AutoBard 1.0

[Noobhaxor]

OUTDATED, NO LONGER MAINTAINED
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Instructions
type /mac autobard
*Note: Make sure Group Main Assist is set or bard won't melee or slow

Overview
AutoBard was created because I was tired of how bad MQ2Twist managed songs in EQ. It seemed like only 2 or 3 songs would ever run at the same time, and would never be able to sustain 4 concurrent songs like a person playing a bard can do. So this macro was born to always have 4 songs, slow, and AE mez adds. It twists 4 songs: Haste, OverHaste, Spell Dmg, Melee AC/DD Proc as its main rotation. It prioritizes Slow and Dichotomic Psalm, and casts Regen and Aura song during downtime. This is subject to change depending on feedback from the community.

What can I configure?
Not Much. Set Main Assist if you want melee and slow, don't set it if you just want him to cast songs.

AutoBard In-Game Commands
Follow Player - /chase -- Target PC to follow that toon / No Target cancels Followtoon -- /chaseon and /chaseoff are valid **KissAssist Commands**
Use Fellowship Fire - /usefellowship -- Clicks fellowship insignia after death (immediately releases and clicks insignia)
Instant Release on Death - /instantrelease -- Will release immediately on death

Casting Priority
1. AE Mez (Extended Target has 2+ mobs within 50 units)
2. Slow (Requiem of Time)
3. Dichotomic Psalm
4. AC/Melee Proc Song
5. Haste Song
6. Over-Haste Song
7. Spell Dmg Song

FAQ
Q: How much time has gone into AutoBard?
A: Been working on it off and on for 6 months. No one but myself has tested this macro, so I anticipate bugs starting off.

Q: Does this work on TLP?
A: Hasn't been coded yet, right now this is a Level 85+ macro.

Q: Will you ever charge for this macro?
A: No, I believe the community will donate what its worth. I hope to get enough to purchase Empires of Kunark for my box team.

Q: Do you have any benefits for donating?
A: Yes, I'll give you access to my Dropbox so you can see new releases the second they are made and see Alpha releases as I code them.

Q: I love this macro! How can I show my support for future development?
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Donations
PM for instructions on Krono Donations
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Donor Benefits - Single Paypal Donation or Krono to qualify
NEW! Dropbox access to the latest alpha / beta / official releases. PM me for more information.
Priority bug fixes and feature requests

Major Release History
1.0 - ETA 1/1/2017

Beta Release History
1 Beta - 11/2/2016
2 Beta - 11/3/2016
3 Beta - 11/16/2016
4 Beta - 11/19/2016

Alpha Releases - Donators Only
111916 - Multiple changes in progress from suggestions by Gator
112816 - Moves to group tank if out of range
113016 - Removed moving to group tank... now picks target with no group assist based on XTarget Health.
121416 - Sit logic fixed
121616 - Bard camp added, Resets camp on death, and /bardcamp also tells bard whether to hold camp. (Default: ON)

Donators have access to historical files

OUTDATED, NO LONGER MAINTAINED
Use Auto Macros Thread Here

 

[Noobhaxor]

Release History

1.0 Beta 4 - 11/19/2016
Pulse added
Now checks if bard has enough mana before casting aria or wave
added /usemelee command to specify to melee or not
Autobard will now assist XTarget 1 if no group assist is set
improved sit logic

1.0 Beta 3 - 11/16/2016
Fixed getting stuck on one song
Fixed missing " on line 12 (thanks Maskoi)
Tweaked AE behavior to Slow and Mez (Still in testing waiting on feedback)

1.0 Beta 2 - 11/3/2016
Noticed Dichotomic Psalm didn't properly read GemTimer TLO and created static timer

1.0 Beta 1 - 11/2/2016
Initial Release

 

[Kokopelli2014]

Donated and ty for your time and work, will try it out asap and offer feedback when and where i can in PM

 

[q8reflex]

Although not gonna use it much but i did donate, you helped us with AutoCleric real good.

 

[Dretski]

It's stuck at "You don't seem to have that spell memorized" and not playing any songs. Not sure what song I'm missing.

Edit; My heroic based 105 bard was missing Requiem of Time for some reason, which I noticed after looking at the code. Putting a message about which songs are missing would be a good idea.

 

[Noobhaxor]

It's stuck at "You don't seem to have that spell memorized" and not playing any songs. Not sure what song I'm missing.

