The SpellCast Starter-File Project - Help Needed

[dantaro]

I meant you can cap stoneskin absorb while using haste gear.

Ah, I misunderstood! I apologize. But while we're on that topic, almost any WHM can cap both with some thinking! Capricorn (5%) + Goliard Body (4%) + Turban (5%) + Blessed+1 Legs/Hands (10% total) + Swift Belt (4%) = over haste cape by 2%, and +15 MND

Assuming /SCH (now 256 base), AF2 feet (+10), Tork (+7), and Earring (+3), you hit 276 skill, and gain 5 more MND, +20 now total. Assuming, just for shits and giggles, that you're a Tarutaru with no MND merits, you have 69 base MND @ 75 WHM/SCH. So for the stoneskin formula X = (276/3) + 89, or 181. For X > 130, 3X-190. 3(181) - 190 = 353 total damage absorbed. Vuala! Capped both, and this can be done without the use of HQ blessed too

Good times, but I digress from the topic at hand. Simply put, Stoneskin macros should aim to cap both, especially with the extreme ease that it can be done with these days.

[Neoex]

This is the best thread in quite some time, Thank you!

[Kenkyo]

I was looking through the WAR.xml which was posted above and it made me realise a whole new way of doing gearswaps based on acc/mobs/etc in a way I didn't know spellcast could do. Neosutra has already said he's planning on posting his pld's xml when he's finished modifying it, but would others also be interested in posting theirs for the other jobs? Would be nice to see if there are things which I've outright missed, or others which maybe were removed due to them not working properly/as i would have liked and couldn't work out how to fix, etc. Would be much appreciated.

+ in addition, several spellcasts I've used in the past were written in a way which utilized macros to operate. If you use such devices in your xml, could you please make a note of it ^^.

[FailureMidgard]

Ah, I misunderstood! I apologize. But while we're on that topic, almost any WHM can cap both with some thinking! Capricorn (5%) + Goliard Body (4%) + Turban (5%) + Blessed+1 Legs/Hands (10% total) + Swift Belt (4%) = over haste cape by 2%, and +15 MND

Assuming /SCH (now 256 base), AF2 feet (+10), Tork (+7), and Earring (+3), you hit 276 skill, and gain 5 more MND, +20 now total. Assuming, just for shits and giggles, that you're a Tarutaru with no MND merits, you have 69 base MND @ 75 WHM/SCH. So for the stoneskin formula X = (276/3) + 89, or 181. For X > 130, 3X-190. 3(181) - 190 = 353 total damage absorbed. Vuala! Capped both, and this can be done without the use of HQ blessed too

Good times, but I digress from the topic at hand. Simply put, Stoneskin macros should aim to cap both, especially with the extreme ease that it can be done with these days.

Capricorn Staff isn't the easiest thing to find, and I've put money towards other jobs personally instead of HQing blessed, but ya. I used blessed feet/hand/leg/goliard/swift/turban for 23%. And mnd is better than skill for capping (Morgana's > Torque, etc), and you left off slots like back, but ya, my original point was you can wear haste wherever possible and still cap relatively easily.

[Nightfyre]

Updated the second post a bit, still working my way through. Trying to cover most of the major stuff, let me know if you see problems.

I'm still debating the best way to handle defining the actual gear-sets, I'm not sure if I should put example gear in there for people to replace (should this be ideal gear? Average gear?), or just explain how to define gear-sets and let them go from scratch.

Going to echo Thunder's suggestion on this, let them enter the actual gear.

This is a fantastic project, thank you for taking the time to do this.

[Redshift]

I was looking through the WAR.xml which was posted above and it made me realise a whole new way of doing gearswaps based on acc/mobs/etc in a way I didn't know spellcast could do.

it's a product of my hate from listening to "shit is situational"

[lilfoo]

Here is my MNK to help you out. Ignore gear esp for WS. I used to have only 1 WS set cause i am lazy and used Asuran 99.9% of the time and did not care. I fixed it for others. my MNK is very salvage based thus more defensive gear choices.

