This game badly needs mods and macros.

So things like Gearscore are a blight, but attitudes like "What I want is fine, but what you want is BS" is somehow better?

Not looking to start a fight here or anything, but that seems awfully hypocritical to me. You know, some us really do use things like combat log parsers to improve our performance in the game. Go ahead and think that's a load of crap if you want, but if what other players would like to have in the game is BS, then why should anyone pay any attention to what you want?

Or is it just that your opinion is the only one that matters? Because, you know, that would be an awfully selfish position to take.

Go ahead and state your opinion on what you do and don't want, I'm fine with that. Just don't start telling me what I want is BS just because you don't want the same thing. That's an awfully arrogant position to take, unless all you want is a flame war.

I'd like to see macros implemented. I currently use 19 keybindings for all my characters, and click everything else because using any more would require watching my keyboard during pvp, which is likely to get me killed.

Being able to map together several of my abilities together would go a long way to freeing up some of my keys. Like mapping Strike and Sundering Strike to the same key on my Guardian, or Energy Blast and Hammer Shot on my Vanguard.

And being able to link all short-duration buffs on a single button (adrenals, relics, etc) would take up a hell of a lot less space, and be much easier to trigger.

Perhaps you should follow your own advice? I 'researched' WarBuddy. The very first link is to the official site for it. That site is all about hacks, bots, cheats, exploits, private servers, etc. They certainly aren’t hiding that fact, they say so themselves, just look at their forum names!

http://www.***********.com/forum/

And here’s the thread talking about Warbuddy:

http://www.***********.com/forum/war...-released.html

And the very first thing that the thread says?

Re-read that. Warbuddy is a private HACK. Not addon, not mod, not macro, HACK.

Addons are not hacks, bots or exploits. They are two entirely different things. Addons can only do what the game devs allow within their completely sandboxed API. Addons don’t get you banned from games.

Addons are hacks.

I know, that flies in the face of what the typical person thinks (mostly due to the word being misused on movies and in TV), but "hack" isn't a negative term, especially if you're the kind of person who writes add-ons.

A "hack," in coding terms, is a piece of code that solves a problem. It's often used to describe a small chunk of code with a specific purpose, and it's not a bad thing at all.

That said, Warbuddy is evil, and when they call it a hack, they're probably misusing the term, too. Its sole purpose for existing is for cheating, and you're right. It's not an add-on. You can't do the kinds of things it does through an add-on API.

Macros are not needed.
People who can play games without a piece of code helping them along are though.
Now finally the players who are actually good can be recognized for their ability, and not be outplayed by someone who spams 1 to 5 buttons that allows them to do 15 different things depending on what's not on cooldown. It's funny because I spoke to my friend last night about his macros in WoW vanilla, he always used to brag about spamming one button and being top dps in our raids during the days of Molten Core and Blackwing Lair... we had a good laugh about how broken the game was.

<3 SWTOR

Edit: He was a Hunter

My mage could already get top 3 DPS in raids by spamming 2-3 buttons. Being able to macro it into 1 button doesn't make macros some evil blight on gaming. It makes WoW's difficulty curve shallow and overly simplistic.

From a PVP standpoint, that gives you an advantage over another player who doesn't utilize macros, and is of the same skill level of yourself. Imagine you were playing against yourself, and you had the macros you wanted to make you playing experience easier, and the other you had the normal ui with no macros. Who would you bet your money on?

From a PVE standpoint, this gives you an advantage as well. Where as in you may be knowledgeable about your class and know rotations and all, executing such rotations by actually paying attention to cooldowns WHILE paying attention to what's happening around you, without the aid of macros is what seperates you from the rest. Macros make it easy for players to execute this with ease, by tying skills like "Strike" and "Sundering Strike" to "1" and setting up a macro to use Strike always, unless Sundering Strike has finished it's cooldown. Now people always say that "Oh, what's wrong with that? My macro let's me keep my UI clean, that's all. I don't get an advantage over anyone because all I would be doing without my macro is hitting 1... 1... and then 2... anyways, no biggie.". That's incorrect. Very incorrect. When playing having to pay attention to when Sundering Strike is up, and having to alternate what key you're hitting WHILE dealing with other elements requires much more than spamming one button while doing the same. It does require more mental focus and physical accuracy on your part to execute such things when in the heat of battle. Especially when you begin binding with Shift and Ctrl. Beyond that one example of Strike and Sundering Strike are even more complex examples.

If you can't utilize all your spells and complete rotations or handle targetting between allies and foes... then you just need to accept that you're just not as good as you think you are. Sure... mentally you know what you should be doing, it's not hard to picture what needs to be done. But physically, you just can't execute it. Kind of like the reason why, not everyone can be an elite athlete in a given sport, even though they understand that game just as well.
This is what separates the players who are good, from the players who are great, and those who are great, from those are the Best.

My word of advice to all those who want macros for the reasons I stated above, keep playing, and push yourself to get better without the aid of macros. All it takes is perseverance and dedication.

I read my long *** post over once, if there are errors of any kind... spare me the comments >.>

I think i lost my words to the this reply.... /bow, it was the best reply i have ever seen for the last 10 years

Can't wait till they implement them, they will make the game much better for me.

It's not an unfair advantage, because both players have the same access to macros.

In addition, macros do nothing other than streamline your attack patterns and clear up clutter on your hotbars. You still require the same number of key presses, and are still restricted by cooldowns and the GCD just like any other player.

No, sorry, it really doesn't. When I play my Guardian, I already know that after I use Sundering Strike, activating the GCD two more times will bring my Sundering Strike back off cooldown. I don't have to look at my hotbar, I don't have to watch my keyboard, all I have to do is press any other instant ability twice and I know I can use it again.

The brain cell it takes to count to 2 before pressing the hotkey again isn't really stretching my ability to pay attention to the fight itself. Being able to map the two skills to a single key would allow more room for lesser used abilities, so that I don't have to turn into a clicker every time I want to break crowd control or burn a medpac.

For some of us, it has nothing to do with not being able to keep up. It has to do with the fact that some of us don't have gaming hardware and so don't have a dozen buttons on our mice or some crap like that, and need to work within the constraints of the standard mouse/keyboard setup. With the massive number of abilities I use on any character I play, some things just end up getting relegated to being clicked instead of keybound, because my left hand can only reach so many buttons on the keyboard before it just becomes more of a hassle than it's worth.

Sure, if I had a $60 mouse, I could forego macros altogether, but I don't. And frankly, I shouldn't have to shell out that sort of cash to make sure that I can pvp competitively.