Edit; My heroic based 105 bard was missing Requiem of Time for some reason, which I noticed after looking at the code. Putting a message about which songs are missing would be a good idea.

Awesome! Thanks for the bug report and I'll get this in on the next beta. What were you using to slow mobs if you didn't have requiem? I always found it to be the most effective, but I could be wrong.

 

[Sum1]

There isn't another more effective way than Requiem. The other songs are short duration with other effects (snare, AE Dot, etc.), which isn't as good as it initially sounds. The AE one is useful sometimes, but not if mezzing, and only if the mobs aren't moving.

Requiem of Time is your best option.

 

[Dretski]

Awesome! Thanks for the bug report and I'll get this in on the next beta. What were you using to slow mobs if you didn't have requiem? I always found it to be the most effective, but I could be wrong.

An enchanter. I just had a spare bard to try this out. I'm usually not happy with bards dying like flies while on any macro.

Also, I really, really don't want my bard to melee because of reasons. Could you build a trigger for this?

 

[Noobhaxor]

An enchanter. I just had a spare bard to try this out. I'm usually not happy with bards dying like flies while on any macro.

Also, I really, really don't want my bard to melee because of reasons. Could you build a trigger for this?

Yes, I'll put this in my next beta. Bard melee dps is pretty sad anyhow so it makes sense to have this trigger. I'll call it /nomelee

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[Maskoi]

OMFG you snuck this in while I have been playing wow, you bastage.

 

[Noobhaxor]

OMFG you snuck this in while I have been playing wow, you bastage.

Load it up and give me some feedback. I ditched mq2twist and do all the casting via /cast command. Much more reliable. Also I think everyone is playing wow right now haha. I burnt out once I hit ilvl 810... Lol.

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[Sum1]

If the fucking servers would stay up for longer than 50 seconds I would transfer my bard to a new account and fire this up. I've been AA'ing a mage on the same account.

 

[Noobhaxor]

If the fucking servers would stay up for longer than 50 seconds I would transfer my bard to a new account and fire this up. I've been AA'ing a mage on the same account.

I hear ya Sum... Raz has me convinced to level up a mage as well. This of course after I have maxed out my Wizard that he also convinced me to level (Not that I'm complaining, that wizard blows S*?! up!

 

[Sum1]

I hear ya Sum... Raz has me convinced to level up a mage as well. This of course after I have maxed out my Wizard that he also convinced me to level (Not that I'm complaining, that wizard blows S*?! up!

The mage was my first toon way back in the day, but somewhere along the way I swapped my main to a bard. While I maxed the bard out, I would periodically log the mage in to keep him somewhat current in levels. TBM and its loot candyland meant I could pimp him in gear, and then I started working to max his AA's again. I'm close. The mage kicks ass, especially if you score him the TBM pet focus from The Watcher.

 

[macromanic]

how good are you at charm burn kiting with bard think its possible to macro bot it?

set a camp location
set a radius to aggro mobs and pull then into camp area circle them up
charm pet and send into swarm & auto break charm at low % target dots on that mob
Target new pet...

Rinse and repeat?

 

[Noobhaxor]

how good are you at charm burn kiting with bard think its possible to macro bot it?

set a camp location
set a radius to aggro mobs and pull then into camp area circle them up
charm pet and send into swarm & auto break charm at low % target dots on that mob
Target new pet...

Rinse and repeat?

Well its slower than dirt, and you can macro charm since its so inconsistent. However, You can twist DoT songs and kill things that do not summon till the cows come home. During OoW GoD era, it was how I maxed characters out. I'm sure its still doable today, but it is FAR slower than having a full group killing current content mobs.

 

[Sum1]

how good are you at charm burn kiting with bard think its possible to macro bot it?

set a camp location
set a radius to aggro mobs and pull then into camp area circle them up
charm pet and send into swarm & auto break charm at low % target dots on that mob
Target new pet...

Rinse and repeat?

I slightly disagree with Noobhaxor on the first part (it being slower than dirt). If you know what you're doing and are in the right places charm kiting can be incredibly good experience. But the problem is after a certain point the nerfs to the charm song make it a lot harder to do (can't cast charm from distance anymore... need to be virtually on top of the mob for the cast to land), and macroing it would be very, very hard (imo).

