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Q. Why does my shaman not buff the group?
A. You will need to run /plugin mq2cwtnbuffs load on all of your characters that you would like mq2shaman to buff. You also need to NOT be in /shm byos on mode. As "Bring Your Own Spells" assumes you want to handle your spells and your buffs. MQ2CWTNBuffs requires characters to be local characters (same PC, not across network or space/time).
Q. Shaman is chain casting something?
A. There are a few lower lvl / mid level buffs that eq/mq reports stack that do not, or will chain overwrite other buffs and you get into a buffing contest with another toon. You either have this situation, or some other issues. I would suggest checking for the red error text that eq gives you to tell you WHY it didn't successfully take hold and then go from there. You can block anything you don't want cast. This is a built in everquest feature - right click on the buff and "add this spell to list of blocked spells" or go through the eq menu -> character -> blocked buffs
EQ Menu -> Character -> Blocked Buffs
EQ Menu -> Character -> Blocked Pet Buffs (to add to anyone's pet blocked spells)
/blockspell add me id
/blockspell add pet id
This is particularly a problem with the focus line, especially if you have a large level gap between the shm and your bst/clr (particularly if your shm is lower than the bst/cleric) - you can run into issues where mq2 says that it will stack, but then your armor of line will not actually allow it. Or the Wulthan Focusing portion of Talisman of the Wulthan doesn't stack with the cleric Armor of ___ line, so you need to block "Wulthan Focusing Rk. III" on your cleric, if you do the Rk. III it will block all ranks from you.
Q. I don't want the plugin to cast xyz buff on a toon.
A. Any buff you don't want cast upon someone, you would just have that character add it to their blocked buffs.
EQ Menu -> Character -> Blocked Buffs
EQ Menu -> Character -> Blocked Pet Buffs (to add to anyone's pet blocked spells)
/blockspell add me id
/blockspell add pet id
Q. I am having an issue with a Mage Aura and Shaman Unity line.
A. The Mammoth's Force line from the shaman's focus line of spells and the Mage Aura don't stack. If your aura fades, or your pet gets out of range of the aura your shaman is going to say "woah, we're missing 1 part of this buff, and then cast it on your pet. I recommend if you run around with a mage, to block the appropriate Mammoth's Force for your version of STFocus - at 115 that would be "Mammoth's Force III", blocking "Mammoth's Force" wouldn't be correct in this instance.
Q. Shaman keeps recasting Regen line (Talisman of the Enduring)?
A. If you are 101+ you shouldn't have UseRegen on - dicho/dissi/composite overwrites your talisman regen line, which will make you recast your regen buff after every fight.
Q. Bear form?
A. The bear form regen spell we use up to 30 levels higher than the actual spell - which for the lvl 55 form of the great bear means you use it up to 85, which is pretty worthless. As with any buff if you don't want it you can add it to your blocked buffs and it will no longer cast it.
Q. UseGrowth?
A. If you have an SK or a Paladin tank, you should turn off UseGrowth as they have their own personal version which doesn't stack.
Q. I don't like the spell lineup.
A. You can "Bring your own spells" with /shm byos on
Q. Suggested Settings in current game 115/120+?
A. - There is a picture of my settings in the overview page.
- I personally turn off usecannispell, your canni aa is plenty
- I personally turn off usemalo - malo aoe is fine, mobs die too fast and it is a waste of cast time imo
- i personally turn off useslow - slowaoe is fine, mobs die too fast and it is a waste of cast time imo
- turn off usegrowth if you have a paladin or sk tank
- turn off useregen at 101+
Q. Mob has a damage shield / I want to use Thorn Wilting?
A. There isn't an option to memorize thorn wilting, but you can byos/byos-custom and memorize it and we will use it.
Turns out, Thorn Wilting is actually pretty useless.
It lowes the amount of damage mobs take against YOUR damage shield
It does not lower the amount of damage someone takes against a mob's damage shield
Q. Why am I Not Pulling XYZ mob?
A. Not pulling a mob is almost always an issue either with your Navmesh or your pull settings. If you do a
Q. Pet Pulling?
A. No, we have no plans on doing that.
Q. Why am I using Dissident over Composite?.
A. We will use Dissident if you are wearing tbl/tov raid t1/t2 bp after feb 12th, 2021 as the tbl/tov raid bp gives you double duration on your dissident. This is only checked upon plugin load, so if you upgrade your bp, reload the plugin.
Q. Why am i Using Composite over Ecliptic?
A. We will use Composite if you are wearing the cov/tol double duration bp. This is only checked upon plugin load, so if you upgrade your bp, reload the plugin.
