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

[Waylander]

Hello all, hopefully this will help some of you do the multi-boxing you're wanting to do, with out actually having to write or borrow other peoples macros.

EQBC - This comes standard with pretty much every MQ build. If you do not have it, obviously you will need it.

What is EQBC?

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MQ2EQBC (EQ box chat) is a plugin composed of two parts, a server (EQBCS) and a client (MQ2EQBC).

    The server provides a similar service to an IRC server but is much easier to setup.
    The client is similar to the MQ2IRC client in that it monitors text that is sent to the EQBC server.
    The main advantage of MQ2EQBC is that it allows remote commands to be sent directly to a single or all connected clients.


Now to the point of this, I personally usually box anywhere from one full group of characters, to two full groups of characters. This is with out using any "modbot" or "cleric heal bot" or any other type of specifically built macro for any of the classes you generally need in everquest. I use only MQ2Melee and EQBC for this.

On my main toon (which is usually the main tank..) I set up in game macros that read as follows:

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/bct ClericsName //target id ${Me.ID}
/bct ClericsName //cast 1


Now what that does is sends a msg to my ClericsName over the EQBC server and tells it to target my character, and then cast the spell in gem slot #1. That way I am still fully in control of my cleric, with out having to tab over to it, or anything besides either hit a key on my main window, or click a button on my main window. I do the same thing with all of my characters from this way, here is a few examples.

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Stick:

/bca //target id ${Me.ID}
/bca //stick uw !front



Heals:

/bct ClericsName //target id ${Me.ID}
/bct ClericsName //cast 1



Wizard/Mage Nuke:


/bct NukersChannel //target id ${Target.ID}
/bct NukersChannel //cast 1


The Reason for //target id ${Target.ID} , instead of just //assist is because in some eq fights (such as boss fights) there are scripts that require other things to do before you can kill or attack your main objective and what not. So this way I can actually sick my other characters onto the "trash" mobs and just destroy them as I standby my real target and just wait to start tanking it. If i used //assist, it would mean me having to actually target those monsters and risk having the big boss aggro one of the boxed characters.

Now let's add in some melee people in there:

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Bard:

/bct BardsName //target id ${Target.ID}
/bct BardsName //melody 5 6 7 8 9



Necro Dots + Pet Send:
 
/multiline; /bct NecroName //target id ${Target.ID} ; /bct NecroName //pet attack
/multiline; /bct NecroName //cast 1 ; /delay 15 ; /bct NecroName //cast 2 ; /bct NecroName //cast 3



I used /multiline with the necro because you want to cast multiple DIFFERENT spells when dott'ing something. No reason to cast the same dot over and over again as if it was a Wizard's Nuke.



This is the ramblings of someone really new to the whole mq2/eqbc world by the way, hopefully this will help out some of you fairly easily and make it a little better for you when you decide to start multi-boxing. This definently works for me and makes it tons easier than all the alt tabbing just to find out my tank is actually already dead. Which naturally results in my entire box army dying and having to rez up, re-buff, and everything else. I will most likely be modifying this quite a bit as I find better ways to do this stuff, I just really do not like to depend on macros to do stuff for me.

[moonrazor]

Does your multiline routine for your necro dots actually work? Only way I've managed to get it to work is to force it through a sequence macro, which made the necro into a dot bot. If it works for you, I may need to rethink some of my plugins for my compile.

Double check it works and post back for me please, if you have time, of coarse.

Moonrazor

[Waylander]

Does your multiline routine for your necro dots actually work? Only way I've managed to get it to work is to force it through a sequence macro, which made the necro into a dot bot. If it works for you, I may need to rethink some of my plugins for my compile.

Double check it works and post back for me please, if you have time, of coarse.

Moonrazor

I plan to do a little bit of "raiding" today, so I will double check my coding on my necro and let it roll. If I remember correctly ive never actually had any trouble abusing multiline


*edit*

I'll actually be changing my coding around quite a bit since im going to be permanently running two groups now...consisting of:

Warrior
Cleric
Bard
Ranger
Necro
Mage
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Paladin
Shaman
Bard
Necro
Wizard
Enchanter

So some of my coding will have to change a bit anyhow. Especially for that shaman and enchanter.

[Snorks]

I am fairly new to all this, could someone explain //multiline to me please in simpletons terms?

[Tristhan]

You can use more than one command in one line.

This command will cast Spellgem 1, make an break of 1,5 seconds, then cast Spellgem 2:

/multiline; /bct NecroName //cast 1 ; /delay 15 ; /bct NecroName //cast 2

I am fairly new to all this, could someone explain //multiline to me please in simpletons terms?

[Waylander]

Ok, so during some testing before raiding a bit, I found out that my necro stuff wasnt working through my tank. So I started controlling everything through my necro, and had to set up stuff like this for my other toons.

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Mage:
/bct Magename //target id ${Target.ID}
/bct Magename //pet attack
/bct Magename //casting castingid# -kill

Bard:
/bct Bardname //target id ${Target.ID}
/bct Bardname //melody 1 2 4 5 6
/bct Bardname //stick
/bct Bardname //attack

Wizards:
/multiline ; /bct WizOne //target id ${Target.ID} ; /bct WizOne //stick 75 ; /bct WizOne //casting castingid# -kill
^^ same thing for any extra wizards.

Cleric:
/bct Clericsname //target id ${Target.ID}
/bct Clericsname //casting castingid#

^^ do this only for the single target heals.

/bct Clericsname //casting grouphealpid#

/bct Clericsname //casting donorclickyid# (the actual item id #, not the spell id #)

^^ this will clickie your donor item for you. Cleric weapon is on a 20-25? second cooldown, so that can be spammed quite well.


Thats pretty much it, its pretty basic for every toon. the "-kill" part will continue to spam that same spell until the target is dead.

To find the ID # of a spell or item, just hold right click the item/spell until the info window pops up, and scroll down and it will tell you the id # near the bottom. Insert that instead of the spell name/item name, save yah the hassle of typos and figuring out why it doesnt work.

[moonrazor]

That's too bad delay didn't work, I was pretty sure it wouldn't though.

One thing to look out for, using -kill with melee can sometimes cause them not too use their special abilities, flying kick for example. MQ2 melee is a touchy plugin, sometimes it doesn't play well with others.
Good macros though, they should make those box groups pretty easy.

Moonrazor

[Waylander]

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.

[moonrazor]

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.

[Juggy]

Stick:

/bca //target id ${Me.ID}
/bca //stick uw !front

you dont need to do this

can be one line

/bca //stick id ${Me.ID} uw hold