Hmm....I didn't play my 4 Mage team very far, but I never tested FN thoroughly. The "reset=24" worked beautifully for me. I see what you mean about the FN stagger delay.

Personally, I never found myself needing more than one FN very often, but it seems like using the method you describe, Vyndree, might have problems of its own, namely in that you will eventually have to double- (or triple- or quadruple-) tap the button to accomplish the staggered FNs unless I am missing something.

For instance, assuming a reset of 12 seconds:

Tap 1: A FNs, B's and C's macros advance one step.

If Tap 2 comes at, say, 16 seconds, now you have to tap once to advance all the macros one step (since A's FN will still be on CD) before you can access an FN. I am unsure of whether or not this consumes a GCD, but I assume it would given a failed conditional check in other macros triggering GCDs post-2.0.

Perhaps I misunderstood something.