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Release MQ2Grind 3.1.52471.11

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hytiek said:
I've never seen this happen. If you are still dealing with this anomaly please let me know and include useful info like where did it run you (/loc)
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hey Hytiek, i'm not i think it must have been something unique to me, after i restarted MQ it was back to working as it should, but thank you!
 
Finally pulled the trigger on MQ2Grind. Wanted to give G&F a shot.

Here is my team:
110 War, 110 Cleric, 110 Rog, 110 Ber, 110 Shm, and 97 Enc i am leveling up. Over 25k AA's for all. Ecxept Enc of course.

Run #1 - Flaweless. Not more than 3 mobs pulled.

Run #2 - Pulled 8 mobs and complete wipe around loc 13.

Run #3 - flawless. Not more than 3 mobs pulled.

Run #4 - same as run #2 but at loc 5.

Not great success rate.

Are there issues with this one?

Thanks
 
tbutts said:
Finally pulled the trigger on MQ2Grind. Wanted to give G&F a shot.

Here is my team:
110 War, 110 Cleric, 110 Rog, 110 Ber, 110 Shm, and 97 Enc i am leveling up. Over 25k AA's for all. Ecxept Enc of course.

Run #1 - Flaweless. Not more than 3 mobs pulled.

Run #2 - Pulled 8 mobs and complete wipe around loc 13.

Run #3 - flawless. Not more than 3 mobs pulled.

Run #4 - same as run #2 but at loc 5.

Not great success rate.

Are there issues with this one?

Thanks
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i moved your post into the discussion thread for mq2grind.
 
tbutts said:
Finally pulled the trigger on MQ2Grind. Wanted to give G&F a shot.

Here is my team:
110 War, 110 Cleric, 110 Rog, 110 Ber, 110 Shm, and 97 Enc i am leveling up. Over 25k AA's for all. Ecxept Enc of course.

Run #1 - Flaweless. Not more than 3 mobs pulled.

Run #2 - Pulled 8 mobs and complete wipe around loc 13.

Run #3 - flawless. Not more than 3 mobs pulled.

Run #4 - same as run #2 but at loc 5.

Not great success rate.

Are there issues with this one?

Thanks
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That's a very fair question to ask, please keep in mind that all updates are posted and publicly available. There are no changes to G&F in a very long time. So let's review the toons you are using here.

Are they gold or f2p?
What gear are they wearing?
Do you have up to era spells?

From your description it sounds like the instance for 2 and 4 weren't very nice to you, I'm sorry to hear.
 
All gold. All Snowbound, cov group 1 gear. All spells.

I just ran it and at loc 5, it pulled 8 mobs. I popped some vet abilities and survived this time.

Running second round right now. I will see what happens.

I am seriously behind in augs on all toons, i know that. I really need to work on them.
 
Howdy, back when I was running G&F I had some initial hiccups at an earlier loc (it may have been 5 or 2 or something like that). I found that a few of my toons (enc generally) would hang out just out of LOS. I made sure I had a closer chase distance and that all went away. Also, that mission has spots of significant adds. Make sure the Enc is up to date on mez aa / spells / ini and you should be GtG.
 
Thanks for the info. The ENC is only 97, so she will not be able to any CC yet. But, I will change her chase distance, and see how that works.
 
tbutts said:
Thanks for the info. The ENC is only 97, so she will not be able to any CC yet. But, I will change her chase distance, and see how that works.
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Therein lies the problem. You do not have the Holy Trinity, but instead 5 toons and a merc. When you can replace that Merc with a useful toon, your experience will change dramatically. Have you tried GMM? It is generally an easier instance, but still areas that can cause problems without CC. I assume you have a 110 bard in the pocket? If so...consider swapping bard in, dropping 1 of the DPS, and when ENC is sufficient level to be effective, swap the bard back out?
 
I am not using a Merc. They are all Gold Toons. No, I do not have a Bard in the mix. See first post. Although, I do have a 107 Bard to put in the mix, but the whole point was to level up the Enchanter so I can use CTWN Plugins for Enc. I use CWTN Plugins for everyone else in the gang.

Maybe you are right in general though. I should level the ENC up before I start using MQ2Grind.

But back to my first post, when they pull 8 mobs around Loc 5, it is not consistent, so again, I am going to change her Chase Distance first, to see results before I move on and come back to this.
 
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tbutts said:
I am not using a Merc. They are all Gold Toons. No, I do not have a Bard in the mix. See first post. Although, I do have a 107 Bard to put in the mix, but the whole point was to level up the Enchanter so I can use CTWN for Enc. I use CWTN for everyone else in the gang.

Maybe you are right in general though. I should level the ENC up before I start using MQ2Grind.

