Hey peeps, let me preempt this by saying IM DISABLED.
OK let me explain, I enjoy playing ff14 but unfortunately I have arthritis and carpal tunnel which makes it painful to stretch my hands too much to press all the buttons necessary. When I played wow I was able to get by with the use of their extensive macro communities and add-ons.
Unfortunately the same communities and add-ons don’t really exist and the community seems to be by in large unintentionally ableist, at least by my research. All I see is variations of ‘don’t use macros because you’ll lose .5 seconds and suck!’.
I don’t play hardcore endgame content not do I have any intention to play it with random. I mostly play with friends and they don’t care if I use macros or not, they understand my situation and just want me to have fun.
But here I am asking for help with macro creation and possibly class choice. I’m currently playing a summoner as they don’t seem to be very hard and I can macro a couple of things together to ease my pain.
What tank and healer class would be the easiest to play for someone like me and possibly what macros could they use to give me a hand?
For summoners, is there a way to macro the summons with gemshine? Plus add a modifier in there for aoe. That way I can trim down 5 buttons to 3. I know it was possible in wow but as I understand it ff14 has a limited macro system on purpose.
I hope some of you understand my situation and spare me the criticism. Most of the ff community has been lovely and understanding, I just get the rabid folk when I mention combat macros.
I would look for a program outside of the game to make your macros as the macros you can make in game are extremely limited and are purposely programmed to be terrible for use in combat, at least for your rotation.
I was thinking about that but I don’t wanna risk a ban, I do genuinely like the game and would prefer to use their own tools. I might have to look into it this weekend. I’ve heard they ban for stuff that’s cosmetic even and that people who’ve used their damage counter add on have also gotten banned for taking about it.
It’s a big change from what I was used to playing wow. Their only rule really was one button press has to equal one in game action.