macros: bad for DPS?

[Amberyl]

Macros don't work in decimal seconds. Only whole seconds.

Which is pretty ridiculous, given the number of players who hardware macro and do so accurate to two decimal places. The macro system should be changed back to how it was pre-launch. If someone can do it on their £200 keyboard with no penalty, the same facilities should be open to all players. Particularly now PvP is gaining a footing in the game.

That being said, the myth that macro'ing destroys your DPS makes me chuckle. When my PC was being shipped to Hong Kong while I emigrated, I spent three months stuck on a PS3 controller, and given my main is a Dragoon, had little choice but to macro. Often, I am the only Dragoon alive throughout the entire fight, almost certainly because the others are too busy looking at their toolbars and worrying about which button to press next.

Dead DPS don't DPS. Particularly prudent when you're stuck with 300 mdef in a game of spell-spewing bosses.