His second point, though, which was using DoT kiting of non-summoning mobs to max your toon out was legit. Like noobhaxor, I also used it to max toons back in the day (bear caves in Icefall come to mind). You used to be able to /warp to just behind the wall on the bear caves with whatever toon you were looking to level or AA, and then let the bard circle up and dot shit down all. day. long. It was great exp and no one ever messed with you. Today it would be harder to do because DoTs would take a while to kill mobs, and finding a spot with non-summoning, non-casting mobs is harder nowadays.

 

[macromanic]

ok i know beam kiting was nerfed but a idea hit me with boxing bard wiz combo bard gathers and wiz follows is there a way to set it so the wiz box would auto turn to face mobs beam the stack then auto re-target bard and follow ??? could caster mercs be set up for this to?

 

[Sum1]

I don't think caster mercs beam. I also doubt their logic would be good enough to recognize when you're kiting and not just standing there spanking mobs. I suspect when it stops to nuke it'll stay there and get beat down rather than disengage and follow you (the kiter). The only exception being if you could manage to hold agro over the caster merc on the entire group of mobs.

 

[Gator]

Every bard I know has a Rapier of Somber Notes (from Tacvi) for the click(Symphony of Battle, 50str and 50atk buff). Any plans on adding this clicky to the makeup? My bards also have a Dreadstone Minstrel's Rapier (or Possessed Dreadstone Minstrel's Rapier) for slowing, would be cool to use that instead of slow song. Can even hit the mob with bellow before the click for resist debuff. Maybe some kind of trigger for Shaman epic so that the bard can click their epic and fierce eye?

The melee song order I do is:
1. Aria of Maetanrus
2. Arcane Melody
3. War March of Jocelyn
4. Fjilnauks Song of Suffering (Melee proc)

You have the bard memorize Fjinauk's Spiteful Lyric witch is a tanking/aggro proc, as far as I understand anyways.

Another note is you have the bard doing the latest Crescendo during down time. I am not sure if you know but you can actually memorize/use the latest two Crescendos one after the other (not at same time) for a full time Crescendo effect.

BUG: During combat with autobard my bard just casts Fjinauk's Spiteful Lyric Rk II over and over (other than dico and slow). This is not intended right? His Arcane Melody is Rk II as well. But his Aria of Maetanrus and War March of Jocelyn are Rk III, not sure if that has anything to do with it.

If you want I can give you a bard burn rundown for bosses and what not.

 

[Maskoi]

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#Event KissShit      "[MQ2] toggle #1#"

 

[DoHBoY]

Q: Does this work on TLP?
A: Hasn't been coded yet, right now this is a Level 85+ macro.

First off, awesome job on the macro! The coding itself is well organized and super easy to follow.

That being said, are we allowed to modify the macro to work for TLP, if we have the knowledge to do so? or is that against some digital rights thing that I am unaware of?

Not that you would ever know if anyone modified your work (so long as they don't release it as their own), but I figured I would ask

Seems like a really easy modification to just keep adding more if statements for lower level songs in each category.

 

[Jax]

So certainly not trying to stir anything up by asking this question, but where is KA lacking as compared to this macro?

I have not noticed problems keeping songs in rotation with KA... I'm such a newb I could be missing something obvious though.

 

[eqgeek]

This would be great for lower levels too. Say 70 and above. It's when they get to 100-105 that I like to use Kiss for things like campfire, clickbacktocamp, merc control, etc etc.

 

[Noobhaxor]

Every bard I know has a Rapier of Somber Notes (from Tacvi) for the click(Symphony of Battle, 50str and 50atk buff). Any plans on adding this clicky to the makeup? My bards also have a Dreadstone Minstrel's Rapier (or Possessed Dreadstone Minstrel's Rapier) for slowing, would be cool to use that instead of slow song. Can even hit the mob with bellow before the click for resist debuff. Maybe some kind of trigger for Shaman epic so that the bard can click their epic and fierce eye?

The melee song order I do is:
1. Aria of Maetanrus
2. Arcane Melody
3. War March of Jocelyn
4. Fjilnauks Song of Suffering (Melee proc)

You have the bard memorize Fjinauk's Spiteful Lyric witch is a tanking/aggro proc, as far as I understand anyways.

Another note is you have the bard doing the latest Crescendo during down time. I am not sure if you know but you can actually memorize/use the latest two Crescendos one after the other (not at same time) for a full time Crescendo effect.

