Madruck,

I get what you are trying to do here but if as you say in a simple macro two lines only you experience a 2% loss and every additional line compounds that further to the point of a 13% loss wouldn't it be better just to learn to play without them rather than rely on a crutch. A crutch that you will one day need to remove in order to, as you say, be competitive in that arena? Macros do have their place in this game mostly for crafting and even in that area they can and do screw up due to latency and the way the game handles them. I'm sorry but unless macros are changed to allow for queuing of skills they will always be worse than simply activating the skills manually and while they are like that advocating their use is not something I or anyone striving to be the best at their chosen job should support.