Hey there!

Had an interesting subject come up today regarding one of my macro's. I was told that basically, my macro is causing a bit of a further GCD by how I weave them together, and this might cause trouble later on for me if I want to continue tanking. However, I'm not quite understanding conceptually how it's negatively effecting me and I wanted to see what the general issue is with it.


Right now, I have two macros:

Quote Originally Posted by Macro: Self-Healing Cycle
/micon "Berserk"
/ac "Bloodbath" <me>
/ac "Unchained" <me>
/ac "Berserk" <me>
/ac "Internal Release" <me>
/wait
/p Self-healing cycles : IR, Zerk, Unchained, Bloodbath
This first one is my Self-healing cycle. Basically, I use it in order to quickly maximize my buffs by constantly bashing it until everything's up. As my GCD comes down, I am hitting the next skill in my chain so that I can quickly go back to being off-GCD and getting the remaining (usually two) skills up. It's similar to the concept of weaving from Dragoons rotation, but a lottabit more spammy to get 2 actions up per GCD.

Quote Originally Posted by Increased Healing
/micon "Convalescence"
/ac "Convalescence" <me>
/ac "Thrill of Battle" <me>
/wait
/p Conva+Battle: Increased Healing!
This second one is much easier to use in between my GCD's, and it stacks two skills I view as favorable to one another (Basically a self-heal and a way to increase healing on myself.)

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Would anyone be able to explain the concept to me that makes this bad? My understand according to Hayley (Awesome dragoon I ran with who brought this to my attention!) is that it is basically reducing my reaction time by action-locking my character more than necessary. I might be misunderstanding it, but I would like to know if I need to split my Warrior macro's up some more ^^