#I have a separate macro with a built in swiftcast timer for when I have to hardcast while two red mages spam jolt

[osterby]

It *really* depends on the skill and the text itself (I play with UI sound effects off, so that doesn't come into it). Incomprehensible uwu speak that's only tangentially related to the skill on your entire DPS rotation? Please just stop pressing buttons, it's not worth it, I'd rather just carry you. An insulting raise macro about how you're a waste of their mana? Yeah, I'm blocking them and considering a report if it's really bad. A joke I don't think is funny that informs me that an actually relevant thing, like an invuln or a raise, is happening? It's your hydaelyn-given right to make unfunny jokes!

Basically a macro needs to do three things: 1.) Inform the group of something that at least one person might benefit from knowing (raise and invuln definitely, dragooon eyeball tether maybe, your 123 rotation absolutely not). 2.) Be comprehensible. Ideally it should use the actual name of the skill. It MUST use a commonly understood term for the skill. If it can only be understood by people who have seen a certain anime or who can translate uwuspeak on the fly, it's a bad macro. Much of the incomprehensibility can be remedied by simply including the skill name in autotext somewhere in there. (autotext makes it comprehensible to players who speak a different language, too) 3.) Not be insulting, meanspirited, or otherwise inappropriate to say to a complete stranger

My rez macros (I have a collection of them) are things like "meow meow! <raising> <target>". If someone thinks my meowing is cringy, they can cringe. But the macro clearly tells people that I've got that raise handled, and does so without insulting anyone.

Poll for fellow FFXIV players:

What are your thoughts on people who have macro texts with their actions in battle? Things like a WHM having a Raise macro like "Now raising <target name>!"

If I miss an option, feel free to speak your piece in the post's comments.

(Ay it's my first poll!)