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MQ2Bard

Plugin - MQ2Bard 3.1.52471.11

As mentioned here. MQ2Bard goes full release Nov 1, 2024.

Make sure to enter the give-away
Remember, remember, the first of November,
When MQ2Bard came with a fee.
No more free songs, but for a few dongs,
You could twist like a legend, you see!

The verses were slick, the rhythms rang quick,
The mobs couldn’t handle the beat.
With each paid strum, the enemies would run,
As bards danced with swift, fancy feet!

So if you must pay, don’t grumble today,
For music’s a price we’ll endure.
With MQ2Bard, we’ll sing extra hard,
And victory’s always secure!

No more free tunes, but worry not soon,
For bards still had tricks up their sleeve.
With Dannet commands and twisty demands,
They sang as we paid to believe!

So raise a lute high, let’s not be shy,
The plugin’s worth every coin.
For when the songs play, and mobs run away,
It’s a chorus we’re happy to join!

💕
 
I imagine it is a question that gets asked frequently, so probably somewhere that questions that get asked frequently were posted would likely have that info
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My reaction to this thread (a.k.a. i wanna roll the dice for a giveaway license)

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May I offer advice...the dice may roll in your favor, if you give Chat and Sic a bit of a free present box from your Lonely Island gift wrapped section. :hfive: :shrug:.................................................:toot:
 
May I offer advice...the dice may roll in your favor, if you give Chat and Sic a bit of a free present box from your Lonely Island gift wrapped section. :hfive: :shrug:.................................................:toot:
@Redfrog I know what @Sic likes ... some iksar scaly female lovin' ...





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@ChatWithThisName is from Texas...so I'm gonna go stand in line at Austin's Franklin's BBQ place...and i'll take a selfie of me holding some BBQ and send it to him with the tag...

"...License me and all this could be yours..."

Grilling Labor Day GIF by Sonny's BBQ
 
@Redfrog I know what @Sic likes ... some iksar scaly female lovin' ...





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@ChatWithThisName is from Texas...so I'm gonna go stand in line at Austin's Franklin's BBQ place...and i'll take a selfie of me holding some BBQ and send it to him with the tag...

"...License me and all this could be yours..."

Grilling Labor Day GIF by Sonny's BBQ's BBQ

You want to put your meat on CWTN's grill? :raise:
 
I've been using the CWTN Bard plugin (I have most of them and love them) but my bard doesn't seem to want to mez anything. Is there a trick to get him to mez? His mez songs are high enough for the mobs we are fighting. I have AoECount set to 2. I really want to buy this plugin when it becomes available for purchase but I need my bard to mez or it won't work for me. Any suggestions? The bard is currently level 116.
 
I've been using the CWTN Bard plugin (I have most of them and love them) but my bard doesn't seem to want to mez anything. Is there a trick to get him to mez? His mez songs are high enough for the mobs we are fighting. I have AoECount set to 2. I really want to buy this plugin when it becomes available for purchase but I need my bard to mez or it won't work for me. Any suggestions? The bard is currently level 116.
Please see the "how to ask for help" in the sticky.

Please see >>> Getting Started with CWTN plugins! (Movement, UI Window, Clickies, Pulling, ETC) Check Here First! <<< :)

I can't guess your settings, or mez immunes, or what mobs you're specifically talking about. I can't guess what spell (single and ae) you're specifically talking about either.

Aoecount doesn't do anything here.

Use mez, usemezaoe, mez immunities, group ma set - those are settings to look at
 
Sorry, I will check out the sticky next time. I don't recall seeing options for use mez or usemezaoe in the checkboxes on the settings screen. I'll look into it more deeply when I get home from work this evening. I hope I can figure it out as my chanter has always locked shit down like a champ but the bard doesn't do any CC at all.
hrm, yep, those options been there for a very long time (before available) lol

definitely gotta look at that stuff
 
My single and AOE mez options are checked, but he still doesn't mez anything. Super frustrating. I'll just stick with my chanter for now. That plugin is awesome
 
My single and AOE mez options are checked, but he still doesn't mez anything. Super frustrating. I'll just stick with my chanter for now. That plugin is awesome
well if you don't want help, then yeah i can't help you.

you didnt' answer the other stuff i mentioned
 
Please see the "how to ask for help" in the sticky.

Please see >>> Getting Started with CWTN plugins! (Movement, UI Window, Clickies, Pulling, ETC) Check Here First! <<< :)

I can't guess your settings, or mez immunes, or what mobs you're specifically talking about. I can't guess what spell (single and ae) you're specifically talking about either.

Aoecount doesn't do anything here.

Use mez, usemezaoe, mez immunities, group ma set - those are settings to look at
It's not that I don't want help. I am just a bit frustrated. Apologies. See below for responses:
Please see the "how to ask for help" in the sticky.

