Why Macros belong in TOR.

This type of trolling, non-constructive response hardly deserves a reply, but..

It's clear you read absolutely nothing of what I posted, I devoted a paragraph to that particular myth, and why it's so blatantly wrong.

Not every macro is a "cast-sequence" which is not what I'm in support of, and not what this thread is about.

You can't make a macro that bypasses the GDC. If you can the macro system is bugged.

You cannot use 2 attacks and a heal in a macro, because they will share GDC.

In-game macros can push more than one key, they react when you push a key and do only one key action.

The kind of macros you are talking about - hit one key and push a sequence - already exists and are backed up by Bioware.

http://www.razerzone.com/swtor/keyboard

I repeat myself, you show a huge lack of understanding about what a macro is or not, and it's clear you never used macros. You should learn more about it before to judge the issue.

I'm going to ignore all the re-re's in here and go with the OP.

Ofcourse there will be macros in this game. If there aren't, I know I'm quick enough to get everything done, albeit a PAIN IN THE *** AND I ALREADY PLAY STARCRAFT I DON'T WANT ANOTHER 100+ APM GAME TYVM.

Don't worry about the trolls, OP. I'm sure BioWare has technical difficulties at the moment.

As in, Macros work, but either not as intended, or TOO STRONGLY like some imply here. It would in fact be bad if they can't limit their console commands and we can put in a cast sequence, priority list, or a short algorithm and LITERALLY press 1 button.

Or it may not have macros enabled at all.

But in the world of OOP (Object Oriented Programming), and with BioWare, not a bad company, I'm sure macros exist, but are just not available to the masses yet.

To all who say macros are skill-less, here's what some of my macros look like.

/target focus
/cast Hand of Sacrifice

/cast Divine Shield
/cancelaura Divine Shield (Tell me where I can find that on my abilities bar thank you very much. I have to double click/press it to work too, so it's still two button presses)

/cast Pain Suppression
/cast Power Word:Shield
(Pain Suppression is off GCD, making things SLIGHTLY faster)

/castsequence [reset=18] Charge, Intercept;
^ Unsure if that's the actual one, but if you don't know what that means, don't get excited by cast sequence or you're an e-diot. This basically allows me to map both my charges to 1 button.

Here's how some of my OH MY GOD gamebreaking macros would look like in SW:TOR. Tell me if it looks OP to you. Also tell me you know exactly what it does, and only if you do, will anyone care what you have to say about it.

/use [modifier=shift] relic1; [modifier=none] relic2;
Or however the format will be.

/use [modifier=none] Frenzy; [modifier=shift] Predation;

/target focus
/use Static Barrier
/targetlasttarget

I play Marauder, so my macros are not the most useful, but I'm sure on my higher level Operative and Sorcerer, they will become ESSENTIAL.

I don't know how bad you guys who don't want macros are doing, but I have easily 24 abilities mapped. I wish I can bind my companions abilities to my bars. OR AT LEAST MAKE A MACRO SO I CAN USE THEM DIRECTLY FROM MY BARS RATHER THAN HAVE TO PRESS CTRL+3/4 AND NOT HAVE ACCESS TO 5+, AND HAVE TO SACRIFICE 12 OF MY BUTTONS SO I CAN USE MY COMPANION'S DAMN HEAL ONCE IN A WHILE EFFECTIVELY.

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So yeah, Macros will come OP. And if they don't, I guess us that are good anyway will dominate with our APM, but it'll be annoying.

@Ragg - thanks for making an effort to understand what I'm actually advocating here. I'd fully support a limited implementation, I also would not like to see things devolve into a situation similar to Rift, as I feel that would negatively impact the game as a whole.

Read my above post. Macros cannot do the things you are talking about. Please try to understand this.

If macros are supported and even enabled ingame, we would have seen bots from day 1 and they would be a ton harder to catch since they can use the ingame macro interface to bypass the client file check and thus it falls on the reliance of player reporting to ban bots.