Question regarding patch 5.3 Sleeve Draw

[Atmaweapon510]

Tangential question: I have a macro crossbar that targets and plays on a specific party member and then flips back to my main crossbar. When I'm playing in a full party, I can tap R1 to access my crossbar press one button to target and play on that member, and it swaps back.

Does this actually end up clipping if I double weave like how Ninja Mudras use to work, or is this instance viable with AST? The current drawback seems to be mistiming it so that play never goes off, but I still flip back to my main hotbar.

[Seraphor]

Tangential question: I have a macro crossbar that targets and plays on a specific party member and then flips back to my main crossbar. When I'm playing in a full party, I can tap R1 to access my crossbar press one button to target and play on that member, and it swaps back.

Does this actually end up clipping if I double weave like how Ninja Mudras use to work, or is this instance viable with AST? The current drawback seems to be mistiming it so that play never goes off, but I still flip back to my main hotbar.

Macro's are unable to queue skills, which means if the precise milisecond that Macro is trying to play the card, you are unable to (still in animation lock or have just used another oGCD <0.5~1s ago depending on latency) it will fail. Then the next line of the macro that swaps your hotbar back will kick in.

You could mitigate this a little by repeating the /ac "play" <#> line a few times, so that it will have multiple chances to get it off before you swap back.

Otherwise play around with different set ups.
I don't use macro's for anything that targets party members on AST. Instead I macro the DPS skills to target of target.
e.g.
/ac "Malefic" <tt>
/ac "Malefic" <t>
It will first try to use it on my targets target, if that's not viable, it'll use it on my target. (again, I repeat each one a few times)
This way I'm always targeting a party member (can focus target the boss to watch for cast times) and have become more proficient at quickly playing cards by tabbing down the party list.
All macro set ups have a downside, and mine is that my dps skills have a slight delay, but this isn't a huge deal because AST does the least personal dps of any job, and any dps lost by the slight delay on Malefic is made up for by not fumbling card plays.