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Any experienced users around that can have a look at my profile and give me tips on how to optimize my combat and maybe make it more efficient. Both game-wise and system-wise. When I go to use AOE attacks my FPS drops pretty noticeably. I watched a video or 10 about having too many macros being called and I believe my issue lies in the number I am calling but I don't know an alternative to accomplish the same damage.

Thanks!

Well...

The way it is set up currently basically sends 5 or 6 key combinations to the game at the same time and wants the game to figure out which macro to run.

You could achieve much the same thing by having a single macro which has all the /cast XXXX lines in it.


The other option is to actually put each macro call in separate steps in the rotation and have like a rotation with one key combo sent to the game at a time, rather than the sledgehammer the keyboard approach. This of course may not have the desired outcome where you always fire a spell as it is possible that you might get to a step and that particular spell is not available so the toon does nothing on that hotkey mash (although it usually will be cycled on fairly quick).
If there is a common fallback spell (macro) that should be available every time (or even 80%-90%), then perhaps you could stretch it out to 3 or 4 steps which only have one or two macro calls in each step so it lessens the amount the game is being hit to try and decipher the incoming key combos.

So I did attempt a single macro for the Hunters to test this method. I seemed to never get some of the skills to fire at all. The macro I attempted to call for the Hunter team was pretty simple:



A Murder of Crows would fire but I never saw anything else fire off at all. I tried with both /cast and /castsequence thinking maybe that was the problem. Same results in either case. I have my keyboard set to repeat keys 1-4 5 times a second. I could give a multi-step approach a try and see if that still yields adequate dps. I may revisit a single macro /cast setup again. I'll try adding each spell or removing spells until I figure out which work together and which don't . I could maybe reduce the number of steps by figuring out which break the setup and separate those only. (Thanks Bob for the reply!!)

If anyone has a profile of how they do their DPS for really, any class I'd really love to see alternatives to try as well. My current team are a Paladin, Shaman and Hunters. But the class doesn't matter so much as how you're doing things.