Too much crap on the screen

[Granyala]

Well it does make sense to announce certain tank cooldowns.

The DRK thing that grills you if you don't get enough healing would be an example.

Never understood why tanks macro'd taunt though (Raidboss tank swaps excluded). The dude that pulled aggro will notice if the mob stops hitting him.

[ruskie]

The DRK thing that grills you if you don't get enough healing would be an example.

Easy to notice - big giant red buff icon - if it goes away without a big giant grey icon you have nothing to do, if there is a big giant grey icon - benediction and move on.

This is really my main reason to level up all jobs - it helps a lot to understand what certain cooldowns do - if I'm healing during a pull and I see a tank pop a CD and I know what it is I can adjust - i.e. will a regen work and I can DPS a bit or will I need to keep topping them up more.

[Granyala]

Easy to notice - big giant red buff icon - if it goes away without a big giant grey icon you have nothing to do, if there is a big giant grey icon - benediction and move on.

This is really my main reason to level up all jobs - it helps a lot to understand what certain cooldowns do - if I'm healing during a pull and I see a tank pop a CD and I know what it is I can adjust - i.e. will a regen work and I can DPS a bit or will I need to keep topping them up more.

It is naive to expect every random healer you encounter to have that kind of cross class knowledge. That's why I understand such macros.

[Gamer3427]

Easy to notice - big giant red buff icon - if it goes away without a big giant grey icon you have nothing to do, if there is a big giant grey icon - benediction and move on.

This is really my main reason to level up all jobs - it helps a lot to understand what certain cooldowns do - if I'm healing during a pull and I see a tank pop a CD and I know what it is I can adjust - i.e. will a regen work and I can DPS a bit or will I need to keep topping them up more.

It is naive to expect every random healer you encounter to have that kind of cross class knowledge. That's why I understand such macros.

I agree with Granyala. Not to mention that if you're not playing as a WHM you have to more actively heal against it to keep the tank from dying, particularly if they're still taking damage, since we SCHs don't have an instant full heal skill, nor do ASTs if I'm not mistaken. Granted that unless it's a particularly heavy pull, a DRK shouldn't have to use Living Dead for anything short of a tank buster that they weren't prepared for, but during those times a macro is understandable because it helps draw attention to the fact that you have to put your all into healing the tank to keep them alive....

I'm perfectly fine with macros on rarely used skills, or at least some of them. I've never seen use for a Provoke macro though, but I'm guessing it's just one of those things that someone used once and that taught other tanks that maybe they needed to use it, and it spread from there. The only skill I currently have a macro for is reviving, which is a simple "/yell Reviving <t>" for 24 player content to help cut down on multiple people wasting swift-revive on the same person. Any skill you're going to be using except in the most extreme circumstances though, probably doesn't need a macro....

[Evangela]

I blamed Naruto.

[karateorangutang]

The only things I macro on tank is my level 50 cooldown ( Holmgang, HG, Living Dead) and provoke ( in raid settings only).

Provoke is nice just because it gives a visual and audio cue for you to disengage or let the other tank get off a solid hit on the mob so we aren't playing ping pong at all. Just takes out some of the error in that situation.

[Zephyranthes]

I was searching for this before too. Flying text only for your character, sadly, there's no option for it.

[Xanikk999]

I was searching for this before too. Flying text only for your character, sadly, there's no option for it.

It's things like this that have me wonder if the developers even play this game sometimes.

[LordHadi]

It's things like this that have me wonder if the developers even play this game sometimes.

Can't agree more. Doesn't make much sense to either show all damage effects or just remove them all including mine. I don't want to see other players' damage and numbers flying all over my screen lol

[Granyala]

I agree with Granyala. Not to mention that if you're not playing as a WHM you have to more actively heal against it to keep the tank from dying, particularly if they're still taking damage, since we SCHs don't have an instant full heal skill, nor do ASTs if I'm not mistaken.

I would never EVER waste a powerful 7m CD for something when a few large heals will do the trick. Oo