Aion Macro Guide – A few things about Macro’s in Aion By Bunny

We aren’t that big fans of the macros being used in Aion, it has been created with an intention to allow people to use multiple skills together but it falls short of providing any serious help. People say it is better than WoW addons, in the sense that there isn’t too much automation, agreed but Macros fall short of doing something substantially productive.  Aion addons someday? We hope so…Anways …We will be writing a detailed review on why we dont like the macros system in Aion, but all that later. Considering that there is something called macros and it is not entirely useless, it can come in handy, we have a guide for macros in Aion. This was written by Bunny during the July beta period. Gives a couple of macros as well, Go through it, you may find something useful. Bunny is a super moderator at the guildsofserenity.com forum and also at the massive aionsource.com forum as well. A really engaging and helpful moderator with an extensive knowledge of the game.

A few things about Macro’s in Aion:

It took a while to get my working in the Aion Beta’s, because unfortunately the in-game Macro building gadget doesn’t work and gives you the wrong information. Here are a few pointers for writing macro’s:

1. If the skill says it has a 2 second cast, you will need a 3 second /delay before inserting the next action. Whether this is a bug or not, I’m not sure, but you need to give a delay longer than the skill cast time printed on each skill.
2. All variables are CASE SENSITIVE! I can’t stress this enough. For example, [%target] is not the same as [%Target].
3. The built in game instructions have many many errors. For example, it will tell you to use things like [%target'starget] which doesn’t work at all. It also tells you to use [%Yourself] which isn’t correct, the correct variable for yourself is [%Self]. You can pretty much disregard most of the things the built in guide tells you to do.

Tested Bunny Macro’s:

Here are some macro’s that I have tried and tested successfully so far in the Aion Beta tests. I have written these based on things I wanted to do, but they can be easily tailored to do other things.

1. Automatically attack the Nearest Enemy:

This macro will simply target something, tell your party what you are attacking, then send your character running off to attack it.

/select [%AutoTarget]
/Group I am going to attack [%Target] now.
/Attack

2. Automatically attack the Tank’s Target:

This macro will target the what the tank is attacking, tell everyone in your group that you are going to assist, then send your character running off to attack. I found this macro also worked using the /select [%GroupX] command, where X = the tank’s position in the team.

Thanks to Pepper for pointing out that you can drag people around in your party – this now means you can also just assign the tank variable to [%Group1] and drag the tank into that position in your party list. Remember this isn’t necessarily the first position in the party list because the party leader is in position [%Group0].

/select Enter-Tanks-Name-Here
/Group I am attacking [%Target]'s target now.
/skill Assist Attack

3. Automatic Buffs:

This was perhaps the most useful macro as a Chanter or Cleric, because buffs are required so often in teams. All I had to do was select the person’s name in the party list that I wanted to buff, then hit the macro button.

/Group I am buffing [%Target] now.
/skill Blessing of Life I
/delay 1
/skill Blessing of Protection I
/delay 1

4. Smelly Codfish Shout:

This was just for a bit of fun. You select the person (or enemy) you want to slap with a codfish, then hit the macro. The shout would read “Aeriel Shouts: I’ve just slapped insert-name about with a smelly old codfish!” You can see the possibilities for writing as many shout emotes as you like lol.

/Shout I've just slapped [%Target] about with a smelly old codfish!

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One Response to “Aion Macro Guide – A few things about Macro’s in Aion By Bunny”

1. paul says:

   December 24, 2009 at 3:04 am

   The target macro isnt working for me. did they remove it?