How many oGCD can I press at once?

So many buttons now. I know macros don't work because of .5 second delay but I was thinking there should be a hardware solution to where you can key bind something to your mouse to simultaneously duplicate the effect of pressing multiple keys on the keyboard at the same time.

My question is first, does the game allow multiple oGCD abilities to trigger simultaneously? Would be nice if I can have a mouse button trigger Bio, Fester, Rouse, Spur with just one tap.

You wouldn't want Bio and Fester to happen simultaneously because Bio itself has a short delay before appearing.

You can only use 1 oGCD at a time.

Generally you can use one comfortably between GCDs, and two if you have good ping.

Animation lock pretty much makes it so that you can't use multiple oGCD abilities at the same time.

One. Animation locks prevent you from making action for at least .5 seconds.
This results in rigid gameplay. Especially when you got more than 2 damage boosting oGCDs to use, so you'd be spending time waiting for those to activate rather than something more sensible like Jump.

Like others have said, I usually find that more than 2 and your GCD is ready. Going for a third only delays your next GCD action because nothing registers immediately.

Sounds like no dice for my idea. :(

So many buttons to press its fairly intimidating as a summoner.

I believe you can set up a Macro to use an oGCD 0.5 seconds after using a previous oGCD.

So you can hit the GCD, hit you button for using 2 oGCD's back to back, then hit your next button for your next GCD.
In theory, that would cut back 1 button press.

I am not very good with Macros though and never really use them so this might just be wrong too.

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Originally Posted by HealerGuy

I believe you can set up a Macro to use an oGCD 0.5 seconds after using a previous oGCD.

So you can hit the GCD, hit you button for using 2 oGCD's back to back, then hit your next button for your next GCD.
In theory, that would cut back 1 button press.

I am not very good with Macros though and never really use them so this might just be wrong too.

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Nevermind the ten year necro; the necroing post is wrong.

You cannot write a macro to activate two oGCD actions with 0.5s between them. You cannot wait fractional seconds in a macro. You can verify that fractional waits get rounded to the nearest whole number of seconds using this macro:

Code:

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/mlock
/cd 6
/wait 5.5
/e <se.9>
/wait 3
/cd 6
/wait 6.4
/e <se.9> <wait.3>
/cd 6 <wait.5.5>
/e <se.9> <wait.3>
/cd 6 <wait.6.4>
/e <se.9>

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This macro starts a 6 second countdown and tries to wait 5.5 or 6.4 seconds before playing a sound effect. The countdowns will end at the same time that the sound effects trigger, 6.0s later, despite the attempts to wait 5.5 or 6.4 seconds.

I agree that you cannot write a macro with 0.5s interval, but it is possible to wait fractional seconds within a macro. I regularly use a macro that waits 0.23s (just toggles XHBs, not activate actions). Each line in a macro has a wait time of [inverse fps] seconds. In theory, you can make a macro to activate two oGCDs with 0.5 interval between each, as long as the frame rate is under 28fps. It's not practical at all.