Can we please cool it with the macros?

[Amaranth]

The only thing that gets on my nerves is that every WAR/PAL in this game thinks he/she has to have some sort of "Notice me senpai" macro with provoke and sounds that just spams the chat log. It is like every single duty finder I go into to.

[Whiteroom]

I only have my Raise with macro and sound. Have been meaning to add a Bene one as well.

The number of people from my hunt ls that are on blist for having obscenely long or obnoxious macros is not small though.

[NovaLevossida]

When people flood the chat box with useless text on macros ("Get ready to BURN with the fiery damnation of seven hells of righteous FLAMES! You'll roast for enternity! BURN BURN BURN!!! Fire 3!"), I can't see something important if it comes up. Worse still is when those macros distract me from mechanics or divide my attention from what I'm doing.

[KaijinRhada]

I think the only macro I have for an ability that also announces something tied with it is for Hallowed Ground only to warn people that it's up, and that's it, no sound effect, and short and to the point (probably do some other War CDs, but wouldn't be many). I imagine the only other warning macro I would have would be for a swiftcast+rez, but I don't really have those classes up.

Informative macros I don't mind, spam is irritating. If it's tied to an ability, I would prefer the message to serve a purpose and be concise rather than filling up your chat box. I get picky with tanking macros as announcing CDs is fine, but tying a text macro to ranged pulls, DPS buffs, and taunts (outside of raiding, even then I would do it over voice) is needless.

[Shadray]

I don't use any skill announce macros, don't see the point. Any half decent player doesn't need me to tell them I just used a skill.

[SecretCrowds]

I once met a Paladin that had a Flash macro with sound effects...

[Malzian]

I've seen macros like this one... 'The world is unfair, let's make it better. 1 Raise = $0. Enjoy Friend. hgjif'

[rjspencer4]

The only macro I use outside of being with friends is my provoke macro, the only reason I made it was because I kept getting paired with other tanks that couldn't swap correctly.

[Aethaeryn]

I have provoke and raise macros that I change up from time to time, but I have a /wait 1 after the action and before the party line to make sure that neither get super spammed. I think those are a lot more tolerable than the huge ASCII macros that people spam, or tanks with pacification macros that feel the need to put in sound effects on each line of a 5 or 10-second countdown.

[Gunspec]

Raid warning macros are fine, as long as they aren't too obnoxious. "raising target player" is usually nice so I don't blow a swiftcast on someone else's target. It IS a bit lame, though, when people are using macros that shout advice when it doesn't match the situation. I love when someone blows virus on an invulnerable boss, and the macro tells me to "attack now". Or when the Berserk macro tells me to Esuna in 3..2..1.. as we are walking down a hallway fighting absolutely nothing.