Macro magery in relative safety at a local bank!
(edit: im going to upload one for each spell, flamestrike needed drastic tweaking :/)

I've uploaded razor macros.
One is for a dedicated healer. download
One for your mage. download *configured for Energy Bolt*

You will never need to touch the healer macro, fire and forget.
You will have to edit the mage's macro when you change spells.
Noobie-formatted information follows. Feel free to skip it over but it is there for possible problems/questions.

CASTING RANGES:
* 50-65, Lightning:
Cost= 11 Mana
Delay= 2s
Regs= MR,SA ~1200

* 65-85, Energy Bolt:
Cost= 20 Mana
Delay= 3s
Regs= BP,NS ~3000

* 85-100, Flamestrike
Cost= 40 Mana
Delay= 3.5s
Regs= SA,SS ~6000 and counting


SET UP YOUR RESTOCKING AGENTS:
Keep your bankbox open!
Yes, it's important that you use the same Restock-# as I do in both clients.

The healer client's agent should look like this:


The mage client should look like this (set up for Energy Bolt):



LIGHTNING -> EBOLT -> FSTRIKE
You will have to edit the script every time you change spells.
I have spellbook icons for doing this, you may use hotkeys or whatever you want though.

Edit the line If Mana <= 19 to whatever Cost-1 is for your spell first. Then...


Record yourself casting the next spell. Stop recording.
Delete the extra "WaitForTarget" that gets inserted after the CastSpell line you want.
Delete the old CastSpell line.


Change this pause to your spell's Delay + .5
Increase more if necessary.
Very important.


kthxaids

Don't forget to add in meditation and/or evaluate intelligence if you also need to raise those skills up. On my macro, after the spell cast I have useskill meditation followed by waitfor mana >= 20, followed by waitfor health >=30.

This loops in the use meditation skill each time (if the skill use refresh is up of course), and then the macro will pause and wait for your mana to gain. After this the macro will pause until your health is high enough so that you don't kill yourself on the next cast (set this threshold according to what spell you are using). This way, in case your healer runs out of bandages, gets bumped offline, or their macro gets fubared - whatever - you won't kill yourself.

I was considering making more use of the meditation etc, Wrath, but this macro is designed for stability over long, long, long LONG durations.

In this macro,
Health checks keep you from casting yourself to death.
Casting in bursts saves you a ****ing ton on bandages.
Hard pauses ensure no hiccups to get you dead or waste your regs.
Having your own dedicated healer means you don't have to rely on someone else.

With all of these factors in place you may not gain that juicy extra .2 meditation, or extra .3 evalint, but you will get 2-3x as much gain out of your time and money, and stand to lose nothing.


p.s. im a douchebag

Does it take any skill to create bandages? Will I also need a tailor character for example, if I wanted to buy the thread and so on?

Originally Posted by Wrathchild

Does it take any skill to create bandages? Will I also need a tailor character for example, if I wanted to buy the thread and so on?

No, and the delay on the loom is pretty forgiving at 330ms or so it only takes a few moments to make your econo-bolts.

You don't need to have a delay while using the loom

This is a good macro, I am a healer mage so I tweaked it abit to suit my needs and it is not as efficient as having a dedicated healer but it still works

Originally Posted by bigcheezit

You don't need to have a delay while using the loom

if you don't mind being spammed with 'you must wait to perform another action', you don't need to have a delay doing most anything.