Why Macros belong in TOR.

In a game that is already piss poor easy, adding macros would just further remove any skill factor from the game. Things are fine the way they are.

I think macros and mouse overs are for the weak. JMO. I used Healbot in WoW and it made everything easy mode. Target forwarding and Macros are fail.

Having added them, WoW opened a pandora's box for the weak of skill. Now everyone wants their Free'n'easy game play. I play a healer and there is nothing wrong with the healing system. A 1.5 sec GCD plus a 1 Sec. pre-load timer allows you plenty of time to do anything you need.

I'd love macros. Anything to reduce the amount of keybindings I have on my assassin would be absolutely amazing.

Mouse over healing macros are another huge quality of life issue but sadly IMO it would push healers into an extremely over powered state. Anyone that's played any competitive wow will understand what door of utility that will open to healers. Between interrupts/cc/dmg abilities and mouse over heals, healers would be out of control.

BTW the guy above me doesn't know what he's talking about. How many 1 button rotations have you seen that competed at a high level? Also impliment macros into preferences with an easy to understand system. No one is saying you need to code macros in...

Healbot is not a macro. Stop equating the two.

With the number of skills that need to be keybound in this game, macros are a necessity in my opinion. All of my characters have three quickbars of buttons that I use. These are what I have to keybind them to:

1-10
z, f, v, t, g, m3, m4, m5
CTRL m3, m4, m5
ALT m3, m4, m5
SHIFT f, g, t, v, z

You get the idea. It's cumbersome but not unplayable. Macros would allow me to set one button to perform an action based on what I'm targetting without having to make a separate keybind; for example, if I'm targetting an enemy, my 'Z' key is force stun, but if I am targetting a friendly target, my 'Z' key is force shield. This macro does not perform any functions that I couldn't perform before, nor does it give me some kind of in-game advantage, it only allows me to save an additional keybind.

These types of macros are necessary for quality-of-life improvements. Macros should not be allowed to make decisions for you, i.e. 'if target is above 50% cast X, else cast Y', which is what people seem to think macros do. They haven't even done that in WoW since a few months after release. Macros are simply there to make the UI more flexible and should have already been implemented in game.

If you're invoking the Guild Summit, let's be a bit more precise about what we've said:

A) Macros are a possibility in the future. We don't hate them.

B) I am opposed to macros that automate combat (shouldn't be a surprise). I'd rather take tedious things (such as sprint turning off after death) and modify the design than to rely on people to create macros to deal with these things - which creates unnecessary barriers of entry in my opinion.

C) We don't consider interface improvements and quality of life features (e.g. mouse over healing) to be macros (so 2 does not apply)

D) Macros for social behaviors, etc are definitely a possibility too.