The Second Great Razer Giveaway: $1500 worth of Razer hardware up for grabs!
By Tim Colwill on October 29, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Our last Great Razer Giveaway was so successful that Razer would like to do it all over again! This time around, we’ve got five Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Mechanical Keyboards as well as five Razer Naga MMO Mice to give away.
Aww, yes. How do I win?
Astute question! All you need to do to enter is, in 150 words or less, describe your favourite macro setup that you use in games. It can be a quickcast for your favourite MMO, a call-for-uber and weapon-switch for Team Fortress 2, or maybe just spraying out obnoxious voice commands over and over across the server. You awful person, you.
If you don’t have any macros set up, never fear! You can also describe what your ideal macro setup would be for your game if you had one — and maybe you’ll get the chance to make it all come true when you win yourself some of these excellent pieces of gaming hardware.
The five top entries, as chosen by our judges, will each walk away with a prize pack containing a BlackWidow mechanical keyboard and Naga mouse.
How long do I have?
The competition closes at 11:59PM (Adelaide time) on Sunday November 11. Winners will be chosen and announced the next day.
What else do I need to know?
Entries are governed by the Terms and Conditions listed on this page. Best of luck!
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I have/had a cupcake macro on my mage, left to eat, right to summon, also had a macro to yell ‘conjures anvil’ at people
Well, for starcraft 2, I tried to set up macros on my old Logitech G15, to let me do things like automate larvae injects as zerg (by going though the hotkeys for each queen, and the screen hotkey for its base, and automating the button press and click for the spell). but the hardware just wasn’t up to the task. perhaps razer products can do better? Maybe if the macro keys were in thumbs reach on my mouse? A logical extention of this would be to allow the macro a pause and alarm (or beep) function to alert me when my larvae pop off the hatch (based on the time from the inject) so i know i need to use the macro again. Now that would be ideal!
My two favourite macros were simple.
Both wow related, my first was a portal in which I merely said in local “Opening portal to Dalaran …” It was of course a Stonard port. Most of my friends knew not to take the portal, but those poor fools in pug raid groups had no idea.
My second was a mood setter.
All it did was an emote “/me rubs %t’s nipples. It was Super Effective!”
which of course made it look like I was rubbing my targets nipples. I think Kel Thuzad liked it most.
When I play Pyro on TF2, if I’m holding down W, then the flamethrower’s on. It’s the only way to play.
Wow Macro, The only programmable button on my mouse at the time.
Ran a script to cycle through my best DPS set, which would detect when buffs are live and cast the relative beneficial spells on the next loop.
Total script ran through 3 times to maximise mage arcane buff, then hit hard with buffed Arcane Blast. I could almost sleep in boss fights (If I didn’t need to move, I pressed the “2” key once every min or so.).
My other KB macro, Would turn toon 180 degree’s, cast blink, turn back again, target aggro, then pop instant cast buff, cast sheep, followed by DPS set including a Nova to slow enemy (which could be interrupted of course). Served me well in PVP.
My last macro was for escape purposes, cast Blink, pop instant cast buff, go invisible. (Update to tree later negated the need for instant cast buff).
Most useful macro I ever did (given that it was done via the macro interface in wow but still bound to my G10 key!) was the tricks of the trade macro. I miss the days when you would get revenge on an annoying guild member during a raid. Basically all it did was pop tricks of the trade onto a party member then start killing spree.
An example: A friend (another rogue) and I were in Ulduar with our guild and there was a paladin being cocky by running into trash with his bubble up before the group was entirely ready so we waited until his bubble was down and tricked him then popped killing spree on a mob. He died a few seconds later :D
I don’t really use macro’s at the moment, my old Logitech MX518 mouse was designed in an era when all a mouse really needed was a “back” and “forward” thumb button, the sensitivity buttons and the scrool wheel? WHAT LUXURIES. I do sometimes wonder while playing my more button intensive games what it would be like to cast that one spell without having to move my hand off my mouse or execute a complex alt-5 command, moving my thumb away from my space bar which is ever so important for jumping constantly!
Some people say that a large part of being better at a game is superior button management, I don’t know, maybe if I won a Razer Mouse and Keyboard combo I could put the theory to a test.
I have three macro’s set up, one I hit and it records sound (M1) and the other I hit and it plays said recorded sound (M2). So if someone is saying ‘F**king zombies!* I record that (M1), then hit my own macro (M3) which says “Your mum… ( -M2- ) f**king zombies!”
Endless hilarity!
My macro’d auto run for DayZ. When having to cross the vast regions zombieless countryside to reach the other end of the map, there is nothing more painful than having to sit there and watch the entire ordeal. With macro’d auto run I can leave my character to do what he does best, and that is run, allowing me to do something not nearly as boring! The only dangers I face are running over rocks, into trees, or getting shot, but these I risk for not having to spend half an hour glued to my screen while my character runs his heart out.
The best Macro I ever created was to simply enter my email address and my default password.
I made alternations where I used different passwords etc.
Online form: 0. Pix: 1 n.n
Macro’s you say ..
My Shadow Priest One Button Does All Monster.
/cast [mod:ctrl,@mouseover,nodead]Mind Sear;[mod:shift,@mouseover,help,nodead]Renew;[@mouseover,help,nodead]Power Word: Shield;[mod:shift,@mouseover,harm,nodead]Silence;[@mouseover,harm,nodead]Shadow Word: Pain;[mod:shift]Dispersion;Prayer of Mending
If holding control down, mouseover a living enemy, cast Mind Sear
If holding shift down, mouseover a living friend, cast Renew
If holding shift down, mouseover a living enemy, cast Silence
If holding sift down, no mouseover, cast Dispersion on self
If mouseover a living friend, cast Power Word Shield
If mouseover a living enemy, cast Shadow Word Pain
If no mouseover, cast Prayer of Mending
It *just* fits into the maximum number of characters allowed for a Macro, and this handles maybe 80% of PvP needs in battlegrounds.
