Can we please cool it with the macros?

[Evangela]

I hate macro message for Raise & Resurrection.

It embarrasses people who's getting raised.

[Zaft]

We honestly don't care when we could be using those 5 seconds to save someone else's life rather than making it so you don't have to sit there for 5 whole seconds (heaven forbid).

You're lowering the WARs DPS because you're too lazy to press a single button. If somebody is going to die from casting Esuna, either the WAR timed his Berserk poorly, or you utterly fail at healing.

I hate macro message for Raise & Resurrection.

It embarrasses people who's getting raised.

You're getting embarrassed over dying in a video game? Really?

[Zfz]

As tank, Provoke macros are useless for tank swaps. Believe it or not, tanks don't need Provoke macros. When it's time to swap, I just stop attacking. I don't have to watch for when to stop, I just stop. It's not that hard. Tank swap is a collaborative process, any tank that keeps munching their buttons when another tank is trying to take over, should go L2P.

Provoke macros are more useful to healers than to tanks, who may find it useful to get a note that someone's taking over the boss.

[Ashkendor]

The only macros I find don't find aggravating are the ones where the tank pulls the boss. Countdowns before pulling r gud.

This is pretty much the only macro I use in most content. I have a Bennu macro for T12 and a macro to give my Mumble info in the party chat. My pull macro does what I need it to do, though - it gets people's attention, letting them know that I'm about to pull. It also pops my buffs so all I have to do is jog up to the boss and smack it. I guess I just don't see a point in putting a bunch of pretty text on all of my skills. I actually had problems with Provoke not going off properly when I had text attached to it. I used to have a macro to let the party know I'd used Spirits Within to silence something, but that was back in 2.1 when High Voltage was actually more than a mild annoyance to the raid.

Some macros are OK. Raise macros can be useful, but I wouldn't want to see a SCH macro text on each Lustrate. I ran into a Ninja in Dragon's Neck that had a text macro for literally every single one of his skills. We asked him to stop using the macros and he told us "If you don't like it don't read it." I don't get why you'd think spamming is A-OK and that the party should get over it. It's not like we can blacklist you so we don't have to see your dumb crap.

[Caiera]

I can honestly say that I have NO macros at all for any of my classes
Never needed them, never wanted them
I prefer to play with skill and not announce it to the world :P

[Neuflune]

I hate macro message for Raise & Resurrection.

It embarrasses people who's getting raised.

The party would know you're dead anyway? I have a Resurrection macro, written on /say so that the healers will know that I (as a summoner) am raising the player so that the healers won't have to jump in and use up their Swiftcast/MP. It's not one of those "BY THE POWER OF CTHULHU I COMMAND YOU TO STAND UP" macros though. Just a simple [skill] => [target] one.

But yeah, really long or pointless macros, especially in party chat, are annoying.

[Gyson]

In the end, the biggest problem with macros (especially when paired with sound effects) is that you're drawing the attention of every party member away from what they should actually be focusing on (health bars, telegraph warnings, cast bars, positioning, cooldowns, etc) and pulling their attention towards the chat box. Thus, whatever it is they're supposed to read had better be incredibly important. Even when it's important, it's better when it's as concise as possible so that the reader can return their attention to all the other critical things they're ignoring while looking over your message.

Macro users should ask themselves 1) "Is this message critical enough to warrant endangering everyone with a distraction?" and 2) "Have I conveyed my message in a concise manner?". I find that most macros fail on both counts.

[Acyd]

As a WAR i have a macro letting healers know Convalesence is up.

Figured they want to know when their heals are 20% stronger.

[Rhaja]

I have two macro's

DPS GET!!! and TANK GET!!!! for Ramuh EX.

Needless to say, I do feel obligated to hit them three times minimum each. both have different sounds too =]

I enjoy joke macro's, though the only annoying one I saw was a BLM that had "If I die, play Wu-Tang at my funeral" fore Flare.

[Buff_Archer]

A couple days ago I was somewhere that a SCH had a macro announce when they used Sacred Soil. Like duh the bubble may be transparent but it's not invisible.