One Button Wonder

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Originally Posted by BooPoo

Is there anything wrong with this macro or using it? I kinda don't get it.

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Ability macros are always incredibly inefficient because they don't have ability queuing so they always execute slower than just pressing the skill normally. Putting GCDs into macros is especially inefficient since on top of the missing ability queuing the <wait.x> command can't do decimals, it only works in full seconds so you always lose half a second between glare casts and that's assuming you have 0 spell speed.

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Originally Posted by BooPoo

Is there anything wrong with this macro or using it? I kinda don't get it.

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MrHappy created a Dos and Donts list for macros that's a good watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qshNKeDENlk

There are some good marcos you can use for healers. A really great two that I recommend for SCH players to help consolidate hotbar space:

MACRO 1:
/micon "Summon Seraph"
/ac "Summon Seraph" <me>
/chotbar action "Consolation" 1 3
/wait 22
/chotbar action "Fey Blessing" 1 3

The "1 3" part is specifically for where my Fey Blessing/Consolation action goes on my hotbar. The 1 is which hotbar and the 3 is the position on that hotbar. For controller, how it works is it starts with 1 being < on the D pad when pressing L1 and goes clockwise. ^ is 2, > is 3, and v is 4. This rotation continues to your Square, Triangle, Circle, X, then the same for the R1 side with numbers 9-16.

Basically, this swaps Fey Blessing for Consolation when Summon Seraph is used and automatically returns it to Fey Blessing after 22 seconds. There's a small chance, depending on your inputs, that you might cancel returning it to Fey Blessing. When I do this on my hotbars, i also have a reset button action, which in this case looks like this:

MACRO 2:
/micon "Summon Eos"
/ac "Summon Eos" <me>
/chotbar action "Fey Blessing" 1 3

Even if you're mid-cast with something else, you can just tap Summon Eos to reset that hotbar space to Fey Blessing. It's important to use it on an infrequently used button of a similar function to avoid any weird clipping or unnecessary use of something you don't intend to use.

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Originally Posted by Brandedblade

Do it then.

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I do, in Bozja. All the time. And am still generally top 3 in damage most fights. Because there is often 1 minute + without any damage whatsoever.

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Originally Posted by BooPoo

Is there anything wrong with this macro or using it? I kinda don't get it.

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Originally Posted by Absurdity

Ability macros are always incredibly inefficient because they don't have ability queuing so they always execute slower than just pressing the skill normally. Putting GCDs into macros is especially inefficient since on top of the missing ability queuing the <wait.x> command can't do decimals, it only works in full seconds so you always lose half a second between glare casts and that's assuming you have 0 spell speed.

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I absolutely would NOT advocate this in any high level content whatsoever. But solo? Or boring content like Bozja? Yeah, macro away.

IMHO, the macros are not "incredibly inefficient". Are they inefficient? Yes, but at most you'll lose a few GCDs a minute. or so. Hardly game breaking in casual content. These are healer DPS GCDs. Half the damage of what a DPS can do.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

I do, in Bozja. All the time. And am still generally top 3 in damage most fights. Because there is often 1 minute + without any damage whatsoever.





I absolutely would NOT advocate this in any high level content whatsoever. But solo? Or boring content like Bozja? Yeah, macro away.

IMHO, the macros are not "incredibly inefficient". Are they inefficient? Yes, but at most you'll lose a few GCDs a minute. or so. Hardly game breaking in casual content. These are healer DPS GCDs. Half the damage of what a DPS can do.

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It's not hard to do alot of damage in Bozja when the game is literally chucking large damage multipliers on you with essences and the like, no need to inflate your ego about it.

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Originally Posted by Brandedblade

It's not hard to do alot of damage in Bozja when the game is literally chucking large damage multipliers on you with essences and the like, no need to inflate your ego about it.

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I'm pretty sure their point is that healer dps gives you a participation medal to the point where you can literally spam a single skill using a macro and do better than the vast majority of dps players, even if you are using an essence, it's still a single button that accounts for 70% of your damage and if you throw in dia that's another 14%

The only job that's somewhat comparable is having a red mage with a macro that just spams jolt into veraero/verthunder, and even then I'm sure you wouldn't get similar results in terms of damage if you compared the percentage of maximum potential damage

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Originally Posted by Dogempire

I'm pretty sure their point is that healer dps gives you a participation medal to the point where you can literally spam a single skill using a macro and do better than the vast majority of dps players, even if you are using an essence, it's still a single button that accounts for 70% of your damage and if you throw in dia that's another 14%

The only job that's somewhat comparable is having a red mage with a macro that just spams jolt into veraero/verthunder, and even then I'm sure you wouldn't get similar results in terms of damage if you compared the percentage of maximum potential damage

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ok /10char

I wish healer could at least get the BLM treatment with Thundercloud procs on all the dots. Let it deal full damage on impact when the proc triggers so we have a reason to use it more than once every 30 seconds.