Macros are frustrating

[blast3r]

The way I understand it, you need to use spells with cooldowns to make macros useful in RIFT. If it hits an instant spell with no cooldown it fires it over and over again. Is this right?

[Alge]

Put the instant spell in a separate step in an ISBoxer Mapped Key, possible with do not advance for xx seconds, where xx is the length of your GCD. Or put one instant spell per macro, after all your cooldowns.

[blast3r]

I have never used macros with ISBoxer. Could I technically have a macros, or combination on one key, that would cast several instant spells?

Edit: I am thinking if I setup single macros for instant casts, I can assign each of them a keymap via Step and it would work with a single button.

[crowdx]

Put the instant spell in a separate step in an ISBoxer Mapped Key, possible with do not advance for xx seconds, where xx is the length of your GCD. Or put one instant spell per macro, after all your cooldowns.

Does ISBoxer now pass macros to Rift? When I originally played I believe it only allowed me to trigger action bar keybound spells. Has this changed?

[Alge]

Does ISBoxer now pass macros to Rift? When I originally played I believe it only allowed me to trigger action bar keybound spells. Has this changed?

No. That should be clear from my subsequent post.

[Alge]

You just put individual abilities or macros on action bars in the game. Then in ISBoxer you use Steps in a Mapped key to do each of those abilities/macros in order. Each Step contains a Keystroke Action to send the key combination matching the action bar button's key binding to the game. Depending on the speed at which you press keys, you may find it necessary to select "Do not advance for xx seconds" in some Steps.

MiRai's Mapped Key Video (see the guides or videos section on isboxer.com) has more detail about such multi-step Mapped Keys.

[blast3r]

Thank you!!!!!

[blast3r]

I added 4 more steps to my ISBoxer DPS key and am now able to use more spells without having to click so many different buttons. Seems to be working pretty good. Thanks for the advice!

[Meeo]

what class you using again? for rogues i got like maybe 4 macros, + 1 channeled step. there are several utility spells as well but those are all on accessible keybinds.

[blast3r]

Running 5 Clerics.