Is it a DPS loss to use macros?

[Fori]

2. The game has the one of the worst gameplay mechanics ever: Animation Lag. Even if you use an ability off the GCD you cannot use another ability immediately afterwards (some abilities may not have enough animation lag to be noticeable but others most definitely do). For example, a BLM macro like this:

This pisses me off so bad. One of the only things that makes me not want to play THM. There's nothing more annoying than using thinking you've used Transpose, using a Blizzard 1, only to realise Transpose never went off and you just dispelled your Astral Fire buff, leaving you with no mana and no buff to regen...

[Slirith]

I use a macro to put up my DoTs as SMN as it's a pain to cast them one by one(kills my wrists after awhile). Also macro my buffs that don't use the GCD together(Raging Strikes, Rouse, Spur)

[Scarzi]

I use a macro to put up my DoTs as SMN as it's a pain to cast them one by one(kills my wrists after awhile). Also macro my buffs that don't use the GCD together(Raging Strikes, Rouse, Spur)

whats the macro, because I have to hit the macro more then once to even get it to cast everything.

[Caduceus]

whats the macro, because I have to hit the macro more then once to even get it to cast everything.

i also was told it's a "dps loss"; however what people don't get about macros is they can't be "queued up" is the problem, and the intervals are in .5 segments so 2.4 is rounded down to 2.0; however 2.5 IS NOT rounded up to 3.0 the combination of "animation lag" and inability to queue up a macro skill (as all macro skills are automatically on the set GCD of 2.5) makes some think it's rounded up, but it isn't (also if it was rounded up you couldn't prequeue a non macro ability while casting abilities you have macro-ed)

/macroicon"bio II"
/facetarget
/action"bio II"
/wait 2.5
/action"miasma"
/wait 2.5
/action"bio"

[Wintersandman]

i also was told it's a "dps loss"; however what people don't get about macros is they can't be "queued up" is the problem, and the intervals are in .5 segments so 2.4 is rounded down to 2.0; however 2.5 IS NOT rounded up to 3.0 the combination of "animation lag" and inability to queue up a macro skill

From the testing I have done there is no .5. I have tested with Ninja Mudra's and PLD combo's. There is significantly more delay than me using the buttons myself. As a SMN you don't have to wait for procs but with a lot of other classes you may have to interrupt a combo to use it or completely change targets and thus your queue is wasted.