A Guide to Mages comment thread

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Don't do this.  Please don't do this.  Such macros are incredibly popular and mostly worthless.  At best, they spit information into party chat that the party should already know.  At worst, they cause mass confusion as everyone tries to distinguish which of the identical-looking mobs is a Thuzadin Shadowcaster and which is a Thuzadin Necromancer, resulting in no one doing anything for fear of breaking sheep or a mass of last-second target switching (which causes lack of focus and aggro problems left and right).  Which doesn't even go into all the pulls (of which there are many) containing two or more mobs of the same type, where this kind of macro again causes confusion.

I don't mean to jump on you, oldmandennis, but I really want to make a strong statement about the proliferation of these useless macros.  They are much less helpful than most mages think.
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I was in a party with a priest once who kept a constant stream of information about his heals going in the party chat. At first I was impressed, but I found that the volume of the info was overwhelming and hard to follow. I stopped paying attention to it. So, I wouldn't want to do something like that with my mage.
I do very much appreciate you responding to my question however. And I don't say that this approach is wrong; it just doesn't work for me.