While not a competition winner the only truly useful bind would have to be “say “@If you continue to mic spam you will be banned”"
My best macros were a collection of one push log in buttons.
Launch game -> User Name -> Next Field ->Password -> Log in.
Mine isn’t really a macro in a game, rather a macro in Microsoft Excel that turned it into a game. I wrote a macro in VBA that turned the spreadsheet into a game very similar to the snake games you get on the older mobile phones, ie move around collecting numbers, growing longer and trying not to collide with yourself, etc. The trickiest part was fiddling around with ActiveX commands so I could do real time keyboard input, and then getting it to work lag free. The end result was rather impressive though. I did this while I was “volunteering” at a Work for the Dole project several years ago. Your tax dollars at work folks! :)
Yeah this one’s probably stretching the rules. I don’t do much macro stuff in games, or anything worth getting excited about…
The only macros I used were back in the old Counter-Strike beta days for buying weapons, ammo and nades. Had a Logitech G15 keyboard for 4+ years and never once used any of the macro keys on it
I have wowed all my friends that visit, with my macros. I have a microsoft Sidewinder X4 keyboard, with up to 18 macro-able keys, however I only use 6 off them.
S1 = Auto-Run for Dayz
S2 = Open gear fo- wait. I’m pretty thirsty. Let me just use macro n3.
S3 = Send command prompt “Hey mum, you look beautiful today. Also, would you mind bringing me up a drink?” With windows message service. Depends on what mood she’s in, but sometimes I get lucky and get an ‘on-service’ chilled soda while playing my game.
The rest are irrelevant, becuase S3 is by far my most favorite macro key.
Complicated macros aren’t always the best.
My favorite? A very simple combination on the very best map in the original Halo: CE, Bloodgulch.
All that is needed is a shotgun and a simple hit of the F key and they get a blast to the chest followed up with an instantaneous fist to the face.
You didn’t really want to take the flag anyway, did you?
I changed my middle mouse button for TF2 to melee, best thing in the world, press Q to change between Primary and Secondary, while middle mouse is for cracking some skulls :)
The best macros are those that make some things rigged. My absolute favourite is the rapid fire macro where holding down the key causes an input of rapidly repeated left or right clicks making semi-automatic weapons fire automatically. Delicious carnage.
A little macro for DotA and Dota 2 for Tiny’s avalanche and toss combo would be great too. Meepo’s blink and poof combo is definitely viable too considering how hard it is to pull off when your damned connection in Dota 2 has a 250ms ping delay on US West.
Other serious macros aren’t really my thing since I feel it hurts the vanilla and intended competitiveness of most given games.
Although not necessarily macros, it would be nice to have a less confusing bind setup so that I could play Borderlands with a better FoV and other nonesense caused from poor PC porting and when I decide to stop playing for a while I don’t suddenly forget which key it was that gave me a decent FoV.
For fun macros definitely go to micspams. Soundboards for Duke Nukem, Samuel L Jackson sound tempting as hell. Other micspams include Erectin’ a River and Now you fucked up Onii-Chan.
Probably the most useful use for these macros are for Moonbase alpha for the purpose of actually being able to use ingame commands to sing songs, but with these macros I won’t have to alt tab my way out and copy paste the next segment of the song. Many lulz are to be had with macros.
There is this stinking, obnoxious jumping puzzle in a mission in The Secret World. The reward is countered by the intense frustration of having to perform around 30 perfect forward jumps. Just one slip of a finger and you’re back to square one.
W
0.04s delay
Space
0.026s delay
release Space
release W
Seeing that frustrating jumping puzzle resolve into a series of mechanically perfect precise leaps was in itself worth the price of this keyboard.
In Guild Wars 2 I programmed a series of about 25 attacks into a macro, which would kill a mob with a single buttonpress. Then I gave my account to a friend about an hour later.
0.26s delay, I meant. And I would still prefer a Blackwidow to this!
My greatest macro was for WOW on any expansion release week. All it did
Was stand idle for 10mins
turn 180 run 2 seconds
stand idle 5mins
turn 180 run 2 seconds
Done in the AH in Orgrimmar let me afk while looking busy, without being kicked and wait 3hrs again
Questionable yes, useful HELL YES
Done on a cyber sniper (now dead killed the left mouse button) with time delays
Favourite macro ever was one i set up for WoW
Playing as a mage, during a first boss of blackwing decent, Raid Leader calls out TIME WARP
Hit the key and all raid members proceed to have their eardrums assaulted by rocky horror Time Warp chorus on 400x volume over vent.
hilarity ensues.
needless to say first attempt was a wipe. Good times.
I want a device so I can create a macro for Mechwarrior Online stating where the enemy forces are coming from, so I can say 50% left, 50% tunnel etc, will need lots of buttons but at least it saves time typing so I can scout more!
my best macro for WoW was:
/backpack
/map
/lost
/cry
*Sharpii digs through her backpack. Pulls out her map. Sharpii is hopelessly lost. Sharpii cries*
so adorable on a widdle cute gnome :D
My ideal macro includes wait timers, x/y location clicks and making money from Diablo 3 without getting banned
The only macros I use are in Minecraft for placing and destroying blocks. (Press Left / Right Click 10 Times) I currently lack the keys to use more macro keys, I’d like to have it send some tedious messages commands, change gamemode, change time, say Hey (and other greetings), play / pause my music and videos.
