Hi guys,
I have been trying to figure out Mq2 very vanilla now for about a month now, and I am not making much progress. After a very frustrating weekend of .ini files, group deaths, and a chain flopping SK tank/puller I have decided to try to wrap my little brain around MQ2 as it installs is biting off more than my wee little brain can chew. There have been some really great tutorials here on the website, but most of them contradict what other well-written posts have said, and I'm so turned around now I want to just throw something lol. So I was thinking I would turn off all the plugins except some non-combat ones figure them out, and then slowly add plugins as I get the hang of them. Except....doing that broke everything except autoforage lol.
I am not trying to do anything amazing, I'm not even trying to do anything fancy. Most of what I would like to do are little things, like auto forage, auto trade, autobuff/rez, harvest on my wizard box at X%, rebuff a DS with my mage when it fades. I don't want mq2 to play the game for me, I just want something to help with the details.
That said, I use ISboxer set up for straight broadcasting, nothing fancy here either...I just use it to broadcast mapped keys. I 6 box level 90 something Wizard, Mage, Chanter, Druid, Cleric and a shadow Knight who is my puller and my tank.
I need so much help it's depressing, but I think I could get my feet under me if I could understand the following...
1) Is there a way to manually drive one toon (in my case the SK) and have the other boxes take advantage of kissassist (which sounds Ah-mazing!) How would that be set up? If the SK isn't using /mac kissassist how do my other toons know/see her as the Tank/MA for buff/heals/assist etc? I haven't had much luck finding anything specific on this topic. I have read tons of posts here, but I haven't read them ALL by any means.
2) If I am using ISboxer for broadcasting, I should be able to change the in-game social/macro where each line has a spell/alt act for a burn macro to just read "/bc //burn" and that will cause my other toons to run through the spells and abilities listed in the "burn" section of their kissassist.ini section when hit that button yes? No? And specifically for burns, buffs, and rezes, can my SK take advantage of those features and still be manually driven in terms of nukes, pulls, fd etc. ?
3) Given the set up I have outlined, any recommendations on the bare minimum plugins needed to achieve this? I certainly look forward to exploring other plugins as I get the hang of the ones I "need" first, I am just trying to think of ways to simplify things so I can understand them instead of trying to drink from the fire hose and try to grasp EVERYTHING MQ2 can do all at once. Cuz, yeah, that's just not been working for me lol.
4) oh...and please please please tell me there is a way to move the buttons on the group window that say "follow me, come to me, mimic me" to somewhere else? The buttons cover half the group window so I can't see their health and mana. Those buttons would be much more useful to me either in a window all their own or on a hotbar or something lol.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
~ Novbre
I have been trying to figure out Mq2 very vanilla now for about a month now, and I am not making much progress. After a very frustrating weekend of .ini files, group deaths, and a chain flopping SK tank/puller I have decided to try to wrap my little brain around MQ2 as it installs is biting off more than my wee little brain can chew. There have been some really great tutorials here on the website, but most of them contradict what other well-written posts have said, and I'm so turned around now I want to just throw something lol. So I was thinking I would turn off all the plugins except some non-combat ones figure them out, and then slowly add plugins as I get the hang of them. Except....doing that broke everything except autoforage lol.
I am not trying to do anything amazing, I'm not even trying to do anything fancy. Most of what I would like to do are little things, like auto forage, auto trade, autobuff/rez, harvest on my wizard box at X%, rebuff a DS with my mage when it fades. I don't want mq2 to play the game for me, I just want something to help with the details.
That said, I use ISboxer set up for straight broadcasting, nothing fancy here either...I just use it to broadcast mapped keys. I 6 box level 90 something Wizard, Mage, Chanter, Druid, Cleric and a shadow Knight who is my puller and my tank.
I need so much help it's depressing, but I think I could get my feet under me if I could understand the following...
1) Is there a way to manually drive one toon (in my case the SK) and have the other boxes take advantage of kissassist (which sounds Ah-mazing!) How would that be set up? If the SK isn't using /mac kissassist how do my other toons know/see her as the Tank/MA for buff/heals/assist etc? I haven't had much luck finding anything specific on this topic. I have read tons of posts here, but I haven't read them ALL by any means.
2) If I am using ISboxer for broadcasting, I should be able to change the in-game social/macro where each line has a spell/alt act for a burn macro to just read "/bc //burn" and that will cause my other toons to run through the spells and abilities listed in the "burn" section of their kissassist.ini section when hit that button yes? No? And specifically for burns, buffs, and rezes, can my SK take advantage of those features and still be manually driven in terms of nukes, pulls, fd etc. ?
3) Given the set up I have outlined, any recommendations on the bare minimum plugins needed to achieve this? I certainly look forward to exploring other plugins as I get the hang of the ones I "need" first, I am just trying to think of ways to simplify things so I can understand them instead of trying to drink from the fire hose and try to grasp EVERYTHING MQ2 can do all at once. Cuz, yeah, that's just not been working for me lol.
4) oh...and please please please tell me there is a way to move the buttons on the group window that say "follow me, come to me, mimic me" to somewhere else? The buttons cover half the group window so I can't see their health and mana. Those buttons would be much more useful to me either in a window all their own or on a hotbar or something lol.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
~ Novbre