Monk Macros with Proper Rotation!

[Caitlyn]

I watched both videos, but I have three things which actually bothers me:

1. Why are you creating/using macros for a level 54 Monk? Why 54? What about Level 60? Shouldnt you level your Monk to 60 first before making some (weird) macros/comparision videos? So, you have no experience in playing Monk at Level 60, rather having the right gear and stats for accurate parses. Its like having a Level 10 Conjurer making a Healer-Guide for Endgame-Content. Level your Monk to 60, get some gear and make parses on a Level 60 dummy with your macros. Then we can talk.


2. In 2.X the average DPS for a Level 50 Monk (ilvl 120+) should be around 500-600 DPS. Its easy to say, that a macro will only cause a DPS-loss of 2% when your parsed numbers are extremely low. But numbers are important for endgame/raids, which means you should have at least an ilvl of 210+ and a DPS of around of 2000+ (including Level 60). There is no place for speculations like "if you do xxxx amount of damage you lose x% by using a macro". In fact, macros are slower, more error-prone and makes you forget how to play your class properly. You cant deny that!


3. Why using macros at all? Featherfoot is quite useless and Steel Peek/Shoulder Tackle should be used very carefully (maybe some enemies must be stunned later?). Blood for Blood can be dangerous when getting hit by a strong raid-wide AoE. Your macros will let you lose control over your own skills. There is no need, especially you can reach any important skill without breaking your fingers. Actually you only need around 15 buttons, 7 or 8 of them permanently. Monk is pretty easy to play. Dont be lazy, play without macros, Rookie!

So lets say you have the best Monk player in FF14, can you promise me that that Monk will have a 100% uptime in dps with no mistakes while having to throttle lets say for kindness only 18 buttons(Monk has alot more based on buffs and X-Class Abilites) do you think that a player who uses no macros wont screw up his rotation by accidentally pressing the wrong button compared to a person who does macro and only has 12 buttons for discussion sake? Really?

The best Monks wont accidentally pressing the wrong button. In fact, its quite hard to press the wrong button as a Monk. You have combos with 3 skills each. You have your Off-GCD and CDs which you should be used since when they re ready. How can you "accidentally" press the wrong button? Thats even impossible for casual players ; )

So I can understand your feedback within this subject(btw I did use your information and added it to my video so thank you for that) but it still does not negate the facts of my data on the falsehood that using any Macros on Monk is a massive dps loss...its not true! You do lose dps, even if it is 5% on your example....that does not negate the fact that again according to the numbers since humans make mistakes that the dps and the overall numbers will pretty much end up the same since the Macro using player is less likely to make such errors.

First of all, your damage numbers are so low, that its impossible to see a difference between macro and no-macro. Second, its a mistake to use macros at all. And at last, your macros arent perfect either. They are causing more mistakes than any human can do by accident.