Nothing really spectacular, but just a few things to save me time.
my game macro is for mine craft server commands so much quicker
but out of games got my email saved to a marco so handy
1. Primary Nexus
2. Warp Gates
3. Forge(s)
4. Secondary Nexus
ALL SET FOR A ZEALOT RUSH – Starcraft II
BF3 MACRO
In the mayhem that is Battlefield 3′s Metro map where re-spawning is a mere nano second away, the ‘Ticket hall’ is usually where all the fury of virtual urban warfare reaches its peak. Rushing through a hail of explosions, and gunfire, packing my trusty M60 GPMG I sprint into the fog of war created by a smoke grenade, towards the flag at the top of the escalators and hit my best macro just as I emerge from the cloud and it’s becoming clear
/prone
/Deploy bipod
/Iron sight
/10 second burst
Instantly I go to ground into a prone firing position with my scope up and bipod out, hosing down any would be hero’s, piling up the frags until I get taken out by the all too familiar M320 nade round…………it’s such a rush……….
All at the press of one button!
Macros Rule!
My Favorite current MMO is Secret World doesn’t have macros in game though, if there was going to be macro setup would be this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk3JN40R9Jw&feature=youtu.be
The amount of macros people could come up with would be epicly funny, combine that with /jazzhands infront of boss before i get oneshot would make funny clip.
Rocketjump macro for Quake 3 , Best macro ever…..
This is old school, but back on my Logitech G15 (the original G15!) in Dota 1 I created G-key setups for certain heroes. My most elaborate was with Meepo, a hero in which you had 4 versions to control at any one time (and if one died, they all died).
I bound G1-4 to each version; and double tapping one of these would centre the map on that version. G5 was quick-cycle, and G6 was bound to ‘Attack’.
G7-9 were bound to spells, and G10-12 the item spells as needed (I would adjust these 3 on the fly).
As Dota1 hotkeys were all over the shop, this was one of the few instances where your hardware DID give you an advantage over the competition! It made for a frantic first minute as I set everything up, but once you got the hang of it, it was worth it.
I’d like to be able to make multiple macros for any car game I own that features a horn, with each macro playing a different tune with the horn while I accelerate.
Might allow me to actually concentrate on racing then.
i would macro/bind my 6 to 0 keys in mmos such as guild wars , a real pain to reach over to those keys sometimes.
I’m just sitting here mouth watering thinking of the Invoker-invoked rage from my friends as they wonder how I got so damn good with my 3 friends Quas, Wex, and Exort. ;)
Ideal macro:
BF3
Switch weapon to knife
‘Fire’ Knife
so the switch and stab happens in one key stroke rather then fumbling for the knife and getting stabbed and/or shot before you can knife the guy in the back.
If i had a keyboard with macro keys in Chivalry Medieval Warfare i would bind:
Z – 4 – 4
Z brings up the voice commands menu, 4 for personal messages and 4 again for the Laugh option.
Because I’m the kind of guy that charges into battle laughing maniacally while taking heads and various other limbs with whatever weapon i have be it sharp or blunt.
Well I’d have to choose Counter Strike series for my macros.
1. Deagle + Armour, 2 flash and nade.
2. Ak/M4 + Armour, Deagle, 2 flash and nade.
3. AWP + Armour, Deagle, 2 flash and nade.
It’s a massive hassle to press b-1-5 etc etc.
Also with League of Legends, macroing laugh is hilarious
i remember back in year 7 (that was… like 13 years ago? jesus! anyway) we used to play quake world team fortress. man that was fun. me and some other guys came up with some custom macros but my favourite was staggered zoom. not 100% sure if zoom was on the game or not, my mind is weary, but we came up with something so we could use the sniper to its fullest.
I would make one so i can Do combos easily with 1 button.
My favorite macro set up was from WoW A couple years back now.
In the ICC raid there were hidden traps that only rogues could see, so it was my job to scout ahead for them and let the raid know that they are there
my macro was;
/y TAKE EVASIVE ACTION! ITS A TRAP!!!
and I would spam this via chat so everyone knew it was safe.
I’d say my role was successful when I myself didn’t trigger said trap…
Before there was useful mods for minecraft that simplified the process, I had a variety of macros that I could use to give myself stacks of a variety of blocks.
One for lava, one for water, one for cobblestone, and so on, made it handy when we were just fooling around to easily give myself what I regularly used!
My sentry-jumping macro in TF2 is by far my favorite. Sure, you can do it manually, but it can be incredibly fiddly with the timing, so a macro really helps.
There is nothing like blasting yourself across the map, sentry in hand, so you can set up a literal “nest” somewhere unexpected. A little Z4 (Gotta move that gear up!) helps too.
Anti-wife rage macro:
Alt tab out of game (Civilization), hide game on task-bar, opens MS Excel, opens Excel spreadsheet with family budget
It’s based on a simple principle: no wife complains if her man does the tax return :D
using a pencil, a thumbtack and my wallet weighed down with coins in order to hold down the “move forward” key while swimming against a rock in oblivion so that i could increase my damn athletics skill while making lunch/having a shower/whatever.
Well as League of Legends is the only thing my computer can run now days. My favorite set up would have to be mid mia top mia bot mia and the good ol G spam in all chat. Got my honorable badge pretty quickly.
Ah, memories.
Gather ’round the campfire, youngins. For I have a story to tell;
Back in the days of single core processors and dial-up internet, I used to play a MUD. For those that don’t know, a MUD is like a modern MMORPG only everything is in text and the pretty pictures are all in your head.
My favourite macro was for a Monk character I had that would perform a sweepkick on an enemy to knock him prone and then follow up with a backbreaker attack to issue heavy damage or an instant-kill, all in the gory details that only the written word can provide.
Ah, those were the days.
Those bright, sunny days.
Now, where did I leave my dentures?
Back in the early days of WotLK in WoW, me and two other mates rolled a Pally each. Not only would we shout out “HAMMARRRR!” over ventrilo like the dwarvern imbeciles we were, we also shared the same macro that would /y out “HAMMARRR!” in chat, and cast Hammer of Justice on our poor unsuspecting foe.
