Drg Soloing Talk

[Nameless]

Also posted this on Alla.

Hi all, long time drg here, just curious on certain Drg/blu stuff.

First of all, macros. Having recently acquired Ares Cuirass, I fixed my macro so it put the body in for HB trigger. My macro line looks like this:

/ma "Power Attack" <t>
/console exec Drg Solo1 txt
/wait 4
/console exec Drg Solo txt

Then within Drg Solo1 txt, I have:

/equip head "AF+1 helm";
/equip legs "AF+1 leg";
/equip neck "Ritter Gorget";
/equip ear1 "Cassie Earring"; (replacing brutal)
/equip body "Ares's Cuirass"; (this line is not need since I use it for solo tp)
/equip hands "Homam gloves";
/equip ring2 "BQ ring";
/equip back "Gigant Mantle";
/equip waist "Ocean's sash";
/equip feet "Homam boots"; (don't need this line as well)
/wait 1
/equip head "Af2 helm";
/equip neck "C. Gorget";
/equip body "Wyvern Mail";
/equip hands "O. Mitts";

Then Drg Solo txt is just my regular soloing tp set.

So you see, I design to have high HB trigger with the first macro (generally trigger at 810 HP), then /wait 1 and swap in the rest of my wyvern HP gears including AF2 helm before HB goes off.

With this set, HB does 436 66% of the time and other time it goes 300-390. I know that in theory my macro should work 100% of the time the way it is designed, and it is capible of doing so 2/3 of the time. I also know that af+1 leg has a delay due to it is a % of Wyvern's HP. My question is, how do you guys with windower do this? I used to swap in all my wyvern HP gears at my trigger set, in other words, I didn't bother swap in ritter gorget, ares's cuirass, and homam glove for HB trigger. And the only thing after /wait 1 would just be equipping Af2 helm. Do you guys think I should go back to the old way?

Second of all, for when I am not fighting mobs, I use pollen to trigger HB. I use /wait 3 instead of wait 1 within the Drg solo1 txt since it has a longer cast time. What do you guys use for situation like this when you are not fighting a mob.

Last, I was thinking about soloing Sheep in Antlion Cloth ENM as Drg/blu eating rabbit pie or that noodle food with HP+ and def+. I know it is hard if I get adds, but what do you guys think of the chance of soloing it if I am able to aggro only the NM? I heard somewhere that there is a way to find the NM with apRadar + sean's maps pack or something. Any input will be great.

Thank you.

Also, if you can, please post your HB macro for trigger and stuff line by line. I understand how HB works, but if there is a specific way that will give more consistent result, I rather go with having lower HB trigger.

[Darkmoon]

I find /wait inside text lines to be unreliable, maybe its just me, but I tend to use pause instead.

so:

/equip head "Bunny Hat"
/wait 1
/equip head "Advark Hat"

becomes:

/equip head "Bunny Hat"
pause 1
/equip head "Advark Hat"


Personaly my Triggers are set up as follows:

/ma "Barfira" <me>
/console exec DRG/HP_Gear.txt
/wait 2
/console exec DRG/HBreath_Gear.txt
/wait 3 (3 or 4 can't recalled what i ended up on with this one while at work cant check)
/console exec DRG/Solo_TP.txt


this removes all the waits or pauses form the text which seems to run much more smoothly..

[Nameless]

That looks good, I think I used to do that but for some reason I changed it due to inconsistency or something, can't recall. Does that work for you 100% of the time?

As for using pause, I didn't know that. I will give it a try. Thank you.

[Valyana]

pause and wait are equivalent in windower. Just need to be sure to use windower wait (or pause) rather than "input /wait".

[liggy 0]

if anything you're probably going to have to split up the macros into 2 and hit them both in succession. i had to resort to that since lag n wyvernHP effect delay will get me half the time (chronic 2boxer) esp in bhaf. areas.. foliage backgrounds are the bane of my video card =/

[Nameless]

Yea, it really acts up when in lag area, likes in campaign battle.

[Agana]

Yea, I don't use any /wait macros ever... they just seem to always fail whenever there is any lag or anything going wrong.

I'd go with 1 macro to equip Drachen Armet, 1 macro to cast dia, then 1 macro to equip Wyrm armet.

Keep them close, like with me I do CRTL 1 is drachen, CTRL 2 is dia, CTRL 3 is Wyrm. So I just hit 1 2 3 and im done.

[Nameless]

Hmm.... that's interesting. I wonder if it is only the Wyvern HP that gets lag out. Cuz if this applies to everything, then half my WS macros will need to be redone. Almost all my WS macros are:

/console exec ws set.txt
/wait 1
/ws "xxx" <t>
/wait 1
/console exec tp set.txt

Imaging if the wait 1 doesn't work in lag area, then my WS would have mix up gears. Tho almost 100% of the time I see myself back in tp gears after the macro, regardless how lag. It is most likely just Wyvern HP I think, cuz my HB macro used to work better than the one I have now, and I used to change all my wyvern HP with the trigger set, allowing more time for it to sit in the system. That could be the cause.

[tom]

idk

[Rhinox]

idk

trying to get into advance I see.

[Air]

I've almost never had lag problems with my healing breath macros. Even in the laggy/crowded events such as campaign.
They pretty much look like this:

/equip WyvernHP Gear + Drachen Armet
/ma "Dia" <t>;
pause 2 (It's a full windower macro, I don't use multiple .txts)
/equip AF2 head
pause 5
/equip normal gear (I think I could equip them back, except the head, when I swap to the AF2 helm,never tried though).