MAcros for every Machinist.

/macroicon "Rapid Fire"
/ac "Blood for Blood"
/ac "Hawks Eye"
/ac "Raging Strikes"

/macroicon "Wildfire"
/ac "Rapid Fire"
/ac "Wildfire"

/macroicon "Clean Shot"
/ac "Reassemble"
/ac "Clean Shot" <t>

/macroicon "Ricochet"
/ac "Gauss Round" <t>
/ac "Ricochet" <t>

/macroicon "Reload"
/ac "Quick Reload"
/ac "Reload"

/macroicon "Head graze"
/ac "Suppressive Fire" <t>
/ac "Head Graze" <t>
/ac "Leg Graze" <t>

The above graze macro will use suppressive fire (stun) when in range or Head Graze (silence) when out of range.

Rapid Fire icon is linked to the Damage Up macro to correspond with Wildfire.

Gauss Round is ready when Ricochet cooldown is at half.

Hawk's Eye

You can't pop three oGCDs inbetween two GCDs without significant clipping and I'm pretty sure pre-loading BFB, Hawk's Eye and Raging Strikes is a DPS loss compared to popping then individually. My MCH isn't 60 yet though so I haven't looked into rotations too much.

Great, now the bad dps is going to get worse because all the lazy idiots are gonna macro.

Can't speak for others but I never use skill macros in final. Tried it once and it was just wasted time and pretty annoying to play with. Pressing the buttons manually is much faster and doesn't produce constant error messages.^^

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Originally Posted by KeluBehemoth

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Originally Posted by KeluBehemoth

/macroicon "Clean Shot"
/ac "Reassemble"
/ac "Clean Shot" <t>

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That's the only useful macro that i'm using now. Also, don't forget the recast:

/macroicon "Clean Shot"
/recast "Reassemble"
/ac "Reassemble"
/ac "Clean Shot" <t>

Do not use macros for DPS abilities. You are going to have a bad time.

Dont. Use. Macros. Please not! Otherwise you went full retard.

Especially, please dont use that "Quick Reload + Reload"-Macro. Its a waste of ammunition. And the last macro with "Head Grace" should be better on cooldown when you really need it.

The only macro i use is this one:
/macroicon "Hot Shot"
/ac "Hot Shot" <wait.25>
/e Damage Buff down in 5s <se.10>

Its a nice reminder to keep your damage buff on, even in busy situations.

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Originally Posted by HeavensSword

Do not use macros for DPS abilities. You are going to have a bad time.

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More specifically, macros are exempt from being queued. In a normal situation, if I press an action button before my client has received the "all clear" from the server for my GCD finishing, it's queued up so that it immediately sends a signal to the server that I'm using an action as soon as the "all clear" signal is received. Macros don't have this capability, meaning that it has to wait until after the "all clear" signal has been received before sending the action use signal to the server. The delay is miniscule, but it adds up; I've seen DPS losses of 25% reported from using macros over doings things manually.

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Originally Posted by Elizabeth

That's the only useful macro that i'm using now. Also, don't forget the recast:

/macroicon "Clean Shot"
/recast "Reassemble"
/ac "Reassemble"
/ac "Clean Shot" <t>

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People like this are the reason high lvl MCHs get kicked. If a macro seems like a good idea to you I don't want to see your dps, lol.

for the love of god, if you are going to use any of these, DON'T make it the reload one. that's a waste of ammo.
the best use of mch ammo with both reload and quick reload is reloading, SplSh,SlSh,ClSh, SlSh, SplSh, ClSh, quick reload, SlSh, ClSh. this lets you get off 3 clean shots with one reload and one quick reload. if you loaded 6 bullets immediately, you'd consume two of them at best on clean shots, and clean shot bullets are wastes. here, you only waste one ammo on a clean shot (the first one), so by loading six bullets you waste one extra ammo and lose one clean shot.

The only viable Machinist-specific macro is one that queues up your Auto-turrets so you can effectively weave them without potential clipping from the click marker being picky about showing up. As others have said nearly all damage-linked macros will be a loss. The only others I have macros for are other targeted skills like Flaming Arrow - for the same reason as above, to weave easier without clipping from the short window you have.

I use the one for buffs (in a slightly different order), as well as the Rapid Fire/Wildfire one (as I generally only use them together and they have the same CD) and I have no issues dealing damage as expected. For me, this was less an "easy mode" and more of a way to save some hotbar space (as I'm on PS4, and already use 3 hotbars for combat alone; 2 normal, 1 PvP specific)

Yes, if you try to macro everything, you will suffer a DPS loss, but let's not be so doom and gloom about something that IS helpful IF you do it right.

Validity and usefulness aside, the OP is attempting to help other MCH players, and if no one else says it, thank you.

Macros are not good for max-DPS, just that queues up your Auto-turrets is a bit helpful.

Was there any reason to bump this year old topic? Macros are bad for DPS. Period. Hell, even a Provoke Macro is bad.

Until SE can make macros activate in a manner where they can cancel animations, they will forever be bad.

Don't use skill or buff macros for Machinist. Just don't. The only macros which I feel are viable for MCH in any circumstance are these two that I use because ground targeting is a bitch and this allows me to queue in a Rook between two cast-time skills with 0 GCD delay.

Rook Buddy
/micon "Rook Autoturret"
/ac "Rook Autoturret" <me>

Bishop Buddy
/micon "Bishop Autoturret"
/ac "Bishop Autoturret" <t>
/ac "Bishop Autoturret" <me>

I also play on controller as someone whined about earlier and I have absolutely NO NEED to macro ANY SKILLS together to perform respectable DPS. i220 pulling ~1300-1350 on the SSS dummies. I can down the A6S one with lucky procs;;;

My hotbars for controller:

Main bar along with my buff bars which do nothing but show me recasts for skills.
http://puu.sh/p1YF2/195ae941aa.jpg

Expanded bars (L2>R2 brings up the left side, R2>L2 brings up the right side)
http://puu.sh/p1YFq/bffb117ce8.jpg

Tab bar (tap R1 to cycle between main and this one)
http://puu.sh/p1YFZ/f921de82a4.jpg

Only thing I'm lacking is the ability to toggle Promotion to cut down the dps loss from using it, but I feel that's not something I really care to try and master, since alt Job.

The macro on the buff bars is:
http://puu.sh/p1YJp/4b38d224d1.png

Do not macro buffs.
Do not macro GCDs.
If you do, you are bad.
Stop doing it.
There's no grey area.
There's no good enough excuse.
There's a vast amount of hotbar space, even on controller.
Stop using skill macros.
STOP USING BUFF MACROS.

I do not use macros for any class UNLESS it's a double weaved ogcd that won't clip, such as bfb & bl on DRG

And since I need credentials....I play on controller & my 221 MCH does 1600~ (according to the SSS HP/time calculator)& I can down up to A7S & with lucky crits A8(stupid rng), & using two skills under a macro in any case is a bad idea. I did however used to have a macro for my buff rotation but it was....it was just a bad idea. The morale of this entire post, Macro + DPS = Not smart

Isn't necromancy frowned upon in Eorzea? Why rez a year old thread?