Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I was just wondering what the official stance was on using a macro to automate playing a tune on a musical instrument? It gives you no advantage over other players so I was wondering if the rule “one click per action” still applied to that. I would hate to get banned for programming melodies for my harp

Their servers use an algorithm to detect certain sequances.

Do you really wish for your account to get locked up, on the off chance? It sounds cool, but it’s not a total human that detects the macro usage.

The computer reads the macro usage, sends a red flag to the team at anet. They then have to look at your account, and look at why your account raised the flag in the first place.

In essence, did the Beatles use a macro? Did Led Zepplin use a macro? Did Metallica use a macro?

Did the Air Guitar guy use a macro?

HELL NO!

That’s true, I don’t know though if they take into account what you have equipped at that time or if you are in combat or not, probably not. I wouldn’t risk it though, it was just a cool idea since there are some tunes that I think would sound awesome on the harp/flute but since they are quite complex, I was just mulling over the idea of using macros to play them.

However did any of those have to use more keys to switch octaves? If they gave me a way of using all the letters on my keyboard (one row of characters per octave for the harp) to play the melody, I would quite happily use that

Macros of any kind are usually frowned upon. You might try perusing the Audio sub-forum, there may be some interesting threads over there. Good luck.