Quote Originally Posted by whiskeybravo View Post
Again, there are occasions where you get lucky with the server tick and it's not as noticeable. There are also situations where it can cause your group to wipe, which is why I've chosen to avoid them for any particularly important abilities. This happened to me when I tried to use a macro for shirk.

Nevermind the fact that the above example is a horribly inefficient way to use Spirits Within. There may be times when you want hold Spirits so it fits into a FoF/Trick Attack window.
When using your skills you have to keep in mind that, no matter what input you will use, there is still that "all global cooldown" for any type of action, which is about 0.2 or 0.3 sec between each ability. This contributes to the feeling of the "animation clipping" which causes you to think that there is a delay in macro between two actions in it, but when you use two separate buttons for this you feel it less of a annoyance because you have to travel your finger from point A to B.
Also you dont have to put SW into the fast blade, you could put it into the Rage of halone and it will work just fine. You still saves 1 button in your gamepade you could use for other useful macro.