Making a targeting macro for Shadow Flare a good idea or no?

[Rongway]

You can macro it to achieve the autotarget effect while still allowing ground targeting when no target is selected.

Shadow Flare:
/ac (Shadow Flare) <t>
/ac (Shadow Flare) <t>
/ac (Shadow Flare) <t>
/ac (Shadow Flare) <t>
/ac (Shadow Flare) <t>
/ac (Shadow Flare) <t>
/ac (Shadow Flare) <t>
/ac (Shadow Flare) <t>
/ac (Shadow Flare) <t>
/ac (Shadow Flare) <t>
/ac (Shadow Flare) <t>
/ac (Shadow Flare) <t>
/ac (Shadow Flare) <t>
/ac (Shadow Flare)
/micon (Shadow Flare)


Mind line 14.


As far as the merits of such a macro, recall that the most compelling argument against macroing attack abilities is that macroed abilities cannot be queued, and therefore macroing attacks results in an accumulation of lost milliseconds as the fight continues. A ground target ability cannot be queued either; when you spam the button during the GCD, you're not queuing the ability but rather the invocation of the ground target reticle, which you must then click onto your target location a second or two after the circle appears. This macro will perform that placement much faster than you can, and still allow you manual placement when no target exists.

[Ragology]

This is incorrect. The behavior of a ground target ability when using a plain ability button is to invoke the ground target reticle. You must macro it to achieve the autotarget effect.

mmhm, I'm talking about the macro. I don't think an unmacroed ground target skill works the same way. Was just helping out Diabolic Mike since he wrote

"Certain fights you might want to place it pre-pull so no target."