BUG: During combat with autobard my bard just casts Fjinauk's Spiteful Lyric Rk II over and over (other than dico and slow). This is not intended right? His Arcane Melody is Rk II as well. But his Aria of Maetanrus and War March of Jocelyn are Rk III, not sure if that has anything to do with it.

If you want I can give you a bard burn rundown for bosses and what not.

This is awesome information. I literally have never played a bard outside of boxing, so I'm clueless and need this type of help

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Just posed new beta with some fixes.

 

[Sum1]

FYI, if you want, you can block the +hate melee proc song on toons that don't need the extra hate. That way, you can play a second proc song. If you time it (i.e. play the +hate song first in your lineup) the toon that needs the hate mod will always have that song, and the other toons will use the non-hate song.

 

[Gator]

My ideal bot bard melody that would be better than what KA could do currently would be able to pause a melody to cast songs(or clicks) in an event, then start the melody right back where it left off.

The events would consist of mez, slow, and when crescendo faded. I would not stop the melee melody for the regin melody because a lot of adps is wasted getting the melee melody back up. My mob are dying in less than 30 seconds and it is taking half that time or more to get the melody up.

My melody hotkey looks something like this: 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 6 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 7 3 4 5

1 - 5 are my adps songs (for pure melee (no mana) I drop out the 5th so that I am assured song of suffering is always on (only 3 procs))
6 and 7 are my crescendos. I have them far down the hotkey because I don't want to have to worry about them being on a cool down and ending the melody.

It takes 11 songs for a crescendo to fade (the crescendo fading is when it gives the hp/mana/end)

I have been playing the 5th song, Pulse of Sionachie, to see if it helps melee keep enough endurance, vs risk loosing a song of suffering proc.

So it would be cool if you had an Ini or could just open the mac and see the song list (1. 2. 3. 4., ect)

Melee:
1. Aria of Maetanrus
2. War March of Jocelyn
3. Fjilnauks Song of Suffering
4. Arcane Melody
5. Pulse of Sionachie

Caster no necro:
1. Aria of the Maetanrus
2. Arcane Melody
3. Nilsara's Aria (fire boost)
4. Fatesong of Jocelyn (cold boost)
5. Pulse of Sionachie

If you have a necro replace one of the fire or cold with Horthin's Psalm of Potency (dots).

and as mentioned above:
6. Silisia's Lively Crescendo
7. Motlak's Lively Crescendo

And note that the crescendo gives the mana/end/hp when it fades (like that cleric heal promised) so it does not help to cast a second crescendo before the previous fades, hence the 11 songs between.

 

[Noobhaxor]

My ideal bot bard melody that would be better than what KA could do currently would be able to pause a melody to cast songs(or clicks) in an event, then start the melody right back where it left off.

The events would consist of mez, slow, and when crescendo faded. I would not stop the melee melody for the regin melody because a lot of adps is wasted getting the melee melody back up. My mob are dying in less than 30 seconds and it is taking half that time or more to get the melody up.

My melody hotkey looks something like this: 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 6 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 7 3 4 5

1 - 5 are my adps songs (for pure melee (no mana) I drop out the 5th so that I am assured song of suffering is always on (only 3 procs))
6 and 7 are my crescendos. I have them far down the hotkey because I don't want to have to worry about them being on a cool down and ending the melody.

It takes 11 songs for a crescendo to fade (the crescendo fading is when it gives the hp/mana/end)

I have been playing the 5th song, Pulse of Sionachie, to see if it helps melee keep enough endurance, vs risk loosing a song of suffering proc.

So it would be cool if you had an Ini or could just open the mac and see the song list (1. 2. 3. 4., ect)

Melee:
1. Aria of Maetanrus
2. Arcane Melody
3. War March of Jocelyn
4. Fjilnauks Song of Suffering
5. Pulse of Sionachie

Caster no necro:
1. Aria of the Maetanrus
2. Arcane Melody
3. Nilsara's Aria (fire boost)
4. Fatesong of Jocelyn (cold boost)
5. Pulse of Sionachie

If you have a necro replace one of the fire or cold with Horthin’s Psalm of Potency (dots).

and as mentioned above:
6. Silisia's Lively Crescendo
7. Motlak's Lively Crescendo

And note that the crescendo gives the mana/end/hp when it fades (like that cleric heal promised) so it does not help to cast a second crescendo before the previous fades, hence the 11 songs between.

