Funny Macro'sFollow

I love the tarudance macros. I personally have two different ones, depending on whether I'm gunning for annoyingly cute or suffocatingly cute. Also, for a cheap laugh if you're playing taru, set this macro:

/angry motion
/em lets a fartaru!
/wait 1
/blush motion

That's as far as I'll go with the emote, though.

DarkKnight: "I summon the mighty powers of uselessness!"
DarkKnight casts Arcane Circle

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I had this macro for a while, when someone was healing-

/emote strokes <t> on the head
/comfort motion
/wait 5
/slap <t>
/say I said no teeth!

Hehe...got some people mad :P

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Beastmaster: I summon the mighty...uh...er...hoppy the rabbit
Beastmaster summons hare familiar

Beastmaster: Bah bah black sheep...have you any....DEATH!
Beastmaster summons sheep familiar

Beastmaster: Help me Jim Morrison, you're my only hope!
Beastmaster summons lizard familiar

LOL i got that for my voke
/p Hay <t> your momma's a ****
/ja "provoke" <t>

one night while playing I ordered delivery for dinner and upon returning my socks got wet running back in. My warcry right as I attack is WET SOCKS!!!!! only my linkshell understands the joke behind this though.

All my spells except cure have a witty saying like: Barsleep~ A coffee works better than this!

Or Bio~ your gonna need a doctor after this.

Not mine, but a party member as a Taru did

/panic motion
/emote is a maniac, maniac, MANIAC!
/panic motion

i did this once with a camp full of people at leaping lizzy

/emote points at Leaping Lizzy.

i saw everybody jump up at the same time :P i got tons of tells asking where is it :) most of them laughed it off when i told them it was an emote =)

sorry at the very best macros are mildly entertaining once or twice. Macros like the taru dance or whatever are cool, just don't overuse them :)

On the other hand macros in combat just make your resident mages cry as its just worthless spam you have to process while watching for debuff failures, skillchains, etc.

rofl! That BST sheep one made me laugh so hard, I'm gonna have to steal it =[

All I can say is...in my experience...it's the resident mages using most of the macros. Hell...if I was a WHM, I'd do the taru dance every time I cast cure...constant healing's gotta be hella boring.

I was in a party in Kazham and met a our new linkshell member.
He has to be the coolest Galka yet!

I don't know what motions he set but anyone who has ever been to the jungle knows that the music is funky. He had a macro that made him dance, A GALAKA mind you. It was the funniest thing and everyone was laughing (even in out pts)

I happen to enjoy my ranged macro, which was, in the beginning, a modified

"<t> sighted" macro.

"<t> blood makes the grass grow! KILL! KILL! KILL!" followed by a ranged shot at the <t>. It's always funny to aim it at party members though. ^_^

The only other interesting macro I've seen, was a thief with her steal on macro, whenever she attempted to steal from a target, she would shout "YOINK!"

It really depends on the usage. A simple white mage macro of

Healing - Cure III or whatever on <t> is great, its useful for the other mages in the party to prevent overhealing. But the usefullness of it decreases drastically when you have tons of other "flavor" macros going off. I think part of the problem is melee characters don't have quite as much to worry about. You keep it provoked, watch for weaponskills so you can chain....not a ton else. As a blm/whm I can only filter so much out before I start to lose valuable information. I don't like filtering out damage because then I only see when a weaponskill is readied, and not when it hits. While its fine for some, as spell cast durations increase the timing of magic bursts becomes more important. Depending on the speed of the weaponskills and the type of spell I'm using, I start casting anywhere from when the 2nd person in the chain readies....to in the extreme, where you have to start casting 5+ seconds before the chain even begins.

I also need to be able to see messages from the tanks. When they have 100% tp and I should get ready to cast the appropriate spell, when they start their skillchains, etc. In a lot of areas/fights a call can be easily missed, I rely more on messages than sounds lately.

And actually I do use an emote in my cure macro.... its a /panic motion when I heal...because usually when the blm/whm starts to heal, it is panic'd, and it doesn't generate any extra lines of spam.

I'm not saying these flavor macros have no place in the game, but you need to look at what effect it has on your party. Pull macros don't bother me at all, there isn't any spam to be wading through at that point. I do however ask people to turn off macros that use shout or say, or macros for stuff like steal, boost, sneak attack, etc. No matter how entertaining your macro is, after a few hours and a couple hundred times, no macro is funny. Maybe make a second macro set that doesn't have the unnecessicary messages in it.

In any event my post was just ment to be helpful criticism, from my perspective, I have a limited amount of time to play, so when I join an xp party, its to get xp, ideally the most xp I can get in that time frame, and a lot of others are the same.