Q. Shaman only slows the MA's Target?
A. This is correct. We currently don't, and don't have plans to target around to slow at this time. We will likely eventually change around which slows are used for the memorized slow spells to mimic the useslow and useaoe slow (as those currently just function for AAs).
Q. Shaman is putting a small bag on the ground?!
A. Shaman Squall line places a bag on the ground where the spell originates from - this is an EQ thing.
Q. Shink only doing it once?
A. We only try and shrink something that is greater than 2.04 height. There are a ton of reasons for this, but tl;dr - some things get larger when shrunk (eq bug), and some things have a large minimum height, and trying to shrink them would a: make them larger, or b: do nothing and then spam
Q. My shaman is meleeing in assist mode - I only want to heal.
A. /shm UseMelee off
Q. How can i get it to break invis to heal?
A. MQ2Shaman will break invis to heal if a camp is set - so mode 1 would break invis to heal, where mode 0 would not.
Q. What is stance?
A. Stance are options for what kind of spell lineup to load automagically. currently: 0 is heal focused, 1 is hybrid heal/dps, and 2 is dps. This is now just "loadout" because despite saying it is only the loadout, folks are convinced it turns you into a wizardassin.
(Stance change your spell loadout, not behavior)
Q. I am not using Canni?
A. You probably don't have enough hps. We won't do it if it is going to take you too low
for the AA it is 20% health
for the spell canni it is 30% health if you have mobs on xtarget, 20% otherwise (this is for low level / old timey eq where that can get you aggro and deadeded)
Q. Languid Bite?
A. If you have Languid Bite toggled on - we will momentarily toggle it off if we try and use Turgur's Virulent Swarm, and then toggle it back. Make sure that you understand that "using Languite Bite: Disabled" is enabling it and vice-versa. Many folks get confused at this spot.
Q. Root Punt / Paralysis AA?
A. We won't be doing any punting of mobs. It can quickly turn into a bad time if you're punting mobs around.
Q. Spirit of Urgency / Inconspicuous Totem?
A. We try and avoid automatic usage of abilities that might cause undesirable outcomes; Spirit Urgency is one of them. It taunts and memblurs and this might cause you to have issues. Same with Incon Totem - this mezzes you for a minute and makes you invis and such.
Q. I don't want swarm pets?
A. No problemo, We have a toggle for both "Visionary Unity" and "Spirit Call"
- You can adjust "Visionary Unity" with /shm UseVisionaryUnity
- You can adjust "Spirit Call" with /shm UseSpiritCall
Q. I have usenuke off but I still use GiftDD?
A. We use GiftDD for the twincast proc. If you turn off UseSquall you will treat it as a regular nuke respecting usenuke. (as discussed in the next FAQ question).
Q. What if i don't want to squall?
A. We reluctantly added UseSquall - you can toggle it off if you don't want to squall.
- if UseSquall is on "Will use Squall Line (and GiftDD to proc twincast). Does not let a twincast go to waste if squall is ready."
- if UseSquall if off we will treat GiftDD like a regular nuke as far as "when, where, how, and why"
Q. Why am i not using GiftDD or Squall?
A. You need to ensure you have your MA set - and if you're in "/shm raidmode on" that you have your raidma assigned in your raid window, and in your "/shm raidassist #"
Q. Trying to go mode 1 but says I need a mesh?
A. The plugins require mq2nav for movement. You will need to run the mesh updater in your RedGuide's Launcher. Please watch the video > HERE <
Q. Why no mending line at high level?
A. Once you get into levels where you have 2 reckless, mending underperforms and just doesn't fit into how we want to do things. You can BYOS if you want to use it, but we're not going to have it part of the
Q. Do I need to assign what Xtargets to watch for XTargetHealing?
A. Nope - Just toggle on UseXTargetHealing and it will check all your Extended Targets to see if they are PCs and then heal them at the NotMA # you have
Q. Do I need to assign what Xtargets to watch for XTargetBuffing?
A. Nope - Just toggle on UseXTargetBuffing and it will check all your Extended Targets to see if they are PCs and then buff them (they still need to be running mq2cwtnbuffs and be local)
Q. It isn't rezzing out of combat - Rejuvenation of Spirit AA?!
A. Keep in mind, Rejuvenation of Spirit requires out-of-combat AND fast regen, not just out-of-combat.
This also requires your UI to ACTUALLY have the fast regen information, because this is where MacroQuest gets your combat state from.
If you don't report back correct information when you /echo ${Me.CombatState} then you might want to consider updating your UI. Otherwise, we don't know you are in fast regen.
Q. Epic 1.5/2.0?
A. We automatically use your 1.5/2.0 - for MQ2Shaman it has the option of /shm shmepic 0, 1, 2 for never, burn only, combat.
