BRD macro

[Bardo]

BRD doesn't have so many abilities that it would warrant sticking a bunch of them together into a single button.

What?
We have just as many as any other Job...

ON GCD			OFF GCD			Situational

Straight Shot		Misery's End		Ballad
Windbite		Bloodletter		Foe Req
Venomous Bite		Flaming Arrow		Paeon
Heavy Shot		Blunt Arrow		Battle Voice
Quick Nock		Repelling Shot		Shadowbind
Rain of Death		Raging Strikes		Invigorate
Wide Volley		Hawk's Eye		Second Wind
			Barrage			Featherfoot
			Blood for Blood		Swiftsong
			Internal Release
			Quelling Strikes

If you use no macros, you need a minimum of 27 buttons to be effective (not even counting the typical things every other class has such as potions, food, mount, sprint, limit break, etc...)
Even ignoring the situationals, 18 buttons is a LOT when you're having to make decisions 2 (or more) times per GCD about which to press.

So I agree with EasymodeX here that telling people not to macro anything is silly.
The 11 Off GCD skills can be turned into 3 or 4 with little to no detriment to your dps.

[AniCelestine]

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26* because you can have only 4 cross-class (You had 27 abilities listed and 5 of them were cross-class)

If you're using PC, you can easily bind 1-4(5 if hands are big enough) q,e,f,z,x,(r if you take autorun off) that's 18-22 if you use ALT, and if you add CTRL, you have more than enough for 26 (27-33) + gaming mouse, Razer Naga Hex for example which gives 6 buttons more, if you're willing to sacrifice num pad's bindings, which are useless in my opnion, and with alt and ctrl you have 18 buttons more, and that'd sum up for 45-51.

You'd need hell alot of potions and foods and more than 1 mount binded to use all of those, as a bard.

And when you've played with the same keybinds enough, 1-3h for me, you'll start to get muscle memory of what is where, then it's only 'bout thinking of what you want to/should do next, and that isn't hard either, after a while.

So no. It's not silly to say not to macro anything. For PS3 it's another thing