"Wait" command in Macros

I've been experimenting with macros to remove a few hotkey requirements for a couple of skills i always use back to back (like Savage -> Rage for Paladin, or Thunder -> Aero for casters). The macros work fine, but is there something strange/irregular about the duration of the "wait 2.5" command?

/macroicon "Savage Blade"
/ac "Savage Blade" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Rage of Halone" <t>

That macro works 100% fine but it feels like the wait "lags" at times. Sometimes the Rage goes off immediately, sometimes it feels like there's a 0.1-0.2 second delay. I'm loathed to use them as keypresses do feel simply faster, but is there something I'm missing? Is it purely a visual thing or do Wait commands run off a weird server tick.

Wait commands are rounded down as they don't accept decimals, on purpose. What happens is that it probably waits just long enough to to trigger the 'ability queue', which you can queue an ability to go off half a second before the GCD is done.

It rounds up. Your 2.5 wait is actually 3 seconds, meaning that it's faster to do it manually. Combos don't give bonuses if the first attack misses anyway, so I sometimes have to do the lead-in attack more than once, which a macro won't do for you. If that and the slightly longer delay are okay with you, though, then have at it. :)

Edit: You might also feel like throwing a stun in the middle of the combination to stop something bad from happening, but it's unreliable anyway since the gladiator stun is part of the global cooldown.

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Originally Posted by Tirocupidus

It rounds up. Your 2.5 wait is actually 3 seconds, meaning that it's faster to do it manually. Combos don't give bonuses if the first attack misses anyway, so I sometimes have to do the lead-in attack more than once, which a macro won't do for you.

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Ahh that makes sense - and I tried the wait at 2.4 and it didn't work at all so presumably that rounds down to 2. Right, so I guess macros with wait only really are worth using if you're macroing -spells- with a 3 second cooldown.

Thanks for the clarification! Guess I'll move around some other spells to free up some hotkeys elsewhere and keep the main combo moves manual.