Quote Originally Posted by CuteBucket View Post
Don't use ability macros. Please don't. I am begging you, pleading, on my hands and knees here, do NOT use ability macros! Whatever semblance of amusement or cleverness they may have (which usually isn't much to begin with) wears off with each subsequent press of that ability.

A custom hello/goodbye message macro is fine. But if you want to say something funny during a duty, you can't just hit the "funny macro" button, you wait for something to happen that you can comment on that people can laugh at, because good comedy requires context and timing. I've seen some great comments in chat during roulettes that genuinely made me laugh and made my night, but I can guarantee you they were never once a macro, they were comments someone typed on the fly that only made sense and were funny in that specific context.
I mean, I guess I could just put my controller down in the middle of combat to explain to the sprouts that my asylum is not an enemy aoe but a regen and buff heals while they are in it. Or to explain to the new healer how Living Dead works, instead of having 1 line of chat that not only explain what to do but make some people chuckle. You're right. I should cause wipes to talk about it after, instead of using the tools at my disposal to make life better and easier for those around me. How foolish of me. lmao