Question - Bard Twisting - Detrimental

[bb4]

I've got my bards setup to twist beneficial songs, but I was curious about how to twist detrimental. I have it setup within the debuff section, but it doesn't appear to be twisting.

1 thought I had was to do a combat engage /twist and a combat end /twist and let that handle it. Would that be the easiest way?

 

[VorpalChicken]

On my baby bard (my main bard has the same but with the higher tier songs) the setup I use is this (in my kiss11 script)

[Melee]
MeleeTwistOn=1
MeleeTwistWhat=1 2 3 4 5 6 7
AssistAt=95
MeleeOn=1
MeleeDistance=75
StickHow=snaproll
UseMQ2Melee=1
FaceMobOn=1
AutoFireOn=0

Gem1=Aria of Maetanrus
Gem2=Arcane Melody
Gem3=Fjilnauk's Spiteful Lyric
Gem4=Fjilnauk's Song of Suffering
Gem5=Fjilnauk's Insult
Gem6=War March of Jocelyn
Gem7=Doben's Spry Sonata


Only song 5 is a detrimental one, so basically you just setup what ever songs you want to sing, if you were to sing say the 4 DoT songs you could just load them into gems 1 to 4, the script will be meleeing the mob anyway and so it's targeted and you'll cast the dots on it, it work really simply.

You don't need to setup a debuff section

 

[bb4]

This is ModBot, not KISS. Our Melee section looks like:
[Melee]
OffTank=FALSE
ACLeash=250
ACAssistPct=99
ACManaPct=70
ACAnnounce=
ACMeleeCmd=/melee plugin=1
ACBefore=
ACAfter=
ACPetEnrage=TRUE

Hence, why I was asking about doing /twist in the ACBefore and ACAfter slots. Same principle as what you said for KISS, just different macros.

 

[woobs]

Check out the sample .ini's in the wiki. For things like continuous twisting, you can simply change your AB entry to.... self cbt idle. This is the way I do it. I prefer to simply have the bard singing the same songs in combat and at rest, so they don't interrupt/start over, and they are already running when the group engages.

For instance:
[AB5]
Gem=4
Spell=Arcane Ballad
DurMod=0
SpellAlias=arcane
Announce=
SpellMinMana=0
TarCnt=1
TarType=self cbt idle
Recast=FALSE
SpellFoci=
SpellIcon=
PreCondition=TRUE

If you would like the rest songs to be different from the combat songs, you can do that. Simply remove the 'cbt idle' from the ones you don't want to sing at rest. But, if you don't have to do that, I recommend simply letting them play

You can reserve the AD entries for one-offs. They will 'twist once'.

 

[bb4]

Got it. I'm trying to have my bard sing Harmony of Sound. I'll try it under the beneficial section tonight and see what happens.