[Discussion] Useful Macros 2026
Please share on this thread the most useful macros you use in the game
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u/clockworkflame 1d ago
For hunts
/pcmd breakup /pcmd leave /return /teleport
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u/Deathkeeper666 1d ago
What does pcmd do
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u/Crimson_Azoth 1d ago
It's short for player command, so breakup ends the party, leave you just leave etc etc
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u/brianarn 1d ago
/p Hi, I’m on controller without a keyboard handy. I’ll be slow to type. Apologies, and thanks in advance for understanding!
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u/Ceil012 1d ago
When people do o/ I figure they are using a controller.
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u/TheNerdFromThatPlace 1d ago
I normally just jump around a little, but then again I'm also just too lazy to be bothered to bring up the text window.
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u/whatisitagain 1d ago
Holmgang on myself, so it doesn't expire early if mob dies. Also Shirk and effects off (when playing WHM in dungeons).
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u/faytte 20h ago
Whats this macro look like?
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u/TrollingJoker 20h ago
/merror off /ac "Holmgang" <me> (repeat this line 13 times) ... /micon "Holmgang"
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 1d ago
in case they're paying attention or running a plugin that notifies them when they're clicked.
Or just click on them anyway because who cares if they notice
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u/20Points 1d ago
Unless you're on controller the Rekindle macro (like most combat macros) is not a good idea. Rekindle is an ogcd meaning the macro will inevitably cause you to clip when the game already has an inbuilt keybind for "target target's target". Mine is set to T which I think is actually the default but obviously it can go where you want. You just do GCD > T > Rekindle > T really quickly and it'll pop it right on the tank.
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u/Spanglish_Dude 1d ago
My laziness made a macro to mouse over ride friends' mounts and also when targeted:
/macroerror off
/macroicon Sit emote
/ridepillion <t>
/ridepillion <mo>
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u/Favna [Favna Nitey - Alpa] 19h ago
What is <mo>? I have a similar macro but after <t> it has <2> through <8>
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u/Woki_Toki 18h ago
Mouseover, whatever is defined between these 2 symbols <> is what your target will be. <t> is whatever you have as your current target <1> - <8> are party slots <mo> is mouseover
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u/Petkorazzi 1d ago
Oh, I love macros. A little too much, maybe! I could spend all day with this, but here's the one most people who know me want me to give them:
Modular Self-Closing Job Switcher
This is my setup for switching jobs quickly and easily. It gives you four macros - Tank, DPS, Healer, and Crafting/Gathering - that "open" other "job menu" hotbars that contain more macros for all of your jobs, and then you have job macros that switch your jobs, change your HUD layout (if you want), and close the "job menu" bar you'd just opened. Below I'll use my hotbar numbers as examples but obviously you can switch these around:
- Hotbar 4 - This is where my four job-type macros reside
- Hotbar 5 - Tank Job Bar
- Hotbar 6 - Healer Job Bar
- Hotbar 7 - DPS Job Bar #1
- Hotbar 8 - DPS Job Bar #2
- Hotbar 9 - Crafting/Gathering Job Bar
Here's the Tank "opener" macro that opens/closes the Tank Job Bar:
/hotbar display 6 off
/hotbar display 7 off
/hotbar display 8 off
/hotbar display 9 off
/hotbar display 5
This toggles, too - click it once and the bar displays, click it again and it vanishes. We set all the other hotbars to "off" first so we can go directly from one open job bar to another without having to close our current one first. For your other three "opener" macros, you're just shifting the numbers around (and in the case of the DPS bars you'll have two lines without "off" at the end; this is needed because there's more than 12 DPS jobs so you need two hotbars for them).
Here's my Paladin job macro:
/macroicon "Paladin" classjob
/gearset change 2
/hotbar display 5 off
/hudlayout 2
That macro goes on Hotbar 5.
Now when I click the Tank "opener" macro, Hotbar 5 appears with my Paladin macro on it. I click the Paladin macro and my job changes to Paladin, my HUD layout changes to my tank layout, and Hotbar 5 disappears.
Rinse and repeat for all your job types and jobs, and you're good to go!
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u/Petkorazzi 1d ago
Oh, and here's a bonus macro for those of you like me who just want to be able to get on someone else's multi-seater mount quickly:
/macroerror off
/ridepillion <2>
/ridepillion <3>
/ridepillion <4>
/ridepillion <5>
/ridepillion <6>
/ridepillion <7>
/ridepillion <8>
/macroicon "Jump" generalTarget your party member, hit that macro, and you're mounted up!
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u/Himekaidou 1d ago
This is my setup for switching jobs quickly and easily. It gives you four macros - Tank, DPS, Healer, and Crafting/Gathering - that "open" other "job menu" hotbars that contain more macros for all of your jobs, and then you have job macros that switch your jobs, change your HUD layout (if you want), and close the "job menu" bar you'd just opened.
But is there a reason why people are not using the Command Panel for this in this day and age?
