Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/18/07 (1 Viewer)

[Marbury]

Credit to RedBot(Macro), Siddin, and Infernal for the original posts.
I am just here to keep it updated since Infernal fell out of the loop.

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To be used with;

RedBots AFK Bard Macro which can be found here;

RedBot's AFK Bard Macro

Decker's AFK Bard Macro which can be found here;

Decker's Modified AFK Bard Macro

unity0110 AFK Bard Macro which can be found here;

unity0110 Modified AFK Bard Macro
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Things I found useful and needed:

Unfortunately if you go to certain zones you can’t use Selo’s as much as you would like to, but the good news is at 25 you can buy the Indoor Selo’s in the bazaar or if you have a toon or friend with LDoN points, go (or have them go) purchase it from the vendor.

Selo's Songs

Level 5
Selo's Accelerando
Level 25
Selo's Rhythm of Speed Indoor Selo's
Level 49
Selo's Accelerating Chorus
Level 51
Selo's Song of Travel

I prefer to use a Drum Mod that is decent so your Damage Over Time's will hit for more, Selo's will run faster and so on.

Drums

Level 1+
Thunderous Drums of Karana
Level 48+
Blackfeather War Drum

Direct Damage Songs

Level 12
Brusco's Boastful Bellow
Level 18
Denon's Disruptive Discord


Damage Over Time Songs

Level 30
Fufil's Curtailing Chant
Level 38
Song: Tuyen's Chant of Flame
Level 42
Tuyen's Chant of Disease
Level 46
Tuyen's Chant of Frost
Level 50
Tuyen's Chant of Poison
Level 61
Tuyen's Chant of the Plague
Level 62
Tuyen's Chant of Venom
Level 62
Tuyen's Chant of Ice
Level 65
Tuyen's Chant of Fire









Hot Spots! (Adventure with Bonus XP!)

As of April 18, 2007 – Hotzones are currently;

• Level 20: Netherbian Lair
• Level 25: Crypt of Dalnir
• Level 30: Crystal Caverns
• Level 35: Iceclad Ocean
• Level 40: The Scarlet Desert
• Level 45: The Burning Woods
• Level 50: Dranik's Scar
• Level 55: Acrylia Caverns
• Level 60: Dragon Necropolis
• Level 65: Wall of Slaughter


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Detailed Zone Analysis:

XP: Rate of Experience in general.

Level of Detection: Player detection meter.

Travel: How to get to the zone (starting always from Plane of Knowledge).

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Levels 1-15
Glooming Deep Mines or Starting City(Rec. 1) – Depending on your style you can use either of these magnificent zones. You can explore your starting zone or some buffed up place that gives you easy quests for gear. Your choice really.
Experience: Depending on twinking, and where you hunt in these zones, the experience should fly from 1-4 pretty quick. I would stay until 8 (obviously moving to other higher camps)
Travel: Should be either the first or second zone you have to go to, depending on choice.

Field of Bone, Crushbone, Kurns Tower(Rec. 8) - Basically you can use any secondary starting city branched zone to get your experience here. Just find out where you need to go next or visit some of these friendly zones. You should group or solo here until you reach about 12-15 depending on your playing skill/class/twinking.
Experience: It isn’t what you would consider rocking, but it gets the job done.
Travel: Depending on your starting zone or which zone you pick.


Levels 15-25
Paludal Caverns (Rec. 15) – Paludal Caverns will be one of your main zones ranging from levels 4-25, or even higher. The bot may not be as effective in here as you wish, but the experience will be well worth it, even in a group.
Experience: Should be very good experience, the zone should be an in and out one.
Travel: Plane of Knowledge > Nexus > Shadow Haven > Paludal Caverns

Netherbian Lair (Rec. 20) – Netherbian Lair is a hotzone right now, so it's increased in experience. Try grabbing a group here or powerleveling your bard up to level.
Experience: Should be very good experience, the zone is considered Hot!
Travel: Plane of Knowledge > Nexus > Netherbian Lair

**I would not recommend kiting in these first few zones until you hit 25. Group or get PowerLeveled.**


Levels 25-35
Crypt of Dalnir (Rec. 25) – Hot Zone! Should be awesome experience and you should be thrilled with the experience bonus you gain. The fun is just beginning in your adventure to get experience and how far you’ll go to get it. Mobs shouldn’t run unless they are the only one left.
Experience: Should be awesome experience as it is a Hot Zone.
Level of Detection: Fairly decent, it seems to be a highly contested zone. You can catch it on it’s down times or monitor it if you wish to use it.
Travel: Plane of Knowledge > Overthere > Warslisk Woods > Crypt of Dalnir

