All you Big Fishers out there will understand this one.
Last night was Shoni weather. I caught HQ Cloud Cutter right at weather change and an HQ Mahar very first pull of Blizzards, but lost the Shoni with 409G. Didn't catch another HQ Cloud Cutter the entire rest of the window, until... 15 in game minutes before window close and weather change I caught another Cloud Cutter HQ... then miraculously an HQ Mahar right at weather change... cast it out and didn't breathe for like a solid minute. Shoni bit... and got away.
/cries for six weeks.
Also on the macro topic, I tend to avoid macros all together for abilities. Macros sometimes get weird delays if you don't mash them, and it became a problem with Provoke not going off when I needed it to so I just went back to manually pressing all abilities.
But as Warren wonderfully explained, there's a 1 second hidden GCD on all off-GCD abilities so you can't insta-cast a million abilities at once. Depending on your Skill Speed you can usually weave 2 off-GCD abilities in between your GCD action skills without penalty. If you are slow to press them or lag, using 2 abilities may set your next skill back an extra second, which is not fun.
Two abilities is usually safe though on my WAR since I have 0 skill speed, but on BRD (which unfortunately has a little SKS) I have to be careful to time my weaves perfectly.
Last night was Shoni weather. I caught HQ Cloud Cutter right at weather change and an HQ Mahar very first pull of Blizzards, but lost the Shoni with 409G. Didn't catch another HQ Cloud Cutter the entire rest of the window, until... 15 in game minutes before window close and weather change I caught another Cloud Cutter HQ... then miraculously an HQ Mahar right at weather change... cast it out and didn't breathe for like a solid minute. Shoni bit... and got away.
/cries for six weeks.
Also on the macro topic, I tend to avoid macros all together for abilities. Macros sometimes get weird delays if you don't mash them, and it became a problem with Provoke not going off when I needed it to so I just went back to manually pressing all abilities.
But as Warren wonderfully explained, there's a 1 second hidden GCD on all off-GCD abilities so you can't insta-cast a million abilities at once. Depending on your Skill Speed you can usually weave 2 off-GCD abilities in between your GCD action skills without penalty. If you are slow to press them or lag, using 2 abilities may set your next skill back an extra second, which is not fun.
Two abilities is usually safe though on my WAR since I have 0 skill speed, but on BRD (which unfortunately has a little SKS) I have to be careful to time my weaves perfectly.
