Aion 2 Macro Guide : Razer Synapse + In-Game Explained transcript

Hello guys, as the title suggest lets have a look on how macros works in aion 2 and why they are so important to be used. Before we begin, I want you to go to your settings and set Skill Queue, to, ON. While you are here you can if you want enable Pursue Targets upon skill use, and Auto target Upon skill use. both of them are very useful options. And Finally On key settings you have to bind your Macro key somewhere, I recommend one of your mouse buttons.

So, First of all, in aion 2 you can cancel certain abilities animations by using another ability with good timing. When you have successfully cancel an animation you will see a ghost image of your character performing the attack like the one you see on your screen right now. By the end of this video you will know exactly how to set up macros to do a similar rotation without pressing anything. What you are watching right now is the game playing alone.

In general, what we want to do is to add 1 basic attack in between our abilities for maximum damage and animation chancels. However,given that the combat speed of the game is insanely fast we have to utilize macros to do so. The first trick is to set the in game macro with only 1 line of abilities and 10 mili seconds delay. One button in aion 2 can have up to 4 abilities bind on it. The first ability of this row will be used first and if that ability is not available the next one in line will take priority.

Which means, usually the first ability in line will be the proc ability that we want to use as soon as it becomes available, then the abilities with the biggest cooldown and finally the ability that is always available. So everything else takes priority and when nothing else is available, we cast our filler attack. So, I only add judgement here on my macro, but when judgment is not available the next skills above it will be used instead.

So basically, you bind the key not the ability. Now a reasonable question would be, why set it on macro if it is just 1 ability? Can’t I just hold that 1 button? The answer is no. The trick is in the 10ms delay. With macro, we may hold the key, but game understands that we are rapidly hitting the skill once every 10 mili seconds. While without macro It things that we are holding it. So we can hold basic attack with left mouse button and we also hold the Macro key.

Basic attack will continuously be used but it will be interrupted from the macro, because manually pressed keys interrupt continuous holding attacks. Like I said that 10ms delay make the game think we just press the button and we are not holding it. And this is how you weave basic attacks in between your abilities nice and easy. So we are done with the first step, with just this you can hold 2 buttons and execute most of your rotation, while animation canceling some of your abilities.

Then you can manually press some of your other skills as well. Of course if you want you can add another button to the sequence, depending on the macro you wanna create or the one that you are currently following from another player. Now let’s take it a step forward and make it so that this whole rotation will be used automatically without having to hold these buttons all the time. Sooner or later you might feel that holding 2 buttons all the time can be tiring so you can set an external software to hold them down for you.

A quick disclaimer, it is illegal to use external macros but everyone seems to be using them, so the policy is not that strict. That of course doesn’t mean that there is no chance for you to be banned. So, to automate our rotation. we will need an external macro Software like Razer Synapse. I am having a razer mouse, but even if you are having a different brand, watching this video will help you, because you will understand how it works, and then you can figure out how to set your own software the same way.

So,Open Synapse and download the Macro addon from Synapse Modules. Go in and press the cross to add a new macro. Then On the next tab you will see,record. What I want you to do is hit record and Press the buttons the same way that you would have pressed them if you were playing. The macro keys will look extremely weird. But It is crusial to leave them as it is and not delete anything. If you are sure you pressed them correctly, they will work correctly no matter what it says here.

IF you delete a key however you are risking going into an infinite loop and bug the whole system. So Just press Record, press the buttons as if you are doing the rotation once and stop. Before we move on, let me show you another trick. Many players will bind the abilities that they want to use in a macro to keys like F9 and F10 as well. For example, The macro button will also be on F9 and the Basic attack will also be at f10.

So later, when they record the macro sequence they just hold F9 and F10 at the same time or whatever other button they want to add. Now for the last step, you have to set a key that will execute this macro. Go to key binds on the next tab, and here select a button that you will use ONLY for the razer macro. It is important that this button that you will set here, will have absolutely no other use than this. Personally I use the Scroll click. lastly on playback option you set it to toggle continuous playback.

As you may have figure out, now you can press Your macro key once, and it will loop until you press it again. And that’s pretty much all you have to know about macros, I hope that I’ve cleared the image for you guys, If you understand how macros are working, you will able to set them up in any way you like, and you will also be able to recognize, the macro another player is using. just by looking at his hotkey bar. As always thank you all for watching, have fun playing and see you on the next one!