Random Question Thread XII: Don't Believe Advanced's Lies

[Chen]

OP in, run down the hill, you'll see trents, chigoes all around there, whacking them atm.

also: apradar <3 saves so much time.

[Not Kuno]

chatmon likes to eat up a lot of my tells. I've noticed that whenever someone sends me a tell with just / or sometimes just numbers (like, "how many you have left to kill?" "3", the 3 is just out the window). Anyone know what the deal is?

[TSFFXI]

Which one? Brooder usually pops around a lot of fences in my experience, so you can use stun, and run to the nearest fence, and use that to get some distance while waiting on stun recast, then move to the next fence, and repeat until you get where you want to be.

You could also try using sprinter's shoes+gaiters, but i'm not sure how consistently you'll be able to stand up, and start running before it hits you.

Non-Abyssea VNM at the moment -- specifically Lamprey Lord. Because of it's double and triple attack rate, it can wipe 3 shadows pretty quickly. Shoggoth isn't as much of a problem since it's better to just kite it anyway.

[rog]

Non-Abyssea VNM at the moment -- specifically Lamprey Lord. Because of it's double and triple attack rate, it can wipe 3 shadows pretty quickly. Shoggoth isn't as much of a problem since it's better to just kite it anyway.

Oh. Nothing you can do then, you'll need someone else to pull it.

[Nitrous24]

I redid my Healing Breath macro but it doesn't seem to be working properly, any advice would be helpful. Thank you.

Macro Example
/magic "Dia" <t>
/console....
/wait 1.5
/console....

I'm subbed RDM, I also tried wait 1, and also both waits with Barwater. Sometimes my 1st equip macro doesn't go off and the helm isn't equipped at the end of cast. both wait times and spells work, sometimes, sometimes they don't. It doesn't seem like lag but not sure what else is happening.

do this instead.

/con exec pre-healing.txt (your helm macro and such)
/ma Dia <t>
/wait 2
/con exec HB-Gear.txt (your wyrm armet etc)

[Ellimist]

Does anyone have a good SCH .xml for spellcast that actually works with sublimation idle rules? I've tried, I believe, every single template on the spellcast site and not a single one has worked. If anyone has their own, and it works well, I would love to see it. I should add that the autoexec sublimation rules have also not been working.

[Raen Ryong]

What do you want it to do with Sublimation on? Should be easy enough to adapt.

[Nitrous24]

Does anyone have a good SCH .xml for spellcast that actually works with sublimation idle rules? I've tried, I believe, every single template on the spellcast site and not a single one has worked. If anyone has their own, and it works well, I would love to see it. I should add that the autoexec sublimation rules have also not been working.

Do you have autoexec? It's a very important part to any sch xml imo. Since it can change stuff on the fly. So unless you wanna have 2 sublimation macros (one for when you use it to charge and one to use it to gain the mp) i would hope you have it. Now, once you have autoexec (i'll assume you know how to set it up and have read about it so i'll just post what to put in the autoexec.xml)

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<autoexec>
<!--Sublimation Charging-->
        <register event="gainbuff_Sublimation:_Activated" silent="true">
               sc var set idleset SublimationIdle;
               sc set $idleset;
               ae regonceq losebuff_Sublimation:_Activated ae trigger completeused
        </register>
<!--Sublimation Charged Or Used-->
       <register event="completeused" silent="true">
               sc var set idleset NormalIdle
      </register>
</autoexec>

Ok, now, after this in your spellcast xml change every <equip when="aftercast" set="w/e" /> Line to this:

<equip when="aftercast" set="$idleset"/>

If you don't have it already create a variables section above the rules. It should look somethin like this if you don't have it.

<variables clear="True">
     <var name="idleset">NormalIdle</var>
</variables>

Now, if you have trouble with this it's probably because i screwed up something. Just send me a pm and i'll figure it out. I'm not ingame atm so i can't double check it.

Almost forgot you have to make both those sets. NormalIdle and SublimationIdle in spellcast.


Had a lot of edits. I apologize I posted without having tested it before. However i just tested it on drk and it works like a charm for me. Good luck with your sch stuff.

