PLD MACROS - PS4

[Rongway]

Since I leave cool downs in a separate slot, I can manually pop these to insure they go off. In the off chance that my OGCD skills are up, worst case scenario I lose a few fraction of a second on my next GCD skill in my rotation

This is the order things have to happen for a cooldown to work.

1. You push the button.
2. You gain the buff.
3. The mob's cast bar reaches 100% and disappears.
4. You take reduced damage.

If you macro your cooldowns, you're more likely to get into the following situation.

1. You push the button.
2. The mob's cast bar reaches 100% and disappears.
3. You gain the buff.
4. You take the full damage.
5. Your cooldown fails to reduce the damage from the one hit you really needed it to work on.

The buff has to take effect before the cast bar completes. Those fractions of a second can be the difference between a 14k hit and a 20k hit with a wasted cooldown.

[kashi11]

If you macro your cooldowns, you're more likely to get into the following situation.

1. You push the button.
2. The mob's cast bar reaches 100% and disappears.
3. You gain the buff.
4. You take the full damage.
5. Your cooldown fails to reduce the damage from the one hit you really needed it to work on.

The buff has to take effect before the cast bar completes. Those fractions of a second can be the difference between a 14k hit and a 20k hit with a wasted cooldown.

So basically your saying if I need say Sentinel, then my macro which has bulwark first, would have to go through using bulwark which has an animation lock before sentinel can be used. But if Bulwark is on CD then sentinel comes out instantly? or does the system reading through the macro lose too much time?

[Martin_Arcainess]

Pretty much that, not to mention it may skip a line as well so you could use your macro and even if Bulkwark is on CD it will read that, say it's no available and then skip the line to use Senitel.

Also you should never have the need to remove any skills from your hot bar as you should be able to comfortably fit them all onto your hotbar with no issue. If you like I can show you a video of my set up with macros that I use for my PLD,DRK an WAR and they are instant and in no way a DPS loss if anything it makes playing the 3 tank class's easier.