BRD macro

[Danko]

If you have problems keeping up with your rotations: OCDs, GCDs, DoTs, then macros will be of benefit to you. They take some of the thought process out of managing your skills, and decrease the buttons you have to press.

If you do not have problems manually keeping up your rotations with efficiency and you don't mind pressing lots of buttons, you will achieve higher DPS than with many of the "One Button Macros" you see floating around.

[Jotunhammer]

ah yes, I should have been more specific I guess... I was not very toughtful...

The reason I ask is this...
I am trying to optimise my dps.... ofc
so after I hit the 2 dots, I was thinking heavy shot and other things, and just have one button to watch while I move and wait for the dots to tick down.

so what is the "optimal" skill to use for maximum dps while waiting for the dots to tick down?
winbite is damage potency 60 so spamming that wont do
heavy shot is 150
straight shot it 140
VB is 100
and blodletter is 150

so here is my thinking and it might be wrong... Hit the SS(for the crit) -> VB -> winbiter and then spam heavy shot and straight shot? and then rinse and repeat is that it?

[Marenwynn]

There will be times that you want to save off-GCD abilities; and when managing buffs, there will be even more times that you'll want to save them or use different timings. It's better to just use every skill manually.

[EasymodeX]

No, it's not.

[pandabearcat]

I wish there was a way to sticky discussions.

Regardless of GCD, it is completely impossible to miss a BL proc if you use it only on oGCD.

Thus, just follow these rules

• You shouldn't macro oGCD abilities onto a GCD ability. Simply because spamming will occasionally trigger an ability you did not want. This is a dps loss
• You shouldn't macro CDs onto BL/ME, for the same reason
• BL always has priority over CDs, unless you need to refresh DoTs and a CD just came up. Even then...its debatable.
• It is a TINY dps increase to prioritize ME ahead of BL, which is why people put it that way
• You should have a separate button for BfB, so you don't kill yourself. Don't say I didn't warn you.
• Put goddamn quelling on your bars, and don't revel that you were able to pull threat because you popped everything on pull. Just don't do it.
• There is no reason to stack any cooldowns aside from waiting for Barrage for BfB.

[Bardo]

• There is no reason to stack any cooldowns aside from waiting for Barrage for BfB.

I don't think that's correct is it?

[Raging Strikes], [Blood for Blood], and [Internal Release] all interact with each other in an additive manner, so stacking those three alone doesn't do you any good.
However, [Barrage] interacts with the above three buffs (and [Hawk's Eye] as well) in a multiplicative manner, does it not?
So any time you pop [Barrage] you want to have as many of your other buffs up as you can... correct?

But what about [Hawk's Eye] together with [Raging Strikes], [Blood for Blood], and [Internal Release]?
Do they interact in an additive manner or are they multiplicative?

[EasymodeX]

That's sort of all wrong.

Old testing has all separate buffs stacking multiplicatively, because SE is cool like that.

Does need to be confirmed though.

That said, even if similar buffs are additive, IR should obviously still be used with the others because a higher chance to crit on attacks that have a 20% damage buff is good. The only buffs that you could possibly argue "don't need to be stacked" are BFB and Raging Strikes, which is still incorrect since you want both of them to synergize with IR/Barrage/Hawkeye, even if those two don't synergize with each other. Net result is that you're still using them all at the same time when feasible.

The only note is that you do not want to hold any buff for later for the sheer purpose of stacking them.

[Bardo]

If they're all mutiplicative, then it sounds like it's best to:

Raging Strikes (every other buff cycle)
Internal Release (pop every time it's off GCD and you'll hit every Raging Strikes buff cycle with the third cast)
Hawk's Eye
Blood 4 Blood (must pop before Barrage, but want it to be the last buff before Barrage so that the activation time of your other buffs causes you to "waste" less than the full 10 sec when it will be back up before the others)
Barrage

^^^ Every 90 seconds unless you're waiting on a burst phase.

[Ebon_Drake]

Don't bard macro.. Just don't...

If you HAVE to have macros simply use them for your cool downs, ie: 1 macro for your offensive 4 and 1 macro for your defensive 3..

Just don't macro please.

[EasymodeX]

Not macroing at all is pretty stupid.