Mouseover healing macros - some problems

[dragonseth07]

This hivemind annoys me. There are advantages and disadvantages of it. So long as you know how they work and can make the decision that the advantages are more valuable to you, they're fine. Especially for healing, which is really more about precision and timing than squeezing out every possible fraction of a GCD.

It's about should vs is.

The game (in my opinion) should have a good macro system. Macros should be usable in combat and not cost you GCD's. We should embrace macros, like the modern game this is.

But the game isn't that way. Macros have a huge cost to them that, generally, isn't worth paying. Any loss of GCD's is enormous, and SE knows it. That's why they keep macros this way, to keep them intentionally bad.