[Robert Redford]

Today I was meriting birds with corsair, and my performance was embarrassing. My slug shot accuracy was ~55%, and my damage wasn't breaking 900. Obviously results vary depending on specific circumstances, but suffice it to say the conditions of my party today were similar enough to other parties I've parsed before (I usually average 90-95% WS accuracy and 1.3kish damage using the weapon skill build I used today) to assume I'd produce similar results. If my accuracy or damage only dropped by a small amount I'd simply write it off assuming I shot after my food was stolen or minuet dropped for a second, but the fact my performance dropped so incredibly far caused me to believe something else was going on.

I began to suspect it was a macro problem after I brought up my equipment menu and noticed I was wearing a strange mix of my TP and WS gear. (I've noticed a similar problem while leveling ninja recently, where I was still wearing enmity gear after the provoke instead of returning to my TP gear.)

So after I got to 100% TP again, I manually swapped into my WS gear and hit slug shot from the menu. It hit for 1808. I tried it manually another few times and continued to see damage I was familiar and happy with.

These macros never caused any problems before today, so I'm puzzled. Maybe it's simply a lag problem?

My FFXI macro is:
//exec slug.txt
/ws "Slug Shot" <t>
/wait 1
//exec melee.txt

Which calls up:
input /equip ammo "Steel Bullet"
input /equip head "Corsair's Tricorne"
input /equip neck "Light Gorget"
input /equip ear1 "Drone Earring"
pause 1
input /equip ear2 "Drone Earring"
input /equip body "Denali Jacket"
input /equip hands "Crimson Finger Gauntlets"
input /equip ring1 "Behemoth Ring"
input /equip ring2 "Rajas Ring"
input /equip back "Amemet Mantle +1"
input /equip waist "Buccaneer's Belt"
input /equip legs "Commodore Culottes"
input /equip feet "Corsair's Bottes +1"

And:
input /equip head "Optical Hat"
input /equip neck "Spectacles"
input /equip ear1 "Brutal Earring"
input /equip ear2 "Suppanomimi"
input /equip body "Pahluwan Khazagand"
input /equip hands "War Gloves"
input /equip ring1 "Sniper's Ring"
input /equip ring2 "Rajas Ring"
input /equip back "Amemet Mantle +1"
input /equip waist "Life Belt"
input /equip legs "Crimson Cuisses"
input /equip feet "Commodore Bottes"

I don't know whether all those /waits and pauses are necessary. I've got one between the drone earrings because otherwise only the first one actually equips.