Hotkey commands, how?

[Mehhem]

Can you make a hotkey for a command like /assist? If so how?

[beastnic]

The game allows you to make macro's for things like assist you can create them under the social menu.

[Mehhem]

Many thanks, Beast!

[Findarato]

then again the macros in beta sucked, as they were just one line.

No more

/g casting CH on %t
/cast 5

[icykat2]

Hiya,
Im a non-programmery type (so dumb it REALLY down!), but have just found the macro feature, and am really excited about using it to enhance my character's identity. I like binding an in-character text quote with one of the existing socials, and then also firing off relevant combat arts using the /useability command. I have several questions regarding ways of really making this feature sing inorder to give my character..well...character

Firstly, the macro editer only allows 3 lines...quickly used up! Is there a way of entering multiple commands on a single line, or working around the 3 line limit altogether?

Also, having created a macro, can I fire it off from the command line via a one word "alias", as I can a social or ability? The problem is with the number of icons I could wind up creating...there simply aint enough space to display them or even store them all!

ANOTHER question (sorry!)...is there a way of "randomising" the text string for each usage of a macro? Eg my berserker is about to engage the enemy...I run a macro which firstly does the taunt social, with some text saying something along the lines of "come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!" then uses the anger ability....now instead of having the same phrase repeated every time I use the macro (which would quickly loose its charm!) can I have a range of phrases which are picked at random when I use this macro? At the moment I need several versions of the same macro...very unwieldy. Taking this a step further...can I randomise the social used as well (eg randomly choose from brandish/taunt/rude gesture etc)?

If anyone can help me with these, you will make me a very happy (and vocal) Zerker!

[Deathbane27]

Originally Posted by icykat2

Firstly, the macro editer only allows 3 lines...quickly used up! Is there a way of entering multiple commands on a single line, or working around the 3 line limit altogether?

Answer to this is yes. Answer to the others is no.

How to do multiple commands on one line:

Start with

"/: ; " (That's slash-colon-space-semicolon-space)

Enter each command, without the /

Between each command do space-semicolon-space again.

So...

/: ; useability Shrouded Strike ; autoattack off ; say PERISH!