Instant HT Macro

[PinkWonder]

Ok I'm playing on the progression server and raiding there has finally boiled down to nothing more than a box team of SK's running a HT macro. I've tried two different macros 1 to check for the spawn and the target/HT it, another to just spam target/HT, The first HT's a split second after this bot group the second lag's me up enough that it doesn't even get HT off at all.

If anyone could help me figure out a macro that would both run as fast as possible, without just spamming the commands to the point of lagging my system I would appreciate it.
(The goal is to have the SK's standing on the spawn point running the macro/plugin (which ever would be faster/accurate HT's) and as soon as the mob spawns, hit it with the HT)

I personally don't even like have to resort to this at all, but to even be slightly competitive this is what it has boiled down to here until later expansions are opened up.

 

[AnonymousHero]

If you are using MQ2Melee like I expect you would with SK team set both a downshit to do this. Sit them all fairly close to the spawn point which I suspect is static from your description.

downshit0=/if (${SpawnCount[<name of mob> radius 100] && ${Me.AltAbilityReady[Harm Touch]}) /multiline ; /target <name of mob> ; /alt activate 6000 ; /beep ; /attack on

I threw in a /beep so you can hear if your downshit goes off and collect your loot

 

[PinkWonder]

Actually no i'm not using mq2melee, because these are not characters that ever really get played. On the progression servers the raid targets only have 32khp tops, HT's deal about 3k dmg a pop. So currently none of the static spawn raid mobs live so much as 2 seconds. They pop, and a chain of HT's go off, which ever raid can get 5-6 HT's off before it dies win's the kill.

I would imagine having a larger plugin like MQ2 melee running things would only increase the delay before the HT goes off, and the goal here is simply to have the spawn targeted and HT'd as fast as possible.

The macro I was using is

Sub Main(string MobName)
:Start
        /if (${Me.NearestSpawn[npc ${MobName}].CleanName.Equal[${MobName}]}) {
	/target ${MobName} 
	/alt act 6000
}	else {
	/goto :Start
}

/return

which does have the benefit of being adjustable to specifically target only the exact mob i want to HT and will not fire HT on anything but that mob, however it fires just slow enough that someone else's 5 bot crew have all fired their HT's and locked the kill before mine goes off.

 

[Abyss]

Sorry to go offtopic but, I was just thinking...

I wonder why no one has made 11 Sk's, camp all the raid targets... and sell loot rights on Playerauctions on fippy/vulak yet...

Shit Runed bolster belt, sells for 60k on fippy. And 100k on playerauctions sells for $600.00. Let alone just selling RBB on PA would probably net you $400.00.

I believe vox/Faydedar/Talendor/Gorenaire are 3 day respawns. Just by farming RBB off these 4, not even including naggy for CoF.

Thats 10 spawns for each dragon in a month and if RBB drops everytime thats 40 RBBs not including double drops, and if you sell each for 50k thats 2 million plat.

2 Million plat at currently market prices = $12,000 (Shit ton of money right there) if you can somehow get a good routine with the raid targets, you can probably yield in $9,000 to $11,000 a month.

This isn't even counting the other shit on the loot table, which could make the amount a lot more.

And now that kunark is out, people are level 60.. Vox still banishes players over 52, she and naggy will be less contested...

Hmm, anyone want to get together here and 6 box with me? :P

 

[PinkWonder]

only a couple problems there abyss, first off all you're not gonna sell any plat for cash, there was an exploit going on with shamans being able to make alchemy potions that cost like 3p per combine and sold for 100p each, The server was overrun with exploited plat and all the plat farming opperations took advantage of it too, they're selling only, none are buying plat on the progression servers. As for selling the loot, well without being able to sell the plat for cash there's not much point in selling the loot for plat unless you're gong to actually play on the server, so that leaves selling the items directly to the playerbase for cash. while some people would be happy to do that i'm sure the general feeling on these servers is that it's just not worth doing things like that as the next expansions loot upgrades are always just a couple months away anyway.

And Finally, there's already a guy (At least on Fippy) that routinely 12 box's and takes out pretty much anything that isn't being camped by the raid guilds, so you'd have to compete with him as well.

 

[Noobhaxor]

Agree with the above post. Sadly there just isn't that much demand to make that kind of money. I have been able to sell plat on PA on regular servers though. Again, its more or less 100k here and there for 10-20 bucks, but its enough to cover my monthly costs on EQ so I'm happy with that. I bet if you really buckled down and farmed TAs for 8 hours each day you could pull in around a thousand dollars in a month. However, doing the same HoT missions over and over everyday would make you burn out long before you made it to 1 month lol.

EDIT: Unless of course you are a prisoner in a chinnese detention center... then I suppose you could make thousands easily... lol.

 

[AnonymousHero]

Do note that this code is untested. Use at your own risk/modify at your own risk.

use as follows /mac GankRT.mac "Lady Vox" it should set your target as Lady Vox for example.

It checks if GMs are in zone. If none then it checks if the raid target is up. If it's up it targets, blows HT, checks the events (if the mob is dead yet). If the mob is dead the macro calls SOS and notifies you with an /echo that the target is down and who got the kill shot. If the mob is not up it goes back to the start and keeps checking.

I still think MQ2Melee would be fine for this. It is very fast. Faster than human reaction times. The only way someone will beat MQ2Melee is if they are using MQ2 as well.

| GankRT.mac
#include AHTools.inc
#event targetdown "You have slain #1#!"
#event targetdropped "#1# has slain #2#"
/declare RTARGET string outer
Sub Main (RTARGET)
	:Start
	/call CheckGMs | You can disable this if you want. I figure if a GM is in the zone you dont want 10 characters insta-HTing.
	/doevents
	/if (${SpawnCount[${RTARGET} named npc]}=1 && ${Me.AltAbilityReady[Harm Touch]}) {
		/target ${RTARGET}
		/alt activate 6000
		} else {
		/goto :Start
		}
	
/return
Sub Event_targetdown
	/call SOS
	/echo THE TARGET HAS BEEN NEUTRALIZED! LOOT THE CORPSE!
	/endmacro
/return
Sub Event_targetdropped(Line,MyTarget,whodidit)
	/if (${MyTarget.Equals[${RTARGET}]}) {
	/call SOS
	/echo THE TARGET HAS BEEN NEUTRALIZED BY ${whodidit}! Check the corpse!
	/endmacro
	}
/return