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    Danko's Avatar
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    Sep 2013
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    Gridania
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    Character
    Nebo Jones
    World
    Gilgamesh
    Main Class
    Marauder Lv 70
    If you macro your main ON global cooldown abilities, then you potentially delay your Global Cooldown skills by 2x your latency every single global.
    In short fights this won't make much of a difference at all. In 5+ minute long fights, it could mean as much as 10% lower dps even with average latency.
    We have a winner!

    Macroing OFF Global Cooldown Abilities onto your Global Cooldown abilities is not a DPS gain because of the delay it causes to your Global Cooldown. Which in and of itself is a direct DPS loss but also cannibalizes straighter shot damage due to less heavy shot spam over time.

    If you absolutely insist on making a one button macro for your Off Cool Downs, make a separate one for them and weave them in between your GCD. But even then, you are sacrificing situational optimization to do that.

    The only real good reason to use these types of one button macros is if you do not care about optimal DPS and just want to spam one or two buttons for passable DPS without having to think too much about it. Depending on the player and the level of consistency with which you can keep up with your abilities, this could be a DPS increase for you. This is not optimal DPS for the job, however.
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    Last edited by Danko; 11-16-2013 at 05:18 AM.