BRD macro

[Ooshima]

Wait, what?
over 40%?

Crit Chance % = 0.0693 x CRT – 18.486
10% if you keep Straight Shot buff up 100% of the time.
Max uptime on Internal Release will average 5% additional crit.
So your crit rate would have to be ~628 for you to average over 40% crit rate through an entire fight.

BiS plus max crit food leaves you around 530, doesn't it?

What kind of "BiS" set that gives you 530 critical only? My config with Allagan bow with Devil Eggs gives 482 accuracy and 555 critical. BTW outside coil you don't need accuracy so I can just swap and go and up your crit to 594 (Buttons) or 608 (Devil Eggs). 40% and above crit is do-able, there was once my FC mate who does parasing told me that I did a 55.5% crit rate for one of the Titan EX fight.

[EasymodeX]

3. Because Misery's End, and Bloodletter does not trigger GCD, you're locked into their animation(~1.5s) til you can start using another skill.

Well, this isn't the overriding issue. This is solved by simply placing the GCD ability first in the macro -- you are then strongly mitigating (although not eliminating) the scenario where the oGCD animation delays your GCD.

The core problem is that the ability queue itself breaks for the GCD ability, causing a consistent and pervasive 0.1-.5s delay every single GCD. In other words, a pure 5-15% DPS loss.

[Bardo]

What kind of "BiS" set that gives you 530 critical only?

Look at the date on the post.
That was way before 2.1 when we didn't have nearly as many i90 gear choices...

[BrandoH]

Look at the date on the post.
That was way before 2.1 when we didn't have nearly as many i90 gear choices...

The BIS then was pretty heavily considered to be http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/LNE8 so 535 crit was pretty standard.
So crit rate would be right around 35% over the course of the fight.

[RathSkybreaker]

I didn't learn anything as to the actual topic of this discussion.
Just a lot of bickering

I'd like to know quite simply that if I'm going to use macros on a BRD, which are the best ones to use? My question isn't about whether or not using macros is better or worse, it's again: "Which macros should be used on a BRD if macros are being used at all?"

Can someone answer this without starting an argument or going into mathematics I really don't want to hear?

Hey Ana, Bard here.

I use macros pretty frequently , beat turn 5 on bard weekly, etc, so , here's what I use.

Straight Shot

/micon "Straight Shot"
/ac "Straight Shot" <t>
/ac "Misery's End" <t>
/ac "Bloodletter" <t>

V -bite, wind bit , heavy shot, blunt arrow, repelling shot, and my aoe abilities all have the blood letter / misery's end procs on them. Rationale is to maximize the procs. People will argue semantics, but I only believe numbers, not idealism. People aren't perfect, and macros reduce error.

Buff's are a bit different, I generally only macro a few for turn 5, but for all other content I take the lazy approach and macro them all, for the sake of never missing a buff, if your group doesn't suck you can do that, mainly because you're not pressed to meet dps checks, since you'd meet them without the buffs.

I stagger my buffs though, so I put raging strikes on straight shot, I have Internal release macroed to both of my dots, and I have Hawk's , Barrage, and BfB macroed onto heavy shot. Quelling strike I do manually always, I like to be in control of where my hate sits.

My dps on a dummy ~ 3 minutes sits around 285 with no food / buffs / pots.


Rath