Macro?

I was thinking about making a macro that just adds a delay and then releases a mouse button. It wouldn't perform any automated actions like "click → wait → release" — just "wait → release."

Would that still be considered an automated macro and against the rules? I'm trying to stay within what's allowed and avoid any risk of getting banned, but still would love to have perfect timing on window of opportunity.

I have heard it explained that each press of a key can only cause one server action.

Now the same key can do something different each time you press it. You could have a macro that each time you press it, that it does one of four different things and cycles through them as you press the macro. A very common example in POE1 is a key that when you press it, it types 1, then press again and types 2, then press again and types 3, then press again and types 4, then press again and types 1, etc. This would cycle through your four potions in POE1.

There is then a catch-all that a macro cannot give an unfair advantage. That is nice and vague to allow them to enforce as they like.

I imagine your macro would be ok.

The thing that will get you banned quickly from what I have seen is a run away macro that is spamming the server with a rapid flood of actions. Like the above 1 through 4 macro goes wild and is sending a 100 keys a second to the server. That gets flagged quickly. Or even worse, spamming a 100 keys a second to global chat. So even with the above cycling script I would build in some type of cooldown safeguard. Holding that key and having it auto repeat would not be one press per action.

I used 'legal' macros a lot in POE1 without ever having a problem. I play POE2 on console now so no macros anymore.