5.3 A response to the AST "balance" changes

[Doozer]

Every oGCD (off global cooldown) skill/ability has a buffer window of roughly 0.5 seconds, macros have no buffer window which means you are most likely clipping into that window you have to do oGCDs while keeping your GCD rolling, each oGCD has a window where no actions can occur, as far as I know, your GCD has a time after the GCD finishes where an oGCD is delayed, I think by roughly 0.7s, each oGCD after that also has 0.7s cooldown so you can get 2 weaves of oGCDs before keeping your GCD rolling, leaving room for 2 weaves after any instant cast GCD.

Using macros for weaving Play or Minor Arcana would most likely make you clip because of not being able to buffer the next oGCD, resulting in non-optimal gameplay. That isn't even to mention that using macros for Play and Minor Arcana is essentially impossible on Controller because of the limited amount of hotbar space you have.

You're barking up the wrong tree if you think I care about 0.7 second optimization or whatever. I don't do Savage/Ultimate because I find it too repetitive and boring. So I don't think I really need to optimize things down to fractions of seconds. There is more to the game than Savage and Ultimate, you know that right? Either way, I don't have issues with skills 'clipping' or anything. I don't just mash buttons like a baby.

And, I like that you ignored my first post saying how I was aware of it not being useful for controller users. Read everything I say on the subject before responding to me, please. You're just wasting your time.

[NozomiHoshiaki]

You're barking up the wrong tree if you think I care about 0.7 second optimization or whatever. I don't do Savage/Ultimate because I find it too repetitive and boring. So I don't think I really need to optimize things down to fractions of seconds. There is more to the game than Savage and Ultimate, you know that right? Either way, I don't have issues with skills 'clipping' or anything. I don't just mash buttons like a baby.

And, I like that you ignored my first post saying how I was aware of it not being useful for controller users. Read everything I say on the subject before responding to me, please. You're just wasting your time.

That was an aggressive response, one of which I did not expect. I merely provided information about how the systems work, and macros are unbufferable, if you don't care about savage content then yeah, you probably don't care about this change to AST whatsoever, nor do you have any issue using macros for combat despite them being far worse the majority of the time compared to having bufferable actions.