Quote Originally Posted by Drakkur View Post
First of all, macros are fine, mashing your buttons like a maniac is not.

It takes a ton of practice and tricking your brain not to button mash, but you will become a better player and much more efficient.
I think maybe once in 100-200 GCDs I'll mess up and delay myself 1 second.
Except you are slowing down your GCD's by using macros (because you can't queue macros for attacks). Therefore it is a DPS loss to use macros.

This is easy to test. Make a macro that just contains Heavy Shot and go shoot a dummy and count how many heavy shots you fire off in 5 minutes. Do the same test with just the base ability Heavy Shot (no macro) and you will fire more shots in those 5 minutes. You should also immediately notice a difference in how fast they are firing. A bard friend and I tested extensively and noticed that around every 5-6 GCD's I would lap him and gain an entire Heavy Shot GCD when I was using the base ability and he was using a macro.