Mishaela said:
My best bet is that they just logged out wrong (which the game highly recommends you don't do..)
that'd be my guess. i went a little more than halfway down the page and most people that thought they had the same kinds of problems were mostly just dc'ing without the server getting to save their progress. even the first post could be explained that way, had the bst dc'd sometime before he went to use his equip change macros. as i understand it, the server periodically saves your character as you keep in touch with the server, and of course when you log out. a poor connection and/or frequent dc's or whatever can make certain things erase; i've heard of that before, and it's believable.
also, a lot of people seem to be trying to put too much into their macros in that post. too much without a /wait will cause the macro to screw up, and give messages like 'cannot equip gear.' i used to use a macro for ele seal, a few equip changes, sleep, and a line out to party chat, and there wasn't room for the wait, so i left it out. it screwed up one too many times and now i just use seperate macros for all of it haha
though unrelated, i once had my macros erased on the client side before i found out about character screen backup thing.