I have been using my own variation of Monk Hunter and Healbot to power level my Monk with my Druid in Forgotten Halls. I have had enormous troubles with both of the original macros and I've tinkered with each to get them to work. I want to share these with you all while giving the original makers of these macros all the credit int he world fo being 4837209432 times smarter than me for making them to begin with. I use a level 75 Druid to powerlevel whatever class I am goofing around with. Adjust your spells as necessary.
Here is what each macro does:
Healbot:
- Make sure you have changed Toon_Being_PL'd to the name of your toon being PL'd and Druid01 to the name of your Druid.
- Load the following spells in this order: Chloroblast, Shield of Thorns, Cholorplast, Storm Strength, Skin like Nature, Direwild Skin, Mask of the Wild, Viridifloral Shield, Gate. Change the spells as your PL'd toon increases levels and can handle more advanced buffs.
- I recommend warping to the rat room and putting your Druid opposite the hall that leads out of the room before you begin this macro. Once you have manually buffed the Monk (with gem slots 2-5 and yourself (with spell slots 6- 8) and have warped your Druid to the rat room, type in /mac healbot.
- This spell will automatically recast buffs as they wear off on both you and the Monk. Sometimes you will generate too much agro over a weaker-levelled Monk due to your healing. That is why I added a personal damage shield to the macro so that the mob will kill itself on you if the Monk does not regain agro.
- This macro will cast gate if your health gets below 30%. I bind right outside of where you click the rock to get into the Forgotten Halls. I think it will end the macro and camp out if you exit FH...though I have never tested it to do so.
Monk Hunter:
- Upon starting the macro, you will warp to the center of the rat room and target the closest rat. You will automatically engage it and follow it around until it is dead.
- Once the mob is dead, there is no looting...you simply clear your target window (automatic spammed Esc key), warp back to the middle of the room, and then find the next mob to kill. I could not get advloot or ninjadvloot to work...so screw it...no loots for me or you! That is, unless your loot.inc files actually work.
- Look inside the macro for the Monk's special attack. Change it to the best special attack you have in accordance with the Monk's level.
- If you drop below 20%, you will FD, wait, and then pop back up some time later to reengage the mob. Your Druid will get beat on during this time, which is why I coded in the Gate feature. This is extreely helpful when you are teaming a level 29 Monk with a 75 Druid to make level 50ish level rats. level 50ish rats his for 200s and will tear your Druid apart if it comes to that.
- There is extra coding in the macro that I do not understand...and that does not apply to me since I do not possess the Monk Epic (haste gloves). I left all of that nonsense in there for those who have the gear. Well...that isn't the real reason. The real reason is because whenever I removed a set of commands the macro didn't work...so I left everything in place and just added my own alterations with a ton of trial and error.
Overall, this has been an excellent macro to work with. I am still trying to figure out how to remove instanced zone timers. So, this macro will work for you for 6 horus and then you'll be kicked out of FH. I'm not sure if the /sit and /q functions work as I have never tried it out.
Something else oyu need to be aware of in this room are the friggin' walls. They are bowed in on the bottom, which will cause you to to duck. STUPID STUPID STUPID game designers!!!!! I play a Drakkin Monk, and this wall curvature has caused me a lot of grief. I have used Shrink potions to some success. However, I must warn you, I took 200K damage using the macro when I used two shrink potions. I came back and read the 200K damage message, so I assume he tripped off some stairs or some other stupid crap happened that makes no sense in EQ. So, now I am using one shrink potion and have had no problems thus far.
I make changes as often as I can when I discover something else that makes each macro better. I am a total newb when it comes to this stuff, so I apologize in advance if the coding sucks, if there is extra crap in there, or if it makes no sense to you. Take it for what it is worth...it works just great for me using a 75 Druid on a mount and a Monk.
(The macro will sit your Druid down to med if you do not have a mount.)
All you have to do is download the text files and save each as a .mac file in your Macro folder...then change (in healbot) the name Druid01 to your Druid's name and Toon_Being_PL'd to the name of your toon being power levelled. I am still trying to figure out how to get the monk to automatically use Distillate Skinspike potions when they wear off...but I have had zero success.
Here is the info used for hunterloot.ini (create it and save it as the file name I specified):
[The Forgotten Halls]
Loot1=platinum
...and the huntermob.ini file...
[The Forgotten Halls]
Mob1=a_squeaking_rat01
Mob2=a_squeaking_rat02
Mob3=a_squeaking_rat03
Mob4=a_squeaking_rat04
Mob5=a_squeaking_rat05
Mob6=a_squeaking_rat06
Mob7=a_squeaking_rat07
Mob8=a_squeaking_rat08
Mob9=a_squeaking_rat09
Mob10=a_squeaking_rat10
Mob11=a_squeaking_rat11
I had nothing but trouble with both files especially the huntermob.ini file, so I implemented a simple one-line auto-target command to simply target the next available mob. If you can get huntermob.ini to work, good on ya!
