Reading some of the posts, I don't know if people really even understand when you can and cannot break the chain/wheel.
When you first activate the power that triggers the chain you get the little floating icon with the different symbols around it - At that point everyone will start seeing any available powers that could trigger the chain. If one of those succesfully connects, it may trigger the chain. If one is not used, it will break the chain. This is the part I think people need to get coordinated with.
Once the chain is triggered, you cannot break it - only let it expire. The second circle for the HO is showing you all the different powers that need to be activated to complete the HO. There is a blue line inside the circle that counts down the time to activate the trigger. Once you have it activated, now you can pretty much rest easy as long as you do whatever you need to do to finish it.
However, it's not always going to be best to activate the HO as soon as it is triggered, depending on which one is activated.
For example - There is a Scout/Priest/Mage combo called "Crucible of life" (fighter is not included in triggering or completing) that actually will grants 100% restore to HP/Power, and for a brief time gives you a heal proc.
In a long fight, you would want to trigger that at the last possible moment, not when everyone is at full health.
Also, not all HO do additional damage, something not everyone I've spoken with online knew, which may be why some people don't see huge damage bonuses or the benefit of it, they may have triggered a HO that actually gives them a bonus to AC or a brief regen ability.
Of course, I still think being able to put more than one command line of macros in would help:
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You can have up to 3 marco bars....just right click and press "make new bar"
What I was referring to would be something more of how we had it in EQ1
/gsay Starting Heroic Opportunity in 5 seconds
/pause 5
/gsay (>'.')> Here comes the Heroic Opportunity <('.'<)
/doability 1
We are missing this aspect of the macros - which is what makes doing the HO harder.
I will try my best though to organize them..so bewarned if you group with me ;-)
Edited, Sat Dec 11 00:15:28 2004 by Devilwind