Request - can all classes get accesss to the |ambush tag

[timmy]

Version of KissAssist.mac?

11.001

When did your problem start?

always

Character Role?

1. Assist

What class is having this issue?

1. Bard

How often does this issue occur?

Always

Can you reproduce the issue?

yes. /pet swarm will force bard pets to attack new target, but no combination that i can create or steal from someone else gets them to.

every possible mage pet behaves perfectly. they move from target to target, doing pet things, always assisting, always attacking.

bard pets, not so much.

i've tried a half dozen different configurations with my ini to get my prankster and song of stone pets to assist after the target they've been deployed on has died, but nothing has worked. this is likely due to my failure at writing or stealing the work of someone else. but, it would be fantastic if maybe the bard pets could just be hard coded to behave like the mage pets.

all my googling to find things to steal, er, adapt, has led to some discussions about how bards who pull have some issues with the spam pets. i say down with pulling bards, let the bards stay in camp with their pets!

but seriously, if it can't be hardcoded, an actual working dps/condition would be awesome. i've tried so many and i keep coming up empty. i even stole some old stuff from a mage file that actually uses the name of the pet (with the ` instead of the ') and could not get those little pranksters to engage again after their initial deployment.

 

[saar]

maybe setting up a command for kiss11 to do a /pet swarm to have them reassist?
can try command|99|pet swarm|ambush untested but might work

 

[Sic]

maybe setting up a command for kiss11 to do a /pet swarm to have them reassist?
can try command|99|pet swarm|ambush untested but might work

This is how I do it in my bard ini

DPS11=command:/pet qswarm|99

 

[Many_Whelps]

maybe setting up a command for kiss11 to do a /pet swarm to have them reassist?
can try command|99|pet swarm|ambush untested but might work

This is how I do it in my bard ini

DPS11=command:/pet qswarm|99

I do similar, but I also have a condition to check that swarm pets exist

cond#=${SpawnCount[bard`s pet]}>0

Ideally you don't want kiss/mq2 spamming the eq server with /pet swarm commands hundreds of times per minute. The |ambush tag might help. I hadn't thought of that.

 

[Sic]

I do similar, but I also have a condition to check that swarm pets exist

cond#=${spawncount[bard's pet]}>0

Ideally you don't want kiss/mq2 spamming the eq server with /pet swarm commands hundreds of times per minute. The |ambush tag might help. I hadn't thought of that.

Good call!, might also be worth doing |Once

 

[timmy]

WORKING!

spawncount threw an error, SpawnCount and KA was happy.

i also used the ` instead of the ' because that's how the pet's names appear. idk if that's required, just an FYI for someone else.

i also put this as the first dps action and there are still fights where it appears it gets skipped or the bard is too busy doing bardy things to make his spam pets work hard, but i really was only after a fix for this because i like seeing those spam pets attack more than i need their dps. it's all about me being entertained. =p

thank you guys so much. very small thing, but man, i feel like completed an epic today or something. thank you.

 

[saar]

ambush will only happen once and its the first action taken, so having it /pet qswarm would have the swarm pets engage asap as you get the assist %

 

[timmy]

|ambush tag is a thing of beauty. everything works flawlessly.

i changed title of the thread so maybe all classes can get access to the ambush tag, or something that behaves the same way. that would really help me force some behaviors that i'd like on healers.

 

[Sic]

this is a great thread. I misunderstood how the ambush function worked. I didn't realize it would still wait until just before your first action (meaning it would still wait for your engage percent). I wrongfully assumed it would WTFAMBUSH a mob on incoming like a ninja flying out of the bushes doing crazy chun-li kicks in the air

 

[ctaylor22]

|ambush tag is a thing of beauty. everything works flawlessly.

i changed title of the thread so maybe all classes can get access to the ambush tag, or something that behaves the same way. that would really help me force some behaviors that i'd like on healers.

I think we can do that. I will put it on the list..