How to make your own Skill Cap Bot
Posted: October 13th, 2007, 7:32 am
Figured I'd share this. Wrote this up myself. Enjoy! 
In response to Kourath: in terms of 'breaking', I've had this run for 8+hours with no problems at all. Thanks for the feedback though; I'm very open to suggestions.
In response to Kourath: in terms of 'breaking', I've had this run for 8+hours with no problems at all. Thanks for the feedback though; I'm very open to suggestions.
Skill Cap Guide - By Kguy
1) Download Macro Express
2) Open FFXI, get to your mog house; don't move or change camera after initially entering.
3) Open Macro Express
4) Hit Capture Macro
5) Choose a startup method:
a) Hot Key (I've found to be unreliable for FFXI). If you choose this, simply hit ctrl+key. If you use this method, simply hit your hotkey when in game to start.
b) Mouse click. This is the one I prefer. Open the locater, and choose a place you won't be accidentally clicking. I prefer the very bottom right of my screen, to the point you can't go any further. Once you've found a good spot you want to click, hit ctrl+shift, alt+shift to save the coordinates to the program.
6) Hit capture macro.
7) Enter a nickname for your macro (i.e.: RDM lvl 56 cure skill cap).
Hit start capture.
9) BEFORE hitting ok on the window that pops up, make FFXI your active window.
10) Hit ok on the window.
11) Move your camera around towards the door of the mog house, double click to go outside.
12) Proceed to cast the spell(s) you want of the desired spell class. (i.e.: Cure for healing, etc.)
IMPORTANT: For me personally, the macro recorder was having a hard time catching the key strokes. I didn't try anything like restarting or etc for more testing. If key strokes work for you, please post here. Otherwise use your mouse for everything. It is full proof.
13) After you're out of MP, proceed back into your Mog house.
14) Stop the macro by right clicking on the little camcorder in your task bar.
15) Open the main window of Macro Express, click the macro explorer button from the column on the left (if it's not already open).
16) Right click your macro you just made (RDM lvl 56 cure skill cap), click edit with scripting editor.
17) Under the commands column, click repeat. Click repeat start, then click the ->+ arrow. Enter your desired repetitions. Click ok.
18) Go to repeat end. Click the +-> Arrow where the + is red.
19) Save it.
20) Run your macro via your startup method from earlier.
Notes:
It may take a couple times for you to get it right. I like to add about 10 seconds/10000 milliseconds delay at the very beginning (via scripting editor) to give myself time to compensate for lag, etc.
Also, when zoning in and out of your Mog house, I also reccomend you give it about 5 extra seconds before you start clicking when you're recording it. It gives your computer plenty of time to compensate. You don't want your macro to screw up once because of lag, and have your whole process mess up.
You may want to experiment with a couple of the other start up methods to whatever fits your tastes best.
