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Question - setting up a raid team with redguides
- Thread starter junthar
- Start date
you'd get a little more mileage asking *specifically* what it is you're looking for
-- what utlities make things easier? (buttonmaster, LEM, etc)
-- how to form up?
-- how to manage your teams
-- what your groups should look like?
-- what buffs to block/manage/burns
there's a lot of stuff depending on what specifically you're asking for
for the cwtn plugins specifically - you just turn on raidmode, and ensure you have raidma's set in your eq raid window
some other automations do things similarly - things like kissassist you'd run it just like you would normally.
most automations you'd turn on xtarget healing with your priests and assign tanks or extra people who need heals (maybe solo healer, etc).
things like buttonmaster is going to be your friend
here's a copy/paste of an excerpt from a script i made when i was running a few different raid group formats for shei
/Lua run invite sheiwar or /Lua run invite sheishd and it would form the groups and then raidinvite them all
Lua:
local mq = require 'mq'
local args = {...}
local SicInviteMsg = '\ao[\agSicInvite\ao]\ag::\aw'
print(args[1])
local function printf(s,...)
return print(string.format(s,...))
end
local raidGroups = {}
-- { leader = "",
-- members = {
-- "",
-- "",
-- "",
-- "",
-- "",
-- }
-- },
...
local function raidinvite()
for i,group in ipairs(raidGroups) do
if mq.TLO.Me.Name() ~= group.leader then
mq.cmd(('/raidinvite %s'):format(group.leader))
end
end
end
local function groupinvite()
for i,group in ipairs(raidGroups) do
for _,member in ipairs(group.members) do
print(('Adding %s to group %d'):format(member, i))
if mq.TLO.Me.Name() ~= group.leader then
mq.cmd(('/dex %s /invite %s'):format(group.leader, member))
else
mq.cmd(('/invite %s'):format(member))
end
end
end
mq.delay('2s')
end
groupinvite()
if args[2] == nil or args[1] == raid then
raidinvite()
end
Lua:
if args[1] == 'Sheiwar' then
-- Shei Warrior 12 split
raidGroups = {
{ leader = "war name",
members = {
"pal name",
"clr name",
"bard name",
"nec name",
"shm name",
}
},
{ leader = "nec name",
members = {
"dru name",
"rog name",
"enc name",
"bard name",
"bst name",
}
},
}
elseif args[1] == 'Sheishd' then
-- blah
end|all of the above that you mentioned here, i run cwtn on 12 chars, looking for guides on how to move what to set up for MT OT have 3 heals, and doing raid inv long way, your code where would i put it, make a folder in Lua and run it? coding baffles me,
looking to start small. and maybe get to end game raiding with a guild. but for now looking to run solo raiding in a small amount (teams are lowish lvls still) i am on a live server
While it is going to sound like I'm discouraging you, I'm not.
You need to start with a good foundation and build from there.
Get your teams to current group game gear/aas and manage on figuring out how to control them and adjust.
What you're asking for is a tall order starting from "teams are lowish".
Learning how to use LEM and adapt to emotes in a group environment foundationally translate to doing it in a raid.
I strongly recommend finding a boxing buddy - or a small crew 2-4 of boxing buddies and let them fold you in with 1 toon, or 1 group until you're able to pull your own weight.
That contextual hands on experience is worth it's weight in gold
I second this. Raid mechanics get pretty complex. It's the simple things that get you (Like forgetting to turn AOE off) or knowing how to burns on and off at the right times...When you can control 2 groups smoothly, add in a 3rd. Grab a raid instance and play around on the trash. Don't do the "Kill this as quick as possible", but control the toons. Group 1 burn, group 2 burn, everyone pause, everyone rez, everyone anchor to lobby, etc...
it's not discouragement, it's the start for someone new to it
. was generally asking if there was already written guides to getting started, not so much as someone at this moment writting onei'm working on group gearing 2 teams atm, with plans on a 3rd in the future when i get more accustomed to the ins and outs of raiding with box group, starting with tss raids and working on further as i lvl up
frankly, as someone who does a lot of guides and videos and pictures and such --- what you're asking is so much information only like 2 people would read it - and they'd only read it to correct me on some reference i made from 6 years agoit's not discouragement, it's the start for someone new to it
:p
having said all that - there are several dudes who do EMU and run their own crews on there, that might be a little easier zero -> hero if you were interested in emufair,
yes and yes,
i can set raid up get the chars to follow the same toon, buff with cwtnbuffme and xtar buffing and healing, got lem downloaded and figuring it out, i play on mangker server so working pretty much solo
havnt quite figured out how mq2autogroup or grouping macros for inviting to raid, so i do it manually
Search for MakeCrew.Lua.
Then you can do /mc name save.
Then when you form up the raid you can do a /mc 1 on one group leader. and /mc 2 for second group leader and then do a /raidinvite second_group_leader_name.
Then you can do /mc name save.
Then when you form up the raid you can do a /mc 1 on one group leader. and /mc 2 for second group leader and then do a /raidinvite second_group_leader_name.
will give that a look,
much appreciated
yup this is the way! I love makecrew
Being a raider on live who box's, and by that I mean I am generally playing 12 to 18 of the toons in the raid while the rest of the guild is playing their 1 or their own 6 box of toons, and the most important thing that I can say is preperation of all your hot buttons on your driving toon to contol your other toons without having to tab over to them. also for best preformance I turn all particles and graphics to the min on all toons but the driving toon. as well I run the generally threee group setup, and when I do I have a 2nd PC to handle the third group, that I can with my driving toon on the main pc control. I want to also mention that I raid with 2 gold toons a tank and a druid and the last 16 toons are all silver/green. as long as the f2p toons have all their gear from the best expansion that you can they should be fine. gearing with become a pita to you but its worth it. And 1 more thing uniform in your automation is a plus, I would nto try to mix and match the automations that are around, I use Kissassist mostly due to it doing about 95% of what I need it to do when required and I write Lua's to compensate for the last 5%ish.
Just my 1/2 cent worth.
Just my 1/2 cent worth.
i'm running 12 golds with cwtn, lvling 2nd group atm, my original plan was to do content as i get to it starting with tss raids and moving on as i go in expansions, war,pally tanks druid clr sham zerk rng rog mag ench bard as team makup, looked at lem but i'm not a coder or have any idea at the moment what to write for conditionals, so that'll be a trial by error for me
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