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Originally Posted by feniin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

wait a tick.... people have programs to hit their backstab button? the one fucking button rogues have to press? don't people just smash that thing the entire fight? like 10x a second like any normal tweaker?

its a pretty benign example, but the answer is 100% yes. Many rogues have programmed their backstab and their evade (attack off, evade, attack on) abilities. It significantly improves DPS over the course of a large sample...and is less work for the player. If you know how to do it also lets you text chat without interferring with the macro, so you can also socialize more while doing less work and doing more dps. It makes the game more fun in that regard --- so even a benign example can illustrate how a simple macro is really useful for EQ.

To be clear, I am in favor of the changes to the UI (classic hotbars)...it is a clearly good step in the mission of the project. It bothers me, however, that some folks will just get around it entirely with a simple macro while others will actually have to play according the intent of the rules.

Same thing with pet commands. My understanding is that pet commands can be text typed while casting. Removing the click button from the pet window working while casting is good...but what about the players that macro the text command? They just get around the restriction with a simple single button push. Seems like it only restricts the people that don't know about macro'ing or are compelled by their sense of obedience to the rules.