BRD macro

[TaneshimaPopura]

I think there are really dumb people in this thread to think either the following scenarios:
1. Macro which involves having more than one GCD skill with all the other oGCD
2. People thinking that not using oGCD still which has quicker animation, puts the oGCD skill on CD earlier, animation can be cancelled by GCD skills. And has 150 -190 Potency.

Know this fact if you don't use your Bloodletter ASAP your next DoT tick will have a possibility of cause you to lose upwards of T/15*150 Potency damage and more if a River of Blood Proc happens before you put it on CD. For each second you delay Misery's end you lose T/12*190 potency damage.

Putting the following macro:
/ac "heavy shot" <t>
/ac "misery's End" <t>
/ac "Bloodletter" <t>

is in itself broken and if you have lags it will keep queing up heavy shots.

The following macro:
/ac "Misery's End" <t>
/ac "Bloodletter" <t>
/ac "Heavy Shot" <t>

will always ensure Misery's end go off fire if you have a GCD, Bloodletter off CD. Because Misery's End is our highest potency action.

[Roy_M]

Ok they round down and up, but if I place /wait 2 the next one wont go and if I place 2.5 it will round up to 3 but I the next command will go + in that second I might lose dps I can add ME or another buff/skill through hotkey is that bad too?. As many mentioned on examples without placing /waits will that mean that if you don t the next command will go as soon the previous ends? o.o Thanks

[magicninja999]

I think there are really dumb people in this thread to think either the following scenarios:

Know this fact if you don't use your Bloodletter ASAP your next DoT tick will have a possibility of cause you to lose upwards of T/15*150 Potency damage and more if a River of Blood Proc happens before you put it on CD. For each second you delay Misery's end you lose T/12*190 potency damage.

Putting the following macro:
/ac "heavy shot" <t>
/ac "misery's End" <t>
/ac "Bloodletter" <t>

is in itself broken and if you have lags it will keep queing up heavy shots.

The following macro:
/ac "Misery's End" <t>
/ac "Bloodletter" <t>
/ac "Heavy Shot" <t>

will always ensure Misery's end go off fire if you have a GCD, Bloodletter off CD. Because Misery's End is our highest potency action.

FFS THANK YOU!! But you know people still aint gonna listen...

[pandabearcat]

lol.

Oh my god.

I give up.

Please, keep using that macro and doing lower dps.

[Roy_M]

I made some Changes:

/ac "Venomous Bite" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Windbite" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Heavy Shot" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Heavy Shot" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Heavy Shot" <t>

And I use any skill that ignores GCD, I also use Bloodletter as soon is restored and I start with Straight Shot for the buffs and refresh when it goes, I ve seen a huge improvement on my skills since then thank you for taking your time to explain all this

[EasymodeX]

I think there are really dumb people in this thread to think either the following scenarios:

I think there are really dumb people in this thread who don't realize that putting any on-GCD ability in a macro disables ability queuing which results in stutter in the actual execution of said ability, automatically leading to a 5-10% DPS loss.


Edit:

That said, that's nowhere near as dumb as people writing sequential macros with /wait. That's just ... nowordsforthis.

[Roy_M]

But you can add any skill that ignores GCD on that macro, I use /wait because if I just write the lines the commands wont go 1 after the other with me adding the skills as I see fit between those secs, that makes them go one after another.

I don t see the need to insult people calling them dumb or anything if you are asking for something you actually don t know.

[Thailer]

I have zero stutter using this

/ac "Misery's End" <t>
/ac "Bloodletter" <t>
/ac "Heavy Shot" <t>

[lumpenhund]

Compare:
Previous posted macrospam at 20% or less nets you the following:
ME -> BL -> HS -> no oGCD ability (unless BL resetted within the last 2,5s) -> HS
= 5 actions possible, only 4 Actions used due to queuing filler oGCD abilities right after one another

Manual play nets you:
HS -> ME -> HS -> BL -> HS = 5 Actions possible, 5 actions used.

You even might want to use Bloodletter before Misery's End, if delaying Misery's End will not end up in you getting 1 Misery's End off less, so Bloodletter has an actual GCD more to potentially be refreshed.

Every time you use 2 oGCD skills one after another you are likely giving away one potential action that could have been used between GCDs and thus would have acted as a FILLER instead of blocking a normal GCD ability because you WILL run out of oGCD abilities at one point shortly after, even with the use of Repelling Shot and Blunt Arrow.

Only time i WOULD consider to keep Bloodletter at CD is if i had popped Internal Release and the dots are likely to just keep on resetting Bloodletter or if i dotted like 3 or more targets.


Regarding the stacking of Blood for Blood, Raging Strikes, Internal Release, Barrage and Hawk's Eye:
Flat damage modifiers like BfB and RS stack multiplicatively, if you do not believe it, do some target dummie testing.
The dex modifier should always stack multiplicatively, because dex is used to determine your damage before anything else is applied.
The crit modifier stacks with any flat dmg modifiers and any dex modifiers multiplicatively no matter how it's coded because it makes your actual dmg dealt crit more often, so more actual dmg leads to higher crit dmg.
And Barrage stacks with all the above mentioned just because it multiplies your attacks after everything is already calculated.

Best rotation for them, in my opinion:
GCD Skill -> Hawk's Eye -> Blood for Blood -> GCD Skill -> Raging Strikes -> Internal Release -> GCD Skill (usually Dot#1) -> Quelling Strikes (if you must) -> Barrage -> GCD Skill (usually Dot#2)
Hawk's Eye giving the least dmg boost with the dex available right now.
HE, BfB, RS are all at 20s duration, so they are nearly fully active for the full IR duration.
All buffs are fully active for Barrage.
You apply both your dots with full buffs.

I forgot:
I'm a ghost.

[Akuha]

I'm having a hard time taking any useful advice on bards & macros from this thread because it seems like every piece of information posted is shot down by the post that follows it.