When were macros added into the game?

[Velaethia]

Yeah, macros were in the game from the start. People were just not talking about them because they are useless for any combat class.

ah interesting so what did they change about them to make them more useful for combat?

[Nihility]

ah interesting so what did they change about them to make them more useful for combat?

they don't queue up like skills do so you always lose a little bit of gcd when you use macros. Pretty sure that's still not changed

They can still be useful for some stuff like /ac "Shirk" <2> is guaranteed to be the other tank in an 8 man group(unless you resort it differently) and it's ogc so it doesn't really affect much

[Shialan]

ah interesting so what did they change about them to make them more useful for combat?

Nothing. They are still pretty useless for combat classes.

[StouterTaru]

ah interesting so what did they change about them to make them more useful for combat?

The only changes that I'm aware of since 2.0:

• Late ARR (?) - "/wait #" no longer needs its own line, can be "<wait.#>" at the end of a line
• SB (?) - Added account-wide macros