EQBC - The Way To Skip Macros (my post from mqemulator.net)

[Waylander]

/target id, makes it to where no matter what your commanding character is locked onto, it will make the recipient of the command target it. And you can seperate stuff for like boss fights with adds and what not. Have all your dps target and burn an add and then move back to boss etc etc. Can't do that to well using /assist.

[moonrazor]

They bct command I sent from my mage Nilbus was

/bct Nodyin //keypress "1"

on Nodyin I made a hotkey and moved it to hotbutton position 1 which is bound to 1

/pause 35, /cast 1
/pause 35, /cast 2
/cast 3

Spell Gem 1 was Javelin of Corruption Rk. I
Spell Gem 2 was Seething Anger Rk. I
Spell Gem 3 was Grasp of Death Rk. I

Nodyin proceded to cast Javelin, delay 3.5 seconds (recast time of Javelin + some change) then cast Seething Anger, wait another 3.5 seconds then cast grasp of death.

All 3 are nukes, but I don't see why it wouldn't work with dots (adjusting the delays appropriately). The macro itself doesn't use any MQ2 features, just plain EQ ones, the MQ2 usage is just in getting the command to the other character from a different one.

In fact, just tested it with 3 SK dots. Dark Constriction, Blood of Discord, True Disease.

Awesome thanks, this is exactly what I needed. Time to work a plugin around it.

[runicNomad]

totally new to using this for boxing.
Is there a basic tutorial for this and setting it up?

[moonrazor]

totally new to using this for boxing.
Is there a basic tutorial for this and setting it up?

Read around the forums a bit and don't be afraid to ask questions, that's what we're here for.


Moonrazor

[runicNomad]

thanks much! I will do that.

[Skittzy]

I know this thread hasn't been responded to in a couple of months, but I thought I'd post something that might help some others.

Necro eqbc macros are notorious for being difficult. One thing I would do though is something like;

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/multiline ; /bct necro1 //target id ${Target.ID} ; /bct necro2 //target id ${Target.ID}
/bca //casting "Necro dot"
/pause #
/bca //casting "necro dot2"

Rather than having to specify each individual necro in your hotkey, you can join your characters to a channel and tell the channel the commands so that any character within receive the command.

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/bct Necros //multiline ; /target id ${Target.ID}
/multiline ; /bct Necros //pet attack ; /delay 10 ; /bct necros //cast 1 ; /delay 35 ; /bct necros //cast 2 ;

This becomes increasingly more useful and easier to maintain as you begin to box more than just a few characters.

In case it helps anyone, here's the commands I use for my melee.. and eventually rangers if I get enough to be worth it.

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Join the Channel on each Melee Toon: /bccmd channels melee
/bct melee //multiline ; /target id ${Target.ID}
/multiline ; /bct melee //attack on ; /deley 1 ; /bct melee //stick behind 12

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Join the Channel on each Ranger: /bccmd channels rangers
/bct ranger //multiline ; /target id ${Target.ID}
/multiline ; /bct ranger //autofire on ; /delay 1 ; /bct ranger //face fast ;

[Zerosend]

yeah i only use the -kill command on the casters, ie mage and wizard. its only a useful tag if you want to spam the same high dmg spell over and over.

I could probably set my necro up from my tank a little better, it would just be alot of hot keys on my tank though. Such as:

/bct Necroname //casting lifetapgroupdot

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/bct Necroname //casting firedot

etc etc all in seperate hotkeys, im wondering if maybe /pause would do it but I havent had much luck with that yet either, also havent really given it a proper go yet either.

Yeah actually, you can use pause, but you need it to be perfect and on the dot. In case anyone who reads this doesn't know, pause is in the form of 10ths of a second, I.E /pause 20 = 2 second pause. From my experience, anything over pause 50 doesn't go through constantly.

However, if you use a different gui skin then default, you can minimize the amount of space the bars take up. This is my current set up, this is taken from a character I play off and on from Stormhaven.

Good luck setting up those necro macros, they're a pita to be sure.


Moonrazor


EDIT: As an after thought, I seem to remember you running 2 necros. In that case, use multiline for each to cast the same dot, then just use /pause and continue. should make them amazing dps boxes.

Hi All,

The only concerning thing about using Pause the way you suggested is if you use it on your primary toon you will be unable to issue any commands through that toon until the pauses are finished processing. I found this out the hard way when I needed a heal from my cleric but I had a pause still being processed on my Necros dot script. As a rule of thumb if you are need to do a /pause for any command you are issuing to a character make a button on that character and use a //keypress the way Nilbus described it in a previous post. This way the pause commands are being tracked by the box character instead of the main toon and wont lock up other commands.

I currently box a team of 12 all from 1 character. I will make a post this week detailing all of the buttons I use and how they work. I am not saying that my methods are the best but they work pretty well and it may help someone understand the basics and possibly a user can point out a better way for me to do something as well.