Good luck!
Here is what each macro does:
Healbot:
- Make sure you have changed Toon_Being_PL'd to the name of your toon being PL'd and Druid01 to the name of your Druid.
- Load the following spells in this order: Chloroblast, Shield of Thorns, Cholorplast, Storm Strength, Skin like Nature, Direwild Skin, Mask of the Wild, Viridifloral Shield, Gate. Change the spells as your PL'd toon increases levels and can handle more advanced buffs.
- I recommend warping to the rat room and putting your Druid opposite the hall that leads out of the room before you begin this macro. Once you have manually buffed the Monk (with gem slots 2-5 and yourself (with spell slots 6- 8) and have warped your Druid to the rat room, type in /mac healbot.
- This spell will automatically recast buffs as they wear off on both you and the Monk. Sometimes you will generate too much agro over a weaker-levelled Monk due to your healing. That is why I added a personal damage shield to the macro so that the mob will kill itself on you if the Monk does not regain agro.
- This macro will cast gate if your health gets below 30%. I bind right outside of where you click the rock to get into the Forgotten Halls. I think it will end the macro and camp out if you exit FH...though I have never tested it to do so.
Monk Hunter:
- Upon starting the macro, you will warp to the center of the rat room and target the closest rat. You will automatically engage it and follow it around until it is dead.
- Once the mob is dead, there is no looting...you simply clear your target window (automatic spammed Esc key), warp back to the middle of the room, and then find the next mob to kill. I could not get advloot or ninjadvloot to work...so screw it...no loots for me or you! That is, unless your loot.inc files actually work.
- Look inside the macro for the Monk's special attack. Change it to the best special attack you have in accordance with the Monk's level.
- If you drop below 20%, you will FD, wait, and then pop back up some time later to reengage the mob. Your Druid will get beat on during this time, which is why I coded in the Gate feature. This is extreely helpful when you are teaming a level 29 Monk with a 75 Druid to make level 50ish level rats. level 50ish rats his for 200s and will tear your Druid apart if it comes to that.
- There is extra coding in the macro that I do not understand...and that does not apply to me since I do not possess the Monk Epic (haste gloves). I left all of that nonsense in there for those who have the gear. Well...that isn't the real reason. The real reason is because whenever I removed a set of commands the macro didn't work...so I left everything in place and just added my own alterations with a ton of trial and error.
Overall, this has been an excellent macro to work with. I am still trying to figure out how to remove instanced zone timers. So, this macro will work for you for 6 horus and then you'll be kicked out of FH. I'm not sure if the /sit and /q functions work as I have never tried it out.
Something else oyu need to be aware of in this room are the friggin' walls. They are bowed in on the bottom, which will cause you to to duck. STUPID STUPID STUPID game designers!!!!! I play a Drakkin Monk, and this wall curvature has caused me a lot of grief. I have used Shrink potions to some success. However, I must warn you, I took 200K damage using the macro when I used two shrink potions. I came back and read the 200K damage message, so I assume he tripped off some stairs or some other stupid crap happened that makes no sense in EQ. So, now I am using one shrink potion and have had no problems thus far.
I make changes as often as I can when I discover something else that makes each macro better. I am a total newb when it comes to this stuff, so I apologize in advance if the coding sucks, if there is extra crap in there, or if it makes no sense to you. Take it for what it is worth...it works just great for me using a 75 Druid on a mount and a Monk.
(The macro will sit your Druid down to med if you do not have a mount.)All you have to do is download the text files and save each as a .mac file in your Macro folder...then change (in healbot) the name Druid01 to your Druid's name and Toon_Being_PL'd to the name of your toon being power levelled. I am still trying to figure out how to get the monk to automatically use Distillate Skinspike potions when they wear off...but I have had zero success.
Here is the info used for hunterloot.ini (create it and save it as the file name I specified):
[The Forgotten Halls]
Loot1=platinum
...and the huntermob.ini file...
[The Forgotten Halls]
Mob1=a_squeaking_rat01
Mob2=a_squeaking_rat02
Mob3=a_squeaking_rat03
Mob4=a_squeaking_rat04
Mob5=a_squeaking_rat05
Mob6=a_squeaking_rat06
Mob7=a_squeaking_rat07
Mob8=a_squeaking_rat08
Mob9=a_squeaking_rat09
Mob10=a_squeaking_rat10
Mob11=a_squeaking_rat11
I had nothing but trouble with both files especially the huntermob.ini file, so I implemented a simple one-line auto-target command to simply target the next available mob. If you can get huntermob.ini to work, good on ya!
Good luck!