Intimidated

[Dement]

Thanks for the feedback.

I so far am able to juggle a few powers, I can actually try to make decisions mid combat (area fx, try to stun asap if it's up.) Is Life Surge up? Try to use it to buff the last step in the combo, open up with Heavy Thrust > Blood for Blood (at my level, unlocked Dragoon last night, not even touched Jump yet) but the number of actions in this: http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wi...#Dragoon_Guide

THAT intimidates me.

That said, last night I discovered macros and <wait.#.#>. Experimenting with them to "automate" some of this, try to have fewer things to click in my gamepad toolbar.

Do not use macros to "automate" it. Macros don't always fire correctly and only operate in full seconds where as the GCD actually operates in 10ths of a second. So your macro will only fire each input every 3 seconds while the GCD is available every 2.2 to 2.5 seconds (or lower depending on jobs. I think this is roughly what a DRG ends up with at endgame) depending on skill speed. It doesn't seem like much but over the course of a 10 minute fight, which most endgame raids are around there, you will miss out on being able to about 70 GCDs which is a significant amount of damage if each skill does 2-3k (estimated as I usually play WAR). It should be about 300 DPS loss using macros to automate things. Which when jobs are doing about 2k DPS, that's a 15% DPS loss trying to automate your rotation.

Honestly, by the time you're raiding, it will be ingrained in your mind how to do a solid rotation and you won't have to sit there and actively try to remember it. If you do then spend some time at the training dummy working on it (lots of people don't do this any desperately need to).