Macro's that are actually useful ?

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

If a Tank had a macro like that, and I was a healer DPS. I would literally just pull for them.

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And this is why no one on this forum takes you seriously.

There are some classes who suffer a massive opening burst DPS loss without proper pulling etiquette.

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Originally Posted by Priya

Has SE ever mentioned why their macro system doesn't queue?

For SMN/SCH the macros that swap pet abilities on your bar when you summon a pet are pretty nice. Those are the only macros I use, though.

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If I remember correctly, it's because they don't want players to cheese through the game by macro-ing multiple actions together.

Which is why I suggested for single action (and probably announcements) macros to be given the ability to queue. I believe it would make a nice QoL update, but I doubt it will happen anytime soon, if it even would.

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Originally Posted by FoxyAreku

And this is why no one on this forum takes you seriously.

There are some classes who suffer a massive opening burst DPS loss without proper pulling etiquette.

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I suffer massive DPS loss when my ears bleed to bad pull macros.

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Originally Posted by SokiYagami

If I remember correctly, it's because they don't want players to cheese through the game by macro-ing multiple actions together.

Which is why I suggested for single action (and probably announcements) macros to be given the ability to queue. I believe it would make a nice QoL update, but I doubt it will happen anytime soon, if it even would.

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It's been mentioned before but repeating the lines amounts to a pseudo queue buffer of .1ish seconds per line.

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Originally Posted by SokiYagami

If I remember correctly, it's because they don't want players to cheese through the game by macro-ing multiple actions together.

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Would you mind elaborating since I'm not sure I follow? Did they say why it would cheese the game? Would allowing macros to queue lead to rotation macros similar to what RIFT ended up with?

What about <mo>? Why would they give us a mouse over command we can't use because macros also break healing spell queues?

I'm not trying to be confrontational or anything. I legit don't understand since as it is now, things can be macro'd together or with text commands such as <t>, <tt>, <mo> etc, but the only reason it isn't common is because it's detrimental in one way or another (DPS loss, slow-to-fire heals).

Seems odd.

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

I suffer massive DPS loss when my ears bleed to bad pull macros.

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No you don't. :P

And if your noise tolerance is so low that you can't handle a couple pings in chat you may want to not play video games.

This flaming arrow macro is pretty god tier simply because it makes the skill easier to weave in rotation.

/micon "Flaming Arrow"
/ac "Flaming Arrow" <t>

It places the arrow directly in the center of whatever your target may be. In the case of a larger boss with a ton of adds, it may be preferable to use the normal skill but otherwise this really helps out

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Originally Posted by Canadane

Any in-battle macros are also going to impede your flow over time as they can't queue like an ability can. Even if it's just to announce you've done something. I can't tell you how often a Provoke macro never actually used Provoke, ending in a very dead other tank.

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Most of those failed announcement macros are just badly designed. I've seen to many announcement macros with the call coming before the action which means that another macro can interrupt it (which is what causes the failed use). When they try to use the ability they start spamming the macro which interrupts itself causing it to fail until they stop spamming.

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Originally Posted by Priya

Would you mind elaborating since I'm not sure I follow? Did they say why it would cheese the game? Would allowing macros to queue lead to rotation macros similar to what RIFT ended up with?

What about <mo>? Why would they give us a mouse over command we can't use because macros also break healing spell queues?

I'm not trying to be confrontational or anything. I legit don't understand since as it is now, things can be macro'd together or with text commands such as <t>, <tt>, <mo> etc, but the only reason it isn't common is because it's detrimental in one way or another (DPS loss, slow-to-fire heals).

Seems odd.

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Pretty much. It was a post from really long ago so I'm not even sure if I remember it correctly. But I do agree that macro could use some QoL upgrades.

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

If a Tank had a macro like that, and I was a healer DPS. I would literally just pull for them.

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