AoC Macros

AoC Macro is nothing new to the gaming industry. Since its release, a great number of AoC macros, guides and even bots are being passed on from one gamer to the other. Some macros are more useful than others, while some are more commonly found and so on and so forth.

Macros are in fact codes which gamers do not necessarily need to understand but can make us of to make the game much more interesting and exciting. The typical macro comes with a guide which tells the user how to make us of the macro.

One of the AoC macros I've come across is the combo macro tool and here it is as an example for readers as to what macros is all about.

For key combos in Age of Conan, you'll need a G15 keyboard. So to everyone without a G15 keyboard (or even with one), use this lovely and fully legal software hotkey! Given that this program does not read screen pixels or memory locations, you obviously can't get banned from using this.

This is a very easy and basic tool. What it does: Grab every selected keys from the keyboard and sends a combination of keys back to a selected program/game. If you search for the term 'hotkey' in search engines, there should be quite a lot of results from which you would browse for more information and find out where to get it.

How I use it:
Create a text file and put in your key combos.
Here is a example of 1 key combo:

[hotkey 1[

[sendwin "Age of Conan"]

[sendpc local]

[key 1]

[wait 500]

[keydown ALT][wait 100][key 3][wait 100][keyup ALT]

[wait 200]

This example the default arrow on 1,2 and 3 have been removed, and uses the arrow on the extra bars by using the ALT key to bring up the menu. What this key does is: When you press 1 on your keyboard, the equity line of credit rates tool sends Key 1, Alt-3.

This combo can be at any length.

To explain the code:
[hotkey 1] The number of the key hotkey waits on before running this combo. In this case key 1. Remember, this has nothing to do with what key is binded in AoC. Since this software reads keypress before AoC, and if that key is a hotkey, it does not send this key to AOC. Meaning, I can press 1 on keyboard and the hotkey makes that key 4 in AoC.

[sendwin "Age of Conan"] Tells hotkey on what window to send the keys to. Default AoC window is Age of Conan.

[sendpc local] Decide of the combo is sent to only local PC or remote PC also and yes, it supports multiple computers.

[key 1] The first key in combo (sends key 1 to AoC).

[wait 500] Then waits 500 ms before sending next key.

[keydown ALT][wait 100][key 3][wait 100][keyup ALT] This does first press down the ALT key (of course not physically on your keyboard). Then wait for 100ms before pressing the 3 key (up/right arrow) then again waits 100ms before releasing the ALT key.

[wait 200] This tells hotkey how long before sending next key combo you select (if you spam the keys). This should be about the length of the combo animation.

The author has contributed his guides at strategyfreaksgames/age_of_conan/strategyfreaksgames/age_of_conan/ as well as other community sites. He has been playing Age of Conan and other MMORPGs including WoW and LotRO for many years and plans to continue sharing his guides with other members of online game community sites.