One Day Macer Guide

[Vem]

In this guide I will teach you how to power game train a macer.
The goal is to spend as little time getting the most out of a brand new character.
This guide can be useful for new or veteran players.

The only major expense with this guide will be bandages later on in the guide.
However even before the end of this guide your character can farm enough gold to keep going and finish the template.

::Final Template::
100 mace - Weapon Skill
100 tactics - Damage for weapon
80 anatomy - Damage + Healing amount bonus
80 arms lore - Weapon Special Chance
80 camping - Traveling for those without a blessed runebook
80 healing - Healing duhh
80 resist - Reduces spell damage, huge defense
80 tracking - Damage, PK watch, Paragon search
20/40 alchemy - Healing & Cure buff

100 str
100 dex
25 int

==Creation==
50 Macing , Mace & Dex +10 Stat Stone
49 tactics , Dex & Str +10 Stat Stone
1 Healing , 75 Bandages & Dex +10 Stat Stone

45 str
10 dex
25 int , Lock int

Set all skills down or locked
Set template skills up

*Vendor Training with newbie 1000 gold ticket
50 resist
49 healing

==Newbie Dungeon Pre-Game==
Gather Kindling before entering (50-80)
Turn on tracking , set always get closest
Make a camp fire (they burn out about 10 mins)
Record arms lore macro on mace/dagger with 2100 delay
Hang out/afk until tracking, camping are 70
You can use anatomy on another player to gain that afk aswell

skills so far
50 mace
49 tactics
60-70 anatomy
60-70 arms lore
70 camping
50 healing
50 resist
70 tracking
0 alchemy

==Newbie Dungeon Action==
Heal yourself! Loot gold and Magic Items
Start killing Mongbats till about 60 mace give or take
*optional - buy vendor chainmail+quarter staff
Move onto Headless and skeletons (north and East)
Near the skeletons you'll see a ghoul with a skeleton archer. Once you've cleared the skeletons open the door and lure the ghoul out. Keeping the archer in that room.
Get 4-5 resist gains from the ghoul and kill it!
Keep looping between skeletons and this one ghoul until about 60 resist.
Head into the room that ghoul spawns and kill the skeleton archer.
Keep heading north through doors you'll find another ghoul.
Run around the room for 4-5 gains from that ghoul and kill it.
Proceed north again and get resist gains from the necromancer and necromancer in the west room of the first.

skills so far
70 mace
70 tactics
70 anatomy
70 arms lore
70 camping
65-70 healing
70 resist
70 tracking
0 alchemy

==The Real Outlands Pre-Game==
Using your 2nd account make a character with 50 taming, 49 veterinary and 1 healing. (the 1 healing is for extra free bandages)
Find a horse, they usually roam just outside towns or nearby moongates thankfully.
Transfer this horse to your 1st character.

Buy 3 wooden training clubs from a provisioner
Buy 1 magical wizard hat from a mage
*You'll eventually need more bandages

Find a quiet location in a safe town
Position the horse owned by the macer between your two characters.

Macer equip wooden training club attacks the horse while running this macro

//Make sure don't have non-training clubs in your backpack.
if @findlayer 'self' 6
  @moveitem! 'found' 'backpack'
  pause 650
endif
if not timerexists 'campy'
  createtimer 'campy'
endif
if @findtype 0xde1 'any' 'backpack' and timer 'campy' >= 600000
  usetype 0xde1 'any' 'backpack'
  @settimer 'campy' 0
  pause 650
endif
if not @findlayer 'self' 1 and @findtype 0x13b4 'any' 'backpack'
  equipitem 'found' 1
  pause 650
endif
if skill 'camping' >= 80
  setskill 'camping' 'locked'
endif
if skill 'tracking' >= 80
  setskill 'tracking' 'locked'
endif
if skill 'anatomy' >= 80
  setskill 'anatomy' 'locked'
endif
if skill 'arms lore' >= 80
  setskill 'arms lore' 'locked'
endif
if skill 'healing' >= 80
  setskill 'healing' 'locked'
endif
equipitem replace-me-with-wiz-hat-serial 6
pause 650
moveitem replace-me-with-wiz-hat-serial 'backpack' 106 77 0
pause 650
bandageself
// adjust pause based on bandage timer + 100ms
pause 12101
useskill 'Arms Lore'
waitfortarget 5000
target! replace-me-with-dagger-serial

