So the guild I am in has been working on the Tantor raid. We have had a lot of people missing the calls to duck and such, my self included. Lag can make gina triggers late, there are a number of excuses. For me there is always a glitch as a ranger going from autofire to duck it does not always actually display me as ducking sometimes it just stands there and sort of opens arms and stops shooting although I am indeed ducking, so what happens is I end up trying to duck 2-3 times until I actually see the character duck, this ends up a miss.
Anyway that's all beside the point there are also people that box some toons in the raid, so I whipped this up (just a cheap knock off of the AoW grp event lines) to help and figured I would share it, maybe others will find it and find it useful or improve it. Tested last night this is all working.
The way we do this raid is we all stand at the back of tantor close the tank keeps him facing away from the raid. We kill the adds as the pop with tantolings in place and as the highest priority. We try burn on the tantorlings smaller burn on the first set, then by the 3rd set go all in.
Tantor "Grabs a rock" This is when you need to duck a miss stuns, knocks back the whole raid and can cause a powerup with tantor.
Tantor will call out people to chase "Points Trunk". We run tantor west (direction tantor is originally facing) to the first tree and wait for him to chase then run up to the task giver on the hill then along the ridge/hill back to the raid. If you go to far/fast he will leash and likely power up. This will only pause your macros and inform you to run, its up to your to actually run, or modify it to run for you if you want.
The tantorlings lines here should be set up for your healers if killing the tantorlings in place they will tantrum aoe the raid, we like to group heal through these, this line will announce its time to heal, and cast what ever heal you replace "Meltwater Spring" with. You could change this up with some timing and multiple casts is you wanted.
Place these lines in your MQ2Events_insertareallydumbtoonnamehere.ini, or create a new one for this event save it in the correct folder something like "C:\lots of folder names\yadayada\MQ2\Live\Release" make sure mq2events is loaded and in game hit /event load to reload your new file. **if you are running a bard you might want to add a /stopsong ; in here next to the /stopcast maybe?**
If you want to test this without being in the actual raid head to your local guild hall dummy, start beating on him and say "Tantor grabs a rock with its trunk and turns toward %T" with your self targeted mid fight an you should duck. If no duck you do wrong.
[tantor rock duck]
trigger=#1#Tantor grabs a rock with its trunk and turns toward |${Me}|#2#
command=/if (!${Me.Ducking}) /multiline ; /mqp on; /melee reset; /attack off; /stopcast; /target clear; /keypress DUCK; /popcustom 5 10 You should be ducking now.
[tantor stand]
trigger=#1#A rock whizzes over the head of its intended target#2#
command=/if (${Me.Ducking}) /multiline ; /keypress DUCK; /mqp off; /popcustom 5 10 Safe to stop ducking.
[Tantor chasing you]
trigger=#1#Tantor roars, pointing its trunk at |${Me}|#2#
command=/if (${Me.Running}) /multiline ; /mqp on; /attack off; /stopcast; /target clear; /popcustom 5 10 You need to run away now.
[Tantorlings Tantrum]
trigger=#1#The tantrum leaves you shaken and confused#2#
command=/multiline ; /popcustom 5 10 Tantrum AOE Splash/Heal NOW.; /cast "Meltwater Spring"
Anyway that's all beside the point there are also people that box some toons in the raid, so I whipped this up (just a cheap knock off of the AoW grp event lines) to help and figured I would share it, maybe others will find it and find it useful or improve it. Tested last night this is all working.
The way we do this raid is we all stand at the back of tantor close the tank keeps him facing away from the raid. We kill the adds as the pop with tantolings in place and as the highest priority. We try burn on the tantorlings smaller burn on the first set, then by the 3rd set go all in.
Tantor "Grabs a rock" This is when you need to duck a miss stuns, knocks back the whole raid and can cause a powerup with tantor.
Tantor will call out people to chase "Points Trunk". We run tantor west (direction tantor is originally facing) to the first tree and wait for him to chase then run up to the task giver on the hill then along the ridge/hill back to the raid. If you go to far/fast he will leash and likely power up. This will only pause your macros and inform you to run, its up to your to actually run, or modify it to run for you if you want.
The tantorlings lines here should be set up for your healers if killing the tantorlings in place they will tantrum aoe the raid, we like to group heal through these, this line will announce its time to heal, and cast what ever heal you replace "Meltwater Spring" with. You could change this up with some timing and multiple casts is you wanted.
Place these lines in your MQ2Events_insertareallydumbtoonnamehere.ini, or create a new one for this event save it in the correct folder something like "C:\lots of folder names\yadayada\MQ2\Live\Release" make sure mq2events is loaded and in game hit /event load to reload your new file. **if you are running a bard you might want to add a /stopsong ; in here next to the /stopcast maybe?**
If you want to test this without being in the actual raid head to your local guild hall dummy, start beating on him and say "Tantor grabs a rock with its trunk and turns toward %T" with your self targeted mid fight an you should duck. If no duck you do wrong.
[tantor rock duck]
trigger=#1#Tantor grabs a rock with its trunk and turns toward |${Me}|#2#
command=/if (!${Me.Ducking}) /multiline ; /mqp on; /melee reset; /attack off; /stopcast; /target clear; /keypress DUCK; /popcustom 5 10 You should be ducking now.
[tantor stand]
trigger=#1#A rock whizzes over the head of its intended target#2#
command=/if (${Me.Ducking}) /multiline ; /keypress DUCK; /mqp off; /popcustom 5 10 Safe to stop ducking.
[Tantor chasing you]
trigger=#1#Tantor roars, pointing its trunk at |${Me}|#2#
command=/if (${Me.Running}) /multiline ; /mqp on; /attack off; /stopcast; /target clear; /popcustom 5 10 You need to run away now.
[Tantorlings Tantrum]
trigger=#1#The tantrum leaves you shaken and confused#2#
command=/multiline ; /popcustom 5 10 Tantrum AOE Splash/Heal NOW.; /cast "Meltwater Spring"