But back to my first post, when they pull 8 mobs around Loc 5, it is not consistent, so again, I am going to change her Chase Distance first, to see results before I move on and come back to this.
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You clearly missed my point. The Enc is a merc because he is too low to CC anything, does not bring anything to the table for DPS because he is a lower level Enc and Enc DPS is one of the worst in the game. Hence - Merc. The reason I asked about the BRD is because of your already existing group makeup (VERY BRD friendly) as it is common sense you would have used one for that group.

Again - My suggestion would be to swap in the BRD for the Holy Trinity, because you will have CC so the uncommon high pull count can be dealt with. Bring the ENC along and drop one of the other DPS so you can level the Enc as you like to get to the place of all CWTN plugins. Using the BRD is a means to an end. You need the BRD CC (means) so you can level the ENC (end). Once you get the ENC to where he can be useful with CC, drop the BRD and bring a DPS back.

You want/need consistency to ensure multiple safe runs with Grind, otherwise what is the point? I am giving you an option for that consistency.
 
Understand. Now the problem is, the Bard and the Enchanter are on the same account. I obviously didn't plan that out very well when I created the ENC. Actually, my plan was to replace the Bard with the ENC so I could use ENC Plugin, because there isn't one for Bard. Using your suggestions, I would just have to create a new ENC on another account, or move her to another account. No big deal.
 
tbutts said:
Understand. Now the problem is, the Bard and the Enchanter are on the same account. I obviously didn't plan that out very well when I created the ENC. Actually, my plan was to replace the Bard with the ENC so I could use ENC Plugin, because there isn't one for Bard. Using your suggestions, I would just have to create a new ENC on another account, or move her to another account. No big deal.
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Sic's 120 bard KA works like a charm(I don't leave home without it). I would stick to the bard with your melee dps personally. Just food for thought.
 
I completely understand reasoning. I started with MNK, added SHM, added SHD, then added CLR, MAG, BRD. Leveled that to 110. Then dropped CLR/MAG temporarily and added 2xBER to 110, dropped 1 BER for a ROG. Kept that group of SHD/SHM/BRD/MNK/BER/ROG, then dropped MNK for BST. At 115, brought CLR back in instead of SHM, and then did ENC and 2nd MAG.

My group now is SHD/CLR/ENC/MAG/MAG/BST. All CWTN. I obviously get the appeal. While my group is lower DPS-wise than the amazingsauce of melee with a bard, by far, I have zero issues locking CC down, rezzes when I want, etc. Much better group imho.
 
Shadow said:
My group now is SHD/CLR/ENC/MAG/MAG/BST. All CWTN. I obviously get the appeal. While my group is lower DPS-wise than the amazingsauce of melee with a bard, by far, I have zero issues locking CC down, rezzes when I want, etc. Much better group imho.
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I am currently toying with SK/CLR/ENC/MAGx3. I don't have the BST CWTN. It's been interesting leveling.
 
odd behaviour with grind tonight in the ME shei run (on test server mind you) once you complete a run and it exits to cycle again some of your toons will leave to ME and others will end up in GL. grind still running. have to get toons back to me than /grind end before starting another one ... any issues like this on live?
 
519helvis said:
odd behaviour with grind tonight in the ME shei run (on test server mind you) once you complete a run and it exits to cycle again some of your toons will leave to ME and others will end up in GL. grind still running. have to get toons back to me than /grind end before starting another one ... any issues like this on live?
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If there is a stuck gem scenario; Grind will attempt to unstick the gems but also halt the casts of Origin and or Lobby relocation.
 
519helvis said:
odd behaviour with grind tonight in the ME shei run (on test server mind you) once you complete a run and it exits to cycle again some of your toons will leave to ME and others will end up in GL. grind still running. have to get toons back to me than /grind end before starting another one ... any issues like this on live?
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If you campfire into an instance, then upon leaving/closing an instance it will send you back to that same zone. For instance, you drop a campfire and port a character to it from the Lobby. Leaving the instance will zone you back to the Lobby.
 
Nunyo said:
If you campfire into an instance, then upon leaving/closing an instance it will send you back to that same zone. For instance, you drop a campfire and port a character to it from the Lobby. Leaving the instance will zone you back to the Lobby.
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To add to this, if you campfire outside of zone at the quest guy, and choose to exit by campfire, it will always pop your insignia and you are ready to recycle at your campfire. I always do this because it looks believable when people pop on a campfire.
 
robertmichon said:
Hey, anyone else having any issues with Mq2grind saying your group isnt close even if they are all on top of you? I just bought it a few days ago, and it worked great for a day. I've tried relogging, reinstalling, no one is invis?
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Thanks for the chat on Discord. The issue for those reading this was simply that he adjusted the groupGap down to 0. The resolution was to increase the groupGap to something more reasonable like 50.
 
