Why Macros belong in TOR.

I would prefer if the game didn't allow macros, especially in PvP.

I could go on as to why, but its been said 100 times already.

No thanks

And here you are, addressing precisely the topic that leads to the least productive discussion. Your opinion is that in all circumstances, exactly the same result can be reached through use of a focus macro, or alternatively, manually targeting. It is your opinion that it is entirely reasonable for a player to, after having identified a spell being cast while being engaged by another player simultaneously, manually click on that target (the small, inconsistent hitboxes in SWTOR need to be accounted for here) use your interrupt, then retarget your previous target who has had the opportunity to: attack you unopposed and move from his/her previous location and that this course of action is as efficient as pressing a single button?

You are not accounting for the time lost during the process of dropping target and retargeting.

Again, there can be absolutely no argument that your preferred method is less efficient than the use of a focus macro. Now that the schematics are defined, can we possibly address the questions I raised in my previous post?

If you need any additional clarification as to what it is exactly I'm arguing, please let me know.

No. No, it would not be.

How do focus macros=crutch, but being able to target someone out of your UI and heal them without knowing their direction/having to click on them physically isn't?

Fair enough. Could you elaborate on how exactly that eventuality would not benefit the game, though?

Relativism. This "discussion" devolved into that ambiguous realm long ago, and I despair of salvaging it.

You don't have to "drop" your target... you just click the other target then click your original target. I do this extremely quickly. One of these uses the mouse, while using the actual spell uses the keyboard. There is no reason you can't do this. Also, a large part of what makes this hard in SW:TOR are bugs with tab and click targetting. If you couldn't accomplish this in WoW, where those two things are PERFECT and it's trivial to aim your tab targets, then I don't know what to say.

Who cares about efficiency? Obviously, focus was required in WoW and you were putting yourself at a big disadvantage without using it because it allowed you to ignore some very important PvP aspects and shift your focus to other ones. If you removed it the game would still function. Arena would still be popular. There would just be a higher skill gap. Is this a bad thing?

Mechanical skill is a large part of PvP skill. Focus macros remove the need for mechanical skill and make slow players (like yourself, apparently - not insulting you, but you said it takes you "2-3 seconds" to do what takes me a split second. If you didn't want me to say this, maybe you shouldn't have said that.) on equal level with me. No thank you.

Also, your posts are nothing but opinion, so it's kind of funny that you post your "opinion" accusations as if that's not everything in this thread.

Exactly what came into my mind as well.

Thats like all said in this thread is an illusion.

Bio ware has served this game as it is. No macros and no add ons. The way I like it to be.
Now is that an illusion, or my opinion?

Arena hasn't benefitted WoW at all. If anything, it hurt the game, made balancing a roller coaster nightmare and had a major hand in fragmenting the community. I don't see any reason why this game would end up any different.

Yes, Arena can be fun for a handful of people, but it's not worth the cost.

So noobs thinking is : skill = i can click 60 buttons using my pro mouse.

ahahhahahahahahah

Just add macros and let the noobs click 'em all.