Why Macros belong in TOR.

Couple thoughts on macros.

1. PvP is about competition and if there are no macros for anyone then you are not at any disadvantage. I understand that you might want macros to make the game easier but if you are talking about competition you are not hurt by the lack of macros.

2. PVE. I also play Rift and it has the most robust macro system I have seen. It's so robust most rotations are reduced to spaming two or three macros. Nothing quite like running a raid where your rotation consists of "1-1-1-2" over and over again. After a while you forget what the thing is even doing but if you want to max dps you need to use them.

Macros make a game easier to play but they aren't required. I know I don't want to see another game with the mindless macro spam that Rift is.

If you ask any competitive PvP player in WoW, focus and macro functionality are absolutely vital to maximize efficiency. In addition, many healers will find their ability to effectively heal a large group impacted by a lack of mouse-over macros, another staple of the competitive WoW PvP and PvE communities.

This might be unknown to you, but the game devs have full control over the macro system. Of what it can and can't do, they have full control over how many action a single macro can perform.

You pointed out Rift as a bad example, I will point out WoW as a good one. You can't chain abilities in the WoW system, they took out that function because Devs have full control over the system.

L2p without macros
is a better world

No, what they allow you to do is build priority into single keybinds, so your one button does x skill first, if that's on cooldown, does x skill, if that's on cooldown, does x skill, and so on.

I have no problem with what you're describing. I have a problem with how it usually gets used, because it takes what little "skill" remains in these games out.

E.G. Little Timmy loses two seconds every time he accidentally presses a skill on CD because he has slow reflexes and doesn't know his keybinds well.

Suddenly Little Timmy can do "leet deeps" because his computer does all the thinking for him based on a simple routine that he probably cut and pasted from someone's post/website.

I'm not saying "I'm right". I'm just saying that to me, it's lame.

No, what they allow you to do is build priority into single keybinds, so your one button does x skill first, if that's on cooldown, does x skill, if that's on cooldown, does x skill, and so on.

I have no problem with what you're describing. I have a problem with how it usually gets used, because it takes what little "skill" remains in these games out.

E.G. Little Timmy loses two seconds every time he accidentally presses a skill on CD because he has slow reflexes and doesn't know his keybinds well.

Suddenly Little Timmy can do "leet deeps" because his computer does all the thinking for him based on a simple routine that he probably cut and pasted from someone's post/website.

I'm not saying "I'm right". I'm just saying that to me, it's lame.

With macros the mercs/commandos that realistically are bad and only smash tracer/grav will look good because they read on the forums how to make a one button macro to get"MAXDEEPS!!!" No thx on macros I enjoy watching people struggle as they fumble for their keybinds.