You are comparing apples and oranges there.... FOR BRD, macros are fine.... your BL should never be off CD, it is the main damage skill and when its up you should use it, but ya just macro BL and ME to everything, well your 4 damage skills, the 2 dots, HS and SS, make ME 1st, BL 2nd and 3rd is w/e skill you are macroing to... Other classes like MNK and DRG are very hard to make macros for because of their combos... BRD doesn't have any cept for the AOE crap that hardly ever procs.