Is it possible to offend someone...with a macro?

[Masquerade]

I quoted some posts for an example of this... but went ahead and removed them from this comment. Decided it would be better to not point fingers but just speak generally to make my point.


There is trend in the game, that has even carried it's way onto the forums. It's very common in MMOs, so this social discord dose not even really get noticed all the time. It being so common that it just blends into the background music.

But when a group goes down, everyone want's to know who to blame for it. Which is why a lot of players are quick to point at someone else, so as not to get accused of it themselves. ---kinda like farting in the car when you were a kid. Remember the old "Who ever smelt it dealt it" ?---

I was in a group the other night that was so refreshingly different. We did very well, and only had a couple of hiccups. I forget the name of that zone, but it was in that one that takes place in a cave in the desert. After you clear each room, the portal to get into the next area, is clicking on a small pool of quicksand.
When we got to the 2nd boss which was that giant worm, the Archer dps died 2 or 3 times during the fight. After the fight was over, the healer and I both typed up a quick apology to the Archer. She apologized for not getting close enough to him in time to target and heal him before he went down. And I apologized saying that I was not sure why or even when I lost the aggro on the boss. He then told me it was not my fault. How I kept the aggro and that boss will just target random group members during the fight. Then told the healer it was not her fault either, that he mains as a Tank and he was still getting used to playing as DPS. So remember where to stand and move to get out of the way during a boss fight was something he was still getting used to.

Every pickup group is unique. When the group keeps getting killed, typically it's because some party members are refusing to alter their own play-style to fit that group. Sometimes the strongest player, can be the weakest link in the chain.

[Khemorex]

hmmm the only thing i find annoying on macros is that blib <se.2> blib gong <se.5> gong sounds that people add in to them :P specially when it is a warrior .... :P

and they spam it every 30 seconds :P

[DevilsDontFly]

I think the fact you're questioning if your macro can offend people is pretty self explanatory. With a little bit of common sense we always know if our words can really offend someone on a personal level and avoid using it, unless the "today's world" excuse happens and people decide to use it anyways. Regardless, we always know. There are so many different words in our vocabulary to be used, I'm pretty sure everyone can come up with a lot of different phrases with the same meaning without any double standard.

[loreleidiangelo]

I think raise macros are useless in general (by the time any half-decent healer reads your text they've already at LEAST used Swiftcast, if not outright cast the rez themself), but they're just plain obnoxious when someone insists on cluttering them with "clever" text that you then have the misfortune of trying to ignore for the rest of the run.

I'll take the penis moogle any day, tbh.

[CUTS3R]

I think raise macros are useless in general (by the time any half-decent healer reads your text they've already at LEAST used Swiftcast, if not outright cast the rez themself), but they're just plain obnoxious when someone insists on cluttering them with "clever" text that you then have the misfortune of trying to ignore for the rest of the run.

^This.

/10char.

[Aquaslash]

ITT: No Fun Allowed

If you are bothered by a raise macro at all, you need to stop and rethink life

[Jynx]

ITT: No Fun Allowed

If you are bothered by a raise macro at all, you need to stop and rethink life

Couldn't it go the other way around as well?

If you knowingly insult people on the regular, you need to stop and rethink life.

[Windi]

ITT: No Fun Allowed

If you are bothered by a raise macro at all, you need to stop and rethink life

If you think having fun/being funny involves the expense of others, you need to stop and rethink life.

[MeiUshu]

ITT: No Fun Allowed

If you are bothered by a raise macro at all, you need to stop and rethink life

there is a question that you should answer

Why do you have to use a text macro to rez ?

Pressing the skill(s) is enough and as mentioned by the time you press the macro and then the skills, your co-healer ( if any) has already send out the rez so you are purposedly losing time when rez just because you want to sound interesting or to make a show off.

Might want to rethink a bit why you do some stuff and if it is really relevant as I see it, no macro is relevant unless it serves the group purpose and a rez macro funny or not doesnt at all. Just me though