Spellcast Help Thread (Link your XML using Pastebin.com for help!)

**Yugl** · 2011-10-23 18:12

@Motenten: The benefits of groups is that you can avoid overdetermination, but also have an instant access to a full rework. The latter, since it's easier to explain, simply means that you can change all sets, TP/WS/Magic or w/e, at the flip of one trigger spell rather than having to go through each one-by-one. To understand the former benefit, consider a situation in which you need more evasion. In your version, you just change the evasion level. Now consider a different scenario in which you need more accuracy; your version would say to change the accuracy level. What if we need more accuracy and evasion though? At best, you could overlay evasion on accuracy or accuracy on evasion, but neither of the sets would recognize each other. Thus, you could end up killing accuracy, killing evasion, or just end up with a bizarre chimera mix. If using a group, you can at least make the NM set acknowledge the need for more attack or more accuracy within your TP-Weapon-EVA set.

Another benefit is that it accommodates for how people tend to think and receive advice. People in the random questions sections get the most out of their question when they're told "Use X for NMs and Y for normal mobs." If you tell them use X when at capped attack or R when not at capped attack, they tend to follow up with tons of questions about when they're at capped attack and when they're not. Since most of my XMLs are for public use rather than private use, I tend to make them such that they're user friendly and are consistent with how players understand the game.

**Syco** · 2011-10-23 20:03

I've played around with the BST stuff and here's a fully working auto-PetStatus-change template for anyone who wants one:

Spoiler: show

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<spellcast>



	<config
Debug="false"
RequireVersion="2.20"
HideErrors="false"
ShowSpellInfo="false" 
ShowGearSwaps="false"
/>



<variables>

	<var Name="PetStatus">None</var>
	
</variables>



<sets>

	<group Name="Beastmaster" default="yes">
	
		<set Name="Idle-PetNone">
			<head>Gnadbhod's Helm</head>
			<body>Scorpion Harness</body>
		</set>
			
		<set Name="Idle-PetIdle" BaseSet="Idle-PetNone">
			<head>Optical Hat</head>
			<body>Hecatomb Harness</body>
		</set>
		
		<set Name="Idle-PetEngaged" BaseSet="Idle-PetIdle">
			<head>Hecatomb Cap</head>
		</set>

		<set Name="Engaged" BaseSet="IdlePetIdle">
			<head>Walahra Turban</head>
			<body>Haubergeon</body>
		</set>
		
	</group>
	
</sets>



<rules>

	<if Mode="OR" Status="Dead" BuffActive="Sleep|Petrification|Stun|Terror|Charm">
		<cancelspell />
		<return/>
	</if>
	
	<elseif Spell="Libra">
		<cancelspell/>
		<if PetIsValid="True">
			<if Advanced='%IsInCombat=1'>
				<var cmd="set PetStatus Engaged"/>
			</if>
			<else>
				<var cmd="set PetStatus Idle"/>
			</else>
		</if>
		<else>
			<var cmd="set PetStatus None"/>
		</else>
		<if Advanced='%IsInCombat=1'>
			<equip When="precast" Set="Engaged"/>
		</if>
		<else>
			<equip When="precast" Set="Idle-Pet$PetStatus"/>
		</else>
	</elseif>
	
	<elseif Spell="Fight|Heel" PetIsValid="True">
		<var cmd="set PetStatus Engaged"/>
	</elseif>
	
	<elseif Spell="Charm|Leave|Stay|Call Beast">
		<var cmd="set PetStatus Idle"/>
	</elseif>
	
	
	
	<if Advanced='"$PetStatus"="Engaged"'>
		<command>wait 6; Libra &lt;pet&gt;</command>
		<addtochat Color="206">Pet:   TP = %PetTPReal%  -  HP = %PetHPP%</addtochat>
	</if>

	
	
	<if Status="Idle|Resting">
		<equip When="Idle|Resting|Aftercast" Set="Idle-Pet$PetStatus"/>
	</if>
	<elseif Status="Engaged">
		<equip When="Engaged|Aftercast" Set="%Status"/>
	</elseif>
	
	<if Spell="autoset">
		<if PetIsValid="false">
				<var cmd="set PetStatus None"/>
		</if>
		<if status="Idle|Resting">
			<if PetIsValid="true">
				<command>wait 1; Libra &lt;pet&gt;</command>
			</if>
		</if>
	</if>

</rules>


	
</spellcast>

Also at http://pastebin.com/tVgh0Kqb

**Manque** · 2011-10-23 20:13

Hello! The following is my COR spellcast. http://pastebin.com/5XTmay7W

I was hoping someone could assist me with creating a rule which prevents me from shooting off bullets that I don't want to shoot off at specific times. For example, I don't want to waste my oberon bullets on wildfire. Furthermore, if I ever get the voidwatch COR bullet, I do not want to shoot it off by accident.

Is there a spellcast rule that I can use to prevent this sort of thing from happening?

I'd really really appreciate some help.

Thank you.

**Lonewind** · 2011-10-23 23:07

Originally Posted by Manque

Hello! The following is my COR spellcast. http://pastebin.com/5XTmay7W

I was hoping someone could assist me with creating a rule which prevents me from shooting off bullets that I don't want to shoot off at specific times. For example, I don't want to waste my oberon bullets on wildfire. Furthermore, if I ever get the voidwatch COR bullet, I do not want to shoot it off by accident.

