Question - How do I add an item click?

[Dozecar]

I'm editing a bard ini and want to add a few item clicks, I see the ini already calls for a bp click and it just names the BP, is that all I need to do? or do I need to call for the spell?

For instance I have Lizard skin wardrums which click Harmony of sound that I'd like to apply every mob or at least every named. I know it's not needed overall, but there are some resistant sobs in TBL. There's also a few other clickies I'd like to use. I tried just calling in the dps section for the name of the click but that didn't work.

Also, tried editing the ini to call for slow to be applied, and that didn't seem to work. Neither HoS or the slow were used. This is what i've got:

[DPS]
DPSOn=2
DPSSize=24
DPSSkip=1
DPSInterval=2
DPS1=Mistmoore Battle Drums|100
DPS2=Harmony of Sound|100
DPS3=Shardstubble's Assonant Binding|99 <---bardslow
DPS4=Funeral Dirge|99|Cond8
DPS5=Quick Time|99|Cond8
DPS6=Fundament: Third Spire of the Minstrels|99|Cond8
DPS7=Flurry of Notes|99|Cond8
DPS8=Frenzied Kicks|99|Cond8
DPS9=Song of Stone|99|Cond8
DPS10=Dance of Blades|99|Cond8
DPS11=command:/alt activate 5303|99|Cond11
DPS12=command:/stopdisc|99|Cond5
DPS13=Deftdance Discipline|100|Cond7
DPS14=command:/pet qswarm|99|Cond13
DPS15=Lyrical Prankster|99
DPS16=Bladed Song|99
DPS17=Fierce Eye|99|Cond10
DPS18=Cacophony|99|Mob
DPS19=Intimidation|99|Mash
DPS20=Adamant Triumphant Cloud Loremaster Breastplate|99|Cond1
DPS21=Dissident Psalm|99|Cond2
DPS22=Boastful Bellow|98|Cond3
DPS23=Thousand Blades|99|Cond8
DPS24=Blade of Vesagran|99|Cond9
DebuffAllOn=0

The first entry was to see if it would click from intial aggro, for now, I still pull with my tank, and i'd like twist to be going for time, but obviously bard aggro creates problems when they get to camp. I'm going to try to make up a hotkey to /bct bardname use this clicky. (Any suggestions on that would be great too.)

 

[Denethor]

Pick what you want it go after (say Harmony of Sound).
Put in a new 'DPS3=Lizard Skin Wardrums|99' (or whatever the item name)
Renumber everything below that. (Shardstubble becomes DPS4, Funeral Dirge becomes DPS5, etc)
Set DPSSize to 25 since you now have 25 entries.

 

[Dozecar]

Thanks for the response!

Ok so I just use the item name not the effect name?

The numbering i got, it was originally 23.

Now is there a way to use a bct for an item click? I'd like to create a pull hotkey that I can nail that has the bard click the drum for def proc, drum for hos, and once I farm it, the tash click

I assume I'd start with telling the group to assist me (that way I can tell multiple members to do things) then tells to the members.

Is there code for useitem or something like that?

 

[toadwart]

Item clickies are called through eqbcs and dannet in the following ways:

EQBCS:
/bct dinglebob //useitem "fancy item I want to call with more than one word in the name"
/bct dinglebob //useitem flashyclickyitemwithoneuniqueword

Dannet:
/dex dinglebob /useitem "fancy item I want to call with more than one word in the name"
/dex dinglebob /useitem flashyclickyitemwithoneuniqueword

if you use a unique single word in the item name, make sure you don't have more than one item in your inventory with that word or it can get confused. I looted a Grak's stein the other day in HoT, and found out that /useitem stein wasn't using my drunkard's stein anymore. I had to switch to /useitem drunkard, or /useitem "drunkard's stein" to get around that.

 

[Sic]

Thanks for the response!

Ok so I just use the item name not the effect name?

The numbering i got, it was originally 23.

Now is there a way to use a bct for an item click? I'd like to create a pull hotkey that I can nail that has the bard click the drum for def proc, drum for hos, and once I farm it, the tash click

I assume I'd start with telling the group to assist me (that way I can tell multiple members to do things) then tells to the members.

