Ninja macros

[Riepah]

Part of me hopes macros only result in the Rabbit Medium...

Hopefully so. Making macros for the skills defeats the whole point of the Mudra/Seal system entirely.

[AzureZenorag13]

Hopefully so. Making macros for the skills defeats the whole point of the Mudra/Seal system entirely.

Unfortunately tho, people are lazy. the less things they got to memorize the better

[Cynric]

Unfortunately tho, people are lazy. the less things they got to memorize the better

No excuses! lol I'm with the camp of hoping macroing will insta fail. Please look forward to it !

[Felessan]

I did not put any /wait or <wait> command because we don't know the actual cooldown (would it be based on animation or something else).

Missed this part.
Anyway, I would strongly advise against using wait command in macros for offcooldown abilities as they either fails very often or you need to put excessive number (like 1.5 sec) to ensure their activation.
Both will lead to significant loss of DPS.

Thought the c was half a second

Minimum cooldown (for offcooldown abilities) is around 1 sec

[ShaolinMike]

Macroing the mudras would eliminate the ability to weave them in between GCD abilities and significantly gimp your dps.

[Vire]

Macroing the mudras would eliminate the ability to weave them in between GCD abilities and significantly gimp your dps.

You can't weave them anyway it says if you use another skill it cancels.

[JakzChurchill]

I'm planning on macroing them as part of a chotbar change, so instead of relying on the macro screwing up with wait times it just changes hotbar to the next skill leaving every other skill in place, with the last one 'Ninjitsu' changing back to Chotbar 1.

It could be set to copy like i do with sch and smn but that will cause issues if you have to stop a ninjitsu half way through, with change you can tap R1 and be back to hotbar 1.

Both Viper and wasp will be macro'd onto one button like i do with earth and fire on monk, that way you can easily switch between the 2.

[Eardstapa]

You can't weave them anyway it says if you use another skill it cancels.

From what people have stated, you can safely squeeze two in one GCD, so I'd say it means it's a 1 second CD...

[Fyce]

Macroing the mudras would eliminate the ability to weave them in between GCD abilities and significantly gimp your dps.

From the Preliminary Patch Note:

Ninjutsu
Executes a specific ninjutsu action coinciding with the combination of mudras made immediately beforehand.
If any other ability, spell, or weaponskill is used before the mudras are combined and the ninjutsu executed, the action will fail.
The recast timer will begin cooldown upon ninjutsu execution, or when a mudra timer runs out.
Shares a recast timer with the mudras Ten, Chi, and Jin.

So, yeah, you really can't do anything else beside your Mudras combo before Ninjutsu according to this statement.

That said, since you can't queue up skills with macros, you'll probably have a slight delay on the execution of a complete Ninjutsu art. So, if someone is good enough to remember everything without the use of macros, that NIN will probably have a slight advantage over a macro user.

[ShaolinMike]

You can't weave them anyway it says if you use another skill it cancels.

Ohhhh ok. Didn't read carefully I guess. Thanks for clearing that up. I think part of the fun is going to be in manually executing the mudras like a "true" ninja.
/NinjaNerdgasm