Please see >>> Getting Started with CWTN plugins! (Movement, UI Window, Clickies, Pulling, ETC) Check Here First! <<< :)

I can't guess your settings, or mez immunes, or what mobs you're specifically talking about. I can't guess what spell (single and ae) you're specifically talking about either.

Aoecount doesn't do anything here.

Use mez, usemezaoe, mez immunities, group ma set - those are settings to look at
In answer to your questions:

MA is set
Mez and aoe mez are both checked

ST mez song in question: Slumber of Zburator
AoE mez song in question: Wave of Sleep

Mobs ranged from level 109-116, in multiple zones. Mobs are not mez immune, as I brought the chanter in and he mezzed them just fine.

Just tested again and no dice. Ran to a lower level zone and pulled a bunch of mobs, watching the plugin output. No attempts to mez anything as they sat there and beat on me. These were lizardmen in Feerott the dream, which are WAY lower level than I am.
 
It's not that I don't want help. I am just a bit frustrated. Apologies. See below for responses:

In answer to your questions:

MA is set
Mez and aoe mez are both checked

ST mez song in question: Slumber of Zburator
AoE mez song in question: Wave of Sleep

Mobs ranged from level 109-116, in multiple zones. Mobs are not mez immune, as I brought the chanter in and he mezzed them just fine.

Just tested again and no dice. Ran to a lower level zone and pulled a bunch of mobs, watching the plugin output. No attempts to mez anything as they sat there and beat on me. These were lizardmen in Feerott the dream, which are WAY lower level than I am.
I'd be frustrated too. Hopefully we can get you sorted out.

I wasnt asking if the mobs were mez immune.
I was asking if they were on your mez immune list.

Please show me a snip of your bard setting panel, and your mez immune panel from whatever zone.

We'll get to the bottom of it
 
just fyi - if you have Slumber of Zburator in your loadout, it means either a: you're byos and not memorizing the correct spell we want to use, or you're missing a spell.

now, as long as slumber of zburator is the spell that is in the "ST Mez Slumber" group, we'd still use it byos or not

here's me just grabbing a bunch of mobs in NoS zones at 116

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here's me making it use slumber of zburator

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so i can confirm those particular spells work (and seemingly as expected)

and just for clarity sake, i've used mq2bard exclusively on all my toons from tov onward, and while my main team i don't usually single mez, i definitely mez in my "other" groups.

Please show me a snip of your bard setting panel, and your mez immune panel from whatever zone.

and then let's talk about your xtarget window in case there's something odd going on there.
 
Weird, as I am not using BYOS. I could be missing spells above level 115, but the one that the plugin was loading (slumber of zburator) is still high enough to work on the mobs in the zones I have been grinding in. I'm at work but will pull screenshots and such this evening when I get home. I have all but a few of your plugins and I absolutely love them. If I can get the bard one working properly I will be excited, as I love my bard.
 
just fyi - if you have Slumber of Zburator in your loadout, it means either a: you're byos and not memorizing the correct spell we want to use, or you're missing a spell.

now, as long as slumber of zburator is the spell that is in the "ST Mez Slumber" group, we'd still use it byos or not

here's me just grabbing a bunch of mobs in NoS zones at 116

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here's me making it use slumber of zburator

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so i can confirm those particular spells work (and seemingly as expected)

and just for clarity sake, i've used mq2bard exclusively on all my toons from tov onward, and while my main team i don't usually single mez, i definitely mez in my "other" groups.

Please show me a snip of your bard setting panel, and your mez immune panel from whatever zone.

and then let's talk about your xtarget window in case there's something odd going on there.
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Just updated to the current ST Mez but no difference in behavior. I pulled a bunch of lizardmen in Feerott the dream and he didn't attempt to mez any of them. Did this test with just a tank merc so I didn't have to move my group around unnecessarily again. Merc was set to tank, bard set to MA. Nothing on mez immune list. both mez types selected in settings. Not sure what to do at this point.

Upgraded to his current mez spell and he decided he wanted to mez now. *shrug*
 
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Just updated to the current ST Mez but no difference in behavior. I pulled a bunch of lizardmen in Feerott the dream and he didn't attempt to mez any of them. Did this test with just a tank merc so I didn't have to move my group around unnecessarily again. Merc was set to tank, bard set to MA. Nothing on mez immune list. both mez types selected in settings. Not sure what to do at this point.

Upgraded to his current mez spell and he decided he wanted to mez now. *shrug*
Okies.

Fyi - ditch the merc, use a real tank :p

Eq mercs are by and large not worth their play upkeep.

You're already automating, so do eeet.

You can't set mercs as group main assist
 
Okies.