Is there code for useitem or something like that?

yes item name for dps entry

/bcga //useitem drunkard or /bcga //useitem "Drunkard's Stein" or even /bcga //useitem drunkard's s (will take multi word partials)

 

[vsab]

Thanks for the response!

Ok so I just use the item name not the effect name?

The numbering i got, it was originally 23.

Now is there a way to use a bct for an item click? I'd like to create a pull hotkey that I can nail that has the bard click the drum for def proc, drum for hos, and once I farm it, the tash click

I assume I'd start with telling the group to assist me (that way I can tell multiple members to do things) then tells to the members.

Is there code for useitem or something like that?

Since Toadwart beat me to it while I was typing, and then Sic, I'm just going to mention multiline:-

You can use /multiline ( see https://www.redguides.com/docs/projects/macroquest/reference/commands/multiline/ ) to do several things in one line, and use /timed (https://www.macroquest2.com/wiki/index.php/Timed) to a delay between each command, if needed.

 

[Dozecar]

ok so i was right on useitem I probably read it here or in an ini.

In an ini, I only need to call for the item name, that for buffs and dps? No need for useitem

In a hotkey I use useitem Itemname or "item name" if I have a space?

I'll read up on multiline in a bit, thanks for the link.


Btw Sic thanks for the bard ini, it's sweet. Is there any reason that the aura is kept loaded on the spell bar? I pulled it for bardslow, and so far seems fine.

*Also* bards should get more spell gems.

 

[Dozecar]

Thanks for the input thus far!

 

[vsab]

In a hotkey I use useitem Itemname or "item name" if I have a space?

Yep

 

[toadwart]

To answer your latest question, yes, item name to use it. the effect does not matter when you're clicking an item for DPS usage with /useitem, or in an ini.

If used for buffs then the effect name can be of importance if it's different than the item name. Then you need to use |Dual| and the item name before and effect after.

As an example I have a "Necklace of the Revived" I looted in Feerrott, the Dream. It has a clicky effect buff called "Geomantra III". To use it, I can `/useitem revived` as a one off use, or if in my buff section of an ini, which is my normal practice I have a line that reads: "DPS1=Necklace of the Revived|Dual|Geomantra III"

When using an item with /useitem and more than one word I personally have always enclosed it in quotes, but I cannot attest to whether it is actually required or not.

 

[Dozecar]

And that's for buff checking I assume. For instance

Buffs13=Rapier of Somber Notes|Dual|Symphony of Battle

Unless it's a mount, then you use |mount and don't need to state the name.

 

[toadwart]

correct.

 

[Sum1]

/useitem does not appear to require quotes if you have a multiple word item.

For example, I recently beat the Smoke trial where you click Sigils to move around. To get the right Sigil, I did a "/bcga //useitem Sigil of the ...." without quotes around the item name. It worked fine.

 

[Sum1]

Man, I need to figure out how to multi-line my macro start hotkey to turn on nuking. MQ2AFNuke always pauses when I zone (when I changed settings to try to avoid this the entire plugin started to fail me).

Can I do something like this?

/multiline ; /mac kissassist <tankname> ; /timed 10 /nuke resume

?

 

[toadwart]

Don't believe timed can work mid-line, think it has to be first on the line, but I can't swear to it.

 

[LamahHerder]

Don't believe timed can work mid-line, think it has to be first on the line, but I can't swear to it.

it would work, but it does not pause the rest of the line, it will just fire after the timer that timed set's runs out

 

[Sum1]

it would work, but it does not pause the rest of the line, it will just fire after the timer that timed set's runs out

Ahh, so no sense doing it that way.

 

[Sum1]

Do all the other pause / delay things result in the same? LIke I can't swap /timed with /pause 10?

 

[Knightly]

@gSe7eN has a good post on describing multiline and timed here: https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/mq2mybuttons.66854/post-360497

 

[Sum1]

@gSe7eN has a good post on describing multiline and timed here: https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/mq2mybuttons.66854/post-360497

This is great.... I need to make sure I go back and use this later on.