Unrest (Rec. 30) – What better place than good old Unrest? They’re undead so they won’t run at low health. All the mobs are typically social if I recall, and everything has low hit points as it’s from EQ Classic Zone List. Just set up anywhere there is room in the courtyard and things will agro happily.
Experience: Should be pretty awesome experience, you should do Courtyard and mobs should join in pretty regularly.
Level of Detection: Low
Travel: Plane of Knowledge > Butcherblock > Dragnor’s Cauldron > Unrest

Crystal Caverns (Rec. 35) – I personally like the circular room with the Tentacle Terror looking mobs in it. It’s at the end of the hallway. Great experience, no casters.
Experience: Awesome experience, it’s a Hot Zone and you’re hitting it at a prime time.
Level of Detection: Low
Travel: Plane of Knowledge > Great Divide > Eastern Wastes > Crystal Caverns


Levels 35-50
Iceclad Ocean (Rec. 35) – I would personally camp anywhere in the zone that is suitable for your level. Around Tower of Frozen Shadow (Away from Lozidal spawn point obviously) you should set up camp and catch Dervishes and meow cats.
Experience: It’s another Hot Zone; you should get some good experience.
Level of Detection: Medium
Travel: Plane of Knowledge > Great Divide > Eastern Wastes > Iceclad Ocean

Scarlet Desert (Rec. 40) – Anywhere in the zone would be good experience. Lightcrawler’s can be a pain in this zone as they run a bit faster than most other mobs. If you set up near a campsite of a local tribe, they should be good experience along with everything else that adds in. I would not recommend Sun Revenant’s as their DoT can be pretty fatal to most anyone without a healer/cure.
Experience: Another Hot Zone; you should have fun.
Level of Detection: Medium-Low, It’s not that popular of a zone, and it’s huge.
Travel #1: Plane of Knowledge > Nexus > Netherbian Lair > Dawnshroud Peaks > Grieg’s End > The Scarlet Desert
Travel #2: Plane of Knowledge > Nexus > Shadowhaven > Echo Caverns > Fungus Grove > Twilight Sea > The Scarlet Desert

Burning Woods (Rec. 45) – Try Giant Fort, Hornet Nest, I would avoid Nezekena or the Phurzikon spawn point as they do summon and will eat your babies.
Experience: Hot Zone, again! As long as Phurzi or Nezekina don’t find you and gobble you, you should get very good experience.
Level of Detection: Low
Travel: Plane of Knowledge > Overthere > Skyfire > Burning Woods (Unless they moved the Burning Woods)


Levels 50-65
Dranik’s Scar (Rec. 50) – This zone I have not tested yet, but from a friend I heard the experience is good from level 48-53, which is enough to make the zone worth something at least. The problem is the high traffic it experiences.
Experience: Word of Mouth? Good experience, Hot Zone.
Level of Detection: Medium-High
Travel: Plane of Knowledge > Dranik’s Scar (via Priest of Discord)

Acrylia Cavern’s (Rec. 50) – This is a zone that is being camped off the ass, but you could do the one room on the map with the mobs standing by the lava pit. There are enough there to give you tons of experience. Mobs here cast so that can pose a slight problem.
Experience: Hot Zone, but can also pose problems as for a lot of casting NPC’s.
Level of Detection: Low for my camp, Medium for others.
Travel:

Plane of Nightmare (Rec. 50) – This is an awesome zone that is hardly camped at all. I used this from 50-55 on my bard. I had the whole zone to myself for 95% of the day and the other half was a couple necromancers at the zone in kiting. Camp the Nightstalker’s past the waterfall.
Experience: Decent, slows down a bit through 54.
Level of Detection: Low for Nightstalkers.
Travel: Plane of Knowledge > Plane of Tranquility > Plane of Nightmare

