Are macros necessary?

[Garotte14]

I 100% agree with this. I just take the macro as the WAR reminding themselves of how long they have until they can sit on their thumbs for 5 seconds.

I don't understand this. First, let me say I'm not a warrior and it's the only job I haven't leveled. Only at 15 so I'm not defending anything, but how is that acceptable? If you are purposely going out of your way to not do your job, that makes you the worst type of player because you're being bad by choice. It's a game and ppl have different play styles. You don't have to like them all. Some tanks mark mobs, and some don't. Well I don't need marks as a dps because I know which target the tank is attacking, so I guess its ok to then just purposely attack the mob marked 3 instead of 1 just because he annoyed annoyed me because I don't like to be told which mob to attack. That's just plain ignorant.

[Atoli]

If you are purposely going out of your way to not do your job, that makes you the worst type of player because you're being bad by choice.

90% of the time, I have better things to do than despell the 1 1/2 seconds debuff he has left.
The remaining 10%, I totally do it for tanks who are not being annoying about it. The problem is that many macros are ALSO actively bad by choice.
So you have newbies in the moogle fight and mark the moogles in the first phase in order for the newbies to know what to attack. Oh hey, second phase begins and the tank spams his stupid pull macro that displays all the numbers as a countdown on him, actively destroying any markings we set before
Oh, you are trying to explain something essential in chat or even just have a nice conversation with someone? Here, have my 15 lines macro about my debuff ending, complete with any sound effect the game has offered me to use so any immersion the BGM might have built up is gone!

If people actively destroy my enjoyment of the game, I don't feel to bad about annoying them back, as childish as that might sound.

[FoxyAreku]

I don't understand this. First, let me say I'm not a warrior and it's the only job I haven't leveled. Only at 15 so I'm not defending anything, but how is that acceptable? If you are purposely going out of your way to not do your job, that makes you the worst type of player because you're being bad by choice. It's a game and ppl have different play styles. You don't have to like them all. Some tanks mark mobs, and some don't. Well I don't need marks as a dps because I know which target the tank is attacking, so I guess its ok to then just purposely attack the mob marked 3 instead of 1 just because he annoyed annoyed me because I don't like to be told which mob to attack. That's just plain ignorant.

This.

Please use more berserk macros, warriors. That's the only kind I would really like to see more of, hopefully with a sound effect. My bard loves having a reason to use Wanderer's Paean.