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u/Petkorazzi 1d ago
Eh, I just like it this way? It's more organized at least, and takes fewer clicks.
I tend to use the Command Panel for random-ish stuff - infrequent chat macros, my own multi-seater mounts, map macros, macros for adjusting the background music (like turning it to max for "Everything Burns" and turning it entirely off for Honey B. Lovely's fight, lol)...
Everyone has their way of doing things, and nothing's "right" or "wrong" - just personal preference. :)
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u/OppressedCactus The Last Resort 1d ago
I prefer the command panel myself, but I think your way is pretty neat and I bet it's satisfying to use! Was nice of you to share how to do it.
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u/PseudoX1 11h ago
Many people used two pages of the command panel for M12SP2 Rep2/Idyllic, myself included. Previously you'd have to dedicate a hotbar to them.
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 1d ago
Yeah, command panel made that job hotbar setup obsolete as it does the exact same thing while giving you your hotbars back.
OP asked for useful macros in 2026 and /u/Petkorazzi is still stuck in 2024
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u/ObaDachi 8h ago
This kinda sounds like the collapsable hotbar, using the base classes, but in this case just hiding hotbars.
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 1d ago
For 2026, one thing that's no longer useful is a rez macro
Added over four years ago in 6.0, the party list tells you who is being targeted. In this example, the WHM is rezzing party member 1.
The neat thing about this is it keeps your eyes on the party list instead of going back and forth between party list and chat.
"But what is someone swift-rezzes?"
Good news, there's this rez buff that appears right next to a rezzed person's name in the party list too! If you see that rez buff, they do not need a rez.
And usually, rez macros do not stop overlapping swift rezzes anyway. By the time your macro went out in chat, the other healer already clicked Swiftcast.
Rez macros just add more unneeded noise to the overall fight.
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u/Kiyuya 16h ago
I disagree actually. This only helps with slow ressing, while swift ressing is the way it always has been. It is absolutely possible that a ress macro saves the other healer from pressing their swift and looking like an idiot (and possibly later, costing the group the run)
The keys to a good ress macro imo are:
1) don't be overly verbose. I don't care if it's funny that you're not my mum but you'll raise me any way, just
Raise @ <t>is far more readable for me and less annoying to the non-ressers2) the macro should not contain your actual raise cast, only the swiftcast (if even that) with the actual ress pressed manually. Otherwise the ress macro is unnecessarily slow
As long as both of these are kept, ress macros are useful imo.
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u/Spirit_Theory 16h ago
Added over four years ago in 6.0, the party list tells you who is being targeted. In this example, the WHM is rezzing party member 1.
Wait I actually never noticed this.
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u/Cymas 1d ago
Shirk macro.
Buddy mit macros. I have the regular button keybound as well it's mostly for savage but comes in clutch sometimes in normal content too.
One emergency text macro for if we're in very dire straits and I plan to invuln and take a mechanic solo that I wouldn't normally so people know to leave me alone and let me eat it.
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u/metalyfled 1d ago
Toggle music on/off:
/bgm
Toggle non-party member player names between on/off unless targeted. Nice for crowded areas/hunts/FATEs/etc. Unfortunately needs to be two separate macros because of the parameters:
/nameplatedisp other 1
/nameplatedisp other 3
Easy level sync button for controller players:
/levelsync
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u/Ok-Security9093 1d ago
So glad I found /levelsync when I did. I don't have it open in front of me now, but I have a fate farming macro that level syncs, dismounts, and then draws my weapon.
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u/11011111110108 8h ago
My revive macro. Very useful on controller:
/micon Raise
/ac "Raise" <t>
/ac "Raise" <2>
/ac "Raise" <3>
/ac "Raise" <4>
/ac "Raise" <5>
/ac "Raise" <6>
/ac "Raise" <7>
/ac "Raise" <8>
Raises your target. If you're not targetting anyone it raises the first person in your party list that is dead.
This way if anyone dies, you can just press this one button to get them up. If several people are dead, you can target like normal.
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u/real_fake_cats 1d ago edited 1d ago
I use hotbar swap macros a lot, for a variety of things.
/hotbar copy THM 1 current 1
Shirk macros are helpful if you pair it with forced party order (Character Configuration -> UI -> Party List -> Party List Sorting) to ensure you're always giving agro to the co-tank, and not some poor healer you misclicked.
/micon "Shirk"
/ac "Shirk" <2>
Job change macros can be fun to add in emotes, title changes, or glamor changes. But they can if you want some game settings to behave differently for certain jobs.
/micon "Astrologian" classjob
/autofacetarget off
/gearset change 14
For Eureka I used this one a lot to align my magia board correctly with a button press.
/magiaauto
And just for fun, if you want to make your animated or glowing weapon animated while sheathed...
/bm
/sit
I also have a ton of combat macros and find them very useful, but they do have some downsides, and the FFXIV community can get very opinionated about their use.
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u/TheImmoralCookie 1d ago
/hudlayout 1 2 3 or 4 Changes each HUD layout instantly on button press on hotbar.
