Berserk macro?

[Syzygian]

As a rule I never macro anything. Screws up your rotation on skills like zerk and leads to wipes on skills like HG/LD. Best to just communicate or... *gasp* deal with the pacification.

[Tyrial]

*gasp* deal with the pacification.

Blasphemy! Obviously it's better to flood party chat with annoying macros that draw focus away from the fight to read what's being announced just to have a 5 second debuff removed.

[aleph_null]

As a rule I never macro anything. Screws up your rotation on skills like zerk and leads to wipes on skills like HG/LD. Best to just communicate or... *gasp* deal with the pacification.

+1. I'd rather eat the 5s pacification than risk berserk not activating in time which would probably result in a bigger dps loss. Tbh if I ever see a war dying because of not being able to IB during pacification I'd laugh so hard.

[Torunya]

*gasp* deal with the pacification.

This! So much this. I have an innate hatred for those loud constantly-bleeping Berserk macro's everyone are using. Unless you're doing Savage, that 5 second dps loss won't mean jack anyway.

[Ragology]

This! So much this. I have an innate hatred for those loud constantly-bleeping Berserk macro's everyone are using. Unless you're doing Savage, that 5 second dps loss won't mean jack anyway.

[Torunya]

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I'm crying.

[ArdorGrey]

This! So much this. I have an innate hatred for those loud constantly-bleeping Berserk macro's everyone are using. Unless you're doing Savage, that 5 second dps loss won't mean jack anyway.

If you're a decent war it's only a 2.5 second dps loss. And if you're savaging your healer should be good enough to A: identify you need esuna without a macro, or B: use that GCD to throw up a dot of their own anyway.

So for the most part, as a WAR main, I think these macros are stupid and signs of bad WARs.

however, the recent bard change has me conflicted. Even "good" bards tend to only pay attention to mages and foes, and ignore their ally's TP unless specifically asked for tp. And now they have access to an ability that basically begs to be used in synergy with WAR, that most will probably ignore as promptly as they ignore army's paeon. This has me more conflicted than ever over whether or not these obnoxious macros actually serve some purpose.

There's a difference between being selfish and being smart, and before this patch I'd side with you and say said WARs were just being selfish. As of this patch are they being selfish, or are people angrily scoffing and ignoring the macros still in the right, or only able to prop themselves up on self-righteousness at the cost of party efficiency?