Introduction to Macros Daily Guide

Today's daily guide is over Macros. Macros are scripts you program inside of Runes of Magic to perform a set of commands. For example a Priest would have to individually cast Magic Barrier and Grace of Life for his party to have the effect. This would require you to click on two different skills on you skill bar for this to happen. Well with a macro you can cast both of those skills in one single click.

First lets go over how to get to your in game macros creation screen. Once logged into your character and in the game press the "ESC" key and go to Macros. Once the macros menu is open click "NEW" at the bottom and a new window should open. Click the funny looking Arrow next to the icon for a list of icons and pick out the one you would like to use.

Ok, ok onto the goods in the box below you can type your macro instructions in. Before you do that though you will need to know the commands RoM will recognize. I have listed a few examples below that will help you get started.

• /cast (skill name) = casts the skill you would like performed; can be any skill
• /use (item name) = uses an item
• /wait XX = waits a set number of seconds

So lets go back to our Priest and help him out by setting up a macro to cast his 2 buffs in one click. To do this we simply type in the box...

/cast Magic Barrier
/wait 1
/cast Grace of Life

This will cause the Priest to cast Magic Barrier and then will tell the game to wait one second then cast Grace of Life. Just to let you know the game has what is called a global cool down for certain skills that's why we add in the /wait 1. Don't worry about what that is yet just know you can play with the /wait and increase or decrease this if you find a skill just isn't firing off in your macro. A second very important note to pay attention to is the name of the skill. For the skill to fire off it must be spelled exactly as written in the game. Notice, Magic Barrier, is spelled with M and B capitalized because it is capitalized in the game. Also note you can cast as many skills as you want just make sure to place /wait 1 between each one.

Wait we aren't done yet lets help our Priest a little bit more. Macros can also be used to communicate to those in our out of our party and let them know what we are doing. This is double bladed it is helpful but man does it get annoying sometimes. Well I am going to let party members know what i am casting so here is what macro I would create.

/party I am currently casting Magic Barrier and Grace of Life
/cast Magic Barrier
/wait 1
/cast Grace of Life

Now not only would we cast Grace of Life and Magic Barrier but the /party will also say to our party members whatever we write behind it. In this case it would state "I am currently casting Magic Barrier and Grace of Life" in the party chat.

Hopefully that helps clear some macro questions. I will post another guide soon with some more basic macros and a few advanced ones, so don't forget to follow us.