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Plugin - MQ2Bst (1 Viewer) 3.1.52471.11

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Sic said:
@eqsubi15 found the combat mem issue! will be in next build
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Awesome! Thanks Sic!

As for the "BAD" issue I was seeing before. I turned off my MQ2Event ini on my Bst and didn't see the message on the last Aten Ha Ra raid. So, I guess it was something with that.
 
eqsubi15 said:
Awesome! Thanks Sic!

As for the "BAD" issue I was seeing before. I turned off my MQ2Event ini on my Bst and didn't see the message on the last Aten Ha Ra raid. So, I guess it was something with that.
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So wait tho. You didn't look in your events to see if your event has that in it? Sounds like an easy step to check :p
 
I run a group of war, 2 bst, shm, rog and bard.. All toons have Plugin, but bard(obviously). The problem I am running into is that since bst and shm have similar buffs. I have my bsts trying to cast buffs on tanks and they get a message that spell is blocked by another spell (higher shm buff) and they will recast that spell until they are out of mana. I just want to be able to have them not continually try and buff when shm is in group. Is there anyway to make them stop trying to cast a spell that is blocked by another on the toon in the plugins?
 
Macradon said:
I run a group of war, 2 bst, shm, rog and bard.. All toons have Plugin, but bard(obviously). The problem I am running into is that since bst and shm have similar buffs. I have my bsts trying to cast buffs on tanks and they get a message that spell is blocked by another spell (higher shm buff) and they will recast that spell until they are out of mana. I just want to be able to have them not continually try and buff when shm is in group. Is there anyway to make them stop trying to cast a spell that is blocked by another on the toon in the plugins?
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Howdy maciso,

plz post in the correct location. all the cwtn plugins have a vibrant discussion thread. I moved this mq2bst question into the mq2bst thread.

take a look at the > mq2bst faq < where it talks about how to deal with mq/eq spell conflicts. Most spells the spell stacking correctly handles it, but not all of them

bst faq said:
Q. Bst is chain casting something?
A. There are a few lower lvl / mid level buffs that eq/mq reports stack that do not, or will chain overwrite other buffs and you get into a buffing contest with another toon. You either have this situation or some other issues. I would suggest checking for the red error text that eq gives you to tell you WHY it didn't successfully take hold and then go from there. You can block anything you don't want cast.

This is a built-in Everquest feature - right click on the buff and "add this spell to list of blocked spells" or go through the eq menu -> character -> blocked buffs.

EQ Menu -> Character -> Blocked Buffs
EQ Menu -> Character -> Blocked Pet Buffs (to add to anyone's pet blocked spells)

/blockspell add me id
/blockspell add pet id

This is particularly a problem with the focus line, especially if you have a large level gap between the bst and your cleric (particularly if your bst is lower than the cleric) - you can run into issues where mq/eq says that it will stack, but then your armor of line will not actually allow it.


Make sure you understand focus spells cast sub spells, you need to block those sub spells specifically by rank.

Q. I don't want the plugin to cast xyz buff on a toon.
A. Any buff you don't want cast upon someone, you would just have that character add it to their blocked buffs.
EQ Menu -> Character -> Blocked Buffs
EQ Menu -> Character -> Blocked Pet Buffs (to add to anyone's pet blocked spells)

/blockspell add me id
/blockspell add pet id
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Great work that you have put into this! Thanks. Is there a way to save my settings that I select so the next time I log in I don't have to change them again?
 
mthuntak said:
Great work that you have put into this! Thanks. Is there a way to save my settings that I select so the next time I log in I don't have to change them again?
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Please see >>> Getting Started with CWTN plugins! (Movement, UI Window, Clickies, Pulling, ETC) Check Here First! <<<


Yep. Definitely make sure you don't skip all the information and guides, you'll be missing out a ton of very important things.

The UI is temporary. Use the slash command if you want to save a setting
 
Don't know if it was ever considered or talked about - but I think a good addition (especially for those that utilize these plugins for raiding) would be to have a routine that summons a pet/buffs it, then suspends it and summons another (as a default off checkbox).

