Evidence that Macros Do NOT Cause GCD Delay or Lost Casts

[LilimoLimomo]

My friend on Hydaelyn… Remember that comment of mine where I called the title of this thread clickbait?

The moment you mention concepts like "do not cause GCD delay" and "lost casts," you've put yourself in the world of people who clear Savage raids when they're current — who clear them Week 1, even — and people who clear Ultimates. And that's because those claims I've put in quotes don't matter in Duty Finder content; that content is so "easy" that they don't matter, that you can instead focus on not giving yourself carpel tunnel or whatever.

So if you want to claim that "doing a fight in a game is easy," well, claiming Savages are Ultimates are "easy" puts you in rarefied company, and still further rarefied company if we consider only those folks for whom that content is actually easy. And at that point, a shady person in a dark alley should be able to corroborate everything, if you get my drift.

You're misunderstanding me. I replied with those words in a specific context, and I'm in no way saying doing all fights are easy. The person I was replying to didn't request an Ultimate. They asked for "a fight". And the vast majority of players when asked to perform the non-specific task of "complete a fight", will be able to do so.

[Themarvin]

You're misunderstanding me. I replied with those words in a specific context, and I'm in no way saying doing all fights are easy. The person I was replying to didn't request an Ultimate. They asked for "a fight". And the vast majority of players when asked to perform the non-specific task of "complete a fight", will be able to do so.

You are litterally punishing the team be it normal, hard, ex, savage, Ultimate content by using macros on everything, it is so noticeable when you are in it all and someone is not not doing the damage costing time and more for the team.

[Venks]

I have some ideas for this macro.

/hotbar copy PLD 1 GLA 1

You may not need to run this line every time. It is required only after updating hotbar, so it can be removed.

When I used hotbar copying macros, there were corner cases that overwriting by the last line didn't work for some reasons; executing another macro, being wiped out, transferring to another area, etc. I recommend creating a backup macro and place it on another hotbar. For example macros for restarting combo from 2 or 3 can be used for this purpose. These can be placed in hard-to-access slots since they are rarely used.

Thank you for the advice! I will edit my macro and add a backup like you've suggested!

And thanks for even going so far as to share a video of you doing the new raids! On your channel with 1.21k subscribers, no less! (congrats on that achievement, I can't imagine finding so many people who are interested in something I do!)

I only started using macros thanks to this thread, I really appreciate all of the attention you've brought to FFXIV macros and what they can and can't be used for. It's opened my eyes to new possibilities.