Hey peeps, let me preempt this by saying IM DISABLED.
OK let me explain, I enjoy playing ff14 but unfortunately I have arthritis and carpal tunnel which makes it painful to stretch my hands too much to press all the buttons necessary. When I played wow I was able to get by with the use of their extensive macro communities and add-ons.
Unfortunately the same communities and add-ons don't really exist and the community seems to be by in large unintentionally ableist, at least by my research. All I see is variations of 'don't use macros because you'll lose .5 seconds and suck!'.
I don't play hardcore endgame content not do I have any intention to play it with random. I mostly play with friends and they don't care if I use macros or not, they understand my situation and just want me to have fun.
But here I am asking for help with macro creation and possibly class choice. I'm currently playing a summoner as they don't seem to be very hard and I can macro a couple of things together to ease my pain.
What tank and healer class would be the easiest to play for someone like me and possibly what macros could they use to give me a hand?
For summoners, is there a way to macro the summons with gemshine? Plus add a modifier in there for aoe. That way I can trim down 5 buttons to 3. I know it was possible in wow but as I understand it ff14 has a limited macro system on purpose.
I hope some of you understand my situation and spare me the criticism. Most of the ff community has been lovely and understanding, I just get the rabid folk when I mention combat macros.
Thanks for all the info. I was able to find a macro online of someone who combined the 3 normal summons, ifrit and the other 2 into one button. So you would just press it once and then press gemshine or the aoe gemshine then go back and press it again for the next summon. It consolidated some of the buttons even more. The one thing I wasn't able to find, and I think it might not exist, is a way for the icon to also change based on what ability is next in the queue. It's not to hard with summoner as the class is easy but it would just be a qol thing.
I figured it wouldn't be possible. Currently I have the aoe version of skills set to the same keybind but with the ctrl modifier. I'm able to press it with my palm so I don't have to twist my fingers weirdly but it helps keep my muscle memory as it's mostly the same rotation.
Again, thanks for the info. I'll keep trying and see what I come up with, maybe I'll make further posts here with my progress and what I end up with to help other people like me. Be the change you wanna see in the world and all that.
You're right I think, I can't think of a way to change the icon to what comes up next. The only reason you can change icons at all is because you're linking it to a skill if you use /micon and it will show as whatever that icon currently would be (and icons like Gemshine change based on the active summon for example).
I'm glad you've been able to find something that works though!