Artisan Archive
Thread: Survaying Macro?
Create a macro and put it in the first alot on any bar. I use slot 6 for mine.
/sample;
/pause 5;
/sit:
/pause 30;
/stand;
/ui action toolbarSlot00;
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got to maros
go to new macros
name it select an icon and move to the space below
type this exactly
/sample
/pause 250
/sit
/pause 90
/stand
/ui action toolbarSlot01
**after that last line your done all you have to do is place your new icon (found in your own macro list) in the F2 hotkey spot and start crafting i repeat the F2 slot
If anyone finds another good artisan crafting macro please post it we need to find a place to put all the macros in one spot
As far as the pop-ups go I use a trick my bud taught me. Basically you want your enter key to be pressed down the whole time you are surveying. Find a moderately heavy small object and place it on the (Enter) keyafter yo start your macro.
Be advised. You should close your survey map screen first or you will be spammed with the message "You cannot survey while taking samples."
When the pop-ups come, they go before you can even see them. You will hear the chime though but thats it.
You will probably reach Survey IV in a little over half a day. As long as you train when needed to raise your XP cap.
For the small object I used a mouse ball from an older mouse I had laying around. Propped up the keyboard so it would not roll off and let it work. 
My character is macro sampling as we speak, and it just ignores the pop up windows and continues sampling.
By the way, the best place I have found to macro sample is near the Vrendi Island shuttleport on Corellia. There are no mob spawns there, so you can leave your artisan safely for hours and hours.
Try this one:
/stand;
/pause 2;
/sample;
/pause 3;
/sit;
/pause 28;
/stand;
/pause 2;
/sample;
/pause 3;
/sit;
/pause 28;
/ui action toolbarSlot14
Notes: This macro uses the pause time between samples to rest. You may have to modify the resting part to 30 or a few seconds more. You might be able to lower it a bit, I think with my wookiee I had the pause at 27. The goal is to set it just long enough that your bars are completely refreshed, but not under 28 total seconds as that is the waiting time before you can sample again. (The wookiee had 27 seconds + 2 seconds after standing)
The advantage of this is you arenot constantly having to hit your enter key, and when the box pops up you only lose one sample. This macro will cause you to slowlymove backwards so it's best used in a place where you can put your back to an object you can't autorun around. The rate of backwards movementis something like 10 or so meters an hour.
The ui actiontoolbarSlot14 part is the slot I store this macro in. You will want that number to be whatever number you store the macro in. The numbering system for the slots goes from 00 to 23 (or 00 to 11 if you are only using one hotbar). So your first slot is 00, your second is 01, your third is 02, etc.
Also the pause after the /stand can probrably be shortened to 1. I've never tried shortening it, because I was satisfied with the way the macro worked, so haven't bothered.