Edit #438923859782385...... If you happen to find a problem with it I'm sorry. It should work for almost everything. There could be problems if you cast a spell and it drops your hp enough to cause your sublimation to complete charging. It may change back to the sublimation idle set instead of normal idle.. I could figure a way around this.. But i don't really want to i'm sorry. Also, When you reuse sublimation to gain the mp. It won't change your gear off Sublimation Idle set. but it will change the variable so anything you do after that will change your set to your normal idle. Sorry again, as i just threw all this together in a very short time, and since i don't play sch anymore i don't really wanna fix it to be perfect.

[Ellimist]

Basically, I can't get the idle rules to work where when sublimation is active, I have my Sch. M.Board +1 and Argute Gown equipped, and when it is off or full, I have my Vermillion cloak on. This is in all instances after and before I have casted any spell or have stopped resting.

Another rule that won't work is when I am resting with sublimation active, I would like these two pieces of equipment to be on.

[Raen Ryong]

Another rule that won't work is when I am resting with sublimation active, I would like these two pieces of equipment to be on.

<if spell="autoset">
<if buffactive="Sublimation">
<action type="equip" when="resting" set="Rest2" />
</if>
<else>
<action type="equip" when="resting" set="Rest1 />
</else>
</if>

Change Sublimation to whatever it's called, I don't play SCH (there's a buff list on the windower wiki). That's one way of doing it... another is the variable approach outlined above (where you could use a variable which is set to 0 when Sublimation is off and 1 when Sublimation is on, and have just a single <action type="equip" when="resting" set="Rest-$Restset" /> for instance).

I dunno if I'm making these far too basic.

[Ellimist]

Thanks both of you. I will make these changes and see if it works.

[Draylo]

chatmon likes to eat up a lot of my tells. I've noticed that whenever someone sends me a tell with just / or sometimes just numbers (like, "how many you have left to kill?" "3", the 3 is just out the window). Anyone know what the deal is?

I get that too with the "/" thing, who knows if its also just numbers. Not sure how to go about fixing that. Doesn't seem to work anymore though, I get spammed with RMT tells a lot lately.

[Celebrindor]

OP in, run down the hill, you'll see trents, chigoes all around there, whacking them atm.

also: apradar <3 saves so much time.

Yeah knew the general vicinity from beating up treants for first stage of magian trials, just was running around there last night actually looking for chigoes and of course when you want their aggro they never comply ^^

Thanks for the apradar comment, have never used it and didn't know whether or not they would show up due to their "hiding" status similar to sharks. I take it sharks/ufos are picked up then as well?

[rog]

Why not just use:

<if buffactive="sublimation: activated">
    <equip when="aftercast" set="sub"/>
</if>
<else>
    <equip when="aftercast" set="idle"/>
</else>

Seems simple enough to me...

Using variables and autoexec to do this is rather stupid.

[Nitrous24]

Why not just use:

<if buffactive="sublimation: activated">
    <equip when="aftercast" set="sub"/>
</if>
<else>
    <equip when="aftercast" set="idle"/>
</else>

Seems simple enough to me...

Using variables and autoexec to do this is rather stupid.

Can't believe i didn't think of something like this before i put all the work into the autoexec crap ><. I like making things more complicated than they need to be evidently.

[FailureMidgard]

Why not just use:

<if buffactive="sublimation: activated">
    <equip when="aftercast" set="sub"/>
</if>
<else>
    <equip when="aftercast" set="idle"/>
</else>

Seems simple enough to me...

Using variables and autoexec to do this is rather stupid.

Using variables is cleaner/neater. Also, what you just listed will equip on resting too, so you have to extend it to 4 different sets at least (idle sub, idle no sub, resting sub, resting no sub).

It's better to have a variable that changes between "sublim" and "nosublim" or something, and name your sets Restingsublim and Restingnosublim, then use Resting$variable to just equip the appropriate resting set.

Also, note I said at least 4 sets, depending how complex you want to go, if you have a MDT idle, etc for certain fights, the # of sets may increase a lot, but with variables your rules don't have to change at all as you add more, just use the variable tag after.

[Yugl]

Is there a complete chart that specifies what mobs give what light in Abyssea?

[neuroticelite]

Are there any screenshots of the !! that appear on Abyssea NMs when you trigger the Atma?

[Corresapolonia]

is there any area where unlocking latent of destroyers is better and faster than Cape Ter. Kuftal tunnel or Sky? i'm getting tired of these. FoV to do besides that would be nice though i seek a faster way.

[Davricle]

K, I feel dumb. I actually meant a good low-man strategy for Jailer of FAITH. Forgive me it was way late. Also, is there a good way to straight-tank it?