macros: bad for DPS?

[saeedaisspecial]

That being said, the myth that macro'ing destroys your DPS makes me chuckle. When my PC was being shipped to Hong Kong while I emigrated, I spent three months stuck on a PS3 controller, and given my main is a Dragoon, had little choice but to macro. Often, I am the only Dragoon alive throughout the entire fight, almost certainly because the others are too busy looking at their toolbars and worrying about which button to press next.

Dead DPS don't DPS. Particularly prudent when you're stuck with 300 mdef in a game of spell-spewing bosses.

"Bad players die therefore I'm right because I'm playing bad too."
Macros ruin your DPS, it's a fact. Saying "Well they help me not die!" is silly, because you're pretty much admitting your inability to play properly.

Also the fact that you think playing on a controller means macros are necessary is just wrong.

[Amberyl]

Macros ruin your DPS, it's a fact. Saying "Well they help me not die!" is silly, because you're pretty much admitting your inability to play properly.

Tell that to the guys playing perfect DPS rotations on a Razer keyboard/mouse in Coil, and topping the parser list.

[Atreides]

Tell that to the guys playing perfect DPS rotations on a Razer keyboard/mouse in Coil, and topping the parser list.

They use different kind of macros which do trigger the skill queue.
You can set your keyboard and mouse macros to trigger buttons which is just like you press them manually so the skills get queued.
We're talking about ingame macros here and they do reduce your DPS because your skills don't get queued, it's a proven fact.
Thats why I think it's silly that this game doesn't queue macro'd skills because people will always find a way to do so if they want to min-max and will resort to third party tools.

[Amberyl]

Thats why I think it's silly that this game doesn't queue macro'd skills because people will always find a way to do so if they want to min-max and will resort to third party tools.

Exactly. And the evangelists here preaching against the use of macros are missing this entirely. I think they'd be surprised just how many of the people that they consider capable players are using hardware macros to allow them to concentrate on dodging damage markers. No one wants to admit that's why they bought their branded mouse or keyboard in this game, however, due to the stigma the rounding change has brought to macro use since it came in.

Regardless, it happens, and the players using them top the parsers regularly.