Macro Command Timing

I've heard time and time again that Macroing skills in your rotation ends up hurting your dps (especially monk). Part of that reason is by using wait times, another is because you can not press the button prematurely

So, was messing around with a macro. Long story short, I found out how to enable a macro to be used before its ready.

So to better understand the macro: How long does it take a macro to skip its first command if it is not available?

There is a small queue about .5 seconds you can use to input commands before it is possible to activate them. I'm not sure if that's what you're talking about.

As far as I know, there seems to be a .1 second period before it accepts a new command. I'm not certain exactly what you are doing, but after 2.1, the '/wait' command without any specific number afterwards also works to separate distinct commands and reduce wait to the lowest time possible. It only works for some actions though, so I can't recommend it without knowing what specific abilities you are putting in the macro.

An alternative is to use append /hotbar subcommands (copy, remove, & change)to switch out commands for your next combo. It's something to keep in mind, although you will probably have to build in some redundancy in case of misses and interrupted combos.

so tell us about your findings

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Originally Posted by Methos76

so tell us about your findings

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Using Bard as an example, i have macrod

/ac Heavy Shot
/ac Heavy Shot
/ac Heavy Shot
/ac Heavy Shot
/ac Misery's End
/ac Bloodletter


This way i can press the Macro Button slightly earlier as if I would a regular skill, and it will still fire off Heavy Shot. 3/4 seems to be a good number for it, so that Misery's End/Bloodletter doesnt come out too late.

So, if what Anova said is correct about .1 second skip in between commands, this allows me to fire the macro .4 seconds before its ready if i plan to use Heavy Shot. Likewise, its a .4 second delay after Heavy Shot is used (if macro is ready to be used) to fire either Misery's End of Bloodletter

That being said, we can manipulate wait times. Wait times are rounded up, so 2.5 = 3 so on and so forth. If I use 5 unuseable commands before/after a 2 second wait, I can essentually turn it into a 2.5 second wait. IF shes right