Why not assign hotkey="MACRO" to all skills?

[Mushroomstamp]

I assigned hotkey="MACRO" to some of my Knight's buffs last night to see if it would work and it did. I figure to do the rest tonight, but wanted to make sure there wasn't a reason that I shouldn't. Is there a reason to not do it this way? If not, why not assign ALL skills this way?

[Alkaiser]

HA! Well...

Like Mushroomstamp, I changed all my skills to MACRO and everything seems to be working fine. This makes things much easier.

If there's a downside, I haven't found it yet.

[rock5]

The way I understand it is "macro" only works for skills that are listed in skills_local.xml. Not all of them are I think.

So go ahead and change them all to "macro" and, if any don't work, check skills_local.xml and add the skill if not there.

[Starrider]

is there no special key needed anymore, only change all to >hotkey="MACRO"< ?

[IronWolf]

could some1 please elaborate?
i've seem to misundestand, what for and how you use the "hotkey=macro"

[Mushroomstamp]

Starrider - apparently not.

IronWolf - In your profile... instead of;

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<skill name="KNIGHT_DISARMAMENT"   modifier="" hotkey="VK_3" priority="70" />
<skill name="WARRIOR_SLASH"          modifier="" hotkey="VK_4" priority="85" />
<skill name="KNIGHT_HOLY_STRIKE"  modifier="" hotkey="VK_5" priority="60" />

... you can do;

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<skill name="KNIGHT_DISARMAMENT"   modifier="" hotkey="MACRO" priority="70" />
<skill name="WARRIOR_SLASH"          modifier="" hotkey="MACRO" priority="85" />
<skill name="KNIGHT_HOLY_STRIKE"  modifier="" hotkey="MACRO" priority="60" />

[Giram]

So if we do this the macro way, then we don't need to place the skills to skillbar?

[Alkaiser]

So if we do this the macro way, then we don't need to place the skills to skillbar?

This appears to be the case.

[Administrator]

So if we do this the macro way, then we don't need to place the skills to skillbar?

Correct, but you will need to hotkey the macro that the bot uses.

[rock5]

It just occurred to me. There is one reason why you might want to use the key bindings instead of "macro". To avoid using the macro.

Typically, when using the macro for other things, it's slower and less reliable. So maybe using the key bindings would be faster and more reliable?

I probably need someone else to confirm this.

[Alkaiser]

Looks like the following needs to be added to skills_local.xml

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<MAGE_ELEMENTAL_CATALYST en="Elemental Catalysis" de="Elemental Catalysis" />

I don't know the German name for it.