We were a boon to our team’s fight, and a bane to their chat panel ^.^
My Fabulous “Finish Him” macro.
Combined with an audio player, virtual cable, game bind and key bind, this bind plays over mic the Mortal Kombat “Finish him!”, says “Finish Him!” in chat, and clicks the left mouse button.
Bound to an extra mouse button.
Enemy on low health? Tap side mouse button, “Finish him!”, dead enemy.
Hilarity ensured, a great way to finish an enemy :)
Since i have no extra keys to macro, i have to rearrange alot of my kes on teh key board mostly by using the right number pad :P. Guild wars 2 is useful because i find it hard to use the attunement changing keys with my elementalist i changed it to a awkward setup on the keyboard. attunements scattered all over the keyboard.
Also dayz, i have trouble flying helicopters i have too use the weird arrangement of [Q] to fly up and [Z] to go down(kind of like the jet thrusters on/off. i also macro “are you friendly, if you are hostile you will be lit up!” when i typed /friend?. Both keyboard and mouse will help benefit my friends and I as i use a cheap ordinary dell mouse and a cheap 15 dollar keyboard from ‘BIGW’.
P.S. I’m not that rich right now, i need this ._.
I made a macro giving instruction on how to report hackers on MW3. It did a quick tute for those who didn’t know how…. didn’t seem to achieve much! My favorite macro is on my mouse. It knifes which is handy when you turn a corner and see someone you didn’t expect.
So back in the day when I was all for pushing 25 and 40 man content in Warcraft, I played a Tauren shaman. I was in charge of nothing, except when the time came – as it does in every fight – to push the button. So important was this button, that it was never bound to a key.
This rather large, oversized button was simply labelled ‘Sparta’. It went very simply:
/cast Bloodlust
/yell BLOODLUST!
/raid BLOODLUST!
/say BLOODLUST!
Needless to say the effects were quite impressive, and many a boss was downed following a successful depression of said button.
To this day I am yet to find a better button to press, you know, when the time comes.
I would make a macro for use in gw2. I would set it to apply a speed boost and then run forward and jump. I have such troubles with just running straight and trying to do the jumping puzzles!!
Oh good old keyboard macros, I remember in the days of Runescape trying to sell goods at any of the various member banks I had macros set up for each of the items I was trying to sell. Sit and wait, for more gold.
More recently though I’ve used macros in WoW, calling ability uses (especially support) are important and for using all the buffs you have.
I’ve also seen a few macros for SC2 regarding instant injects for Queens. I don’t know if Blizzard condones them but NesTea always says that perfect inject timings are what gives him an edge, anything to be like NesTea!
WoW macro, when Death Knights first appeared and were so over powered, and with a Mortal Kombat flavor ;)
/cast Death Grip
/e Get o’er here!
/hug
My current favourite macro in WoW is thus:
/use The Horseman’s Horrific Hood
/use potion of mogu power
/cast Avatar
/cast Skull Banner
/cast Berserker Rage
/cast Dragon Roar
It’s a DPS macro for my warrior which uses all of my big damage cooldown’s. The Horseman’s Horrific Hood causes my character to laugh maniacally when doing so, which is amusing for myself, and whoever I happened to be grouped with at the time.
Mine is seriously ancient – in Quake I, a great macro was to bind a single key/button to switch to rocket launcher, fire a single rocket, and then switch back to the previous weapon.
This allowed you to run around with your weapon of choice without missing out on all that Quake rocket goodness.
Well I can remember playing hours of Quake via my mighty 33.6 modem in the late 90s… Man, I’m old.
My most enjoyable macro was a combo for WOW, this macro is specific to warrior class. It a combo which changes the icon of the wow bars. the combo is SLAM, icon changes to Mortal strike, then changes again back to SLAM. this is one button, i am pressing the whole time. The good part is with a Swing timer in WOW. The combo often starts with charge, get a free auto attack after charging, Slam attack which reset my swing timer, then use mortal strike to land another hit, in mean time another auto attack will proc, since mortal strike doesnt reset the swing timer. After auto attack from mortal strike , time it properly and get in s SLAM attack and reset. This combo is 5 attacks in short time frame and does great burst. One combo a few opponents in WOW pvp =)
The game I like to play is called “avoid getting caught slacking off at work”.
The macro I use bookmarks the non-work website I am currently enjoying, closes the browser, disables a proxy I use to get around my work’s firewall, and then maximises the latest file that I should actually be working on. A second macro does the opposite – minimises my work, restarts the proxy connection and then opens the page I was viewing, it also deletes the bookmark afterwards to keep things nice and tidy. It’s great for the morning and afternoon reviews where the boss likes to sit behind me and make a few suggestions.*
*Not actually true. I’m really a very hard worker and I would never slack off on the job. :)
eggheart,
** Okay, perhaps it is a little bit true, considering I’m entering this competition during work hours.
I always loved this one on my warrior:
/y BLADES OF LIGHT!
/s BLADES OF LIGHT!
/Cast Bladestorm
/script PlaySoundFile(“Sound\\\\Creature\\\\Herod\\\\HerodWhirlwind01.wav”)
(Actually plays the Blades of light voice file… pretty epic :D)
On the country i live a awesome mouse like this worth 80% of my monthly salary so i use a 1$ mouse instead( cursing politicians as i type). I would love having a smart mouse like “Razer Naga”, it would help me on my Guild Wars 2. I would key-bound the 5 to 0 keys, that would greatly improve my PvP efficiency… I hope i get a X-Mass bonus at work and maybe get a Naga, is on my ” Dream to Have” list for a way too long time.
my favourite macro is for skyrim, using the console to toggle between my favourite bow and mace at the touch of a button.
