/micon "Nature's Minne"
/ac "Nature's Minne" <tt>
/ac "Nature's Minne" <tt>
/ac "Nature's Minne" <tt>

/micon "Palisade"
/ac "Nature's Minne" <tt>
/ac "Nature's Minne" <tt>
/ac "Nature's Minne" <tt>

*note the action line is repeated to help force the command through quicker, sometimes macros can cause this jarring delay otherwise.

These will apply Nature's Minne / Palisade to whoever the enemy you're attacking is currently attacking (one of your tanks hopefully!) so you can quickly and easily apply these buffs to them without having to fiddle around targeting them. These are the only macros I use. I strongly recommend not using any for weaponskills that you're not weaving. You can get used to it with practice /

Role actions should by default be Palisade, Second Wind, Refresh, Tactician, and Invigorate (for raiding anyway). Some fights such as Delta 3.0 S and Sigma 3.0 S will require a silence, in which case you should drop one (usually invigorate since Tactician should give you enough TP) for it. Tanks can also take a silence, and NIN has one built-in to its kit, but doesn't hurt to have a backup.

When Wanderer's Minuet has just a couple of seconds left, spend all your Pitch Perfect stacks or they're lost forever, even if it's just one. Since combined song length is 90s, and their cds are 80s (along with Raging Strikes), you can end Army's Paeon at about 10s left and go straight back to your strong Minuet + Raging phase. Paeon is pretty weak. Song order should be roughly Minuet 30s > Ballad 30s > Paeon ~20s > repeat. That said there are some situations where you'll find it's better to stay in Paeon longer, like a boss going untargetable shortly after you'd otherwise go into minuet and waste high dmg potential. Good example is Kefka in O8S; never activate Minuet before an odd numbered Graven Image (and side note refresh your dots just before he becomes untargetable...though this is getting digressive and too fight-specific :P).

Try and avoid a situation where you'd refresh dots without straight shot up, this can be avoided with Straight Shot being applied at roughly the start of each song. Ideally you always want procs to go to Refulgent Arrow. It should go without saying, but with the Empyreal trait at lv68, make sure you're not wasting the free proc it gives. IE make sure Bloodletter is on CD before using Empy in Ballad, and spend PP stacks in Minute before using it if you're at 3