Thread: How to Summoner, 6.0 edition

Originally Posted by Shironeko_Narunyan

Actually, it would look more like this

And it would work, but it would be subpar. A good thing for someone who (because of carpal tunnel or other conditions) can't deal with the hectic twitch-weaving some other classes have, but it would do a lot less damage than it could.

My point is that it, unfortunately does work. Surprisingly well. It's closer to optimal damage than you think, I literally used the macro in my original post in my in-game comparisons and ran through real content as well as striking dummy comparisons.

No, it's not optimal, and I'm not making that argument. But the fact that the damage difference between a one-button macro and optimal manual play is a like 5-15% difference in DPS is problematic in my eyes. (Actual number by the way, average is ~8% difference from the few checks I've done. Gap widened in more movement-heavy content but it wasn't by much.)

That low of a difference is what I dislike. There are plenty of optimizations you can do with macros to make it more optimal, but the point I'm making with this thread is that literally with a single, very simple copy-paste basic macro, you can perform the class at a mid-high level in the vast majority of content. That's too simple.