Manual Song Twist

The old way, kept because it gives you exact control over the order. Each pause has to be tuned to song cast time, and getting it wrong drops a song entirely.

EverQuest · Bard55 lines

/cast 1
/pause 30
/cast 2
/pause 30
/cast 3

Where to paste this

Open the Socials window (Alt+S by default) and pick an empty button.
Give the social a name and a colour, then type up to five command lines.
Use /cast 1 through /cast 12 to fire the spell in that gem slot.
Put /pause between actions — the number is tenths of a second, so /pause 25 is 2.5 seconds.
Drag the finished social onto a hotbar and bind it to a key.

More EverQuest macros

Bard macros first, then the rest of the EverQuest library.

Ask for a Corpse Run
General
```
/shout Corpse in the zone entrance, can anyone summon?
```
Announces your position and asks for a summon. Corpse recovery is a whole social institution in EverQuest and getting the request right matters.
Assist the Main Assist
General
```
/assist Tankname
/pause 5
/attack on
```
Targets a named player and picks up whatever they are attacking. This is how an EverQuest group stays on one mob, and it predates every other assist system in the genre.
Auto Attack On
General
```
/attack on
```
Explicitly turns melee swinging on rather than toggling it. Using "on" instead of a bare /attack means a macro can never accidentally switch your attack off.
Buff and Announce
General
```
/g Casting group haste, hold your buffs
/pause 10
/cast 3
```
Tells the group what is landing before it lands. In a game where buffs have long durations and limited slots, saying what you are casting avoids overwriting somebody else's work.
Camp Out Safely
General
```
/camp
```
Starts the camp timer, which is the only safe way to leave the game — a hard disconnect leaves your character in the world for a while.
Cast and Pause
General
```
/cast 1
/pause 35
/cast 2
```
The shape of every EverQuest macro. /cast fires the spell in that gem slot, and the pause that follows has to be long enough to cover the cast time or the next line is simply dropped. Remember the number is tenths of a second.
Song Twisting with Melody
Bard
```
/melody 1 2 3 4
```
Melody rotates through the listed gem numbers forever, restarting each song just before it expires. This one command replaced a decade of players manually twisting four songs by hand.
Stop the Melody
Bard
```
/stopsong
/melody
```
Ends the twist so you can cast something else. Melody has to be stopped explicitly, and forgetting is how Bards find themselves unable to cast a mez in an emergency.