The shared tab is for all characters (alts) you create, while the individual tab is just for the character you’re currently playing.

You’ll notice there’s an individual and a shared tab. You can go to System > User Macros to see and create your macros. How do you create, access, and save your macros? I’ll also show some common lines that are added to most macros to affect the icon, timing, and potential error messages. Making and Saving Macrosįirst, let’s start with the housekeeping stuff. The FFXIV playerbase very often shares useful knowledge with each other, so new macro uses and innovations are often posted on reddit or discord if you’re keeping up with those communities. I’m also going to go over some of the most common usages, as well as some ‘housekeeping’ aspects you may want to add when creating them. In this post I’m going to introduce you to macros and how to set them up. While I’ll cover a variety of uses, this is only an introduction and there are even more complex things you can set up with the help of macros. If you’re interested in any of those things, read on. There are lots of quality of life improvements that macros can help you with, and yes, even some limited benefits when it comes to combat. This led me to tinkering around with user macros, a very useful tool for automating all sorts of things in the game and making things a tiny bit friendlier to my user experience.

As I became more and more interested in FFXIV I started looking at smaller things that could improve my gameplay experience.

Macro for mass crafting refined natron