I’ve got a nice handy one for TF2 that I use for the pyro, which quick-switches to the melee weapon, makes an attack and goes back to the previous-equipped weapon. For use with the Axetinguisher, obviously.
What I WOULD do (if i had the chance with my piece of crap equipment) would be in Dishonored. It would be a Blink, Stab, 180 degree turn, Blink. So essentially blink in stab blink out.
I currently have a Thermaltake Challenger Pro keyboard and with this i use heaps of macros for a lot of my games, probably because I have too many games. lol
These are but a few of my games i use macros on, and one thing i like them for is to remind me what options i have actually setup to make the gameplay easier…
Mech Commander 4
Descent 3
Duke Nukem forever
Quake 4
Doom3
Diablo 3
Need for speed
Must admit though that many of the profiles I downloaded.
Have had bad experiences and countless issues, eg. mouse and keyboard lagging, with razer products and not to mention customer support are clueless and I vowed to never purchase one again but if i win and it actually works might change my mind. but best macro would be for ultima online to quick cast several offensive spells such as fireball, iceball, paralyze, poision then healing spells on self become a machine tank so by the time he has cast cure posion before he can cast any other spell and second spell would be heal but by then it will be too late!
My favourite macro is in TF2. It is possible to modify a server so that it allows multiple engineer buildings. You can bind build a sentry to a key (it doesn’t work through the GUI) and build extra sentries. For bonus points use the remote control and all of the turrets follow you
my world of tanks macro because i got sick of typing it 100 time a match
enter Stop Camping You Useless Piece Of Trash Heavy Tank And Do Your Job enter
Got to say, my favourites would be my macro set for Magicka. Playing a game like that really needs a quick button press to set up some awesome spell combos! Spawning up a elemental resistant shield has saved me so many times, and instantly reviving team mates.
and of course, love having alt tab and all my little time savers on the side just for that few seconds.
I’ve never really had a mouse/keyboard capable of running macros so I’ll have to be creative.
Given the amount of buttons on the side of that mouse and my lack of culinary repertoire: I could make a macro to inform anyone in the house of the status of dinner with any possible dish I am preparing!
“Dinner: is almost ready~!”
Actually looking at all those buttons on the keyboard too I could probably give 10, 5 and 2 minute warnings as well.
Ugh there was supposed be “Green Eggs and Ham” in brackets up there after “Dinner:”, but apparently they get removed. :( Edit button.
There is only two macro keys I use, G17 (lets my wife know when I want another beer) and G18 (my wife then comes in and cleans my ball on the mouse), other than that, I am happy, but willing to add more macros when I can damn well work them out!
I set this up on my wives G15 for when she plays Lord of the rings MMO
/F1 I’m female
/F2 I’m in my .. erm .. 30′s
/F3 YES I’M A GIRL!
/F4 Well some girls do ….
/F5 No i’m married
May have made SOME of this up …..
I use macros for usernames and passwords.
Different macros for different sites, but it means that I don’t have to type my email addresses or user names every time I visit a site.
senbon44,
That’s gold.
Being an Admin of a booming Minecraft server ive found bining a heap of commands to my G keys on my keyboard helps
Things from “Welcome to the server”
all the way to Ban/kick macros!
Cant go wrong with Macros =D
My favourite macro is ALT+F4. It’s really useful in games where I have seemingly one armed blind people as team mates.
I was never much of a macro person until I started playing magicka. Then they became invaluable for casting some of the longer, more involved spells. I’d love to try it with more buttons. I could be unstoppable. I could… Dare I say it… Actually finish the game.
I am an avoid mmo/WoW player. I use the (now extremely worn) macro keys to perfect my DPS rotation.
E.g.
G3 = (in order of availability/Cooldown) Frost Strike, Howling Blast, Horn of Winter.
G4 = Frost Strike, Obliterate, Horn of Winter
G5 = Soul Reaper, Frost Strike, Horn of Winter
Using these three keys I can nearly complete my full priority system with pinpoint accuracy depending on procs etc. Couldn’t play as well without them (guess which class I play haha).
Furthermore I have also macro’d my log-in password to G2 making things ultra efficient for me. Love my gaming.
I like naga very much and as a League of Legends player i like those side buttons so as to smartcast those spells/skills/items etc. I really need it. I could buy it, but in the right moment I don’t get enough money from my parents.
As an avid BF fan/player/Admin for GON for the last 6 years i would love a macro mouse so i could bind my Defibs and Health packs to the mouse instead of waisting valuable time pressing 1,2,3,4 or 5 on my keyboard switching between my primary weapons and loadouts, Then i could get back into the top 40 in the world for my Aek971 kills currently 42nd :( damn i have alot of hard work ahead of me
http://bf3stats.com/leaderboard/pc_wep.arAEK#start_0_BiGGGGRED_AEK971
What i do in world of warcraft is my macro for tame beast,
Whenever i decided to get a new pet for my little jolly self i hit this oh so little button and it starts to tame, but at the same time it says…. LOVE ME BEAST, WHY WONT YOU LOVE ME!!! =[
That is my macro.
I’ve programmed my dog with a Sit macro. I say “Sit”, and she sits. Unfortunately, it only works sometimes, so I need to do some debugging. I’ll have to get a flea collar.
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If I were to create my very own macro, it would take the role of: spawning on “2fort” in Team Fortress 2 and dynamically programming the player to deftly navigate — as a sniper — through to the battlements. Upon reaching the balcony from either side, a unique combination of algorithms will predict and target all necessary paths on the enemy’s ledge; it will then proceed to firing accurately at absolutely nothing and hitting the wall in an unnecessary and unconstructive manner.
This macro will essentially allow me to precisely imitate the actions of the majority of free-to-play snipers. Once perfected, I’ll consider sending it to Valve’s headquarters so that they can add it to the bots in offline training mode. It shall be dubbed as, “The Mediocre Sniper Macro”.