Plane of Valor (Req. 55) – Undead Vassals, do I need to say more? The best camp in the zone because you can get right past the Skelly house that has no walls (just a frame) and /circle 50 and /twist your songs. No one comes near the skelly houses because they see through invisibility and attack in groups. Give it a try, I know you’ll love it.
Editors Note: **I camped here from 55-65, It may get slow a bit, but it’s damn worth the hard work.**
Experience: Decent, keep in mind hell levels. Sony never removed them, you’ll see.
Level of Detection: Low, people avoid this spot.
Travel: Plane of Knowledge > Plane of Tranquility > Plane of Valor


Levels 65-70
Ruined City of Dranik (Rec. 65) – There is a room off to the left side of the zone in. Run through the first room, and then take a left down the tunnel. Then it splits off again and you could possibly do either room, but the Golems and Nocs don't summon or cast. The kills are about the same as Plane of Valor but the mobs are higher level. I believe the ones for this zone are 64 in this room.
Experience: Good experience for the level.
Level of Detection: Low, not a room people camp.
Travel: Plane of Knowledge > (via Priest of Discord)Dranik's Scar > Bloodfields > Ruined City of Dranik

 

[Marbury]

Powerleveling your bard?


PowerLeveling!


This is probably old news, but just incase;

Let me tell you something about powerleveling a bard, whether it's with a ranger, druid, cleric, it's easy.

Make a bard and buy Song: Chords of Dissonance
Get some DS potions.
Log in PL toon. (or shroud to Kobold cleric with your highest toon)
Run to start city and get level 2.
Now start pulling as many mobs as you can handle hitting you without needing heals(loss of agro on bard due to heals) and turn on Song,
Once the song hits all mobs click DS potion
Let them die, probably have to root final mob or chase it for the beat down.

Rinse and repeat this technique
If it becomes difficult, let the PL'ing toon pull mobs and have it use DS potions.
You can do this until 50 while using the HotZones, at 50 head to Plane of Nightmare to kite around.

I powerleveled my bard with my druid in 8 hours to 50.

Check out this post for more Powerleveling information/tactics
Assorted Powerleveling Idea's

Mikiky's Uber Get to 20 Quickly Tactic!
Mikiky's Quickness

 

[Marbury]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/7/07

Skilling up!

Oh the joys!

So after leveling almost 70 some levels and never hitting, being hit few times, and many other things, I am sure your skills are feeling it.

Offensive Skilling - Basically just take your every day group and have at those mobs, I recommend skilling up your instruments so you're semi useful to a group.

Defense Skilling - I would recommend going to a zone where the mobs are low, they don't hit hard, and you still get experience from the mobs. Just let them hit you, beat on you, pull some if you want to clear for a named, and just spend some time taking some hits. Defense is the hardest thing to skill up in my opinion.

Safe Fall - Fallen and you can't get up cause you just took 20k damage because of your lack of Safe Fall? I was screwing around on my druid and I had Flight of Eagles on myself and found that if I swam straight at the ground (guessing with a swimming skill of at least 150+) I would take 2-3 damage hitting the ground. I figured that if I had my bard there I could just continually hit the bottom of the water body and skill up quickly.

Swimming - Just go to any low population zone and /circle 10 in the water, you can do that or just find your own way. Make sure you buy an EB item!

Fishbone Earring
Amulet of the Grey
Rebreather
Shissar Eye Earring
Lodizal Shell Shield
Knotted Turtlebone Ring

Brass Instruments - Zone into Netherbian Lair, and run to the corner in the first rocky corridor you are in. Play your fear songs, I personally at 62 used Angstlich's Echo of Terror bought via DoN vendor iirc, and play that in the corner. Nothing should aggro you. At 67 you get Angstlich's Wail of Pain and you can play that in the same spot overnight to get that skilled up.

Percussion Instruments - Should be done already from all of the DoT's and Selo's you have sung over the levels. So this should not be a problem, if it is, then play your highest Selo's song until you get up there.

Wind Instruments - Personally, just go to a zone with non-KoS mobs and low traffic like Twilight Sea and play your mez songs that are Wind Based songs like your 62 song Dreams of Thule , or your 70 song Vulka's Lullabye. If you don't like that idea, you can always wait until 69 and camp out in Guildlobby and play Verse of Vesagran. Oh yes, and there is your level 19 invis song Sharui's Sonorous Clouding which can be used early on, if it matter to you, or your 34 song Lyssa's Solidarity of Vision.

Stringed Instruments - Any of your Regen spells will work to get this up, and I would reccomend using your highest songs for any of these.


If I find any new and exciting ways to skill up skills, I will let you know.

