My grain of salt...
<font class="small">Code:<hr /><pre>/target mob, player or npc</pre><hr />This one is most usefull when hunting something specific, like :
-A mob scarce or hard to see.
-A player, to know if he is close (be it friend or foe).
-Some npc.
Use once to target, use twice to also run to it and do default action :
-npc : talk.
-clean player : auto-follow.
-mob, flaging player or chaotic player : attack.
So beware if you use it to auto-follow a player : if he flags, goes pk or enters a combat zone, you will be hitting him instead.
This is not a macro problem, auto-follow works the same if you double-click the player in game or in party bar.
As a matter of fact, double-targetting and target+attack are exactly the same thing.
<font class="small">Code:<hr /><pre>/target player
/assist</pre><hr />Just as usefull.
-Not only check if a dangerous player is around (you have it on target shortly), but also know what he is after.
-Assist someone when not in party, or if you want to use keyboard instead of mouse.
-Steal selected mobs from bots. Set to target the bot party leader, activate when they head for the mob you want. (most bots give up on mobs targeted by someone else)
Because I need to save space on shortcut bar, it use it in 3 ways :
-Use : normal assit-target.
-Use and quickly interrupt : just target player.
-Use twice quickly : auto-follow player (but assist-targetting if he has target).
<font class="small">Code:<hr /><pre>/target priest of dawn
/attack</pre><hr />When using 7 signs teleports and the npc takes ages to appear in my client...
<font class="small">Code:<hr /><pre>Assist me on %target !</pre><hr />Handy when party did not see an add, or in PvP-hunting.
<font class="small">Code:<hr /><pre>/loc</pre><hr />When taking advantage of return zones, I spam this one to know when I change zone.
<font class="small">Code:<hr /><pre>/findprivatestore some text
/findprivatestore [ ss]</pre><hr />It colors shops whose title contain the text (not case sensitive).
I don't shop in Giran without this one, I even have severall preset.
The [] is a twist to it to include leading or trailing space. It will find "bla ssD" but not "bssD"
<font class="small">Code:<hr /><pre>/useshortcut 7 1 (weapon in this slot)
/useshortcut 7 2 (shield in this slot)
/target caught flava (your match-your-level fished mob here)
/attack (your combat/debuff/heal actions here)</pre><hr />Don't let a fished mob take you by surprise. One press and all needed is done flawlessly.
<font class="small">Code:<hr /><pre>/target player
/evaluate</pre><hr />When using relog to multi-rec someone, this makes it faster.
But there are drawbacks to macros...
Basically any player action interupts them, even switching to other program or unused keypresses.
Only Alt+FKey (bar selection) and right-mouse clic (camera move) don't.
There is a bug in macro targeting.
If you have no target window while your actions do have a target, press esc to reset targetting.
Macros chain actions after they are completed, and that means the end of coresponding character animation.
Problems :
-When chaining different skills/spells, macros wait more than needed. Skill/Spells can usually be chained faster by hand.
-When chaining the same skill/spell, macros fail by not waiting on the cooldown. /delays must be inserted.
Macros are a basic sequence. No loop, condition, status, sub call or such programming concept.
The most I could get is to use the sit/stand position or presence of target as a status that can interupt or not a macro. But I found nothing usefull with that.
(Any command that can't be done right away interupts the macro)
If a macro line is emptied, all folowing lines are lost when "Saving".
To remove only a line, use one of the following no-operations :
<font class="small">Code:<hr /><pre>/target %target (fails if no target)
(spam local chat with a space ^^)
"Yourname . (avoids spamming local chat)</pre><hr />
By the way, you can't pm target with "%target ... % requires a space before to work.