Tamer/Vet runs this macro

usetype 0xe21
waitfortarget 5000
target! replace-me-with-the-horse-serial
pause 25000

skills so far
90-100 mace
90-100 tactics
80 anatomy
80 arms lore
80 camping
75-80 healing
70 resist
80 tracking
0 alchemy

Pics or didn't happen...

Spoiler

3 hours in...

11 hours in... didn't go hard, could be done in less.

==The Real Outlands==
Head to any graveyard that has casting npcs
Use them the same way we did earlier with the ghoul however outside the noob dungeon gains are slower. so 0.4-0.6 resist gains then kill it and find another.
train 20 alchemy from a vendor for those heal and cure pots bonus.

Congrats you have a completely legitimate macer template in a day.
I've done this with two characters successfully.

== Nay Sayers ==
Post a better guide
Looking for nothing but competition
See avatar, deal with it.

 

[Darkood]

Worked pretty fine for me.
It's my 1st character and it got leveled ultra fast following your guide.

Thank you!

 

[bborwoeorks]

Is there any way or mathematically beneficial reason to try and squeeze parry into this build?
Nice guide!

 

[Vem]

Is there any way or mathematically beneficial reason to try and squeeze parry into this build?
Nice guide!

Parrying, worth debating but ill try to break it down.
Pre-Aspect and low level aspect it's worth having parrying. I'd say to drop armslore for parrying in this case. Use a war mace + shield and taunt mobs for the ac bonus. Reason being at low aspect you won't be killing as quickly as higher aspect with a greater tactic/accuracy bonus.

The reason I don't mention parrying in the guide is this build is a sturdy true dexxer build for all content including end game. So if you're doing mini-bosses, bosses, etc the people you run with will likely already have a Tank who will have parrying. So it's overkill to run both resist and parrying on this template in the current environment the shard offers.

Is parrying worthless, No but you'll sacrifice damage for the 'infrequent' parry of melee/spells. If parrying was more consistent with how often you parried blows I would have mentioned it in the guide. It's worth testing and determining for yourself if you think a block every so often is worth it.

 

[bborwoeorks]

That makes a lot of sense. I wasn't thinking end game yet :/
Also curious if armslore is > than forensic eval OR is there a mathematical point were some of both is worth investing (or all three if tracking can be lowered.)

 

[AreYouKidden]

Generally stated it's tactics > arms lore > SDI skills (forensics, tracking, camping etc) > anatomy for PvM... though anatomy will add 20% to your bandages, and lends to PvP damage not against your SDi cap, so there are reasons to take it.

Depending on your build, forensics/tracking may make more sense than arms lore, for instance - a bard dexxer, as both add to your barding skills - though most run templates that fit tracking or forensics + arms lore to max damage, over running both forensics+tracking.

 

[EzzahE]

hey does this still work?
thanks in advance.

 

[AreYouKidden]

The one day macer? Absolutely.

 

[DayWalker]

Thank you for a great guide. I have followed it except for alchemy I have replaced it with parry for now as I find myself being a bit squishy.

This is my first character, which aspect would you recommend to go for? Also armor or weapon first? I was thinking earth or water due to the low costs which will help to get the aspect sooner.

Earth is nice that it gives melee damage mitigation. Since I am using a quarter staff and been playing solo, survivability will help fighting harder enemies. The damage increase seems good too, but I am not sure if it’s better to use a faster attacking weapon here to proc it more often. I.e. should I be going mace a board?

