BLM macro question

[ShinryuReishiki]

Any macro including an on-GCD skill has the potential to induce delay. Say you cast Fire, 2.5s GCD. You press Fire again when you still have 0.5s left, you'll begin casting Fire as soon as the first is finished. If Fire were part of a macro, if you pressed it at 0.5s left then nothing would happen. You would have to press it after the previous GCD completely ended in order to begin casting it, and unless you can somehow perfectly press it at the exact moment every time, you're adding small delays with each cast when using a macro.

The problem is, that unlike on a PC where you can spam the F key and continually face target even while casting (from what I understand at least), there is no way to set that up to work on PS4 with a controller.

Can just press it once; it will persist even through multiple casts until you move, change targets, or press it again.

[Woggers]

If you must use a macro (which I strongly discourage) for fire I would only use that once and then use the unmacroed fire until you have to move again. That way you won't lose your ability queue.

[Skeith-Adeline]

I'm on PC, but I use controller. I have 2 completely similar hotbars except one entirely face target macro'ed. I ONLY USE IT during T11 add phase. I try to avoid using it by using Procs to move further ahead of the Cube.

Macros prevent you from precasting lol.