The logic being you can have a fully buffed/equipped pet suspended and still have another pet out. In the event the pet dies, you can pull out your fully buffed backup.
 
v1ndi said:
Don't know if it was ever considered or talked about - but I think a good addition (especially for those that utilize these plugins for raiding) would be to have a routine that summons a pet/buffs it, then suspends it and summons another (as a default off checkbox).

The logic being you can have a fully buffed/equipped pet suspended and still have another pet out. In the event the pet dies, you can pull out your fully buffed backup.
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It is not detectable if you have a suspended minion. And we're not going to try and track if you do or not because it's not infallible.

I obviously very much wish that this was a thing that was possible.
 
Not sure if I'm missing something, but search didn't turn anything up. I just acquired Pact of the Wurine AA on my Bst, but he's not triggering it for some reason. I can manually do so, but the plugin is not, though everything else appears to be functioning correctly. I've got him as a group lead in a raid, and he buffs/melees fine otherwise.

Edit: To expand on this, I actually have 2 beastlords:
  • The first one I purchased PotW yesterday, rank 1, he did not throw down the aa, so I triggered it myself.
    • I died just before bed last night, so just shut everything down and went to bed.
    • Woke up this morning, got everyone rezzed and back to my camp spot, loaded everything up, but the beast wouldn't cast PotW at all, even after I waited half an hour for buff cycles, and another partial wipe due to network connection issues etc
    • Managed to get another aa on the second beast and trained up PotW on him, he recognized he had it, and cast the buff immediately
      • The original Beast still hasn't cast it
 
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toadwart said:
Not sure if I'm missing something, but search didn't turn anything up. I just acquired Pact of the Wurine AA on my Bst, but he's not triggering it for some reason. I can manually do so, but the plugin is not, though everything else appears to be functioning correctly. I've got him as a group lead in a raid, and he buffs/melees fine otherwise.

Edit: To expand on this, I actually have 2 beastlords:
  • The first one I purchased PotW yesterday, rank 1, he did not throw down the aa, so I triggered it myself.
    • I died just before bed last night, so just shut everything down and went to bed.
    • Woke up this morning, got everyone rezzed and back to my camp spot, loaded everything up, but the beast wouldn't cast PotW at all, even after I waited half an hour for buff cycles, and another partial wipe due to network connection issues etc
    • Managed to get another aa on the second beast and trained up PotW on him, he recognized he had it, and cast the buff immediately
      • The original Beast still hasn't cast it
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Check blocked buffs

we say "do we have the ability, are we missing the buff that this aa at this rank gives us, and is it ready, if so, cast it"

if the buff was blocked we wouldn't try and cast it
if the buff didn't report that it stacks, we wouldn't try and cast it
if you didn't have enough buff slots to have another buff, we wouldn't try and cast it
if you are invis without a camp set, we wouldn't try and cast it

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no blocked buffs defined
not thinking there's a stack-block issue, because both bsts should be getting the same raid buffs, but I don't know what blocks that aa either
not running many buffing classes right now, so my toons are only running with about 8-10 buffs out of 16 I think they can hold right now
not invis, set in assist mode, and we're actively killing mobs

Did a /bst reload, and it gives me a list of missing (yes, I'm 80, but just got there and haven't bought my 75-80 spells yet)
don't see an option in the help to list abilities it recognizes you have, just the missing ones.
Don't know that PotW shows up as missing anyway, as it's an AA, but this shows I have it. no idea why it won't cast though.
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toadwart said:
no blocked buffs defined
not thinking there's a stack-block issue, because both bsts should be getting the same raid buffs, but I don't know what blocks that aa either
not running many buffing classes right now, so my toons are only running with about 8-10 buffs out of 16 I think they can hold right now
not invis, set in assist mode, and we're actively killing mobs

Did a /bst reload, and it gives me a list of missing (yes, I'm 80, but just got there and haven't bought my 75-80 spells yet)
don't see an option in the help to list abilities it recognizes you have, just the missing ones.
Don't know that PotW shows up as missing anyway, as it's an AA, but this shows I have it. no idea why it won't cast though.
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there's nothing special about the checking or usage of that spell.

it is unlikely - but possible you need to relog your toon, that MQ doesn't see that you have it going from 0 to 1
 
Are later ranks group buffs? rank 1 only effects the bst who's casting.

