Question - 3 Boxing with Kiss, few questions for settings

[asdflolmad]

Ok, first off I am using 6.5

Basically my goal is to have my Beastlord's pet tank.

I have a ranger who can pull, and 1 other character as well.

The issue is that the mobs are getting too close before the pet grabs them, so they hit my actual characters instead of the pet(s).

Secondly..can I use ISBOXER with this? The background windows are laggy beyond belief.

 

[thg]

I use ixboxer with 6x characters np. They were working on a petpullertank routine for KISS, you may want to get the latest version of it, etc for that. I don't think you'll want to use the ranger to pull, but rather the tank (or what I did at the time was pull in with the ranger/bard, etc and let a merc tank take the actual beating instead and use a cleric merc / dps merc to round out your group of characters if you're 3 boxing.

 

[asdflolmad]

I may start doing that then. Im gonna try with a tank merc see if thats easier. My beast isnt meant to tank this area :P

 

[Kellon]

I use ISBOXER in combination with MQ2FPS it works perfectly.

In the performance tab of ISBOXER make sure that each of your characters is running on a separate core (you can use the CPU strategy wizard for this if you haven't done it already).

I don't use the framerate limiting in ISBOXER, I personally prefer to let MQ2FPS do it.

Particularly helpful is the limit rendering option (which ISBOXER does not have) so that your background clients only render 1 frame out of however many you choose.

These are my MQ2FPS.ini setting which work well for me:

[MQ2FPS]
ForegroundMaxFPS=100
BackgroundMaxFPS=100
Indicator=1
Mode=1
IndicatorX=10
IndicatorY=25
[Rendering]
FGRate=1
ReverseFGRate=0
BGRate=100
ReverseBGRate=0

These settings mean that the background clients will only draw 1 in 100 frames but still allow macros to work at full speed (I think).

You could also use the stand alone version of EQPlaynice if you don't want to use MQ2FPS.

EQPlaynice has a similar render limiting option.

 

[Akatora]

try setting the affinity for each instance of eq to all cores, i had a similar problem with lag and that fixed it for me. they just recently gave the option to change it in the eqgame.ini to make all cores run eq, instead of just 1.

you can also change settings in the advance settings under display to change how many fps you have while running in the background as well..

but if you are 3 boxing you should def have a tank merc if you dont have one already, and if you dont have the T5 merc i highly suggest getting that, the tank mercs can tank almost anything in game once you get the t5 one depending on your levels of course.. as to get the t5 merc i think you need to be 75 or 85, i cant really remember lol

 

[Maskoi]

PetTank and PullerPetTank
are roles that will both be available next release shortly after the holiday weekend.

 

[asdflolmad]

Looking forward to Pet tank/puller pet tank. Should truly help out my box setup. Finally got it working flawlessly. Only issue is when I have radius too big and I pull 3. 2 is managable. 3 is hit or miss

 

[Maskoi]

Get a mezzer lol

 

[etherealmist]

Get a mezzer lol

This.

I went from pulling 1 mob, and dying to adds, to chain pulling 3 mobs at a time. My bard works fairly well with messing 2 mobs, can't wait for an aoe mez on him to get that initial mez out.