Don't let the subject confuse you as I know we have multiple buff assist tools here but they appear to be mostly guild hall related or turning a toon into a buff vendor while afk. I thought I would reach out here because of all the talent in this community. I know many of us have multiple toons so I figured there must be a solution out there from someone or maybe it's been tried before and there are limitations I am not aware of. I'm wondering if there is a macro or Lua (probably best as a Lua) that would help in handling group buffs. To elaborate, I have a total of 10 toons and whether I am in the guildhall or prepping for a raid, I wanted an easy way to make my toons do mass buffs so I set out on a mission last night to make hotkeys. I ended up spending a couple of hours in EQ making hotkeys from my main toon to send /dex commands to my enc/dru/mag/bst/shm/clr to basically use /keypress # to perform a programmed hotbutton(s) that would make them buff what I wanted. From my limited knowledge of programming, EQ only allows 2 commands per hotbutton line, so a /pause XX, /dex shaman /action.
As you can imagine, if a toon like a shm has 3 buffs you want to mass cast with Tranquil Blessings, MGB, in GH or in a raid, this can lead to multiple hotkeys in EQ due to it's limitations. Is it possible/feasible to make a macro/Lua where the driver could send a command to one or more toons to mem a spellset, then cast TB, then a buff, then MGB, then another buff, then wait for TB cooldown, then cast a buff again without making multiple hotkeys on that buffing toon?
I'm sure I may be overcomplicating things as I tend to do that, but I also set out on a mission to start learning Lua because I want to understand how to create things like this and I realize it will take time to get beyond looking at someone else's Lua (like Shei, Aten Lua's, etc) and editing them to work for my needs/wants compared with understanding and writing something on my own from scratch. I'm using some of those posts on this site to start down that path.
Curious to know others thoughts on making this mass buff idea a reality =) Thanks!
EDIT - Would love to learn how to make something like this (if it's possible) but I also realize the complexity may be a bit much for this project to be an example.
As you can imagine, if a toon like a shm has 3 buffs you want to mass cast with Tranquil Blessings, MGB, in GH or in a raid, this can lead to multiple hotkeys in EQ due to it's limitations. Is it possible/feasible to make a macro/Lua where the driver could send a command to one or more toons to mem a spellset, then cast TB, then a buff, then MGB, then another buff, then wait for TB cooldown, then cast a buff again without making multiple hotkeys on that buffing toon?
I'm sure I may be overcomplicating things as I tend to do that, but I also set out on a mission to start learning Lua because I want to understand how to create things like this and I realize it will take time to get beyond looking at someone else's Lua (like Shei, Aten Lua's, etc) and editing them to work for my needs/wants compared with understanding and writing something on my own from scratch. I'm using some of those posts on this site to start down that path.
Curious to know others thoughts on making this mass buff idea a reality =) Thanks!
EDIT - Would love to learn how to make something like this (if it's possible) but I also realize the complexity may be a bit much for this project to be an example.
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