What would it take for us to get a proper macro system?

[Xandos]

There are so many reasons I used macros in WoW. One was for easy rotations for classes that had them, the pally 69696 rotation was one of them.

The biggest reason for me though was cleaning up buttons on the bars. My warrior had a macro that read what stance i was in(battle, berserk, defensive) and also read if I had a shield equipped. This single macro then was able to hit the appropriate tank or dps cooldown based on all of these factors. Instead of having two or three buttons on my bars all of the time for me to manually click I was able to shave that down to 1 button AND make sure that I didn't accidentally hit the wrong cooldown.

Another reason I used macros was to have multi use buttons for a single spell. I'm a clicker by nature(don't hate me!), so I made left click cast a spell on my target, right click cast on my focus target, and utilizing the already built in feature pressing Alt and left click casted the spell on me regardless of targets. Again all of this was able to be done with a single hotbar space.

The WoW macro system used the Lua scripting language and was extremely flexible. It allowed people that could utilize it to focus more on their positioning and mechanics than staring at their UI or fingers. You need to have solid knowledge about your class to properly design these macros though. I think a better macro system in FFXIV could increase the skill ceiling for some players while not increasing the skill floor for all players.