What job to play? please advise

[Xehmnus]

I never really bothered much with macros in EQ2 so i suppose im more accustomed to handling the amount of abilities

Unfortunately, the button bloat issue is pretty much across all jobs. It's going to seem crazy at first, but things will piece themselves together soon enough once you get experience with the abilities. Honestly, I'd say just start with whatever job seems to appeal to you the most, get a handle on things, and do what you can to make it easier.

You can macro abilities together in this game, but... probably not how you'd like and it's considered a no no to do so since it typically results in a dps loss over all.

Also, while it's not a perfect setting, PotD can be nice for getting a handle on your skills as you level in there. It starts you off at level 1 and you do level quickly in there. (Different from your real level). Will give you room to play around with your skills and get used to things. Also a good way to check out different jobs and you'll get actual experience for leveling up too so that may be worth checking out.

[Deprive]

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The button bloat being across all jobs it is quite unfortunate. How do macros with abilities work? for example can i make a macro that does the following. Use Hakaze -> Jinpu -> Gekko and another macro that uses Hakaze -> Shifu -> Kasha ?

[Xehmnus]

You can, yes. However... you'd have to use wait timers between each ability in the macro which screws with your overall skill speed. In the end, you'd be losing out on a lot of dps. Fuethermore... you wouldn't be able to weave your oGCD abilities since they'd break the macro.

[Deprive]

You can, yes. However... you'd have to use wait timers between each ability in the macro which screws with your overall skill speed. In the end, you'd be losing out on a lot of dps. Fuethermore... you wouldn't be able to weave your oGCD abilities since they'd break the macro.

Yea, that would be not good.