Solution to "blinking"

[Ihnako]

All of my console friends write out 2-3 macros just for the gear swap, and have seperate macros for the WS, and each ability has their own macro. I don't have a single friend on my friendslist who only scarcely macros the jobs they love to play. Maybe most of the people you know play their jobs half-asked, but to those of us who like the mathematics behind making our character stronger in each situation, we get the macros done.

And in fact, I'm sure most of the 'blinking' problems originally complained in this thread was because of the players that have to write multiple macros for a gear swap for one action. Several seconds worth of gear swapping is much worse on a mage than a single macro from a 3rd party tool that can do it all at once.

Your argument is trying to say that blinking people are mostly just people who use 3rd party tools and are spoiled with the flexibility - but when you put together the whole reason people have been complaining about blinking, the logic behind people that do use 3rd party tools and those that don't, and that most people really aren't lazy about their macros, you really only end up looking quite silly to the rest of us.

#1 I can tell you that you'r and my friendlist isn't representative in case when it comes to use macros. Cause different playstyle and different goals lead to what type of macroset you'll use.
I can say - I don't switch that much gear when it comes to 08/15 situations cause it's basicly not necessary cause we'r talking about a differenc of less than 1%. Under certain circumstances there's to change more gear.
#2 Changing gear with 1 or 10 macros doesn't have an impact of how often you blink - it's how fast you hit your macro and how good you manage to put items in a macro that would lead to blink and items who not. So basicly you have to hit 2 macros that would blink and one that doesn't. And I can hit 3 within one blink animation.
So there's no big deal esp. when it comes to a comparsion between what's ingame and what's possible due to 3'rd party tools. (btw. still forbidden - rtfm)

What I was saying is that with the possible automation that 3'rd party tools offer - people tend to use it cause of the "I want to get the last 0.001% of what's possible" without reconsidering what they are doing and what impact it would/could have.
My opinion - Use what's ingame and in case a supporter can't support cause he isn't using 3'rd party tools - who cares about him? And the same goes for every other job - in case the tank is about to die cause he massively blinks - not my fault. Not everyone is a FFXI-otaku/nerd. That's what's called TEAMWORK. And it's right - There is no I in Team.

[Retsujo]

- in case the tank is about to die cause he massively blinks - not my fault. Not everyone is a FFXI-otaku/nerd. That's what's called TEAMWORK. And it's right - There is no I in Team.

Making adjustments to your own macros to better deal with dying blinkers is in no way making you an otaku or nerd in any respect. This crap is what we're all saying: When a tank dies because you couldn't get cures off due to his gear swaps, you shouldn't be saying "you should've thought about that!" Instead, you should be thinking to yourself "what can I do to work around that so it doesn't happen again?"

You don't have to be some kind of genius to look at your various options for a work-around. It's not rocket surgery.

The reason people care about that 0.001% extra of whatever and have gear swaps has everything to do with teamwork. The better you can do as an individual, the more you can bring to the team for great success. If you are too lazy to find a way to keep massive blinkers targeted for spells, then you need to perform a bit of teamwork yourself and communicate with your group to use less gear swaps because you won't deal with that thin extra layer of annoyance.