Bard Song Twisting Macro's

[Faerie]

Real bards don't need macros or pansy /melody commands!

[Jesseca]

Real bards don't need macros or pansy /melody commands!

Substitute the word "good" for "real".

[cs616]

A big part of being a good bard is being efficient with your time and keystrokes and I would argue that reducing your clicks using hot keys is more efficient than double clicking. If you want to be a purist and make playing more difficult for yourself go for it, but good bards play smarter, not harder.

/cast 1
/stopsong

Definitely the way to go.

[zanderklocke]

I'm such a weirdo that I have 10 pages worth of song hot keys. For example, soloing is one page of song hot keys, grouping a second, kiting a third, charming a 4th, corpse runs 5th, PLing with charm 6th, PLing with kiting 7th, pulling for raids 8th, etc.

I just label all the song hot keys as "Song 1", "Song 2", "Song 3", etc. No one but me could figure out what all the arrangements are for.

I'm super Type A in terms of organizing stuff though.

[Yibz]

Originally Posted by cs616 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

A big part of being a good bard is being efficient with your time and keystrokes and I would argue that reducing your clicks using hot keys is more efficient than double clicking. If you want to be a purist and make playing more difficult for yourself go for it, but good bards play smarter, not harder.

/cast 1
/stopsong

Definitely the way to go.

I use these sometimes in groups but for important stuff (raid/risky situations) I'll always switch to plain spell gem keys. The reason is that it becomes way easier to control when your songs stop if you need them to immediately or if you need to quickly use a clicky.

[Felizcat]

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[Shine99]

You can setup a macro to twist 2 songs per hotbutton, but I would only do it when you have non-essential tasks. For example, twisting selo's with invis for traveling.

/stopsong
/cast #
/pause 25
/stopsong
/cast #

Otherwise the macro's that have been suggested work best. Using this macro I can easily twist 4 songs with 4 keystrokes:

/stopsong
/cast #

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[Absynthe2k5]

Originally Posted by Taboo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don' t see how twisting is that hard for people. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. 4 and a sword click to success

You don't have arthritis or carpel tunnel most likely. Get either of those two and then come back with that line. 2 days in on my bard and my left hand is numb and aching and I haven't really gotten into real twisting yet. I hate that my hands are gnarled hunks of uselessness these days but oh well you get old and stuff stops working right. I will have to figure something out lol. g15 sounds like the way to go I think.

[Hazek]

I actually enjoy twisting the normal way. Its not too difficult to play a song, then simply double tap the next song and repeat. Even all day, just be light on the keypresses.

The problem with melody is if you have an inturrupt, you have to start from the first song again unless you setup multiple macros. So it can be inefficient if you're on the second song, and it inturrupts because then you'll be overwriting the first song again instead of moving to the 3rd manually.

I like being able to select which song I need next based on the situation. Only time I used melody was for regenning mana / hp usually.

Then once twisting is second nature, you can switch instruments before each song ends. Selos > drums, heal > strings for instance.

[idontbuff]

I see absolutely no reason to use a macro.