MNK
Sets

• Standard melee sets
• Asuran Fists
• Howling Fist
• Dragon Kick
• Chakra

Necessary

• AF(+1) Gloves for Boost
• AF(+1) Crown for Focus
• AF2 Gaiters for Counterstance

Optional

• Idle + Engaged sets
• Focus Up set for when focus is up
• Faith Set + stones | Hades set for tanking
• Guard Set
• Kirin's Pole equipped when TP is less then 10 when chi blasting.
• Large uses of <elseif> to lighten as much load to Spellcast as possible.
• Comments!

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<spellcast>
	<config
			RequireVersion="2.16"
			Debug="false"
			HideErrors="false"
			ShowGearSwaps="False" 
			/>
 
	<sets>
		<group default="yes" name="MNK">
		<!-- Events -->
			<set name="Standard">
				<main>Destroyers</main>
				<ammo>Tiphia Sting</ammo>
	                	<head>Anwig Salade</head>	
	        	        <neck>Peacock Charm</neck>
        	        	<lear>Ethereal Earring</lear>
	        	        <rear>Brutal Earring</rear>
        	        	<body>Kirin's Osode</body>
		               	<hands>Ochimusha Kote</hands>
        		        <lring>Rajas ring</lring>
                		<rring>Sniper's Ring</rring>
	                	<back>Forager's Mantle</back>	
	        	        <waist>Brown Belt</waist>
        	        	<legs>Byakko's Haidate</legs>
	        	        <feet>Dune Boots</feet>
			</set>
 
			<set name="Resting">
			</set>
 
			<!-- for gear you dont wana wear idle but in battle -->
			<set name="Engaged" BaseSet="Standard">
			</set>

			<!-- only equiped when events occur while focus is active. -->
			<set name="FocusOn" BaseSet="Engaged">
			</set>

		<!-- Weapon skills --> 
			<set name="Asuran" BaseSet="Engaged">
		                <head>Optical Hat</head>
                		<rring>Rajas Ring</rring>
	        	        <rear>Spike Earring</rear>
                		<legs>Republic Subligar</legs>
		                <waist>Potent Belt</waist>
				<neck>Soil Gorget</neck>
                		<feet />
			</set>

			<set name="Dragon" BaseSet="Engaged">
		                <head>Optical Hat</head>
                		<rring>Rajas Ring</rring>
	        	        <rear>Spike Earring</rear>
                		<legs>Republic Subligar</legs>
		                <waist>Potent Belt</waist>
				<neck></neck>
                		<feet />
			</set>

			<set name="Howling" BaseSet="Engaged">
		                <head>Optical Hat</head>
                		<rring>Rajas Ring</rring>
	        	        <rear>Spike Earring</rear>
                		<legs>Republic Subligar</legs>
		                <waist>Potent Belt</waist>
				<neck></neck>
                		<feet />
			</set>
 
		<!-- Casting. Since I have to blink I flip to + Eavasion in non-haste slots-->
			<set name="Utsu" BaseSet="Engaged">
				<body>Scorpion Harness</body>
				<hands>Rasetsu Tekko</hands>
				<feet>Fuma Sune-Ate</feet>
				<back>Corse Cape</back>
				<neck>Evasion Torque</neck>
			</set>
 
		<!-- Job Ablilities -->
			<set name="Chakra" BaseSet="Engaged">
				<head>Genbu's Kabuto</head>
				<body>Temple Cyclas</body>
				<waist>Warwolf belt</waist>
			</set>
 
			<set name="Chi" BaseSet="Standard">
				<feet>Suzaku's Sune-Ate</feet>
				<body>Kirin's Osode</body>
				<head>Temple Crown</head>
				<hands>Devotee's Mitts</hands>
				<neck>Holy Phial</neck>
				<rear>Geist Earring</rear>
				<lring>Aquamarine Ring</lring>
				<rring>Aquamarine Ring</rring>
			</set>

			<set name="Counterstance" BaseSet="Engaged">
				<feet>Melee Gaiters</feet>
			</set>
 
