Question - Ranger is the MA - How to work around the dual buff?

[cotto8177]

I have an inherent problem with the Shout line of Buffs ie Shout of the Arbor Stalker. Most folks appear to bypass this issue by flagging for the MA and its a good work around if there is an MA that is not a ranger. So what if the ranger is the MA? There is currently no way to ignore the ranger if the ranger is the MA (which is the case when it is just me running around working older content). My ranger is the tank in these situations but the ranger Unity buff is a far better buff for the ranger but I'd still like to keep up with the rest of the group.
So .. I'm not the best at conditions, I can figure a lot of them out but if the !Me would work on the dual buff flags .. that MIGHT fix the situation? Perhaps being able to use the !Class? So we can ignore the Ranger when deciding if and when to cast this buff? There is not a single target version of this combination spell either. I can cast the 3 separate spells and that might be the only fix but would sure be nice to use the single cast one.

Help? Ideas? Condition that will work since I can't seem to locate a TLO variable that will accomplish this (maybe I'm just missing it)?

 

[Leo]

you could just use the condition that checks to see if the target has a specific buff and if that buff is present it will not buff them. !${target.buff[rangerselfbuffname].ID} Then if your ranger has on their unity buff, he won't waste time trying to buff himself with the shout as well since they don't stack.

 

[Dragonslayer]

Pls post if you found a solution. I could not find one and decided my rng has to live with the groupbuffs for now.

 

[cotto8177]

For now I set up the single target buffs with Class Conditions like this:
Buffs3=CLOAK OF RIMESPURS|!CLASS|RNG
Buffs4=FROSTROAR OF THE PREDATOR|!CLASS|RNG
Buffs5=STRENGTH OF THE ARBOR STALKER|!CLASS|RNG

I'll play with that buff condition later and see if I can make one work. Thank you for that Ateravest its at least an idea to play with.

 

[Dragonslayer]

Sounds good, let me know if this works.

 

[cotto8177]

At the very least the ranger isn't trying to cast the group buff over and over and over using the single targets in my previous post. I haven't played with the condition yet.

 

[Leo]

on my ranger I have it set up like this:

Buffs6=Shout of the Dusksage Stalker|Dual|Cloak of Bloodbarbs|Cond13
Cond13=!${Target.Buff[Protection of the Valley].ID}