They're in two different groups in the raid, and the problem beast got the aa first, and wouldn't cast, this morning he wouldn't cast both before the second one got the aa, and buffed up as well as after he buffed up, so don't think that was the issue, don't see how it could have been anyway.

Nothing is showing in the buff windows for other toons in groups with them as an effect either, just the beast who has the buff going, 1 for the illusion, and 1 for the effect currently

Edit: I have to retract that. The Wurine effect is in place on the first beast, I missed it when I looked in his list, and he probably lost the illusion when he died, but not the effect, because it's permanent. Man I'm sorry Sic, I just missed it when I was looking.
 
toadwart said:
Are later ranks group buffs? rank 1 only effects the bst who's casting.

They're in two different groups in the raid, and the problem beast got the aa first, and wouldn't cast, this morning he wouldn't cast both before the second one got the aa, and buffed up as well as after he buffed up, so don't think that was the issue, don't see how it could have been anyway.

Nothing is showing in the buff windows for other toons in groups with them as an effect either, just the beast who has the buff going, 1 for the illusion, and 1 for the effect currently

Edit: I have to retract that. The Wurine effect is in place on the first beast, I missed it when I looked in his list, and he probably lost the illusion when he died, but not the effect, because it's permanent. Man I'm sorry Sic, I just missed it when I was looking.
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All good. I figured it was something weird since there's nothing particularly special about it
 
Beastlord chain casts Merciless Ferocity on self and Shared Merciless Ferocity on the group. There is noting blocking either spell and even with everything cleared off entire group, I cannot get the chain casting to stop
 
Azerack said:
Beastlord chain casts Merciless Ferocity on self and Shared Merciless Ferocity on the group. There is noting blocking either spell and even with everything cleared off entire group, I cannot get the chain casting to stop
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I would double check your buffing group off window or not out of date need to make sure you're using an up-to-date user interface
 
Hi
My Beastlord constantly casts Spiritual Vibrancy OVER and Over and over again,makes it hell trying run through a zone as Invis wont stick,any help and thanks
 
RRBW said:
Hi
My Beastlord constantly casts Spiritual Vibrancy OVER and Over and over again,makes it hell trying run through a zone as Invis wont stick,any help and thanks
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Please see >>> Getting Started with CWTN plugins! (Movement, UI Window, Clickies, Pulling, ETC) Check Here First! <<<

howdy rrbw, please make sure to post in the discussion thread for the plugin.

the above linkie shows you how to figure that out

SV line has some stacking stuff - like on toons with yaulp or there are other reasons why you may want to block it.

to be very clear - mq2bst does not buff if you are invis unless you have a camp - so we absolutely won't break your invis to cast anything unless you have a camp set
 
RRBW said:
Hi
My Beastlord constantly casts Spiritual Vibrancy OVER and Over and over again,makes it hell trying run through a zone as Invis wont stick,any help and thank
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Read your Spell failures. EQ tells you why a spell won't land on a target (what it doesn't stack with). Also read your BST plugin Output, it tells you who your BL is casting Spiritual Vibrancy on, could you be, your pet, party member, etc. Putting those 2 clues together will tell you who you are trying to buff, and why its not sticking.... then you can decide if you need to block a buff, or ask a specific question here about why a plugin is trying to cast Spiritual Vibrancy when the target already has _______ .
 