My favorite macro in the MMO The Secret World?
/punkstance
/say Sup.
My character’s name is Brometheus, and I roll with the guild Broblivion. So, you know, I try to stay in character.
My macro setups are generally for fps,
I use macro 1 for voice chat, macro 2 for weapon swap macro 3 for suicide
(I’m a troll in Gmod TTT, getting people killed) macro 4 for my buy screen and my last macro is for my teamspeak push to talk button.
If I had more macros I would be able to expand my smooth play abilities in CSS and Gmod, aswell as my Arma 2 play abilities. At the moment my keyboard is also very slimy, grimy and terrible for grip, so hopefully with that bad boy I can have a nice looking and feeling set up.
When I played WoW:
/dance and /rude as a Gnome! They were especially useful during Boss fights! :)
Favourite macro is in Star Wars Jedi Knight 2/Academy – “thereisnospoon”. Matrix fun all day every day!
I have Macros setup on my old Blackwidow keyboard for Minecraft and Team Fortress 2.
My Minecraft Macros are used for specific building speeds, item selection and in some instances, spamming bottles O’ Enchanting at Giblet.
My TF2 macro’s are setup for quick switching my loadouts as I play Pyro competitively in UGC Highlander, and at times require me to swap quickly.
Then some are for silly things, such as changing my Heavy into a Tutu-wearing (overweight) ballerina and Exploding taunts on unsuspecting players >:3
I’d macro the “Thank You” communication for Battlefield 3.
Everytime someone heals me, I end up wasting a precious half of a second thanking them.
With this macro, I could show common courtesy without making myself an easy target!
I would use my macro keys in TF2 to:
Taunt kill.
Disguise then equip sapper.
Quickly swap my spy weapons.
( I play spy)
Voice chat.
In Minecraft:
Light TNT and run.
Leave and join another server.
Relog into a server.
I would create a macro for Guild Wars to hit the keys 1 through 5 for the Ritualist’s Spirit Spammer build. The seconds between each macro keystroke would have to be set to match each skill cast time.
As an avid Fps player and fan of the BF series i would love a new setup, at the moment i have a sidewinder X4 ( the only gaming keyboard i have ever had :( )and use all the macros for teamwork, S1 is defib, S2 is medic pack, S3 is ammo pack and S4 is bail from a vehicle :), however they are so far away from my hand that they never really work out :( and im stuck trying to defib somone while being attacked from all sides. A better key board would help out so much, as i would actually be able to help the team out instead of dying so much. as for the mouse, well it slides all over the place and the cursor goes on a walk around the screen :(, leaving me open for attack, its nearly impossible to aim with the damn thing.
Cheers guys
HaM551
As an avid Fps player and fan of the BF series i would love a new setup, at the moment i have a sidewinder X4 ( only gaming keyboard i have ever had :( )and use all the macros for teamwork, S1 is defib, S2 is medic pack, S3 is ammo pack and S4 is bail from a vehicle :), however they are so far away from hand that they never really work out :( and I’m stuck trying to revive someone while being attacked from all sides. A better keyboard would help out so much, as i would actually be able to help the team out instead of constantly dying . as for the mouse, well it slides all over the place and the cursor goes on a walk around the screen, leaving me open for attack, its nearly impossible to aim with the damn thing.
Cheers guys
HaM551
I play a lot of games but have invested quite a lot of time into DayZ, which as we all know, consists of a BUTTLOAD of holding down the ‘W’ key for long periods of time. After scouring the forums I’ve found that it is indeed possible to set up a macro to toggle auto-run on and off in the game!! The obvious first step is aquiring a keyboard capable of doing this. I also ponder weather such a mouse could be used to make looting specific items quicker as well as selecting where specific items are stored.
Love from Shaun :)
At the edge of civilisation away from the bustling screams of any city, in the swirling whirlpool that is this small town where imprisoned residents never flee, lies the confining brick walls of one stout house, sapping at the will and pockets of its denizens. In a dark and chilled room, bathed in the luminescent glow of a two-dimensional window to freedom… I sit.
My sword swings wildly. My shield deflects arrows and flame. My efficiency waivers and I wonder to myself, “Why are my mighty macro’s failing?”. I look down to my macro keys and a soul crippling revelation consumes me… Macro keys? I have none!
A dragon bears down, great teeth gnashing. Armor is splintered, bones snapped like mere twigs, and my digital life force flows from my limp form. Here I sit, face cradled in hands. If only I had macros… I could have lived on…
I play WorldofWarcraft for my mmo game. Below is my previous macro from Wrath of the Lich King for my elemental Shamans DPS rotation. With this rotation, I plowed through Icecrown Citadel and took the Lich King down. I liked this macro because I didn’t have to pay much attention to my rotation and I was glad of that but I did have to watch where my character was so I didn’t stand in the fire. Or fall off the sides during the Lich King battle.
/castsequence reset=7 Flame Shock, Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt
I play a lot of Gmod, so I would use the keypad on the mouse to instead of using the numpad, that way I can still look around while driving my giant wooden war elephant with lasers out the front of it.
If I had the ability to run Macros there’s two different Macros that I need however I can’t quite decide which would better benefit my gaming skillz.
1. Rogue Pinky defender
Nothing wreaks an intense gaming moment more than a Rogue Pinky Event! This Macro kicks off when it detects that your pinky finger has decided to go press a random button for no particular reason potentially wreaking that precisely timed sniper headshot! This Macro also doubles as ‘grammar police’ protection by protecting gamers from their own bad grammar when they troll forums!
2. The Nag Eliminator.
This is the Macro you use when one hears their wife arc up about doing chores rather than gaming with your Mates! One press of a button raises the volume level in your game so it drowns out the background static that’s just started happening, sending us happy gamers into ignorant bliss!
