so i'm having an issue with my druid and shaman. I have them both set to heal and DPS, however, the only "dps" spells i have them casting thru KA are slow (shaman) and snare (druid). I like to manually nuke when I play just so I don't waste alot of mana when it's not needed. The problem I'm having is both druid and shammy wanna target my MA constantly. So when I nuke 95% of the time they are casting it on my tank. If I switch to their screens and try to target the mob to nuke it doesn't work most of the time b/c it insta switches back to MA. Is there any solution to this?
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Question - healing and dpsing on same toon
- Thread starter janktron
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It is the mechanics of the Macro. It will continually target heal targets when in heal routine and target DPS targets when in DPS Routine. Just setup the DPS section and let the macro DPS for you. Not sure how you are going to save mana doing it manually. You could always pause MQ2 when you want to nuke manually, and then unpause it letting the macro do your heal stuff.
b/c i have plenty of melee dps and i'm playing on the TLP so the mobs don't have a ton of HP. so some mobs i don't want to nuke at all, some i want to nuke just once, etc.
you may try using an eq social to work it... something like:
/healson (or maybe it's 0 1 2 3, etc. I haven't played in-game with that specific part) (to turn off healing)
/assist MainAssist
/cast #
/healson (possibly 1, 2 or 3) (to turn it back on)
with some pauses in there to account for lag...
/healson (or maybe it's 0 1 2 3, etc. I haven't played in-game with that specific part) (to turn off healing)
/assist MainAssist
/cast #
/healson (possibly 1, 2 or 3) (to turn it back on)
with some pauses in there to account for lag...
ahh, that might work...i was unaware I could use /healson to turn them on and off on the fly. Was under the impression that any changes made to KA ini required restarting the macro
use eqbc make a hotkey on your main toon,
/bca //multiline ; /Target ID {Target.ID} ; /casting "snare spell" ; /casting "slow spell"
in that case it would have every character with "snare" and "slow" cast them on your target. could break them up into different hotkeys but it will bypass kiss wanting to chain target something
/bca //multiline ; /Target ID {Target.ID} ; /casting "snare spell" ; /casting "slow spell"
in that case it would have every character with "snare" and "slow" cast them on your target. could break them up into different hotkeys but it will bypass kiss wanting to chain target something
thank i'll give this a go. Where do I declare a snare and a slow spell? in the servername_toonname_.ini? and is the syntax 'snare=spell ID'/'slow=spell ID'?
also if you could educate me a tad, what does the multiline command do? thanks again!
mq2cast controls /casting "xxx"
if you tell it to /casting "Greater Heal"
if the spells not loaded it will load it, it will attempt to recast on fizzles up to I think 3 attempts, and recasts on stuns also.
its nice if you have several characters with the same spell rather then a winded hotkey I can just tell everyone to /casting "ice comet" and everyone with that spell available will cast it otherwise its ignored
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not ideal if you plan on afking but I personally prefer to control my dps timing as kiss either chain nukes them 0om or doesn't nuke when I need it. my route will require you setting up eqbc which can take a few steps if you haven't used it before there was a couple good guides on here though.
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if you're already going to use mq2 might as well use some of its best aspects and get away from EQs bs setup.
Scatter brain today, forgot to say I also use kiss on my cleric/shaman with dps just turned off and manually have them cast malo/slow/nukes. 12 boxing and have all my dps only using kissassist to buff/heal/tank
if you tell it to /casting "Greater Heal"
if the spells not loaded it will load it, it will attempt to recast on fizzles up to I think 3 attempts, and recasts on stuns also.
its nice if you have several characters with the same spell rather then a winded hotkey I can just tell everyone to /casting "ice comet" and everyone with that spell available will cast it otherwise its ignored
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not ideal if you plan on afking but I personally prefer to control my dps timing as kiss either chain nukes them 0om or doesn't nuke when I need it. my route will require you setting up eqbc which can take a few steps if you haven't used it before there was a couple good guides on here though.
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if you're already going to use mq2 might as well use some of its best aspects and get away from EQs bs setup.
Scatter brain today, forgot to say I also use kiss on my cleric/shaman with dps just turned off and manually have them cast malo/slow/nukes. 12 boxing and have all my dps only using kissassist to buff/heal/tank
/Target ID ${Target.ID}
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http://www.redguides.com/docs/projects/mq2eqbc/
has most of the eqbc syntax. if you're rolling several of the same toon with a spell you only want one cast use /bct toonsname //multiline ; ... I use that for snare sense I don't want all of my wizards casting it
/Target ID ${ME.ID} is useful it targets you I use it with /bca //multiline ; /Target ID ${ME.ID} ; /stick uw
but that's starting to get off topic =)
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http://www.redguides.com/docs/projects/mq2eqbc/
has most of the eqbc syntax. if you're rolling several of the same toon with a spell you only want one cast use /bct toonsname //multiline ; ... I use that for snare sense I don't want all of my wizards casting it
/Target ID ${ME.ID} is useful it targets you I use it with /bca //multiline ; /Target ID ${ME.ID} ; /stick uw
but that's starting to get off topic =)
The problem for me on the TLP's using KA to nuke is some stuff has no HP and dies really fast so I'd rather just let melee kill it and not use any mana, and some stuff has a lot of HP and I want to nuke more than once.
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thanks, this is perfect.
I'm a fan of one line hotkeys so if you have several dps classes you can have everyone cast there nuke/spell at once or everyone use there jboots
/bca //multiline ; /Target ID ${Target.ID} ; /casting "ice comet" ; /casting "Char" ; /casting "winters roar" ; /casting "smite"
/bcaa //casting "Journeyman's Boots" item
/bca //multiline ; /Target ID ${Target.ID} ; /casting "ice comet" ; /casting "Char" ; /casting "winters roar" ; /casting "smite"
/bcaa //casting "Journeyman's Boots" item