Are macros necessary?

[Rawrz]

Personally I like when a war gives me 5 and 1 second notice for berserk. It helps me time fey caress.

Macros can be wonderful if you use them right.
Repeating lines help a macro queue, since every .05-.1ish seconds, it will try to activate it on each line.
I personally love what I call gateway or proxy macros.
As an SCH I juggle 4 main hotbars and a back hotbar. A healing hotbar and a dps one for each fairy.

When I am on my healing hotbar and I hit Cleric Stance, it moves me to the fairy appropriate dps hotbar. It does not actually activate cleric stance, but the catch is, cleric stance is in the same slot, so pressing the button twice, as normal players often will, I have changed to my dps hotbar and I queued cleric stance. The same is healing. My dps hotbar has adlo, physick and lustrate setup to attempt to use the skill in the macro, but also to change to the fairy appropriate healing hotbar. To some this looks like horrendous madness, but to me it's a beautiful machine that keeps me pressing the core buttons.

Made this and thought I'd share here too:

There actually IS a way to macro this. It's /additionalaction or something along those lines. Look it up in text commands when making a Macro. You can remove one skill and add another. I have that set for my DRG when I swap between PvP and PvE - I keep Mantra on for PvE, and I use Foresight instead in PvP. I can get you the actual macro lines I use for it tomorrow! C:

I made one myself actually! Thanks again so much xD.

I chose the lightbulb for my macroicon but none really matters.

/Macrolock
/echo You are switching your cross class skills. The following skill will be disabled:
/recast "Stoneskin"
/recast "Blizzard II"
/aaction "Blizzard II"
/aaction "Stoneskin"
/aaction "Blizzard II" on
/chotbar action "Stoneskin" 8 13
/chotbar action "Blizzard II" 8 13
/echo Your current Crossclass has been changed to the following:
/recast "Stoneskin"
/recast "Blizzard II"


xD Its Macrolocked, because its kind of slow and I wouldn't want it to mess up. The game just cant do this action as quickly as hotbar/text commands. Bar 8, slot 13 is just where mine is on my cross hotbar (ps4) and youll have to enter your own if anyone wants to use this. If on PC, use /hotbar instead of /chotbar command.