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I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but I discovered this recently and have been using it happily ever since. If you're like me, you have a lot of/sys textmacros established for running/managing a group quickly and efficiently. And you likely are taking up some valuable hotkey space with those macros.

I found that you can actually remap macros to specific keys. So, just hit control+O, head to "Controls," then click on "Keymap," and finally click on the "Custom" tag. Here you'll find a list of all your macros, and you can just rebind them at will. I found an excellent place to put text messages is on the numpad keys, as most people don't use them and they're reasonably clumped together and well-located.

So, no more taking up hotkey space or fumbling with the "shift" key in the midst of a fight, now you can simply hit the appropriate numbers on your keyboard's numpad to fire off your macros (or even your skills, if you put them into macros). And on top of that, you have more space for other things, such as weapon specials or healing skills.

If this has been brought up, sorry for being repetitive. If not, I figured it was a tip worth passing on.

Good suggestions!

Very nice indeed, i'm gonna bind a few of my macros right now. Should help organize it a bit more, although it is funny when u go to press a macro to heal your buddy and end up pressing the attack %TT one.

Glad you liked the idea. After playing around with using custom macros I came up with some other ideas on how to use this creatively:

Foll/Stop-follow - If you need to regularly get on and off /follow for healing or managing group issues while someone else leads travel, this can be really useful. Just set a macro of /follow to the "+" key around the numpad, and /stopfollow to the "-" key above it.

Weapon equipping/unequipping - This I found to be real useful. What you need to do is put your weapons on your ctrl+F6 toolbar and then create a macro which switches to that toolbar, activates the slot the weapon's in, and then switches back to your main toolbar. It looks like this:

/ui action toolbarPane05; [in the code, panes/slots are designated by 1 less than their number, with a 0 in front]
/ui action toolbarSlot00;
/ui action toolbarPane00;

If you make a macro for each weapon you use, and simply switch the "slot" it calls up in line 2 of the macro, you can make numpad 1 bring out one weapon, numpad 2 switch to another, etc..

Food consumption before battle - Same thing as the weapons except you would make one macro that calls up multiple slots containing food at once.

Commonly used abilities - I found putting something like /aim on numpad enter can be really useful. For example, I try to /bow to players I incap in the middle of PvP, but found myself unable to do this in the middle of large battles. I simply qeue'd it up on a numpad key and now it's easier than ever.

Hope that all helps as well.