Question - New to CWTN and with MuleAssist

[Quichan]

Hi,

I just bought MQ2Eskay and MQ2Shaman and I have a couple of questions. I used MuleAssist for the last week or so and when my new group hit level 50 I decided to get a little more professional. Along side these two I am driving from a manual Main and using MuleAssist on a bard and wizard.

1) I still get the MuleAssist window with the CWTNs. Should I? Can I stop it? I know some plugins are disabled automatically but this one wasn't. I was also a little unclear how the autoloading works and so was scared to try it and risk doing something to my functioning alts

2) When should I use "pause" versus manual mode? Should I just set the roles with my "Start" social and then always use pause/unpause? Will chase still work in either case for example?

Guidance would be very welcome as I'm new to all of this (and I left EQ about 18 years ago and just came back about a month ago. So, I know the game but am still in learning mode with so much being new!)

 

[ChatWithThisName]

Hello Quichan,

I'm not personally familiar with the MuleAssist stuff and we'll have to tag @Lemons in for the question related to that.

As far as the CWTN Plugins go, you're going to watch the videos for the classes. Pausing the plugins makes them not do anything at all, so you don't want to have them paused if you want them to do stuff. The plugins has a chase mode built into them, so you can set your mode to chaseassist and they will chase your MA around as and assist it with combat. CWTN Plugins will only break invis if you're in a "camp" mode. Camp modes such as "Assist" mode, will return to a designated camp, when you set assist mode it will notify you that a camp has been set and provide you the coordinates for the camp. If the mode doesn't have a designated camp, such as chase assist, then it won't break invis to buff or heal. You'll want to keep that in mind if you're traveling around invis. Manual mode just means you want to manually operate the characters movement, but will still try to do things such as buff or if you initiate combat it will do DPS or tanking things.

 

[ChatWithThisName]

MQ2Shaman Video


MQ2Eskay video


some useful links.

https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/cwtn-class-window-ui-info-video.72928/#post-458618

https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/sics-moving-your-toons-guide-cwtn-plugins-etc.72676/

 

[Sic]

Hi,

I just bought MQ2Eskay and MQ2Shaman and I have a couple of questions. I used MuleAssist for the last week or so and when my new group hit level 50 I decided to get a little more professional. Along side these two I am driving from a manual Main and using MuleAssist on a bard and wizard.

1) I still get the MuleAssist window with the CWTNs. Should I? Can I stop it? I know some plugins are disabled automatically but this one wasn't. I was also a little unclear how the autoloading works and so was scared to try it and risk doing something to my functioning alts

2) When should I use "pause" versus manual mode? Should I just set the roles with my "Start" social and then always use pause/unpause? Will chase still work in either case for example?

Guidance would be very welcome as I'm new to all of this (and I left EQ about 18 years ago and just came back about a month ago. So, I know the game but am still in learning mode with so much being new!)

watch the videos that cwtn shared.

I suggest start with the UI vid --- > class specific vids > Shm < and > SK < ---> how to move your toons / hotkeys

 

[Lemons]

You can just click the minimize or exit out of the MQ2Mule window on toons you're not running MuleAssist on. It won't affect anything.

 

[Quichan]

Thanks for the replies!

I watched all the videos and read all the pages before starting, but you know how it is when something is 100% new. You don't pick up on all the terms and info and such before trying it hands-on and then watching it all again. Its an iterative process.

The mode for chaseassist was the missing piece for me. I spent a good deal of time with the hotkeys here and just didn't notice it until you pointed it out: https://www.redguides.com/community/resources/sics-hotkeys.1150/

Chase Key ( I also stick a /shd mode 7 in my chase hotkey - but personal preference)
Code:
/noparse /bcg //docommand /${Me.Class.ShortName} mode 2
/bcg //chaseon

My fault, it is right here in the commands page (bolded by me here): https://www.redguides.com/community/resources/mq2eskay.1153/field?field=commands

Mode:
/shd mode - Manual|Assist|Chase|Vorpal 0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7
Has access to all of the CWTN plugin "Modes"
Mode 0 - Manual --- Manual
Mode 1 - Assist --- assist your MA and returns to camp
Mode 2 - ChaseAssist --- chasses and assists your MA
Mode 3 - Vorpal Mode (Assist but no camp or chase)
Mode 4 - Tank --- tank stuff

 

[Quichan]

I forgot to bring up one of my main questions. When would you use the full pause, `/mqp`, versus going in to manual mode? Usually the only reason I pause is when something is fighting me for mouse control when trying to swap items. I wouldn't want to turn off MQ2FeedMe for example.

 

[Sic]

I forgot to bring up one of my main questions. When would you use the full pause, `/mqp`, versus going in to manual mode? Usually the only reason I pause is when something is fighting me for mouse control when trying to swap items. I wouldn't want to turn off MQ2FeedMe for example.

mqp pauses macros like kissassist or mule assist - /mqp doesn't do anything for the cwtn plugins or mq2feedme etc

if you wanted to pause cwtn plugins it is /shd pause on, for example

 

[ChatWithThisName]

You should post issues for specific plugins to their specific threads.

 

[Quichan]

Will do. Please do not reply here. I will copy and delete.

(I deleted my original post above CWTN's reply. If this board is moderated please feel free to delete this.)