			<set name="Dodge" BaseSet="Engaged">
				<feet>Temple Gaiters</feet>
			</set>
 
			<set name="Boost" BaseSet="Engaged">
				<hands>Temple Gloves</hands>
			</set>

			<set name="Focus" BaseSet="Engaged">
				<head>Temple Crown</head>
			</set> 
		</group>

	<!-- Nondefault Groups. Use //sc group XXX to change to it-->
		<group default="no" Inherit="MNK" name="Faith">
			<set name="Standard" BaseGroup="MNK" BaseSet="Standard">
				<main>Faith Baghnakhs</main>
				<ammo>Virtue Stone</ammo>
			</set>
		</group>

		<group default="no" Inherit="MNK" name="Hades">
			<set name="Standard" BaseGroup="MNK" BaseSet="Standard">
				<main>Hades Sainti</main>
			</set>
		</group>

		<!-- I dont use this but I am shure others will. Just fill it out and go with it -->
		<group default="no" Inherit="MNK" name="Guard">
			<set name="Engaged" BaseGroup="MNK" BaseSet="Engaged">
				<body />
				<head />
			</set>
		</group>

	</sets>
 
	<rules>
	<!-- "default" sets -->
		<action type="equip" when="resting" set="Resting" /> 
		<action type="equip" when="idle" set="Standard" /> 
		<action type="equip" when="engaged" set="Engaged" />
		<action type="equip" when="aftercast" set="Standard" />

	<!-- Utsu Rules -->
		<if spell="Utsu*">
			<action type="equip" when="Precast" set="Utsu" />
				<if spell="Utsusemi: Ichi" BuffActive="Copy Image">
					<action type="midcastdelay" delay="2.9" />
					<action type="Command" when="midcast">cancel 66</action>
				</if>
		</if>
		
	<!-- default "aftercast" -->		
		<if Status="Engaged">
			<action type="equip" when="aftercast" set="Engaged" />
		</if>
		<if buffactive="Focus">
			<action type="equip" when="engaged|aftercast" set="FocusOn" />
		</if>
 
	<!-- Job abilities -->
		<if type="JobAbility"> 
			<if spell="Chakra">
        		    <action type="equip" when="Precast" set="Chakra" />
			</if>
 	
			<elseif spell="Focus">
		            <action type="equip" when="Precast" set="Focus" />
			</elseif>
 
			<elseif spell="Dodge">
        		    <action type="equip" when="Precast" set="Dodge" />
			</elseif>
 
			<elseif spell="Counterstance">
		            <action type="equip" when="Precast" set="Counterstance" />
			</elseif>
 
			<elseif spell="Boost">
        		    <action type="equip" when="Precast" set="Boost" />
			</elseif>
			
			<elseif Spell="Chi Blast">
        		    <action type="equip" when="Precast" set="Chi" />
				<if TPLT="10">
					<action type="equip" when="Precast">
					<main>Kirin's Pole</main>
					</action>
				</if>
			</elseif>
				
 		</if>

	<!-- Weapon skill -->		
		<if Type="WeaponSkill" NotTPLT="100">
			<if spell="Asu*">
				<action type="Equip" when="Precast" set="Asuran" />
				<action type="castdelay" delay=".2" />
			</if>

			<elseif spell="Drag*">
				<action type="Equip" when="Precast" set="Dragon" />
				<action type="castdelay" delay=".2" />
			</elseif>		

			<elseif spell="How*">
				<action type="Equip" when="Precast" set="Howling" />
				<action type="castdelay" delay=".2" />
			</elseif>
			
			<!-- Catch all. All other WS will use Asuran WS set -->
			<elseif>
				<action type="Equip" when="Precast" set="Asuran" />
				<action type="castdelay" delay=".2" />
			</elseif>
		</if>

	</rules>
</spellcast>

To dabble in other Jobs:

