100% behind at least learning the extended macros. They work almost exactly like the in-game macros, if you had infinite lines. No more 6line BS holding you back. You just open up wordpad, and write in the gear you want swapped, and any JAs you want just like a normal macro. You just have to do a tiny tweak on the text. You can put in /waits and anything else you do in a macro. But you can change every piece of gear at once. Its a game changer.
I played on PS2 for some 4+ years before i moved to PC and know all about the limitations of the in-game system, and the improvement you gain by just having ONE macro for a WS to change all your gear at once.
I remember the day I finally decided to install windower. It was when I, as a thf, had so many gear swapping macros I had keep removing WS from my macro pallet. 1st Mandalic stab left. Then evisceration. Then sharkbite and the only WS i had space for was DE. That was when I said enough is enough! I had 4 functional WS, but due to having 2 macros for SA to change 11 pieces of gear, 2 for TA, 2 for TP gear. 1 more for acc adendum to TP, feint, AC, /RA, 2x for Eva gear, 2x for ONE WS, Speed boots/TH macro, Aura steal, flee, Utsu ichi, utsu Ni, etc etc etc it was HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE.
I just got so bogged down hitting so many buttons and finally ran out of space to have all the important stuff easily accessable. So I installed windower the day i had to remove shark bite.
Best. Decision. Ever. In the last 8 years ive played this game.
I went a long time without diving into spellcast. Only started that about 6 mo ago, but endless lines of macro are absolutely, astonishingly awesome, and have a very, very low learning curve. It is just normal macros with a minor change in wording in a wordpad file. Then in your in-game macro, you put the name of that file. The end.
Example:
File:
Name-Drakesbane.txt
*gear change stuffz(head/leg/neck/blah blah blah)
*WS drakes commandz!
In game macro:
Drakesbane.txt
Hit macro:
All gear changes to WS gear and Drakes triggers.
You:
:D