[Suggestion] Consolidating Equip Macros

[Jerbob]

Instead of arguing amongst ourselves and making personal attacks, is it at least possible to agree on the fact that introducing something like that which has been suggested by the OP would be beneficial to at least some people in the game? It's obvious that people have strong views on using third party tools - I know I could argue until the cows come home about it - but this isn't really the place.

I honestly cannot see a drawback to enhancing macros (please correct me if I am wrong), and I don't think anyone here has argued against it per se, so we need to focus on giving the community reps something concrete to take back to the developers. As usual there seems to be a misunderstanding on their (the developers) part - this would be a "quality of life" style change and not something that would allow actions to be taken without any player input. We need to find a way to make this clear and to draw up some ideas on how it could be implemented. I am certain that both people with experience of the benefits of third party tools and those with experience of the current, limited in-game macroing system can both contribute to this, identifying weaknesses and proposing fixes.

I personally feel like I have a lot invested in this sort of thread. I'm sick of having to mash macros and make gear sacrifices that stop me from being the best player that I can be, and any enhancement to the macro system would make my enjoyment of the game increase twofold. Simple restrictions like allowing macros to call one another but only up to a maximum of, say, 6, would prevent botting. The oft-mentioned gearset creation idea would work well too. We just need to pull together in support of any of these systems so that the community reps can do their thing and make the developers understand. Even an "I wouldn't use it but it looks useful to some people" is better than "I don't need it so it's terrible."