The Recorder function is one of Eden’s biggest and most impactful custom quality-of-life additions, allowing players to play more efficiently by reducing the amount of quickbar slots needed to play your class, especially if you are a melee fighter.

So what is Recorder? In short, it is the Eden developer team’s equivalent to the third-party software “AutoHotKey,” also known as AHK. AHK is both a scripting language and program which, among other things, allows you to bind several keys to one single key and even automate several types of processes. The program has been widely used on the Live servers for many years now, with and Eden and Blackthorn are no exception. Of course everyone will say they have always only used this program to “slim down their quickbars” and “remove the tedium of pressing the same four Combat Styles over and over” but there will always be a subsection of players who make use of the automation functions for one thing or another.

So it was that the Eden team decided to implement the acceptable functions of AHK directly into the game and do away with the less savoury functions such as the ability to automate actions.

Now, as for what the Recorder function can actually do, it is pretty simple. It can consolidate several actions, commands and key or mouse presses, up to a maximum of 12, into a single key press. It is a great tool not just for slimming down quickbars but also providing an added degree of accessibility to the game.

To start using the Recorder function, simply type “/recorder” in-game to bring up a list of in-game commands.

Note that Recorder icons can currently only be drawn from the various spell icons in the game. A Recorder function on your quickbars cannot currently have a Combat Style icon.

Below are a few examples of the Recorder functions:

Consolidating melee styles:

As a melee player, you will often find yourself pressing the same four buttons over and over, typically your Anytime Combat Style plus either your After Parry or After Block styles. Recorder can be a great help with slimming that down.

First make sure that you have the Combat Styles you want to merge together on your quickbar and then start the recorder function with “/recorder start”

Then press your quickbars in the same order you would, as if you were doing it manually.

So start with your Combat Style that follows up the style which requires you to Parry, Block or Evade.

Then press the follow up Combat Style which follows up your Anytime Combat Style.

Then press your After Parry Combat Style.

And finally press your Anytime Combat Style.

The logic here being that, since you can only queue up two styles together and the Combat Styles which require a previous Combat Style to have been performed successfully cannot be queued, the Recorder will automatically queue up your After Parry/Block/Evade style first with the Anytime Combat Style serving as its back-up.

When pressed a second time, it will queue up the Combat Style which requires you to successfully perform your After Parry/Block/Evade (assuming you hit) with the Combat Style that follows your Anytime Combat Style.

Finish with “/recorder save <name>”

Making re-buffing your group faster:

Making use of another of Eden’s features, the “/buff” command, any class with important buffs can quickly get their team back up to speed after dying.

To start, you should create a “/buff” macro for each class with the buffs they required, for instance: “/macro Armsman /buff sc dq saf”

This macro will buff any Armsman in your group with Strength/Constitution, Dexterity/Quickness and Specialized Armor Factor.

A full list of “/buff” commands for primary and secondary healers can be found here: [Cleric, Friar & Heretic] [Bard, Druid & Warden] [Healer & Shaman]

Note that any class with buffs, such as spell-casters or anyone taking buffs with their Champion Level points can make use of the /buff command as well. Also any of these “/buff” commands can be turned into macros by simply add “/macro <name>” before the “/buff” commands.

Once you have created macros with the appropriate buffs for each class on your Realm, start the recorder with “/recorder start” and click each macro on your bars and finish with “/recorder save <name>”

You will need to make two Recorders to cover buffs for all classes.

Making two similar abilities target sensitive:

There are several spells which have beneficial and detrimental equivalents, e.g. Single Target Mesmerization and Cure Mesmerization, Disease and Cure Disease, and such. By using Recorder, these two can be combined into a single button press where, if you have an enemy target you will cast mesmerization on them and if you have a friendly target, you will cure them of their mesmerization. Keeping it simple like this will make it easy to remember, simple to use and free up a slot on your quickbars.