BLM macros

[Berber]

OP: by your own admission you're normally a healer. You just got your blm to i90, so I'll assume you may be just starting to bring it to certain fights. You came here asking for guidance. You received said guidance. You then argue that your way is correct. Baffling.

[scarebearz]

You came here asking for guidance. You received said guidance. You then argue that your way is correct. Baffling.

Yeah... so many on this forum ask for help, but when help is given, they always know best.

[EvianEverdeen]

Yeah... so many on this forum ask for help, but when help is given, they always know best.

hi. You look funny.

[EvianEverdeen]

OP: by your own admission you're normally a healer. You just got your blm to i90, so I'll assume you may be just starting to bring it to certain fights. You came here asking for guidance. You received said guidance. You then argue that your way is correct. Baffling.

I was asking about additional macro's not about the ones I was already using and yes I do believe they are correct. WHOA we have an elitist here, watch out!!

[RegnumMagik]

As a person who plays with pressing numbers and using mouse to click at the same time, macroing is not needed. If I know I'm gonna cast any spells next with Swiftcast, I would get myself ready while casting my last spell. This gives me much more control with no down time.

I can see the benefits with macros for every other class though.

[YanderePrincess]

What you're missing is that macros on a dps class tend to reduce your dps, not enhance it.

And, why do you have Manawall and Manaward in a single macro? They defend against two entirely different things, and you rarely need them both at the same time.

[EvianEverdeen]

What you're missing is that macros on a dps class tend to reduce your dps, not enhance it.

And, why do you have Manawall and Manaward in a single macro? They defend against two entirely different things, and you rarely need them both at the same time.

Because I don't use them at all so I figure when I pop Eye for an Eye on the tank I could be protecting myself as well. Not exactly sure how a swiftcasted action reduces dps, but ok!

[YanderePrincess]

Because I don't use them at all so I figure when I pop Eye for an Eye on the tank I could be protecting myself as well. Not exactly sure how a swiftcasted action reduces dps, but ok!

I never in any way said that swiftcasting an action reduces dps, though it doesn't necessarily enhance dps either (depends on the skill you're using it, for one).

However, using a Swiftcast + Spell macro is slower than using Swiftcast and the spell as separate non-macro buttons, and is also more reliable.

The only classes where I macro two things into one button are Bard, Scholar, and Summoner. For Scholar and Summoner, it's macroing pet commands onto other abilities I use, which is reliable and dosn't slow anything down because pet commands can be given at the same time as other abilities. For bard, I do it purely because with the shared cooldowns, I like to activate Raging Strikes + Quelling Strikes together and Hawk's Eye + Barrage together, but it's unreliable and does slow me down a bit since I have to wait on the second buff to activate, and it doesn't always deign to activate despite there being nothing to disrupt the macro. I could do more dps by activating each of my buffs individually, cycled between GCDs, which is what i do on monk and dragoon, but there's so many buffs for bard, and those pairings share cooldowns, so I find ti worthwhile to suffer a slight dps loss to keep things consistant and have fewer buttons to press.

Black Mage doesn't have that problem, however. There is no reason to combine macros on blm.

If you're not using Manawall and Manaward in particular, separate situations, then you're not using them properly. These defenses are both extremely valuable in the right situations, and you'll want them not on a single macro to make use of them. Combining Eye for an Eye and Pastastasis could be reasonable, though don't they have differing cooldowns? And you don't necessarily want to be using them at the same time either.

[Gardes]

Because I don't use them at all

Is this black mage serious?