berserk marco help

[Ranzan]

Tank with a dps macro. But nobody really make not dying now macros? Le sigh...

[Conando]

I have one for Living Dead because of the goofy rule but,I'm sure one for holmgang wouldn't hurt.

[Krylo]

Tank with a dps macro. But nobody really make not dying now macros? Le sigh...

Macro's don't work that great in FFXIV due to the inability to precisely time multiple commands in a macro. It makes things slower and, for DPS classes, is ~5% loss. For tank classes it could very easily get you killed if you macro together a couple skills to use as mitigation for tank busters, for instance, as only half of them will go off. For healing classes it can get whomever you're trying to heal killed.

So, basically, you don't see anyone making 'not dying now' macros because they'd actually be making 'please kill me as my mitigation fails to properly roll out' macros.

Berserk macros are 'okay' because there's only one skill in use, and then some party communication. They don't really interfere much with timing of abilities as the ability itself should still go off as soon as you push the button. This is also why healer raise macros are okay (which are actually okay, as opposed to okay with half quotes around them).

Berserk macros, however, are not ACTUALLY okay, because the loss in DPS over ~2.5 seconds of meaningful pacification (5 second debuff, a properly timed berserk will have your last ability hit just as pacification sets in, thus having half the pacification debuff be during GCD anyway) from a Warrior who just came down off their DPS cool down is generally so small as to be insignificant compared to a healer doing literally anything else with their time, plus the annoyance of trying to time an esuna to go off in time to clear the pacification before it no longer matters.

Which is to say they don't actually help much at all and tend to just be vaguely annoying. Especially as lots of people put sound effects in them.