RDM i find this to be best for convert rules

Variables
		<!-- more MP then this will ignore gear changes. Put your max nornal MP.-->
			<var name="ClockOn">0</var>
			<var name="CLockMp">682</var>
Actual lock
		<!-- gear locks proccessed first -->
			<if advanced='"CLockOn" = "1"'>
				<if MAftercastPLT="$CLockMp">
					<action type="enable" />
				</if>
				<elseif MPGT="$CLockMp">
					<action type="disable" />
				</elseif>
			</if>

Most of the convert sets i see use hp has the base. i find that mp aftercast is best. It wont unlock until the cast after you go less then your mp. i.e. your gear will stay locked for that last cast. this is for people who want to be that efficient.

I have a BLU set but i refuse to post it b/c it is only 66 and if you use it people will know you use spellcast cause you will blink every 3 seconds. keep this in mind with what you make. you cant be blatantly obvious you use 3rd party tools.

Aikar's BLM is the best XML i have ever seen. I suggest every BLM use it. READ THE DIRECTIONS FIRST!

[dantaro]

Capricorn Staff isn't the easiest thing to find, and I've put money towards other jobs personally instead of HQing blessed, but ya. I used blessed feet/hand/leg/goliard/swift/turban for 23%. And mnd is better than skill for capping (Morgana's > Torque, etc), and you left off slots like back, but ya, my original point was you can wear haste wherever possible and still cap relatively easily.

Aye, I left out slots just to show that its not needed to swap them to cap either is all

[stewie]

NIN

Town Set

Melee
TP Build
Solo Build
WS: Jin
WS: Ku
WS: Kamu
/war set
/dnc set
Ninjutsu Skill +

Tanking
Idle Set
Physical Dmg Down/DEF
Magic Dmg Down
Fire Resist Build
/drk
/war
/rdm
Max Enmity+
HP+
Kiting
Holding
Citadel Buster
EVA for Ichi

Optional Builds
/blm or /rdm for Ninjutsu Wheel
/rng for spamming Shurikens


Necessary Functions
Max Haste for :Ni casting
Max Enmity Build for /ja while tanking (berserk/warcry/last resort/Soul Eater)
Nighttime gear.


Option Functions
Max Haste and -PDB for :Ichi

Added a few, at least that I use and find useful.

[ClarkSammich]

I'd also recommend a spell interruption set for NIN, probably only needed for mid-cast on ichi though. I'm not entirely familiar with spellcast, but if there's an option that allows you to swap to a weapon only when a certain weapon is equiped, i.e. swapping sainti/e.staff to nikkarioe, that would be helpful.

Pretty optional, I'd think, but it's very nice to have.

[Cesaria]

No one's done one yet - so I'll try to think through BST as a starting point (will prob forget something but it's a start - and I've only just woken up so bear with!)

BST
Sets

Idle - dmg down, movement speed, pet stats+ (mirke/earwig salad if you went that route, herders etc
Charm - max chr (for pet bombing shit down where you don't need charm duration as much)
Charm - more +charm gear (when you've got the pet longer so don't want it ripping your face off)
Call BST
Reward gear - swap in Zoraal Ja's axe for extra if you've got no TP, no axe swap if you're wanting to keep TP
Melee gear for /WHM and /NIN
WS gear for /WHM and /NIN
Primal rend setup
Healing MP
Gaudy harness+dual rune axes for abusing the regen on 'em /NIN (not sure if that's achievable with spellcast)
Tame

Necessary
Charm gear for charm - ideally 2 options - charming in max CHR or more charm+ duration depending on situation
Idle swap to dmg-/pet stats up gear
Monster gloves for call beast
Swap ammo according to call beast/reward being used
Reward gear swapping in when ja used - would be nice to have the option to not swap weapon when you've got TP for that but swap to zoraal ja's the rest of the time
Gaudy harness in idle set when /WHM and MP below the trigger point

Optional
Ability to charm without weapon swaps if trying to save TP (without having to shove staves into satchel like present!)

It's sketchy and I've prob missed some stuff - will re-read later if none of the other resident BSTs come out to add to this (please do!)