 

[Marbury]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/7/07

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[Fozzieelf]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/7/07

Very nice write up, clean up to date and enough information for even the newbie. Great post would like to see more especially 65+ spots. Red cent coming your way.

 

[Marbury]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/7/07

Working on that now, my bard is 65.

Would be appreciated if I could get some tips and stuff from people.

 

[darkeros]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/7/07

After POV, you could put in HOH until like 64 or 65.

At 65, you could put in RCoD. At the main entrance, there are golems at the front. When you start going in the tunnels to get into the zone, take a left into more tunnels, then take another left. It's a big wide circular room that no one ever goes to. Very easy to circle kite there un-detected.

At 70, you could do Vxed, if you have fade, and run all the way to the top of the zone where the beludus are, fading mobs off on the way up, then hitting da when you get up there and starting your circle without getting killed. After you start it, it's cake as long as you have a good bit of hp and a good lute.

 

[Marbury]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/7/07

Checking the tunnel in RCoD. Should be an awesome experience spot.

Thanks for the tip, RC to you!

 

[unity0110]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/8/07

2 corrections, Fufil's Curtailing Chant is a DoT, and Selo's Accelerating Chorus is level 49

 

[unity0110]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/8/07

A spot I leveled at from 49 to 55 was in Timorous Deep, the most North East island with a gunthak swabby's and a gunthak pirate's. The trick for this spot is to go into the building with a circular room in the middle and 2 squarish rooms on the outside of it, start your circle at 46 and also need to watch out for a gunthak marauder's (They summon), can get 2 on you, but you will never run out of mobs even if you leave those 2 up.

Due to stuns and repops I suggest you keep potions on you, 1 direct heal in slot 1 and a HoT in slot 2, and once you get level 51 I got run speed 3, only took a few hours to get 3 aa's.

Plane of Knowledge > Overthere > (Translocator mob on dock) Timorous Deep

The macro i'm using is a modified version of redbot's

#event dead       "You have been slain by#*#" 
#event badtarget  "You cannot see your target."
#event stunned "You are stunned#*#"

Sub Main  
/echo Target Macro loaded.
:loopstart 
/doevents  
/call GMcheck  
/if (${Target.Level}>54) /tar npc next 
/if (${Target.Name.Equal[a gunthak marauder]}) {
/twist off
/target npc next
/delay 10
/twist 1 5 6 7 8
}
/if (${Me.PctHPs}<=45) /potionbelt Activate 1
/if (${Me.PctHPs}<=60) /potionbelt Activate 2
/if (${Target.Distance}>200) /target clear
/if (${Target.ID}==FALSE) /tar NPC radius 200
/delay 10  
/goto :loopstart  
/return  
  
 Sub GMcheck  
/if (${Spawn[gm].ID}) {
/mqlog GM FOUND AT ${Time} 
/call beep
/exit
}  
/return  
  
Sub event_camp  
/sit  
/camp desk  
/return   

sub event_beep
/beep
/beep
/beep
/return

sub event_badtarget
/tar NPC radius 150 next
/return

sub event_stunned
/twist 1 5 6 7 8
/return

sub event_dead
/mqlog You died at ${Time}
/exit
/return

 

[decker]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/8/07

Nice update=)

I use this macro:

| This macro made for www.Redguides.com
| Don't steal it or we'll punch your fase!
#turbo     
  
Sub Main  
    
:loopstart 
/doevents  
/call GMcheck  
/if (${Me.PctHPs}<=45) /potionbelt Activate 1
/if (${Me.PctHPs}<=60) /potionbelt Activate 2
/if (${Target.Level}>75) {
/squelch /twist stop
/target npc next
/delay 30
/squelch /twist 1 2 3 4 5 6
}
/if (${Target.Distance}>220) /tar npc radius 220 
/if (${Target.ID}==FALSE) /tar npc radius 220  
/delay 10  
/goto :loopstart  
/return  
  
 Sub GMcheck  
 /if (${Spawn[gm].ID}) {  
 /echo Gm detected  
 /beep 
 /beep 
 /beep  
 /keypress 9 
 /endmac 
 /unload 
 /q  
 }  
 /return

Just find a place you want to afk level:

/plugin mq2moveutils
/plugin mq2twist
/circle on <what ever (35+)>

Sit back and watch you level =)

 

[Marbury]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/8/07

Very nice information, thanks for the additional posts here. I will be putting these in a main post when I get the chance later.

