Divine Seal ability counter?

[sofakng]

I just got level 15 and got the ability "Divine Seal".

How does everyone keep track of the 10 minute counter?

Apparantly there is no way to setup a macro or anything, so does everybody just check the Job Abilities menu every couple of minutes?

[Icemage]

/ja "Divine Seal" <p0>

...should work just fine.


Icemage

[Surfer`]

No way to check timer that I know of really through macro.

Ctrl+J then go over to check the cool down timer then esc is what I always did.

[Akirhol]

There is a pause command, correct? Haven't messed with macroing much... but if I remember correctly I also saw an echo command, which in other games or whatever meant a message that is shown to you and no one else, so you could potentially do something like:

/ja "Divine Seal" <p0>
/pause 300
/echo 5 Minutes until Divine Seal is ready
/pause 240
/echo 1 Minute until Divine Seal is ready
/pause 60
/echo Divine Seal is now ready!

This is under the assumption that pause uses seconds and there is an echo command. Coming from SWG, I'm used to a rather robust macroing system... seems a bit more limited in this game.

[Mithrael]

there is a wait command, /wait, but the maximum time you can wait is 20 seconds. the most amount of time you can wait and accomplish something would be 80 seconds...

/ja "Divine Seal" <me>
/wait 20
/wait 20
/wait 20
/wait 20
/echo 80 Seconds Have Passed!!! (doh...)

The macro system isn't limited to be annoying. I believe they limited it to prevent talented scripters from botting their way through the game.

[Akirhol]

Originally posted by Mithrael
The macro system isn't limited to be annoying. I believe they limited it to prevent talented scripters from botting their way through the game.

Understandable... coming from a programming background, SWG scripting was easy to pickup and it is just a matter of knowing the right commands to do just about everything in the game except run around, hehe.

So macros are limited to 6 lines then? And that 20 second max on /wait is killer... I think those are a bit too restrictive... a larger limit on number of commands/lines and no limit on the /wait command would hurt nothing as long as they don't have any means of looping the macro [such as "/macro <name>" or "/goto <predesignated line number>"]. The most you could do is run a macro once and with a limit [higher than now even] it can't go all that far.

Oh well, guess you'll just have to do it manually... *shrug*

[Pilsbane]

Another thing of note is if you use a second macro before you get the echo message, you won't get the echo message.

Let me explain...

My provoke macro is:

/ja "Provoke" <t>
/p Provoking <t>
/wait 15
/echo 15 sec left
/wait 15
/echo Provoke Ready

If I use my healing macro before I get the "Provoke Ready" message, I'll never get it. The wait and echo gets canceled out by the next macro.

[Akirhol]

Wow, so basically you can't do anything worthwhile with a macro besides bypassing the submenu maze... I'm sorry, but that's just lame, heh. It's one thing to limit the macro system, it's another to make it just barely above useless.