Having been playing a Mage recently I was quite surprised at how much more difficult the class is to play due to the lack of reactives and abilities with cooldowns to using in sequences within macros.

My warrior quite easily gets away with 3 main buttons and a host of other buttons that are only ever used now and again. My main warrior attack button is a macro that has over 12 abilities lined up, cycling through them perfectly, using ranged or melee attacks where appropriate and instantly activating reactive and other abilities off the GCD.

Not my mage... has a load of dots with no cooldown, making it impossible to chain these together into a sequence within a macro. My buffs also have no cooldown (my warrior has 10 second cooldown on his buffs so I could apply them all from one button). My mage needs 5 buttons just to apply buffs. The list goes on... pretty much the mage class (maybe others as well gets the short-straw when it comes the the usefulness of macros).

This got me thinking, what about writing a simple Autohotkey script to bind sequences to button presses with custom cooldowns... pretty simple to do and here you can find the result, a short Autohotkey script that loads sequences from a configuration file. Now I can apply all my dots using 1 buttons instead of 7, yipeee!.

Will my account get banned if I use this? No idea, it was simply as exercise in using Autohotkey to be honest. I'm off back to play WAR for a bit anyway :)