PLD Advice - Skill bloating?

[Nedkel]

Could you think of any REALLY efficient way to do that though?
Personally, I see multiple cooldowns with different durations, different downtimes, and different effectiveness so wouldn't that be bad in a lot of situations where a healer makes one too many an 'oops' and dies, or has an unfortunate disconnect?

I'm not saying it's not possible btw, I'm simply stating I don't know how to make that macro and NOT lose the effectiveness of each defensive utility

You could merge in the order you wish to be executed. With each button press of the macro it will execute one action from the list, so for example you press once you activate convalescence, then second time you activate sentinel and so on.
You could also merge few others like Circle of scorn with total eclipse, that way the first one will be circle of scorn and then after next button press eclipse will go.
You could also merge spirits withing with any GCD ability you want, or requiescat with holy spirit.
I have them, its easy.

My deffensive cd macro is this :

/macroicon "sentinel"
/ac "sentinel"
/ac "rampart"
/ac "bulwark"
/ac "convalescence"
/ac "anticipation"

You could edit it if you want, from top to down each button press will activate one CD after another.
You could put sentinel after rampart or convalescence, whatever you like.

The other one spirit withing i have with fast blade

/macroicon "spirits within"
/ac "spirits within"
/ac "fast blade"

So using fast blade will activate the CD skill first, but i have to press it again to do fast blade, you could put any GCD in the place of fast blade you want.

As for AOE abilities, it looks for me like that

/macroicon "circle of scorn"
/ac "circle of scorn"
/ac "total eclipse"

You press once you activate CoS, pressing again will use eclipse until CoS will be up.

Same you could do with requiescat and holy spirit (i dont use it personally, but maybe i will set it up later)

/macroicon "requiescat"
/ac "requiescat"
/ac "holy spirit"

With those macro you save about 6 buttons.

/macroicon ""
Is a command that will show you the skill you want to be shown on the macro button.

This is how it looks like for me, i have no problem with button bloat at all and i am playing on ps4 pad.



I just set up the separate action bar for CD's just for the sake of knowing their cooldowns.