This is awesome information, my macro works differently than kiss and how a real person plays. It works like everquest bards of yester year. Clicks each song based on conditions being met. It will take a lot of development but in the end it will be much more effective than anything else out there, human or macro.

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Gator just tried out the first rough draft after your post... unbelievable man. You are my hero, adding pulse in has made a huge different still working on my order and changing some of the spells to match the other suggestions in your post.

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Beta 4 released - Added /usemelee into this one.

 

[macromanic]

kite burn with wiz box ... would it be possible to set up a bars wiz beam kite team real bard real wiz 2 wiz mercs ? have the macro have a built in range check and a hot key to blast the mobs then turn off the merc to run with bard reblast..

trying to figure out a preset run pattern that has the mobs in front for bean jousting wide circular 8 pattern or a wide circle where the wiz targets fires beam then re targets bard to follow

 

[Gator]

BUG: During combat melody, once the mob is mezed or slowed and the group is dico'ed, all my bard casts is Fjilnauk's Spiteful Lyric over and over until the mob dies. Then he does crescendo and stands stationary, sometimes sitting. The bard is 105, has memed the other songs(Arcane Melody Rk II, Aria of Maetanrus RK III, War March of Jocelyn Rk III, Pulse of Sionachie Rk II). In other words, Arcane Melody Rk II, Aria of Maetanrus RK III, War March of Jocelyn Rk III, and Pulse of Sionachie Rk II are never casted.

Am I missing an include file? Also the macro still says BETA 3 inside. Thanks for the work.

-----Edit

Forgot to mention, while the bard is attacking he should Selo's Kick every time it is up, while he is attacking. NVM I see he is doing it, maybe mq2melee.

While your making major changes to your macro. If you do have the bard click epic when shaman epic is clicked, maybe make another routine for when there is not a shaman in the group, maybe click every time a full health mob is in camp and epic is up, or more than 1 mob, or a named, ect. Basically anything is better than wasted epic/fierce eye, especially in a melee group. If third spire (second spire for casters) is up cast that as well.

Fierce eye is not to be clicked if enchanter's IoG is going (one over rides the other and casters like IoG gooder). If an enchanter is in group I would only cast fierce eye upon the IoG fade message. Although I can't see many botters having enchanter and bard in same group.

 

[Fennil]

look forward to giving it a whirl love autocleric so im sure this will be awesome too

 

[psimoon]

Using AB 120116 and keep getting you do not seem to have that song memorized. I have checked I got all the songs even eok.

 

[Noobhaxor]

Using AB 120116 and keep getting you do not seem to have that song memorized. I have checked I got all the songs even eok.

Looking into this now, I also noticed the bard seems to stay in front of the group and has caused his untimely demise more than once

 

[Warl0ck45]

He is just trying to help the ranger from feeling too bad....

 

[psimoon]

Noob I got it to work. i had to quit to desktop and restart from there.

I had tried to log out to char select, but that did not work. only going to desktop did.

 

[Deathmetal]

Can you get this to include Tasphs insult so i can use the trubadors synergy AA from the new focus eok 100 cost aa. thx

 

[Noobhaxor]

Can you get this to include Tasphs insult so i can use the trubadors synergy AA from the new focus eok 100 cost aa. thx

I'll put it in my next release

 

[Razkle]

Best line ever!

 Mq2Twist detected! Unloading it before it fucks shit up!

SO awesome!

 

[Dretski]

I know you might hate this, but.. Could you make a mez switch too please? Right now doing chanter/bard in group, and the chanter does this job 10 times better. I just want the bard to buff/DPS for the moment. I understand if it's not in your intentions however!

 

[Noobhaxor]

I know you might hate this, but.. Could you make a mez switch too please? Right now doing chanter/bard in group, and the chanter does this job 10 times better. I just want the bard to buff/DPS for the moment. I understand if it's not in your intentions however!

Of course, I am also working at revamping the mez section to make the bard actually mez properly. Thank you so much for the feedback! I'll add a switch into the next beta so you can disable mez altogether.

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Ok I'm a noob when it comes to bards... How does one mez on a bard other than AE Song mez?

I know Single target mez and AA Dirge, but how do bards typically use these? Stop singing group songs and focus on just cycling targets?