How important are macros?

[VKhaun]

Macros do not function the same way as manually pressing the individual skills, and while I don't know much about DRG, I know that they're recommended to have a 2.2 (?) second GCD and also to double weave oGCDs in their rotation. Macros prevent you from doing this because you cannot queue actions in half-second values.

What you're describing are the limitations of the /wait command. It rounds up to the next second. A lot of guides say to include "/wait 0.5" between skills but that actually causes the game to wait a full second. This does not apply to the example I posted. If you make a macro without wait commands and spam that button/key it behaves exactly as pressing the regular buttons separately.

I hope this doesn't seem arrogant coming from a new player but this seems to be a large misconception within the community. Somehow the whole message about /wait gets squished down to "macros are bad m'kay?" and no one remembers why.