Question - Combat Plug-in/LUA (2 Viewers)

[fohpo]

Kinda curious what everyone is using to handle combat on Frostreaver. After ban waves, I went full time ISBoxer to avoid permas on my accounts and after a lot of tweaking, have been mostly happy. What’s performance been like for automated combat, especially given a variety of resists and other factors on Frostreaver?

 

[Algar]

I rarely shill. Today I am going to, because I've put a lot of work into this recently (as always), but some of that work is specifically aimed at smoothing the experience for TLP users.

RGMercs does very well from all reports:

• Saveable/shared per-mob resist profiles with user management (to include auto resist-aware spell use for wizards/etc if turned on). The ability to temporarily disable certain spell elements with a button/setting change ("Skip Fire Spells" etc) if needed.
• A built-in named list (for auto-burning/etc) that should cover near anything you see in the game (and a custom named list to add something if not).
• Persistent charming (with smart features such as assist actions from other classes on charm break like stuns, taunts, malos).
• User-editable configs (with a default live config that already works pretty well for TLP, barring some edge cases), so you can tailor things exactly to the currently released expansion.
• Ultimately, there is no combat automation that I am aware of that is *more* flexible.

The flip side:

• Flexibility breeds complexity. There is no way around this. We've done our best with sensible defaults, but being able to tackle all of the unique problems on Live, TLP and a variety of EMU servers means we have a lot of dang options.
• Our development outpaces our documentation. While we have searchable faqs, tooltips, and a command list (all in-game), reading update notes is the best way to learn about new features. Things can fly under the radar otherwise.