BLM macros

[blackermage]

While I feel like OP is arguing just to argue, there still might be some questions unanswered for newer players.

My two cents:

1) Macroing Swiftcast
Pretty much useless. Along with being slightly slower than manually casting, you will usually be running into 1 of the following situations:
- Large pulls of AOE (think brayflox HM speedruns). If you're doing a double / triple flare at the end, you want swiftcast for the last flare. Thus, the macro isn't going to save any keybind / help.
- Single target prolonged fight without much movement. In this case it's fine
- Single target fight that requires movement (EX primals, new coil, etc). That macro again just uses up keybind as you will need to use swiftcast separately.


2) Macroing Defensive CDs (Manawall, Manaward, Aposcatastasis, Eye for an Eye, Virus)
As a BLM, it depends on if you're doing progression content (relative to each person) or not. If it's farm content or if the group is overgeared, do whatever you want with cooldowns.
However if it's a new fight, every one of these -ARE- useful and needs to be used separately (i.e. not macroed). Many wipes will happen when there's unexpected burst going onto your tank or huge AOE that hits DPS because the fight is unfamiliar.
Helping out as much as you can with these CDs (virus on adds, eye for an eye for incoming burst phases, manawall and manaward so the healer doesn't need to heal you at all) so that your group can progress should be expected from everyone.


3) Macroing Aetherial Manipulation
You want to use this most whenever there's forced movement and stacking (think Ifrit/Titan EX, Turn 6, 8, 9, etc).
However this spell is quite hard to use in time without macros (finding a player to jump to, switching target to them, use, and then switching back to boss). Find a macro that works for you, such as the mouseover and get used to it.