BRD macro

[pandabearcat]

Sorry, what I meant by that line is it is not necessary to save cooldowns to stack.

You will lose dps that way.

[Marenwynn]

With mod keys, it wasn't difficult for me to set up intuitive bindings that don't extend past 5RGB.

Depending on the group and encounter, the timings you want on buffs can vary greatly. For instance, on Titan I can only use Raging Strikes once to ensure it's up in time for the heart. If my group is on the slower end, I can get up to two uses of Hawk's Eye and Blood for Blood, and sometimes even three uses of Internal Release. Sometimes DPS is fast enough that I can only afford to use Hawk's Eye at the pull, but slow enough that I can use Blood for Blood twice. Or it's so blindingly fast that I can only afford to use Internal Release twice and have to hold everything else.

When heart phase hits and my FC is carrying 3-4 other players, I usually hold Barrage until closer to the first gaol spawn to get my people out of it quicker. I may even hold a Heavier Shot proc and a Bloodletter for it, depending on who's in the gaol, the speeds at which I anticipate the heart and gaol to drop, and the availability of other off-GCD abilities. And proper timing for Blood for Blood post heart is a given.

I get small decisions like these everywhere, whether it's Wanderer's Palace or Binding Coil of Bahamut, and forcing a bunch of skills into macros only makes things less flexible and less interesting. With the presence of a spell queue, having to press more buttons to get the job done is a non-issue. Most people who actually play a Bard at a high level see multi-skill macros as not much more than a liability.

[Bardo]

Most people who actually play a Bard at a high level see multi-skill macros as not much more than a liability.

That's weird because I'm on Turn5 as the only Bard in my group and I use several macros. : /

[joshsecret]

i have 2 macros. the 1 and only reason i do so is because of the limited space on my crossbar. i cant tell you how many times i have been on the wrong crossbar, not realize it, and hit the LB or something unwanted.
anyways...
1) buff macro. all attack buffs in one button. i have them staggered by length of effect greatest-->shortest. by the end i have 10-15(??) sec window of burst dmg. (cant remember)
2) the 2 bites. just makes life easy.

[Tua]

I personally like to use HS, SS, VB and WB as plain skills (no ME/BL macro'd to them) and then spam a ME/BL/HS macro in between the skills. I tinkered with having ME/BL macro'd to the GCD skills before but I found it somehow very clunky, might have been because of the nonexistant skill queue. I'm having an easier time now using 1234 for the 4 basic skills and then spamming the Bloodletter macro on my mouse between GCDs.

The only macros I use regularly are the BL macro and one that chains all DPS cooldowns apart from BfB. I've also got a couple situational ones I swap into my bars depending on the fight, the most used one probably being this:

/micon "Blunt Arrow"
/ac "Blunt Arrow" <t>
/wait
/p [Blunt Arrow] interrupt used! <se.3>

[Magnesium02]

I macro Misery's End onto Heavy Shot because it only affects the last 20% of the battle. However I keep Bloodletter separate. I prefer the control to react to it separately rather than having to mash the one button and wait for animation. I play with controller so I have one macro for all the buffs to save some room (I have a horizontal bar below the cross bar with all the macroed skills so i can see the individual CD. I also macro Internal Release in front of both bites (on separate buttons) as it has the fastest CD and I particularily want the crit boost on the dots for RoB procs.

Apart from that I only have macro for Blunt Arrow with a line for /p chat to indicate I have silenced for things like ADS. When I don't need to use communicate i switch the macro for the plain skill to weave inbetween GCD

[Roy_M]

I use this macro as brd:
/ac "Venomous Bite" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Windbite" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Bloodletter" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Feint" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Heavy Shot" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Heavy Shot" <t>

Heavy Shots until VP drops and repeat.

Then I use the buffs between those /wait 2.5 since it ignores the GCD. Same with Feint, ME and Flaming Arrow.

I mix a standard macro with custom buffs/actions as I see fit. I think we can agree not to auto everything but smashing buttons to every skill isn t the best way or at least that s how I see it.

[TaneshimaPopura]

To those who say don't use Macros for Bard.... seriously just go play another class cause you are giving bad advice on a class you are playing.

Bards don't use 1 they don't use 2 macros. A perfect bard puts Misery's End and Bloodletter on almost every GCD skill from Heavy Shot, Straight Shot, Venomous Bite and Windbite. You're just gimping yourself for not doing it. Everytime I go up against another bard and If i hear my Misery's End sound effect going off faster and more often than "THAT" other bard I know they are not using macros.

DO not freaking use /wait 2.5 on a macro geez more freaking bad advice. There is no need to!

Also who says you can't macro Monk Combos? You just put them in a reverse combo and it works 100% of the time so you can focus on positioning only. But that is another debate for another thread.

[Danko]

A perfect bard puts Misery's End and Bloodletter on almost every GCD skill from Heavy Shot, Straight Shot, Venomous Bite and Windbite.

A perfect BRD would not do this.

[Thailer]

A perfect BRD would not do this.

and again why not?