Quote Originally Posted by Ixon View Post
Having to press 3 keys mid combat for a single desired effect, not to mention swapping focus from your main target at the time to target another just for this, is just not optimal. DnJ is an oGCD. With a Macro I can swap to who I want, when I want, even in the middle of a Gnashing Combo with minimal fear of clipping my GCD so I can maintain uptime and maintain damage on the enemy. I guarantee I can do faster with a macro than if I was doing it manually. It's why people use macros in the first place, across almost every job, with almost every player. It's faster and more accurate in specific situations.
It shouldn't take you more than a fraction of a second to make three inputs like that. If macros work for you, more power to you. But macros can't be buffered, while direct inputs can... which means I'm never going to use a macro when doing it manually works just as well.

The leaderboards don't matter. I don't know if you've actually played many games with the top 100's, but almost all of them aren't anything special. I've played with about 2/3 of the top 100 on Crystal (those that are on there consistently/maintain it) and I can't say any of them have really blown me away. None of them are bad. But people act like these people should have shit that don't stink and they're just... normal, average players.

I don't know what to tell you if you think a 10k heal with 3600 regen isn't top tier healing. Are you one of those people that thinks Aspected Benefic isn't broken halfway to hell, then? I mean, it's "only" 10k instant healing. Recuperate is "only" 15k instant healing... or 18k if you're a GNB. At what point does the instant healing stop being "weak" and start being recognized as "good"? It seems pretty arbitrary to me.