[Argettio]

Ability to charm without weapon swaps if trying to save TP (without having to shove staves into satchel like present!)

<if TPGT="10">
     <if advanced='$KeepTP == 1'>
           <action type="Disable" slot="main|sub|ranged>
     </if>
     <else> 
           <action type="Enable" slot="main|sub|ranged>
     </else>
</if>
<else>
      <action type="Enable" slot="main|sub|ranged>
</else>

The weapons will always swap if you have less than 10TP, if you have more than you choose based on a variable.

//sc var set KeepTP 1 = No weapon swaps
//sc var set KeepTP 1 = Weapon swaps

Disclaimer: untested code, probably won't work due to syntax errors etc, but the concept is sound.

[Arcanesoul]

Bst sets look complete.
Personally, for reward, I would used some kind of "if engaged" clause. If not engaged swap in Zoraal Ja's axe and Pallas's shield. Is there a "do I have a pet" clause? Because if there was, I'd swap back out to Lion Tamer and Pallas's shield if I had a pet, and Terra's staff and Staff strap if I didn't have a pet, when I wasn't engaged . Idle would also be dependent on having a pet too. Pet acc/haste/def if pet, otherwise dmg reduction whatever without pet.
Also equip virtue stones if Temp axe offhand after reward or call bst or use Tiphia Sting if Maneater/IR Pick (or whatever) combo.

The sets I would create for sch are:

Idle - Sublimation complete (or not active) (Ix. cloak, standard idle gear)
Idle - Sublimation active (Argute Gown, Scholar's Mortarboard, standard idle gear)
Hmp - (self explanatory)
Lightarts - Stoneskin ( Mnd to cap, - enmity, cast time inc. haste if space) - Stoneskin - could include more haste if accession is not active perhaps depending on perference
Lightarts - Cure ( cure potency, -enmity, haste/cast time if space) - Cure I-IV
Lightarts - Enhancing (enhancing skill, -enmity, -- Phalanx doesn't need as much enhancing skill as en-spell, but may as well use same set) - Phalanx, En-spell, bar-spell
Lightarts - -Enmity (-enmity, haste ) - for -na's, erase, aquaveil, storms, blink.
Lightarts - Enfeebling ( Mnd, skill/m.acc, -enmity/cast time) - paralyze, slow, silence.
Darkarts - Stoneskin (Mnd to cap, -enmity, cast time)
Darkarts - Nuke dmg (MAB, Int, etc)
Darkarts - Nuke Skill (Balance elemental skill/m.acc vs Int - Depends on race but setup on Kaeko's blog (without aureole) should suffice although it won't hit the mark)
Darkarts - Helix (Int!, MAB)
Darkarts - Enfeebling (Enfeebling skill/M.acc, cast time, -enmity) - Sleep, Gravity, Bind, blind
Darkarts - Dark (Dark skill/m.acc, cast time) - Drain + aspir
Darkarts - -Enmity ( - enmity and cast time balance) - Dispel, klimaform


Can't remember if I've missed any.
Necessary Functions -
Obi swap for appropriate day/weather/storm.
Balrahns ring for assault at all times.
Argute Loafer swap for weather/storm + alacrity/celerity on all spells.
?Gear swap on activating stratagems for blinking - hands I think is best slot.
?Activate Alacrity + Ebullience with Parsimony during Tabula rasa, + same for light arts?

Optional Functions
erm dunno.
maybe -enmity, cast time, Conserve MP for Prot, Shell, RR, Raise.

I think that's the lot

[pogle]

Gaudy harness+dual rune axes for abusing the regen on 'em /NIN (not sure if that's achievable with spellcast)

My BST spellcast just uses a variable to set if I'm using Gaudy/Rune combo. If I am, I've got an aftercast/engaged rule to swap gaudy in for body, and of course my weapons are set to double runes. So I swap to Haub+1 or Osode or whatnot for WSs and job abilities, then right back to gaudy when engaged. Its not perfect yet, but since I only really end up on BST anymore to farm in Ifrits, it works so far. The weapon swapping setups there are really quite annoying too. I use a highly modified version of one of the example BST XMLs, and I'd love seeing what other BSTs use in hopes of finding something more functional and less convoluted.

