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 have to agree with Skandranon on this issue, and I'd like to add on to it. There are times where a mage will hit the polymorph key multiple times thanks to annoying line of sight issues (usually slopes). I annoy even myself when I spam "Polymorphing %t" three or four times into party/raid chat.

I only use a polymorph macro if my party asks for me to do so. The people who tend to break polymorph often (even two, three, or more seconds after it's been turned into a sheep) probably aren't going to end up getting a lot of benefit out of a last second chat message anyway.