Are there any combat macro's that actually work?

[DixieBellOCE]

I wanna try out Reaper, it just has too many abilities to keep track of lel.

Also, because, drip.

Wanted to macro Gibbet and Gallows together tbh

And soul sow to harpe

Shirk macros are great for tanks, you can just have it set to /ac 'Shirk' <2>
and it will always shirk the other tank

other than that, macros are completely worthless in this game.

[dspguy]

Shirk macros are great for tanks, you can just have it set to /ac 'Shirk' <2>
and it will always shirk the other tank

other than that, macros are completely worthless in this game.

They have their place - possibly for some oGCD stuff when you wouldn't be double weaving. And shirk is a great example. Another one might be the self-teleport abilities like BLM and NIN. Nascent Flash is another. I have one for party member #2 (either the healer in 4-man or other tank in 8-man) with another that lets me mouseover. Comes in handy when someone messes up some mechanic and I can heal them back up without the healer wasting any GCD.

However, I don't think they have much use for anything that uses a GCD - outside of swift-cast raise. And that's mostly for the group-chat to let them know raise is being cast. Not because macro-ing the oGCD and GCD together makes any sense.