Question - Role and Assisting Question for my play style

[Bytebait]

Just finished watching the kissassist videos and not sure how to assign roles.

I play the cleric. When I select a mob, I tell them all to attack it. The tank engages first while the casters wait until the target is at the health to begin dps.
In their ini, is this what their roles should be?

Cleric: Role=Puller
Tank: Role=Tank
Other: Role=Assist

 

[manydills]

Cleric should probably also be Assist unless you want your Cleric to run around and grab mobs to bring to your tank.
(Personally I don't use the Puller role because I prefer to manually pull, but that's a matter of personal preference.)

 

[taz6two]

That should work, your Cleric will be running around a lot.

KissAssist

Role Values - Use the following list to determine and define your default role.

• Role=Assist - Default role of assisting Main Tank on mobs.
• Role=Tank - Sets up tanking feature and will target and attack any aggressive mob that comes into defined melee range. Target (or declare) yourself as MA.
• Role=PetTank - This role allows for a pet class (Mage/Necromancer/Beastlord) to 'have their pet tank'.
• Role=PullerPetTank - This role allows for a pet class (Mage/Necromancer/Beastlord) to BOTH 'pull and have their pet tank'.
• Role=Puller - This role basically duplicates the oldie but goldie puller.mac. It will pull mobs within a certain radius back to camp for your party to kill. Target Main Assist for this role.
• Role=PullerTank - This role combines pulling and tanking. The character will pull mobs back to camp then engage them when within defined melee distance. Target your self for Main Assist with this role.
• Role=Hunter - This role duplicates the old hunter mac. It will run your character around a zone and hunt any or predefined mobs with the pull radius. Target yourself for Main Assist with this role. ** This setting will ignore any Mob HP % you may have defined in your DPS section in the .ini **
• Role=HunterPetTank - This role duplicates the old hunter mac. This role allows for a pet class (Mage/Necromancer/Beastlord) to 'have their pet tank'. It will run your character around a zone and hunt any or predefined mobs with the pull radius.
• Role=Petassist - This is mainly for Pallys, Rangers, Beastlords and SKs asssiting Mage pets tanking . It turns off melee so they just send in pets and cast.
• For Manual Role/Mode see the Miscellaneous section.

 

[Bytebait]

Oh I see, I don't want anything controlling the toon I play. I'll put it on assist as suggested, thank you guys!

 

[Robban]

Oh I see, I don't want anything controlling the toon I play. I'll put it on assist as suggested, thank you guys!

If you dont want anything controlling the toon you play, dont start a macro/plugin on it

 

[Naturesong]

I run everything from my tank.
He's set to be MT and MA in group, my Monk is designated as Puller in group.
Setting these group roles in game is useful because you can then ...
Start the group by running these commands:

/mac Kissassist Tank
/dgge /mac Kissassist assist ${Group.MainTank}

If you want, and if the tank is the group leader, you could include /grouproles set ${Me.Name} 1 prior to running the commands above.
KissAssist then runs automation on all toons, but as I'm on the Tank, it's easy for me to make changes to what the tank is doing, or even pause the mac on and run it non assisted.

When I want to start the monk pulling, I run this:

/dex ${Group.Puller} /mac KissAssist Puller ${Group.MainTank}

You'd have to change things around a little if you were running the whole show from the cleric.
My main for many years was a chanter, and I did try running everything from his perspective, but I found running the group from the tank to be much easier.