That BST list definitely looks good, about twice as complete as what I have thus far.


Also, for BLMs, a blink-casting rule in spellcast can be very, very useful. I've not managed to get one working yet personally, but it really should be possible; I've seen others reference one.

[Cesaria]

To be honest - BST was one job where I could never get spellcast working near how I wanted it to so I'm still running windower scripts for that job (I tend to have some jobs spellcasted and others not). It's on my list of things to do to try again with - just find it so picky getting things to work sometimes that I've shoved it to the backburner a touch of late.

[Cymmina]

Lightarts - Enhancing (enhancing skill, -enmity, -- Phalanx doesn't need as much enhancing skill as en-spell, but may as well use same set) - Phalanx, En-spell, bar-spell

What do you mean it doesn't need as much enhancing? Phalanx tiers are in 10 skill increments. You need Argute Gown, Scholar's Pants, Enhancing Torque, Augmenting Earring, and a +7 Enhancing Fay Staff to hit 300 exactly (without merits). The only other options for SCH are a +3 augmented belt from ACP and the Merciful Cape.

WHM (or any other job locked into a healing position) should have a way to grade out +MP gear as they consume it.

[Starr]

RDM should spellcast cures starting with AF head and relic body, land with Raven head and body then change back to AF and Relic, Phalanx 2 should swap in AF legs and relic hands and back to whatever you idle in.

[Argettio]

RDM should spellcast cures starting with AF head and relic body, land with Raven head and body then change back to AF and Relic, Phalanx 2 should swap in AF legs and relic hands and back to whatever you idle in.

RDM should macro AF hat and Relic body into the beginning of every spell.

Precasting fastcast gear is an option in every jobs spellcast.

[pogle]

I didn't even have windower macros setup for BST, I used it so seldom. Pretty much had to relearn how to play and even equip the job when I setup the spellcast script for it. Regarding charm with max CHR, and charm with max charm+ (and a hybrid of the two) I can't see any good way of automating that process. I think its one of those you'd need to have a variable or set defined in a macro that you could mash and thus rotate between situationally. I do the same with my RDM melee setup and disabling weapon swaps, its keyed on a variable I setup in my melee pallet, and off by default otherwise.

For melee jobs overall I tend to just use windower stuff, its mage jobs where I like spellcast; primarily SMN, RDM and BLM. My macros for those jobs were insane. BST and RNG are the only melee jobs I've got plans for using w/Spellcast, and since I seldom get to use them its generally been low priority.

I wish my RDM had inventory room to carry raven gear along with everything else...I'd never quite thought about precasting in AF head/relic body though. I use them for haste/cure/refresh/otherbuffs, but not for any of my enfeebles or nukes. Good call.

[Spider-Dan]

A quick note:

COR
Sets

• Standard melee sets
• Ranged TP
• Slug Shot
• Detonator
  
• Quick Draw (non-Light/Dark) - INT/MAB
• Quick Draw (Light/Dark) - AGI/M.Acc
• Max MP

Necessary

• Luzaf's Ring for COR Roll and following Double-Ups
• AF2 Hat for Phantom Roll
• AF2 Body for Random Deal

Optional

• Some way to use Luzaf's Ring for different rolls, if in a relevant party (Evoker's in an all-mage party, etc)
• Waltz gear for COR/DNC
• Uggalepih Pendant trigger gear

Should be AGI/MAB, not INT/MAB (INT does nothing for Quick Draw).

Also, you should probably add a Leaden Salute set; it's almost exactly the same as the QD damage set, but the neck and head may be different and you can't switch to Dark Staff (obviously).

Speaking of which, there should probably be a flag in the QD sets which enables you to switch primary melee weapon if you are not TPing (i.e. mage SJ) but leave melee weapon alone if you are TPing, if such a thing is possible.