 

[LyricalMenace]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/10/07

Level 25 bard here, can probally get myself PL'd to 30.

Can anyone suggest a legit place to afk macro at this level?

Also what should my settings be? What spells in what gems and twist what?

I am very new to this and have never been able to get the twist thang to work afk.

Any help would be greatly appreciate.

 

[Marbury]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/10/07

To use:
0) For the first time running, type "/plugin MQ2twist" and then "/plugin MQ2moveutils" (without quotes)
1) Choose 5 songs to twist and memorize them.
2) Stand wherever you want to run in circles (helps to have a room with lots of spawns) and type "/circle on 75" (or replace 75 with whatever radius you like.)
3) Press numlock to start running
4) type "/mac target" to start the targeting macro, the one you copied above.
5) type "/twist 1 2 3 4 5", to twist songs in slots 1,2,3,4,5. Choose other slots if you like.

This is from RedBot's AFK Macro thread, which is the original, and if you have the macro then I guess you would have been to those pages, hopefully. Anyways, use this information to set up your macro. You need MQ2moveutils downloaded and loaded into MQ2.

If you read the posts in my walk through to level, you would see that I recommend Dalnir, Unrest, or Crystal Caverns to EXP in. I strongly suggest Unrest at your level and it's an outdoor zone, unless you have indoor selo's.

Good luck! Those are also prime powerleveling spots.

 

[LyricalMenace]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/10/07

Yes I understand all of that... For the most part I am wondering what songs to twist and in what order. I tried putting my Speed song in gem 1, then DD song in slot 2 and twisting 1 2 2 2 2.

This doesn't seem to give me good results maybe because the reuse timer on my DD song?

Basically just asking for some help on what songs I am going to want to use for what lvl ranges.

Gonna give unrest a try in a few when I get home... Thanks for the suggestions!

 

[decker]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/10/07

Speed, Dot 1, Dot 2, Dot 3 Dot 4, Mana/HP reg...

Thats what i normally do

 

[LyricalMenace]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/10/07

Ok guess I gotta lvl a bit cause I don't have any dots yet =)

 

[Marbury]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/10/07

Are you using Brusco's from level 12, or Denon's from 18? Those are the two DD's you have at your level, if it's causing a problem then load the songs like this;

1 - Selo's
2 - Brusco's
3 - Denon's

At 30 you get Fufil's, your first Damage Over Time so have a setup like;


1 - Selo's
2 - Brusco's
3 - Denon's
4 - Fufil's

 

[LyricalMenace]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/10/07

My brass instrument isnt up to par so I can't do the lvl 18 spell it makes me end song and screws up..

So I will go:

1. Selos
2. Brusc
3. Fuf

and repeat that.. is that okay?

 

[unity0110]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/10/07

Ok, here's what I do at 49+, Selos (2min 30 sec) and 4 chants (dots), if you're using MQ2Twist it will automatically detect if it needs to cast selos or if there's enough time it will skip it, that way you'll have the best dps. You might want to have potions and such for healing but i really don't see a point to the regen songs.

 

[Marbury]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/10/07

He's not level 49 so that won't help him much.

I use 5 chants and Selo's, if I could find a way to work in a hp check into the macro and health potions so it was a tad more effective so you did not die as much, that would make things work out so much better.

 

[VillageIdiot]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/10/07

Anywhere besides Vassel camp at 56?

 

[Marbury]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/10/07

What wrong with Vassal's camp?

No, I haven't found a better place. It's going to be your best place to solo because you're going to have hell levels anyways.

 

[VillageIdiot]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/10/07

i died a lot there. I went just north of the building shown and did circle 50 but for some reason i would get hit a lot. I'm doing another place right now that i'm getting .9% / kill right now. exp slow but 9 hrs = 0 deaths

 

[Lichd2]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/10/07

best way too skill up brass?

 

[unity0110]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/10/07

Vassal camp has a named that summons, just add this line to your macro and you should be gtg, although I don't always make it alive through the night as well,

/if (${Target.Level}>62) /tar npc next

 

[browneagle]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/10/07

The way I skilled up Brass on my Vah Shir Bard, was I went into the tunnel between the pit in Shar Vahl and the zone in from Shadeweavers Thicket. I went about 1/2 way in the tunnel and just went AFK playing my horn and the level 18 brass song. I went from 6 to 100 in a couple hours. Hope this helps.