Fyi - ditch the merc, use a real tank :p

Eq mercs are by and large not worth their play upkeep.

You're already automating, so do eeet.

You can't set mercs as group main assist
My group has a paladin tank, but I was just logging in the bard to test whether or not he would mez. I run a full group of gold acct toons.
 
Try setting assist to 100, bard to chase mode, if you're not pulling with it. Really don't want the mezzer being your MA as well, although I understand you did that to test. Most of the time when I have mez issues, even with the chanter plugin, it's because of how things work with the camp settings. I find it easier to just have everyone on chase mode, and only use the camp modes on the non-tanks if the tank is the one pulling. It got rid of a lot of head scratching for me.

I've also gotten into the habit of making my puller's camp radius a good +10-15 the size of the tank's camp radius. That seems to also resolve a lot of issues like the one you describe; however doing that to a mezzer would likely mez mobs outside of the tank's range. I had the same issue with the enchanter plugin until I fiddled with the camp settings. I now no longer pull with the tank ever as a result since that is where most of the wonkiness arose for me.
 
Try setting assist to 100, bard to chase mode, if you're not pulling with it. Really don't want the mezzer being your MA as well, although I understand you did that to test. Most of the time when I have mez issues, even with the chanter plugin, it's because of how things work with the camp settings. I find it easier to just have everyone on chase mode, and only use the camp modes on the non-tanks if the tank is the one pulling. It got rid of a lot of head scratching for me.

I've also gotten into the habit of making my puller's camp radius a good +10-15 the size of the tank's camp radius. That seems to also resolve a lot of issues like the one you describe; however doing that to a mezzer would likely mez mobs outside of the tank's range. I had the same issue with the enchanter plugin until I fiddled with the camp settings. I now no longer pull with the tank ever as a result since that is where most of the wonkiness arose for me.
Again, my usual group is a proper full group of 6 toons and the bard is in chase mode while the Pal is usually Hunter Tank. Not sure why he wasn't mezzing in that setup, but he seems to be doing it now with the newer songs. *shrug*
 
HI returning playa. I was watch the New bard video which is awesome. I used to use the bard invis that u used to have for the older plugin. Now with you new BARD PLUGIN MQ2 bard, How would you exactly invis you grp with the new plugin. I've tried /brd aainvis and it does not work. Any idea's ?

thanks again
 
HI returning playa. I was watch the New bard video which is awesome. I used to use the bard invis that u used to have for the older plugin. Now with you new BARD PLUGIN MQ2 bard, How would you exactly invis you grp with the new plugin. I've tried /brd aainvis and it does not work. Any idea's ?

thanks again
You can make a social macro with the following: [CODE title="Selo/Invis"]/dge brd /multiline ; /alt act 3704; /timed 5 /brd aainvis[/CODE]


this does selos and invis
 
HI returning playa. I was watch the New bard video which is awesome. I used to use the bard invis that u used to have for the older plugin. Now with you new BARD PLUGIN MQ2 bard, How would you exactly invis you grp with the new plugin. I've tried /brd aainvis and it does not work. Any idea's ?

thanks again
Check the FAQ. The brd aainvis is very straightforward.
You can make a social macro with the following: [CODE title="Selo/Invis"]/dge brd /multiline ; /alt act 3704; /timed 5 /brd aainvis[/CODE]


this does selos and invis
Yep
 
Check the FAQ. The brd aainvis is very straightforward.

Yep
Does the plugin handle invis for lower level bards (54 right now) and if so, what would be the command for that (since AAInvis I am assuming is not yet available). I made a new group, and am just realizing that the bard is the only member who can do some type of invis, so it's been a bit challenging to move across zones.
 
Does the plugin handle invis for lower level bards (54 right now) and if so, what would be the command for that (since AAInvis I am assuming is not yet available). I made a new group, and am just realizing that the bard is the only member who can do some type of invis, so it's been a bit challenging to move across zones.
no - and unfortunately it is likely that it wont due to the nature of how their invis works. because the ways we determine "hey should we break invis to do stuff" would conflict with a "hey sing this song" and having to issue a command for "bard keep singing this invis song until i issue a command to stop it" is more steps than just you as the player clicking on the song (since it would pulse invis, and we wouldn't break that invis unless our conditions to break invis are met, and then since the plugin isn't being asked to sing the song, it wouldn't reinvis you)

tl;dr - no

you can byos and memorize it (or if you have an empty gem just memorize it - and then i would pause the plugin, manually sing the song (either by clicking it, or using dannet to tell the bard to click it /melody # where # is the gem # of the song), and then unpause so your bard can chase
 
Thats what I ended up doing, issuing a /brd pause on, then a /memspellset, then /cast spellslot. Not too difficult, and i seems to be working well so far. Thanks for the explanation.
 
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