RRBW said:
Hi
My Beastlord constantly casts Spiritual Vibrancy OVER and Over and over again,makes it hell trying run through a zone as Invis wont stick,any help and thanks
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Have you checked all your toons in the group to see if the spell is actually landing/sticks to them. I had a toon that was buffed out with no slots left and my Shaman kept casting something ..I can't remember. Just a suggestion ...I would not spell block Beast crack on all your toons.
 
I see 11 recent updates in the history tab of eq2BST, but the last "update" tab post (change logs?) was from Dec 7th. What's changes is the team working on recently? Inquiring minds want to know! Same applies to several other CWTN plugins too.

Thanks for your all the hard work!
 
Rare Spawn said:
I see 11 recent updates in the history tab of eq2BST, but the last "update" tab post (change logs?) was from Dec 7th. What's changes is the team working on recently? Inquiring minds want to know! Same applies to several other CWTN plugins too.

Thanks for your all the hard work!
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Medicman said:
Have you checked all your toons in the group to see if the spell is actually landing/sticks to them. I had a toon that was buffed out with no slots left and my Shaman kept casting something ..I can't remember. Just a suggestion ...I would not spell block Beast crack on all your toons.
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We check for slots for buff as well.
 
This is more QoL than anything. Can we get a toggle for SV? For those running with a Ranger, it'd be nice to not have to block the SV, and then have to unblock it again if we are running something else.
 
Kazimere said:
This is more QoL than anything. Can we get a toggle for SV? For those running with a Ranger, it'd be nice to not have to block the SV, and then have to unblock it again if we are running something else.
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why don't you toggle on the ranger? :p

i'll think about it, pretty dumb that the stacking issue exists, but it does and i know it does
 
I'd love to toggle on the Ranger! In fact. I'll take a Ranger plugin with a toggle, over a SV toggle 😛! Thanks though. I also agree. The stacking issue is stupid.
 
Sic updated MQ2Bst with a new update entry:

2/17/2023

- if you have usemending on and are not using alliance, you will put it in your gem13 slot if you have a 13th gem slot
- Made some adjustments to not check certain spells for rank stripping if you are silver/bronze/wood/dirt rank
-- this should help proof things like: Velocity Lines, Spirit of Siver, Symbiotic Alliance, etc which don't cast the correct spell if you drop rank
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Read the rest of this update entry...
 
Gotten sophisticated enough on the BST to setup a bandolier, AND have 2hb + dual wields sets. (I know, that basic stuff...)

Since I typically expect to find tribute items in the first bag slot... I have to be EXTRA careful not to tribute one of the weapons I use thats ends up in the first bag slot from bandoswap. Is there a command or tool can/should be using to move those weapons from bag1 to my last specials bag slot 10?
 
Rare Spawn said:
Gotten sophisticated enough on the BST to setup a bandolier, AND have 2hb + dual wields sets. (I know, that basic stuff...)

Since I typically expect to find tribute items in the first bag slot... I have to be EXTRA careful not to tribute one of the weapons I use thats ends up in the first bag slot from bandoswap. Is there a command or tool can/should be using to move those weapons from bag1 to my last specials bag slot 10?
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There isn't. We use EverQuest to swap stuff. I would find a way to not sell it rather than try and move stuff around.

Eq requires you to pick up stuff to move it (outside of bandolier)
 
The level 82 Bst buff "Spiritual Verve" is being chain cast because Mq2Bst doesn't recognize the higher level Bst buff "Spiritual Vigor" in the same line. Can this be fixed in the plugin? Would prefer not to block buff because my lowbie toons won't always have access to higher level Bst buff.
 
eqsubi15 said:
The level 82 Bst buff "Spiritual Verve" is being chain cast because Mq2Bst doesn't recognize the higher level Bst buff "Spiritual Vigor" in the same line. Can this be fixed in the plugin? Would prefer not to block buff because my lowbie toons won't always have access to higher level Bst buff.
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no, if mq/eq says it stacks and they need it we're gonna cast it. that's why the whole "if there are things that conflict you have to block them" that msg isn't there for funsies, I wish it was. you can also just byos on your young beastie for the time being.
 
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