in game optional tools

[Aramina]

you do know optional things like macros are never bad right since its optional if you dislike it you don't have to use it right

I never said you couldn't use it. I said it was a bad idea, and likely not something they would likely add because of it getting potentially close to bot scripting.

[Callinon]

I never said you couldn't use it. I said it was a bad idea, and likely not something they would likely add because of it getting potentially close to bot scripting.

Well let's be real there: bots don't need that functionality to operate and it doesn't really help them.

About the only game I've played where a castsequence-type macro was useful was Rift, but only because it allowed spell cascading AND you could legitimately have a rotation with 50 abilities in it because of how their class system worked.

In WoW... eh, I tried it for a while when I was first learning the game, but it didn't take long to realize it was a bad idea if I ever wanted to like... do well. I feel the same thing would happen in FFXIV. It's just not that useful when compared against just learning your rotation properly.