Why are their no macro's again?

Sorry... I don't understand... Macro's don't give you an advantage, their fair, they fix problems the game developers put in combat. Oh, and the most important part of all... THEY ARE OPTIONAL!!!

Me having macro's has nothing to do with another player who doesn't use them. So why should I not have them?

there*.... Why are there* no macro's again?

... grammar trolls... fml

Oh, there are plenty of players using macros.
BW doesn't seem to ever catch them - very few speedhackers on Jung Ma (despite claims to the contrary) but quite a few macro users. I can't name the dirty pubs here, but they know who they are.

Speed hackers?

from guild summit:

Q: any simple macros? A: its on the list, no eta. No macros that affect combat directly. We don’t want a higher barrier of entry to combat. Mouse over healing is not considered as a macro.

Q: I don’t have enough quickbars for my abilities – can you streamline abilities? A: maybe macros? we need to do more exploration, we need to get another quickbar in term (not in 1.2). Multi-spec will bring spec specific quickslots.

http://dulfy.net/2012/03/05/swtor-gu...live-blogging/

They don't want a higher barrier?... Wait a minute... then make constantly activated abilities "that are not on global cooldown" passive.

If I had macro's the first thing I would do is make cloak of pain on my marauder macro'd to cast every time I use my basic attack. So it will always be on cooldown.

Cloak of pain has a 1 minute cooldown. And last's 30 seconds if used properly... Cmon... So it's a passive buff lasting half it's cooldown? Just make it ALWAYS passive with a half as usefull affect?

These are examples of why players use macro's... Why should I have to push cloak of pain constantly WHILE pushing other combat skills. With macro's I can remove it from my action bars and focus on more important defensive cooldowns.

No macros because they aren't really needed. It's simple enough to bind what you need/use the most to common keys and or mouse buttons and apply as needed.

You have to be really bad to need macros in this game. l2p

Just because YOU don't feel like they are needed, doesn't mean they are not needed. I like to PvP in my games. And in PvP, to go pro, you need to TRY to be the best. Clickin {or hotkey pressing} my undying rage ability, 'then' my PvP medpac, 'then' my reusable chemist medpac, all right behind each other; When none of these are on global cooldown (correct me if im wrong), will make me miss a 1-second window where I could have pressed an attack.

With a macro.. I have all these 3 items/skills on 1 button. I press that 1 button and then continue to fight. My proper use of macro's has saved me from pushing 4 buttons in 1 global rotation, into pushing 2. Moments like those are what separates an average PvPer from a high ranking PvPer. And I like to be the best... Yay, power, yay Sith.

PvP based on gear that allows the usage of healing and stat buffs without giving a single thought about synergy between classes is not PvP one needs to "go pro" in.