You see, the server I play on has an addon that enables you to yell quotes from various Source games for everyone to hear (The intention being to organize teams and the such.)
Well, a few people (myself included) have discovered the power of these emotes, often trapping people in corners and repeatedly saying “Don’t struggle honey.”
If I won this? My macros would rule supreme. The honeys would not struggle, gunships would black out the sky, the TF2 Heavy would roar at anyone and everyone, and Dr Kleiner would inform the entire server of a mid 90′s actress/pet headcrab.
Some people think they can spam me.
Maybe…
Maybe.
I have yet to meet one who can out-DONT STRUGGLE HONEY! DONT STRUGGLE HONEY! GUNSHIP! I DONT KNOW WHAT YOU CAN POSSIBLY HOPE TO ACHIEVE APART FROM YOUR OWN ANNIHILATION.
/taunt_04
I play Battlefield 3 and I would use macros so that I don’t need to take my eyes away from the screen. So I would use one so that I can go prone. I keep misplacing my fingers and that’s the difference between life and death at times. I would bind the macros to do the same job at the number keys so that I can switch to different equipment instead of finding and pressing the exact number, while wasting time. Lastly, I would bind a macro to pick up a kit and automatically switch to the main weapon and reload, so that I’m ready to kill! I also play PayDay: The Heist. I would set up another macro so that as I complete tasks, it automatically types in the chat “I got it” and send the message so that other people don’t waste time doing exactly what I’m doing.
As an avid player of MMOs it is vital that I am prepared for any impromptu social event. This means carefully binding the essentials for easy access on my keyboard and mouse: /cheer, /dance, /getdownniceandgroovy (unfortunately I’m yet to encounter a game that facilities that last one).
In Azeroth, Middle Earth, The Outer Rim.. too many times have I seen avatars stare blankly as a party suddenly erupt around them. You’d be a fool not to prepare yourself for a such events. That’s why I bind for the occasion.
I know i’ve entered, not sure how many entries are allowed but if this entry is allowed or i can cancel my first one and use this one instead.
I’d like to roll a panda in wow by the name of PeteSHPanda (tho im not this name will fit [but you get the idea])
and the macro will be
/dance
then proceed to type out the song from south park that the sexual harassment panda sings. As seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5I9TWMA4U8
I play League of Legends. Currently, I have a mouse with only 2 macros. I use them for my Summoner Spells. If I won, I would use the macros on the Naga for the following:
1. Summoner Spell 1
2. Summoner Spell 2
3. Dance (for pro dance battling of course)
4. Joke
5. Taunt (so I can spam taunt the enemy)
6. Laugh (who doesn’t like a laugh?)
7. Q ability
8. W ability
9. E ability
10. R ability
11. Space bar to centre camera on champion
12. Attack move
So in essence, I could literally play League of Legends without a keyboard and such. Must never forget the ‘and such’. GG.
My dream macro setup would be an anti troll button and when i press that button it makes the trolls game crash the it hits him with a fatal error code it shuts their pc down turns it into a transformer and the newly made transformer goes around the Internet shutting down all the trolls pc’s that troll in games and turning them into transformers aswell making an army of anti trolling pc transformers that get rid of all the gaming trolls.
Dream macro setup:
1. ‘Still Alive’ Portal song for those times where it turns into a thrilling game of hide-and-seek. It happens more than not.
2. Obligatory obnoxious voice commands including but not limited to jokes about the opposing team’s lack of intelligence and theoretical weight of their mothers.
3. Recordings of a high pitched whine sound that can be emulated by twelve year olds on xbox live, and includes common phrases and words such as ‘!$@#’, ‘^@%!’, and ‘!$@#@ !@# #@$^!%@ !@#’.
With the addition of a Razer Naga Mouse and BlackWidow keyboard, these essential commands shall be summarily binded onto the plethora of buttons it provides, for swift provocations and general trolling of campers, spawn campers, and people-who-kill-me-again-and-again (aka pros), alike.
My ultimate macro is when playing my beloved Diablo 3 I really really am looking forward to having my pimped out banner coming dashing from the sky onto the corpse of the people I destroy with my WW barb once the PvP patch is released!
I’ll have it assigned to my “Take his ear!” key on my keyboard! Please help me fulfil this dream by allowing me to have a macro capable keyboard! :)
I would love to win the Razer Naga for several reasons. Firstly I play a metric tonne of games ranging from FPS’s (including TF2, BF3 and CS:GO) to RTS/ MMORPG/ MOBA games (including League of Legends, DoTA 2 (free beta access :D), Starcraft II and Diablo 3). While I play this variety of games I do not have a mouse that has macro buttons.
Now for how I would use the Naga, using LoL as an example I would assign each of my inventory actions to separate macro keys so that I can keep my left hand on the QWER at all times, while able to make use of the ‘actives’ of my bought items without increased hand travel. This would increase my reflex timing because I would not have to consider where my hand currently is.
Thanks for running this competition and good luck to everyone else :D
I don’t have a macro setup, because I don’t have macro keys, which is why I REALLY NEED THIS!!!
lordporksword,
You sir, have won at games. All of them.
This is more of a story than a preferred macro build.
When I was young I used to be heavily into a game called Time Commando.
I was absolutely terrified of the ‘merciless gigantic medieval double handed sword Knights’ that would stampede after your yellow power ranger like character. After breaking down in tears as I watched my hero get ‘Eiffel Towered’ by TWO knights, my father looked to remedy my fears by programming a macro on the Delete button. As he explained it, press the delete button as a last resort to beat the Knight. So I tried again…but got trapped in a corner again. In a moment of panic I slapped the Delete button like a fish out of water. The game stuttered, froze, minimised and Solitaire popped up.