Is there a spellcast rule that I can use to prevent this sort of thing from happening?

I'd really really appreciate some help.

Thank you.

under rules
<if spell="Wildfire">
<equip when="precast" set="WildfireSet" />
<action type="equip" when="precast">
<ammo>NotOberon</ammo>
</action>
</if>

similarly,

<if spell="*Shot">
<equip when="precast" set="QDSet" />
<action type="equip" when="precast">
<ammo>VW Bullet</ammo>
</action>
<equp when="aftercast" set="Standard" />
<action type="equip" when="aftercast">
<ammo>NotVWBullet</ammo>
</action>
</if>

also there's a way to check if your ammo is the one you can't use, it'll cancel the action.

something like
<if commandprefix="/weaponskill|/range">
<if mode="OR" advanced='%SpellTargetDistance > 22' [command that checks of ammo slot that I can't think of at the moment]="VW bullet">
<action type="cancelspell" />
<action type="return" />
</if>
</if>

someone can fill in that I'm not sure of within []

**Yugl** · 2011-10-23 23:14

<if EquipAmmo="NameOfItemHere">
<cancelspell />
</if>

Add conditions specific to what you need (Wildfire/Quickdraw/Normal RA and so forth).

**Manque** · 2011-10-23 23:47

**Yugl** · 2011-10-23 23:50

**Yugl** · 2011-10-23 23:51

**kenshyn** · 2011-10-24 09:01

Why not have it just remove all ammo first then load the correct ammo? That's what I do in my Ranger one which prevents firing the super arrows or bolt unless unlimited shot is loaded.

**Esvedium** · 2011-10-24 11:40

This is what I use...

Code:

			<elseif commandprefix="/range">
				<if equipammo="Oberon's Bullet">
					<equip when="precast"><ammo>remove</ammo></equip>
					<addtochat>Trying to shoot Oberon's Bullet. Ranged Attack cancelled!!</addtochat>
					<cancelspell />
				</if>

Then continue on with the rest of my /range rules. I have the same at the top of my <if commandprefix="/weaponskill"> rules. That should also unequip oberon's, so if you hit your /ra or /ws macro again and have no ra/ws bullets left, you'll get the 'you have no ammo' error or whatever it says in game. So far I haven't shot my Oberon's, but I haven't tried to force it, either.

**Niberu** · 2011-10-24 12:46

Hi guys, chatmon keeps making me crash I have updated to the latest dll but I dont see an update to the chatmon xml file, can anyone help me out please, thx.

**Aja** · 2011-10-24 14:04

Originally Posted by Aja

Looking for a good RNG.xml if anyone can share one. Search on pastebin and I didn't see any that looked decent.

Anyone?

**Haborym** · 2011-10-24 14:39

Originally Posted by Aja

Anyone?

This isn't mine, and I don't even have RNG, so I don't know where it came from, but it might be able to hold you over till a better one.

http://pastebin.com/JhZdRPa0

**Aja** · 2011-10-24 14:50

That just might, thanks. Apparently my searching skills fail.

**Byrthnoth** · 2011-10-24 14:54

Some of this thread's more frequent visitors may remember that I've been having a problem with Reverse Flourish and DNC AF3+2 hands. It's inconsistent almost regardless of the delay I set. I haven't discovered why the problem happens, but I have discovered when it happens. I thought my last spellcast adjustments "fixed" the problem, but they didn't. What did "fix" the problem was my decision to stop using Rudra's Storm very much at all and start using Dancing Edge most of the time.

AF3+2 hands are in three of my sets outside Abyssea:
* Reverse Flourish set
* Step Accuracy set
* Rudra's Storm set

If I use either of the later two before using Reverse Flourish, there's about a 1/2~1/3 chance the Reverse Flourish won't get the extra TP boost. I do not understand why equipping the same item for two subsequent actions would cause Spellcast trouble, but it appears to.

This is probably relevant to people who use the same macro gear for multiple actions, including weaponskills.

**Yugl** · 2011-10-24 15:00

Rudra > Revlon or Rudra > X > Revlon?

**Byrthnoth** · 2011-10-24 15:05

Rudra's -> Reverse

If I wait a full second or two then there's no chance it will happen.

**Yugl** · 2011-10-24 15:10

My initial reaction is to claim that it's similar to the X > Y > X problem, but in this instance, it seems that your aftercast on Rudra's might be the culprit. See if disabling all aftercast stuff fixes the issue.

**Byrthnoth** · 2011-10-24 15:12

I use your format, so the aftercast is Dancing Chains'd.

Also, why would X -> Y -> X be more problematic than Z -> Y -> X?

**Esvedium** · 2011-10-24 15:12

Could be the same as RDM going from AF3+2 body idle > fastcast body > back to AF3+2 body for nukes, which sometimes doesn't fire since Spellcast only changes different items than what you have on, if you go too quick, it thinks you still have AF3+2 hands on from WS (but you're back in your TP hands) when you hit reverse, it doesn't try to change them since Spellcast thinks they're on already.

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