 

[unity0110]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/10/07

yeah, just find some spot that allows you to cast detrimental songs and away from any pathing mobs.

 

[Marbury]

Added new ways of skilling up and places to try it.

 

[Mikiky]

This is still my favorite way of getting my alts to around level 20 in next to no time at all... the only real problem being that your skills don't go up as you do this.

http://www.redguides.com/community/showthread.php?t=11858

 

[Korlnarth]

Re: Bard AFK Macro Leveling Guide - 7/10/07

Vassal camp has a named that summons, just add this line to your macro and you should be gtg, although I don't always make it alive through the night as well,

/if (${Target.Level}>62) /tar npc next

Another smart way of doing the Vassal camp as it has been stated before in one of the macros is instead of trying to filter out all the mobs you dont want to kill, simply set the code to only target what you do want to kill. This wont work for all scenarios, but it works well for the Vassal camp, I can vouch for that. Simply switch npc in the code with vassal.

/if (${Target.Level}>62) /tar vassal next

 

[unity0110]

wouldn't target ANY vassal include corpses?

/if (${Target.Level}>62) /tar vassal next

maybe this would work better if not the same

/if (${Target.Level}>62) /tar npc vassal next

 

[decker]

I would think so

 

[Korlnarth]

wouldn't target ANY vassal include corpses?

That was the correct string

/if (${Target.Level}>62) /tar npc vassal next

 

[tommy2tone]

Also good way to help wind instuments is to load up your invis song and a flute will be maxed in no time atleast it worked for me.

 

[sillywabbit]

Okay... meh n00b'0rz is having a really tough time getting any MQ plugin/macro to work properly, I want this one to work.
I made a trash account, with a free 30 day trial to give this a whirl. My first attempt at MQ'ing was brought to an end after a GM came in to answer a /petition that was not resolved in a couple weeks... why he chose that time I do not know, they could have solved it in a couple hours, not weeks.

Anyways.

I made a new bard, leveled it to 9 conventionally which took an awesome 15 minutes of my time. I went to Butcherblock, camped out. Fired up Jigs 4.2 compilation. Opened up notepad, made the target.mac file from page 1 here http://www.redguides.com/community/showthread.php?t=16 and saved it to my marco folder (C:\MQ4.2\Macro) Fired up EQ and got the redguides MQ splash screen
On the MQ window I type in the following:
/plugin mq2twist
/plugin mq2moveutils
/macro target
Found a plump yellow con with plenty of other whites around it, got close to it and then typed in
/target on 75
/twist 1 2
Then hit the NumLock button.

Now I will admit the XP went slow, I coulda whacked them and killed them faster, but just wanted to get used and see how to use the compilation.
After I killed the first one, by bard just stood there like a dumb robot awaiting extra instructions. It did not target any of the other mobs that were beating on him other then the first one from after my main target died. I sat there and watched the screen thinking any second now it should pop in, but no, it did not. I died and had to run back for a corpse run.

What am I doing wrong? I want to level up a bard fast on my main account, but so far I cant even get one level on a trash account with MQ'z... What is meh n00b sauce doing wrong?

 

[sillywabbit]

Okay, small problem that I did not read for my low level of 9. Looks like I have to start at 12.
But still, why did my toon stop running in circles? It should have finished off the 3 that were in camp then run out and find fresh meat shouldn't it have?

 

[Veyron]

Technically he should not ran off and find fresh meat, as he would have continued his circle until the ones you killed repopped. And I believe you need to type "/circle on 75" And not "/target on 75." and once you type /circle on 75 he should start his circles.

Basically:
/plugin MQ2twist
/plugin MQ2moveutils
---Goto area with Mobs
/circle on 75
---wait until your certain you are running your circle then
/mac target (or /macro Target - Same thing)
/twist 1 2

 

[sillywabbit]

Thanks, I'll give that a shot.

 

[Ryzon]

The easiest way for me to skillup brass is to go to Shar Val and find these Caged Raptor things. I can't remember exactly but they look like raptors in a cage and are untargetable. Position yourself so that your aoe brass song will hit the raptor but not the guard and leave it running a couple hours (you'll know when you hit the raptor because it will appear to take damage). You'll be maxed in no time.