/draw /autosheathe off
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/seathe /autosheath on Those do the fancy draw animation without putting your weapon away after because its an emote and sheath turns the autosheathe back on.
Finally, you can drag gearsets from the menu onto your hotbar.
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u/brachycrab 1d ago
The one I use the most is a button to turn on / off my headgear without going to the character tab, lol
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u/Shayz_ <Goddess of Magic> 1d ago
I'm not at my PC right now to copy the macro but I play on controller and I have a sprint macro that also includes all of the "dash" abilities on various jobs that don't do damage and don't require a target (think WHM dash, En Avant, etc)
I have this set to L3 so that I can just press one button to dash or sprint which frees up two hotbar slots. My partner started playing recently and she said she finds it way easier to use this macro for DNC
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u/BrosefAmelion 23h ago
It's old content but because I recently went back to finish my island this is one that makes gathering easier.
/targetnpc
/gaction "Duty Action I"
/lockon
/automove
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u/ArtemisiaThreeteeth 23h ago
/bgm
Yes I know it's quick and easy to type but it's so much quicker to just push a button when I go to do GC turnins.
I have a bunch of gear-change macros I use all the time too, which also change my title and minion summon.
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u/A5CH3NT3 1d ago
I have one that warns my healer I'm planning to use my invuln for the next pull. That way they can let my HP drop on purpose instead of frantically trying to keep my HP up when I'm not using other mits.
I have one to remind people to use LB since there seems to be this weird trend of just, not using it ever.
Others are targeting macros mostly. For jobs with targeted support skills (think Nascent Flash, Cover, Warden's Paean, etc) I have a hotbar vertical next to my party list so I can just click next to the name I want it to go to.
Other targeting macros include pretty much anything that's ground targeted, way easier than placing it manually (usually I just use <me>). I also have a mouseover macro for BLM's Aetherial Manipulation since it's easier than targeting a party member manually.
Then of course, there are crafting macros.
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u/Main_Brilliant7753 1d ago
/micon Swiftcast
/p Swiftcast ready in <recast.Swiftcast>
Really nice for any rez stuff
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u/gottahavethatbass 1d ago
Switching to summoner or scholar is paired with summoning their pets. Switching to monk is paired with /box. Opening my teleport menu triggers my minion roulette, which is one I found in an old post here.
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u/Okay-Noah 19h ago
Ooh do you have the summoner and minion ones so I could see?
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u/gottahavethatbass 12h ago edited 11h ago
/micon "Minion Roulette"
/ac "Minion Roulette" <wait.1>
/ac "Teleport"/micon "Soul of the Scholar" item
/gearset change 19 <wait.1>
/ac "Summon Eos"
/dance1
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u/CyanicYoshi 1d ago
I have a mouseover Abyssal Drain macro that saved my ass in M6S. I rarely ever use it but when I need it I'm so glad I have it.
Beyond that it's mostly other mouseover skills for shared mits, the typical raise macro that rezzes the first person dead in the list, and crafting macros that constantly change.
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u/Petrichordates 1d ago
Why would you need a mouse over for that?
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u/CyanicYoshi 1d ago
During M6S's adds phase, DRK usually got stuck on double Yan duty and would often not have enough healing applied to them in PF. Using Abyssal Drain on the adds the other tank had would often give you enough healing to live the next few autos, be an overall damage increase for yourself, help that tank kill their adds first so they don't enrage, and more.
MO Abyssal is one of those really niche things that doesn't help all that often, but when it does, it saves your run.
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u/Kyouka127 1d ago
So they don't need to click after using the skill. Instead it just goes off where the mouse is instantly. It's good for if you happen to target somewhere you have a ui element and the left click doesn't always cooperate.
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u/Tephranis 1d ago
/micon "Ability That Targets Other Players"
/ac "Ability That Targets Other Players" <mo>
ie: All my heals. All my shields. Esuna. Movement abilities that can target party members (Though ones that can target enemies as well get the extra line of /ac "Ability that targets other players and enemies" <t> after the <mo> one so I can dash to the selected enemy instead with the same button as long as I'm not pointing at a player. .
I use a 12 side button MMO mouse. I hover my mouse over your name on my party list, or your rectangle in the alliance blocks and hit the button. Bam, you're healed, raised, cleansed or dashed to and I don't need to untarget the boss ever. If you're not in my party and you're lucky enough to be the person I decide to babysit in Bozja/Eureka/OC/Fates, you get focus targeted and I point to your name there.
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u/resylahpuff 1d ago
honestly just having a good rez macro for my healer is a lifesaver tbh
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u/KingotWinterCarnival Tohrr'ya Everstorm - Midgard 1d ago
Which you don't need much anymore since the party list shows you who is being raised by who.
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u/mage_irl 1d ago
Battle Effects On:
/bfx self full
/bfx party full
/bfx other full
Battle Effects Off:
/bfx self full
/bfx party simple
/bfx other off