Question - 2 or 3 tanks in group conflict?

[surfdog21]

I have a question about how the cleric ini prioritizes heals if even, when I have 3 tanks marked

Role=tank

in the same group. Do I need to change 2 of the tanks to

Role=Assist

or does it not make a difference. The reason I ask is I noticed one of my toons always gets the main assist mark in the group window no matter what. That may be because he is group leader perhaps. I noticed even if I roled one of the tanks as main tank or assist, with the ini marked tank on the three, no matter what when I start up the KA on them they get the message I am tanking and main assist.

Will this mess with the cleric ini?

 

[kaen01]

when you assist a person using kiss, it will try and make that person marked as main assist in the group roles.

this is in kiss world generally your main tank, and the ini can use that to control heals and buffs and other things using a tag |ma which tells kiss, only use this spell on MA

having multiple tank roles will not inferere as such but only one will be marked with the MA role.

 

[ctaylor22]

If you start kiss with no role on the command like, kiss will use the role from your ini file. The MA is determined by who you have targeted when starting kiss, or who you specify with the MA parameter on the command line. There is an exception though. If you are a tank type role your character will make themselves the MA. So your 3 tanks all think they are MA and will not /assist but acquire their own targets.

 

[Sum1]

If you start kiss with no role on the command like, kiss will use the role from your ini file. The MA is determined by who you have targeted when starting kiss, or who you specify with the MA parameter on the command line. There is an exception though. If you are a tank type role your character will make themselves the MA. So your 3 tanks all think they are MA and will not /assist but acquire their own targets.

Which, in some situations, may be exactly what you want. This is great info, thank you.

 

[surfdog21]

There is an exception though. If you are a tank type role your character will make themselves the MA. So your 3 tanks all think they are MA and will not /assist but acquire their own targets.

Thanks man, this answers one of my questions.

 

[Marnan]

What Ctaylor and Sum1 said. I've actually done groups with Paladin, Warrior, and SK in group each thinking they are the "main fucking" tank. Just for fun. You can also get a similar result if you set your mage to PETTANK.

Where it gets wonky is with multiple pulls. Sometimes, it's beautiful. Your mage will off tank a mob, while your SK takes the main mob. But it's totally random and if you get a three pull where each tank decides to snag aggro and tank that mob, your mezzers will go insane. It can be fun, but it's chaos.

 

[Many_Whelps]

Will this mess with the cleric ini?

The cleric will only recognize MA as the character that they were targeting when KISS started on your cleric. Any use of the |MA tag will go to that character. So, in essence, the 2 other "tanks" in the group are not recognized as MA by your cleric.