Request - Shaman Attack Buffs - can we prevent wasteful casting?

[Lucent]

When engaging mobs and having say

DPSX=Lingering Sloth|XX|MA

The shaman will cast the slow procbuff on the MA. The shaman will then continue to cast it on every encounter even if it is still on with plenty of time or counters.

Is there some sort of argument I'm not aware of in the manual that can prevent these extra casts like

DPSX=Lingering Sloth|XX|MA|half
DPSX=Lingering Sloth|XX|MA|quarter

to only recast if it has less than half or one quarter its duration -or- counters left?

If not, this would be supremely useful to prevent wasted mana and cast time in combat.

Coming back to live servers and using kiss and enjoying a lot of the cool new additions, and using a higher level shammy than I ever have after really loving the class on phinny, hoping to get the most out of it while resorting to holy and downshits as little as possible (i'm not terribly good at setting them up and generally have only stolen/modified others shits!)

 

[LurkMcGurk]

Characters spamming buffs in KISS is a pretty common issue and has been for a month or so now.

I have a thread about it here: https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/47680-Very-common-KA-issues-I-experience

I'd say just buckle down and endure it like we all have until a fix is pushed hopefully with the next update to MQ2. (let's pray we get a fix tomorrow when they patch!)

 

[Lucent]

For the moment I've simply removed sloth and just let it slow everything without the lovely preslow / extra aggro on tank. I'm not afk anyway, so its not a huge deal.

But I think the half/quarter thing could be really useful and is in line with the kiss philosophy of keeping things simple, in this case avoiding using more complicated means like shits, while not needing anything more complicated than 1 word added to the debuff on the ini

 

[Sum1]

Why not use it in the buffs section? Is this not the same as Sluggishness or whatever?

 

[Lucent]

It's a 5 minute buff (tops, assuming the charges dont run out) that affects combat specifically. Its designed to literally *be* an attack buff. Buffs dont cast in combat unless they're in the dps section, and attack buffs at the moment are not very robust.

 

[ctaylor22]

At this time, use it in the buffs section for best effect. You may have 1 maybe 2 mobs at the most that your MA won't have the buff, that's if your chain pulling. You only need to have it up at the beginning of the fight anyway. From what I can tell you don't want it cast every mob, only when it is not on the MA, so it may drop in the middle of a fight. OK. So it will be refreshed after mob is killed and then, last through the next few mobs. That is better than be casted every fight. choose 1 way or the other for now.

 

[minniemmee24]

how about how shm sits there and casts grp doomscale rk2 on each grp member after every pull....

 

[ctaylor22]

how about how shm sits there and casts grp doomscale rk2 on each grp member after every pull....

There could be multiple things causing this. Are all the other group members running KA? do you have a gold EQ membership or FTP? Posting a copy of your ini file helps as well.