War Macros for Stance Dancing

[repoe]

For the issue when pressing to early I have individual icons for abilities on my Ui that I use to monitor cooldowns for abilities on 2nd tab since I play on ps4. For control mapping on this macro it would be LA(U,D,L,R).

La being left analog, U= triangle D= X L=square, etc

[whiskeybravo]

The only thing I dislike about these macros is that if I press either too early in a GCD, the hotbar will change but Defiance/Deliverance aren't activated. Other than that, these are ace and free up a lot of hotbar space.

Yea, I've had it happen a handful of times. As long as you are withing the 10 sec cd it's easy enough to just press the button a few times to make sure the macro goes off. What sucks is when you don't catch it within the 10 sec, and pressing either one again turns the stance off and you lose stacks. Only happened a few times but that's especially annoying.

[SpecialKK]

I read at one point that using skills in macro is bad. Can someone explain why it is? I was basically thinking of doing something similar but with DRK and it's branching from hard slash

[Perzeval]

I read at one point that using skills in macro is bad. Can someone explain why it is? I was basically thinking of doing something similar but with DRK and it's branching from hard slash

Because if you stack up skills in a single macro, every skill after the 1st one is delayed by a little bit. If would net you a slight performance loss, but it's acceptable if you are not trying to min-max everything and need to make space for hotkeys.

It can also be a problem if you are using oGCDs before using the macro, it seems that the system doesnt queue up the macro for execution if you press the oGCD and the macro simultaneously. Just spam the macro a few times to be sure.

[SpecialKK]

Would macro using Spinning Slash and following that with chotbar command be ok then since there's no skill stacking?

[stoxastic]

Would macro using Spinning Slash and following that with chotbar command be ok then since there's no skill stacking?

General rule of thumb is to not macro any skills on the GCD as you cannot queue macros one after another and you'll end up losing out of DPS this way. It's very noticeable. Most of the time I would still advise against any ability macros outside several circumstances (WAR stance macro, SCH/SMN pet macros)

Yea, I've had it happen a handful of times. As long as you are withing the 10 sec cd it's easy enough to just press the button a few times to make sure the macro goes off. What sucks is when you don't catch it within the 10 sec, and pressing either one again turns the stance off and you lose stacks. Only happened a few times but that's especially annoying.

Yeah since you cannot queue up macros the only thing you can really do here is mash it until the stance actually switches. If your hotbar change replaces your Deliverance macro with your defiance macro, you'll need to also put in a wait command before swapping hotbars.