Quote Originally Posted by Amberyl View Post
You can't claim the top tier are some idyllic group of players who only ever do things manually, because this simply isn't a blanket truth.
You're posting about idyllic situations. How do I know high end players don't do this? Because this isn't a a game where everything can be perfectly calculated to run smoothly with a macro.
The "ideal" rotations in this game have been perfectly timed and calculated by players to get maximum uptime/DPS. They work perfectly on dummies, but not against encounters with monsters, because of AoEs that need to be dodged, adds that need to be killed, phases that require holding DPS.
You need to be flexible enough in combat to account for such things, there's a reason we haven't automated everything in life, because human judgement needs to be made.
Say you're in a fight, you have to dodge some AoEs and stuff, you start to fall behind in the "perfect" rotation, you need to make adjustments to make sure nothing drops off. Limiting yourself to a rigid macro is not going to allow you to work around these changes that need to be made.
Smart, high end players realise this. Nothing in this game requires so much focus that automation is necessary. There's a reason high end players are high end, because they can do it all. Go look at other games, where high end players in games such as starcraft are hitting insane amounts of actions per minute, and are still able to focus and plan out a game to victory.