input /equip hands "Dusk Gloves"
input /equip legs "Dancer's Tights"
input /equip feet "Dance Shoes"
Pause 1
input /ja "Curing Waltz" <stpc>
Pause 1
input /equip head "Walahra Turban"
input /equip hands "Dusk Gloves"
input /equip body "Rapparee Harness"
input /equip legs "Dancer's Tights"
input /equip feet "Dusk Ledelsens"
input /equip ring1 "Sniper's Ring"
input /equip ring2 "Jaeger Ring"
input /equip waist "Swift Belt"
input /equip back "Amemet Mantle +1"
input /equip neck "Spectacles"
input /equip ear1 "Suppanomimi"
input /equip ear2 "Brutal Earring"

Works fine. Basically everything after the 2nd Pause is my TP gear.

[Requim]

Just a question, but couldn't you just use <st> since it wouldn't let you target outside your party regardless?

[Sakka_Valefor]

I suppose. I use F1-6 for my party members anyways, so <st> <stpc> etc don't make a difference

[Banggugyangu]

could just use spellcast and write an xml for it.

One benefit to this is you wouldn't have the problem of blinking out in the middle of choosing someone to cure.

On the note of the one w/ a pause before the cure goes off, that could mean death to a tank in some situations, I'd be leary of that.

[Tzaellia]

Don't use <stpc> on Dnc, please. Use the new targeting macro <stpt> on Dnc so that it won't kick you off your target if they change equip or you change equip. I had SO many macro problems with losing targets because I would change equip too late from lag, or the person I was going to waltz changed macros..

After finding out about <stpt> I'll never do anything else. The only thing is you have to get use to using the up/down arrow keys to select your PT member but trust me, it's SO much easier.

So did I, thanks a ton for this!

[wulf5150]

/ja "Curing waltz II" <stpc>
/console exec dnc_chr.txt
/wait 2
/console exec dnc_att.txt

You just need to make 2 txt files, dnc_chr.txt is for your Chr setup and dnc_att.txt is for your normal att gears, works like a charm for me.

[thirdchamber]

Don't use <stpc> on Dnc, please. Use the new targeting macro <stpt> on Dnc so that it won't kick you off your target if they change equip or you change equip. I had SO many macro problems with losing targets because I would change equip too late from lag, or the person I was going to waltz changed macros..

After finding out about <stpt> I'll never do anything else. The only thing is you have to get use to using the up/down arrow keys to select your PT member but trust me, it's SO much easier.

I've always used <stpc> until I saw your post. Thanks for posting this!

[DaEvilOne]

I'm on ps2, is there a way to get more than like the 6 lines they give you? Sorry I didn't use macro swaps so much on PLD when I was lvling it and now it just kinda chills I don't use it too often. Am I screwed or just over looking something simple?

[Carynaira]

Nope, you're stuck with the 6. But you can always use multiple macros.

[Blueyes]

I had a similar issue while trying to work out a Magic Fruit macro for my Blue Mage. I used <stpc> but would lose my target after swapping gear. So instead I split it up between two macros.

Ctrl 7
input /equip body "Dancer's Casaque"
input /equip hands "Marine F Gloves"
input /equip legs "Dancer's Tights"
input /equip feet "Dance Shoes"
input /equip head "Dancer's Tiara"
/macro set 2

Ctrl 7
input /equip ear1 "Melody Earring +1"
input /equip ear2 "Melody Earring +1"
input /equip neck "Flower Necklace"
input /ja "Curing Waltz" <stpc>
/macro set 1

This is how I would handle it. The first macro includes all the blink equipment and then brings you to a second page in your macro set. Then you can hit another macro (including non-blink items) so that way you won't lose your target when you use <stpc>, but still have all your gear swapped.

[DaEvilOne]

Yeah, for now I have JA included in the macro's but later I think I will just have primary gear swaps and manually do JA while swapping between gear in macros.

[Banggugyangu]

/ja "Curing waltz II" <stpc>
/console exec dnc_chr.txt
/wait 2
/console exec dnc_att.txt

You just need to make 2 txt files, dnc_chr.txt is for your Chr setup and dnc_att.txt is for your normal att gears, works like a charm for me.

or....

could just use spellcast and write an xml for it.

and you wouldn't have "/console" commands in your macros. you would just have "/ja "Curing Waltz II" <stpc>" and nothing else.

[Devek]

This is my setup right now leveling in qufim island..

My macro is just /ja "Curing Waltz" <stpt> and my spellcast is..

CODE

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<spellcast>
    <sets>
        <group default="yes" name="standard">
            <set name="Melee Gear">
                <neck>Spike Necklace</neck>
                <lring>Balance Ring</lring>
                <rring>Balance Ring</rring>
            </set>
            <set name="Waltz Gear">
                <neck>Bird Whistle</neck>
                <lring>Hope Ring</lring>
                <rring>Hope Ring</rring>
            </set>
        </group>
    </sets>
    <rules>
        <if spell="*Waltz*">
            <action type="equip" when="precast" set="Waltz Gear" />
            <action type="equip" when="aftercast" Set="Melee Gear" />
        </if>        
    </rules>
</spellcast>