BLM macros

[scarebearz]

I find the combined manaward/manawall macro to be usefull, aswell as a combined virus/lethargy macro. I also have my sleep macro'd to include an ignore target. I have swiftcast and flare macro'd, which is fine because if I want to use flare while swiftcast is cooling (almost never), it just takes half a second longer for the macro to progress through the swiftcast action to flare.

"just half a second longer" for many on here would be a big negative on it's own.

[EvianEverdeen]

"just half a second longer" for many on here would be a big negative on it's own.

Which is ridiculous, because "half seconds" go out the window the moment you have to interrupt casting mid-rotation in order to dodge something, which AM can't handle, when it's on cooldown, or otherwise can't be avoided.

[scarebearz]

Which is ridiculous, because "half seconds" go out the window the moment you have to interrupt casting mid-rotation in order to dodge something, which AM can't handle, when it's on cooldown, or otherwise can't be avoided.

Reasoning like this is why there are so many hopeless blm's xD

[EvianEverdeen]

Reasoning like this is why there are so many hopeless blm's xD

It's not theorycrafting, it's truth in reality. What, you never got stuck in the middle of something that was unavoidable in that current moment or are you just impervious to all instances of such? You're not as good as you think you are. Also, mistakes happen. You're not going to be perfect every time you play.

Guess you came out of the womb a perfect BLM too. Tell me, how did they get you out of there with that goofy witch hat?

[scarebearz]

It's not theorycrafting, it's truth in reality. What, you never got stuck in the middle of something that was unavoidable in that current moment or are you just impervious to all instances of such? You're not as good as you think you are. Also, mistakes happen. You're not going to be perfect every time you play.

Guess you came out of the womb a perfect BLM too. Tell me, how did they get you out of there with that goofy witch hat?

Adding delays by using macro's is not unavoidable wasted time.

You don't personally know how good or bad I am at playing BLM.

You came to this forum asking for help, then once advice is given by multiple people you act all "I know best" / "know it all".

It's a poor attitude to have.

[EvianEverdeen]

Adding delays by using macro's is not unavoidable wasted time.

You don't personally know how good or bad I am at playing BLM.

You came to this forum asking for help, then once advice is given by multiple people you act all "I know best" / "know it all".

It's a poor attitude to have.

You're right. Thanks for putting it into perspective.

[kujowaltz]

Reasoning like this is why there are so many hopeless blm's xD

Here's a scenario for you. MP is at 80% (lets say 700 MP away from full) and you have umbral 3. What do you do? go

[scarebearz]

Here's a scenario for you. MP is at 80% (lets say 700 MP away from full) and you have umbral 3. What do you do? go

So much missing info for a "scenario"

Assuming general run of the mill rotation (thunder II already cast), during single target, with no cd's and no proc's up.

Depending when the last tick was, with my current SS I would either hardcast Fire III (so it ticks to full mp while casting) or cast Bliz I (Scathe if need to move) then Fire III, some occasions when I know a tick is very near, but maybe wont quite happen during Fire III cast, I will delay a small fraction of a second before starting the Fire III cast, to ensure it does, so i dont need to wait 1 GCD (Bliz I / Scathe) before returning to astral fire.

So I guess your going to tell me I'm doing it all wrong? go xD

[kujowaltz]

So I guess your going to tell me I'm doing it all wrong? go xD

No I just wanted to know if you knew what you were talking about before I decided which direction to go with this response. The lack of info was for you to fill in. :P

Great reply by the way, but you gave me the exact thing I was looking for. You'll "delay a small fraction of a second". You're concept of "delay" is, at the minimum, 0.2 seconds (based on nerve response) and then factor in that you are not Billy the Kid. So going back to your post I replied to, you referenced half seconds as being the reason there are so many useless BLM out there. Yet even you admit there are times when waiting "fractions of a second" (which aren't actually as small as they seem) can not only be irrelevant to DPS but sometimes necessary.

not trying to be a dick, I just like debating people :P If you really wanna be a superior BLM you need to beef up those myelin sheaths bro, keep your central nervous system at optimum

[scarebearz]

So going back to your post I replied to, you referenced half seconds as being the reason there are so many useless BLM out there. Yet even you admit there are times when waiting "fractions of a second" (which aren't actually as small as they seem) can not only be irrelevant to DPS but sometimes necessary.

There are some times when it can be useful to delay slightly (in my opinion), the difference with this situation is that it would be Intentional, with some of the macro's mentioned you would get getting Unintentional delays that could easily be avoided by doing it manually.

I'm not saying your a useless BLM, but there are a lot of useless BLM's and unintentional delays / misuse of skills are certainly part of the reason for this. Though the biggest reason for this is them not knowing when to cast spells (e.g. when needing to dodge on titan ex) or just a poor rotation.