Theres not enough macro space to play Ninja.

[Smells]

inb4 people complaining they can't macro crappy Naruto-based phrases using /y due to lack of macro space

/ac "Mercy Stroke" <t>
/ac "Misery's End" <t>
/ac "Haymaker" <t>
/ac "Heavy Shot" <t>
/ac "Bloodletter" <t>
/ac "Repelling Shot" <t>
/ac "Blunt Arrow" <t>
/ac "Raging Strikes" <me>
/ac "Blood for Blood" <me>
/ac "Internal Release" <me>
/ac "Barrage" <me>
/ac "Hawk's Eye" <me>
/ac "Quelling Strikes" <me>
/ac Mantra <me>
/micon "Heavy Shot"

/ac "Mercy Stroke" <t>
/ac "Misery's End" <t>
/ac "Haymaker" <t>
/ac "Straight Shot" <t>
/ac "Bloodletter" <t>
/ac "Repelling Shot" <t>
/ac "Blunt Arrow" <t>
/ac "Raging Strikes" <me>
/ac "Blood for Blood" <me>
/ac "Internal Release" <me>
/ac "Barrage" <me>
/ac "Hawk's Eye" <me>
/ac "Quelling Strikes" <me>
/ac Mantra <me>
/micon "Straight Shot"

[Magnesium02]

/ac "Mercy Stroke" <t>
/ac "Misery's End" <t>
/ac "Haymaker" <t>
/ac "Heavy Shot" <t>
/ac "Bloodletter" <t>
/ac "Repelling Shot" <t>
/ac "Blunt Arrow" <t>
/ac "Raging Strikes" <me>
/ac "Blood for Blood" <me>
/ac "Internal Release" <me>
/ac "Barrage" <me>
/ac "Hawk's Eye" <me>
/ac "Quelling Strikes" <me>
/ac Mantra <me>
/micon "Heavy Shot"

/ac "Mercy Stroke" <t>
/ac "Misery's End" <t>
/ac "Haymaker" <t>
/ac "Straight Shot" <t>
/ac "Bloodletter" <t>
/ac "Repelling Shot" <t>
/ac "Blunt Arrow" <t>
/ac "Raging Strikes" <me>
/ac "Blood for Blood" <me>
/ac "Internal Release" <me>
/ac "Barrage" <me>
/ac "Hawk's Eye" <me>
/ac "Quelling Strikes" <me>
/ac Mantra <me>
/micon "Straight Shot"

I'm a Bard and this made me physically wince.

[Smells]

I'm a Bard and this made me physically wince.

now play bard without this macro..

[Exstal]

now play bard without this macro..

Like any intelligent Bard?

[StouterTaru]

Like any intelligent Bard?

That is an oximoron.

But seriously, I need to have more macros so I can send out party speak every time I do something.

[ShaolinMike]

That is an oximoron.

But seriously, I need to have more macros so I can send out party speak every time I do something.

Oh god please no. Macros for important notifications is fine, but the players who /p [insert obnoxious text] with every ability as if we're watching a DragonBall Z episode make me want to shoot myself.

[Riepah]

That is an oximoron.

Oxymoron*
If you're going to make fun of other people's intelligence, please avoid spelling mistakes in the process.

[Magnesium02]

now play bard without this macro..

When I started 2.0 Bard, I had 3 macros - 2 putting bloodletter and misery's end in front of Straight and Heavy Shots, and one with all the buffs in one macro. After a while I dropped the bloodletter from the macro to get used to triggering it manually when it procced but kept misery's cause it only affected the last 20%. After reading threads on here and reddit about the effect of macros substantially lowering DPS due to reduced efficency of GCD, I dropped the 2 macros altogether. I then rearranged by hotbars (controller user) and set my buffs separately as well. Since then my DPS has improved SO much and I can respond to changes in battle phase much better.

Basically those macros were like training wheels. When you know how to ride, you remove them. The two you use are so enormously inefficent, I can't even ....

[Smells]

that's too many more buttons to map if u don't macro the attacks. keep it simple and use macros so that u only attack with 3 sets of 1-4 buttons

[Arilia]

If you REALLY need to do something like that, the appropriate way to do it is something like this:

(For GCD skills)
/macroicon <skill>
/ac <skill>
/hotbar copy NIN 3 NIN 1

(For Non-GCD skills)
/macroicon <skill>
/ac <skill>
/hotbar copy NIN 4 NIN 1

Then you put your rotation skills on hotbar 3, and your off-GCDs on hotbar 4 and make sure these aren't shared in the settings. You should also put a macro that returns you to hotbar 3 in the first slot of 4, for when you decide you don't have anything off-GCD to do right now. Use Hotbar 2 for situationals that you may want to cast at any point. It's still a large number of macros, but it will keep your most common skills at your fingertips once you get used to your buttons doing different things at different times while forcing you to ACTUALLY learn your class.