I want to say this is an awesome tool and I was a able to get my group to 110 just by running GMM. I have noticed that my XP per run has gone from just over 9% to around 4.6% and due to the mob health increase the overall fights take longer. I am thinking about moving my group to Stratos.
 
You would have to do progression I believe to open up Stratos. What is your goal and gear look like? It isn't always about the xp per run max you should be looking at. Sometimes safer/slower is better than max xp per run/riskier.
 
Shadow said:
You would have to do progression I believe to open up Stratos. What is your goal and gear look like? It isn't always about the xp per run max you should be looking at. Sometimes safer/slower is better than max xp per run/riskier.
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I would say my goal is to reach 120 - I have never had max level characters in Everquest. The SK is geared with Snowbound gear and the rest have a mix of 95/100 level gear. They do have all their spells.

I just assume that the XP per run is going to continue to go down per level increase.
 
Exp per kill drops off a cliff at 110, and again at 115 regardless of where you go. I think I was getting 0.1%/kill from 115-120, and that was in current content.

Also focus AA becomes a huge deal around 110. I skipped those until 120, so that was as much of a handicap as gear is honestly.
 
I'm having an issue with my tank targeting my Merc Healer in MQ2Grind. I've gone into my kissassist and added my mercs name to the ignore list, but that didn't work. Any suggestions?
 
redmq2 said:
I would say my goal is to reach 120 - I have never had max level characters in Everquest. The SK is geared with Snowbound gear and the rest have a mix of 95/100 level gear. They do have all their spells.

I just assume that the XP per run is going to continue to go down per level increase.
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As Ralen mentioned above, exp does drop off considerably. Overseer becomes your best friend. Now, I did grind from 110-120 and I did it in GD Restless Assault. At 118ish I think I switched to ME Shei but you need to be SUPER geared for it. I was in full CoV T3/ToL T1 and would still get hammered on occasion due to the number of adds that can you have. They come out of the tile there, I swear.

I would spend time grabbing AA before trying to advance in level. AA is huge at 110+, same with gear. Work on it, then make the jump. At 115, you can get the ToL T1 gear, which is less than the CoV T3 until 118 when it breaks even, and then it is better at 120.
 
Councilman said:
I'm having an issue with my tank targeting my Merc Healer in MQ2Grind. I've gone into my kissassist and added my mercs name to the ignore list, but that didn't work. Any suggestions?
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is your tank trying to buff/heal or something else on your merc which would make them target it?

the ignore is for pulling - is it saying it is trying to pull your merc?
 
Sic said:
is your tank trying to buff/heal or something else on your merc which would make them target it?

the ignore is for pulling - is it saying it is trying to pull your merc?
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Yes. It targets my merc and tries to attack. I just downloaded MQ2Grind last night so it can definitely be user error! When I hit the esc key and untargets the Merc, my SK pulls the next mob. But he is definitely trying to melee his own merc when he targets it.
 
I suspended my merc, started the grind and then unsuspended my merc as the grind was running and it is working fine now. I'm not sure what the issue was, but it seems to be working now.

Actually. its still trying.

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hytiek said:
Would you share the [Tank] section of the INI (do not send the KA file) do not send any character name reference
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Thank you for helping. I can and will. Unfortunately I have a meeting I have to run into. I will share it as soon as I can.
 
Shadow said:
As Ralen mentioned above, exp does drop off considerably. Overseer becomes your best friend. Now, I did grind from 110-120 and I did it in GD Restless Assault. At 118ish I think I switched to ME Shei but you need to be SUPER geared for it. I was in full CoV T3/ToL T1 and would still get hammered on occasion due to the number of adds that can you have. They come out of the tile there, I swear.

I would spend time grabbing AA before trying to advance in level. AA is huge at 110+, same with gear. Work on it, then make the jump. At 115, you can get the ToL T1 gear, which is less than the CoV T3 until 118 when it breaks even, and then it is better at 120.
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Since these are gold accounts - will the autogrant AA's stop happening now that I am 110?
 
Councilman said:
Thank you for helping. I can and will. Unfortunately I have a meeting I have to run into. I will share it as soon as I can.
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I believe you wanted my SK's kissassist ini file. but then I see that you said "not the KA file". Which .ini are you wanting?

the Tank section of my MWQ2GRIND.ini is

[Tank]
PullDistance=100
Start=/multiline ; /mac kissassist tank ${Me.CleanName}; /timed 5 /camphere off; /timed 10 /returntocamp off
LTDistPullCmd=/squelch /multiline ; /nav target log=off; /timed 5 /attack on
GTDistPullCmd=/squelch /multiline ; /face; /timed 5 /cast 9
 
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