Water looks cool too. Increased chance to proc special attack which usually does 2x damage. But I am not sure how beneficial the increased healing will be for this build. If My health is falling faster then the bandage can be applied. Maybe I can reduce anatomy a little (since I am not really ressing anyone) and increase parry to avoid damage spikes.

Any other aspect recommendations are also welcome. I wanted to avoid going to a shield as I would like to keep this build as a damage dealer for the end game as mentioned by an author in the previous post. But I also want to be able to have a fast solo progression to the end game.

 

[Vem]

Thank you for a great guide. I have followed it except for alchemy I have replaced it with parry for now as I find myself being a bit squishy.

Until you get your aspect of choice to higher tiers, you may feel squishy. That's where strength, magic resist & healing potions come into play. Having 20-40 alchemy helps them last longer. Alchemy skill is sort of required unless you have gold to spend on potion kegs every day, in my opinion..

This is my first character, which aspect would you recommend to go for? Also armor or weapon first? I was thinking earth or water due to the low costs which will help to get the aspect sooner.

Earth is nice that it gives melee damage mitigation. Since I am using a quarter staff and been playing solo, survivability will help fighting harder enemies. The damage increase seems good too, but I am not sure if it’s better to use a faster attacking weapon here to proc it more often. I.e. should I be going mace a board?

Water looks cool too. Increased chance to proc special attack which usually does 2x damage. But I am not sure how beneficial the increased healing will be for this build. If My health is falling faster then the bandage can be applied. Maybe I can reduce anatomy a little (since I am not really ressing anyone) and increase parry to avoid damage spikes.
Any other aspect recommendations are also welcome.

Flavor of the month as of this post is Air Aspect. Swing speed and damage resistance, in my own opinion it killed the niche that earth was filling.
Personally I feel Earth Aspect is a sleeper build for specific content that is heavily melee focused. Earth special + mace special + disarmed enemy = 300-400+ damage hits. When all the specials line up you can do some really outstanding damage. But earth isn't good defensively against anything much other than physical damage.
Water aspect, I'm sorry I havn't even tried that aspect. People will be angery at this but I think it's overrated except for two situations, melee pet builds and darkmire mini-boss.

Hop on the test shard and try out different aspect at T1, T4, T8 and T10. You'll quickly figure out which aspects combo good with your final build and which are aren't worth doing until much later. One hour spent on the test shard can save you weeks of mistakes on the live shard!

Going with Air aspect as it is right now is a safe bet if you don't have time to decide. Don't just go for what the cheapest aspect is.

I wanted to avoid going to a shield as I would like to keep this build as a damage dealer for the end game as mentioned by an author in the previous post. But I also want to be able to have a fast solo progression to the end game.

Quarter Staff is the 2hand option I recommend for this build. Understand however that using potions requires you to unarm your 2 hand weapon giving you 0 weapon skill in defensive situations for that short couple of second(s)
War Mace + Shield is a very sturdy combo if you decide to use parrying.
Warmace + Empty Hand is another option, You'll often see bards doing this. This allows you to drink potions without removing your weapon skill weapon. Meaning your defense stays up. This is also viable for this build.

And don't be afraid to experiment with different weapons, Maybe you like the gameplay of the faster Mace compared to the War Mace. Or the slow but heavy hits of the War Hammer. Nothing is locking you into using only a quarter staff with this build ^_^

AreYouKidden is very wise and understanding of Outlands his posts in this thread are invaluable. If you feel you need parrying by all means drop anatomy some or all together to get it. Once you get higher up in aspect tier you may find you no longer need so much parrying.

 

[Neavesie]

Is this still working?
I get errors trying to run the script, first line 2, doesnt like layer "self", then line 9...
Much appreciated if anyone could update it so it will run straight up. Thanks in advance.

 

[AreYouKidden]

Looks like an old steam script, not razer. Needs some tweaks to work really. Could probably get help in the scripts & macros channel in the discord.