To this day a macro to Solitaire is always on my keyboard…just for those times of stressful gaming.
Macro Setup for Girlfriend Gauntlet
I would use the macro buttons for the following things us men often need.
Black Widow:
M1 – Alt+Tab+bring up a page from a predetermined list of jewellery websites.
M2 – HER BIRTHDAY IS IN . YOUR ANNIVERSARY IS IN .
M3 – – Excluding controversial words such as “ok, fine & not bad”.
M4 – A reminder button. “Dishes. Laundry. Ironing. Feed Dog. Make Bed. Vacuum. Clean. Tidy. Groceries.”
M5 – Another reminder button. “Flowers. Chocolates. Massage. Breakfast in Bed. Jewellery. Movies. Dinner Date.
Razer Naga:
1. I’m sorry.
2. You’re right.
3. I didn’t mean it that way!
4. Anything you want honey.
5. Let me do that for you.
6. What’s mine is yours.
7. I’m REALLY sorry!
8. Please forgive me.
9. Here have some chocolate.
10. I’ve only got eyes for you.
11. This tastes delicious.
12. I love you.
If I had a macro setup it would be for Mass Effect 3 and it would go:
/write new ending for Mass Effect 3
/be hailed as God among Men
/poke
:D
My favourite macro is a simple one, just a simple screenshot macro that goes off once a minute, that way it doesn’t slow down my performance and it quite often gets some very nice screenshots. I could go on and on about my macros for various MMOs for days though, I have macro sets built for every alt in every play style.
I just recently started playing wow again and have gotten into Arenas.
The amount of keybinds and macros needed now for focus targets etc is crazy. I find my left hand stretching over my keyboards to all awkward movements trying to keep my middle finger on W while say trying to press alt+6 to focus grip my focus target.
I think they Razer Naga would help reduce the awkward movements in my left hand and make my right Thumb do some work.
Hi. I’m a long Ryze player in League of Legend. I use Razer Naga, Razer Lycosa and Razer Nostromo to give me an egde in gaming. These are my macro setup for playing Ryze.
Warning these macro will give you unfair advantage over other players. But lets face it who buy razer gaming gear to play fair.
on Razer Nostromo(or lycosa) :
Key 2(Q) = (Repeat while hold)
Q
0.050 seconds delay
Q
0.050 seconds delay
Key 3(W) = (repeat while hold)
W
0.050 seconds delay
W
0.050 seconds delay
Q
0.050 seconds delay
Q
0.050 seconds delay
Key 4(E) = (repeat while hold)
R
0.050 seconds delay
R
0.050 seconds delay
E
0.050 seconds delay
E
0.050 seconds delay
Q
0.050 seconds delay
Q
0.050 seconds delay
W
0.050 seconds delay
W
0.050 seconds delay
The default Q,W,E,R is replace by 7,8,9,10(A,S,D,F) so you will still be able to use skill like you normally do.
On Razer Naga :
1, 2, 3 = item in your six slots.
4 , 5 = Summoner spells.
10 = Top Missing
11 = Mid Missing
12 = Bot Missing
My favourite macro setup is having the numbers 1-4 on my mouse so that I can gain ease-of-access for most FPS games (I have the Logitech G300 so I’ve got a profile for each game). If I had this mouse, I would add things like , , and heaps of other things I need for smooth FPS gaming. I would also keep one that automatically opens the chat, types “gg” and closes the chat. Because I’m nice like that. :)
at0miccyb0rg,
Where I’ve got “…I would add things like , , and heaps of…” it was supposed to say “Reload”, “Map”, “Grenade”, and “EnterVehicle”. For some reason the arrows I put there made them go away…
I may be slightly guilty of having a page of macros solely devoted to sexually harassing one of my guilds healers with suggestive emotes during 25 man raids, that’ll teach a 40 year old boilermaker to roll a petite blood elf female
It came to a head when he started making response emote macros and we would make a game out of how many people we could get killed on farm bosses because they were laughing too hard.
“Lineage is art, dying is a part”
My ideal macro set-up for use in gaming, would be to use the macro buttons on the Razer Naga to remember the spell combinations in Magicka, because I am constantly forgotten them and I end up just button mashing, trying to get the right combination until it eventually does the right spell, which in turn would preserve the life BlackWidow, had I owned one. Currently I am still using a ten year old Smart Office keyboard, which only has built-in “macros” for Alt+f4 and launching office and web browsers, which aren’t much use when gaming.
Imagine:
You’re stuck in BLU spawn waiting for battle. As a scout, you decide that the team needs friendly encouragement so you help out by spamming your PRESET voice taunt:
“NEED A DISPENSER HERE! NEED A DISPENSER HERE! etc”
“Very well” replies the heavy, and the team nods in encouragement, now energised and optimistic about the fight.
Suddenly… CRIT ROCKETS!! PIPE BOMBS!!! EVERYWHERE!!!
Using PRESET 2, you consume bonk juice with fervour, and get behind RED.
Fortunately, you manage to scout-snipe the level three sentry. The embarrassed engineer rushes to fix his sentry but fails. You finish him off with your PRESET 3 scattergun and kill cam taunt him.
You exit the game feeling like a hero and you even remember to turn off your fan before you leave to go to bed.
The moral of the story: If every gamer used Razer, the world would be much less polluted.
If I had a sweet macro set up I’d make sure I’d actually bind ‘thank you’ in TF2. So many times I’ve called my medic a spy by accident. A medic deserves his thanks. Also in other games like orcs must die I could actually switch weapons without fumbling over the keyboard to hit my ’9′ key. Just having a decent keyboard and mouse would help but with razer gear I’d become a one man fragging machine! Though a polite one who always said thanks afterwards.
screemname,
Open console:
bind “say Thanks Doc!”