Q. My plugin says it's out of date since I patched.
A. For Live: Check the plugins tab of your VV launcher. For Emu/Test: it is automatically downloaded when you update.
Q. I sometimes get stuck in my spell book?
A. This is often due to your background fps not being high enough. It is strongly advised to utilize at LEAST 30 fps for background, recommended 60+ background fps. The fps cycle for eq is where "work" is done. If your background fps is set to "min" you can and will have undesired results with all sorts of automation activities.
Alt-O -> Display -> Advanced - > Max Background FPS
You will also need to check if you are using any external background fps limiting software - like isboxer - and adjust that accordingly.
A. You will need to run /plugin mq2cwtnbuffs load on all of your characters that you would like mq2shaman to buff. You also need to NOT be in /shm byos on mode. As "Bring Your Own Spells" assumes you want to handle your spells and your buffs. MQ2CWTNBuffs requires characters to be local characters (same PC, not across network or space/time).
Q. Shaman is chain casting something?
A. There are a few lower lvl / mid level buffs that eq/mq reports stack that do not, or will chain overwrite other buffs and you get into a buffing contest with another toon. You either have this situation, or some other issues. I would suggest checking for the red error text that eq gives you to tell you WHY it didn't successfully take hold and then go from there. You can block anything you don't want cast. This is a built in everquest feature - right click on the buff and "add this spell to list of blocked spells" or go through the eq menu -> character -> blocked buffs
EQ Menu -> Character -> Blocked Buffs
EQ Menu -> Character -> Blocked Pet Buffs (to add to anyone's pet blocked spells)
/blockspell add me id
/blockspell add pet id
This is particularly a problem with the focus line, especially if you have a large level gap between the shm and your bst/clr (particularly if your shm is lower than the bst/cleric) - you can run into issues where mq2 says that it will stack, but then your armor of line will not actually allow it. Or the Wulthan Focusing portion of Talisman of the Wulthan doesn't stack with the cleric Armor of ___ line, so you need to block "Wulthan Focusing Rk. III" on your cleric, if you do the Rk. III it will block all ranks from you.
Q. I don't want the plugin to cast xyz buff on a toon.
A. Any buff you don't want cast upon someone, you would just have that character add it to their blocked buffs.
EQ Menu -> Character -> Blocked Buffs
EQ Menu -> Character -> Blocked Pet Buffs (to add to anyone's pet blocked spells)
/blockspell add me id
/blockspell add pet id
Q. I am having an issue with a Mage Aura and Shaman Unity line.
A. The Mammoth's Force line from the shaman's focus line of spells and the Mage Aura don't stack. If your aura fades, or your pet gets out of range of the aura your shaman is going to say "woah, we're missing 1 part of this buff, and then cast it on your pet. I recommend if you run around with a mage, to block the appropriate Mammoth's Force for your version of STFocus - at 115 that would be "Mammoth's Force III", blocking "Mammoth's Force" wouldn't be correct in this instance.
Q. Shaman keeps recasting Regen line (Talisman of the Enduring)?
A. If you are 101+ you shouldn't have UseRegen on - dicho/dissi/composite overwrites your talisman regen line, which will make you recast your regen buff after every fight.
Q. Bear form?
A. The bear form regen spell we use up to 30 levels higher than the actual spell - which for the lvl 55 form of the great bear means you use it up to 85, which is pretty worthless. As with any buff if you don't want it you can add it to your blocked buffs and it will no longer cast it.
Q. UseGrowth?
A. If you have an SK or a Paladin tank, you should turn off UseGrowth as they have their own personal version which doesn't stack.
Q. I don't like the spell lineup.
A. You can "Bring your own spells" with /shm byos on
Q. Suggested Settings in current game 115/120+?
A. - There is a picture of my settings in the overview page.
- I personally turn off usecannispell, your canni aa is plenty
- I personally turn off usemalo - malo aoe is fine, mobs die too fast and it is a waste of cast time imo
- i personally turn off useslow - slowaoe is fine, mobs die too fast and it is a waste of cast time imo
- turn off usegrowth if you have a paladin or sk tank
- turn off useregen at 101+
Turns out, Thorn Wilting is actually pretty useless.
It lowes the amount of damage mobs take against YOUR damage shield
It does not lower the amount of damage someone takes against a mob's damage shield
Q. Why am I Not Pulling XYZ mob?
A. Not pulling a mob is almost always an issue either with your Navmesh or your pull settings. If you do a
/shm debugpull on once and it will cycle 1 time and spit out in your mq2 window all the mobs and why you are not pulling them. Compare the output with the mobs you think you should be pulling and it will tell you why. This will notify you if you have no nav path, or out of zradius, or regular radius, or on ignore, etc.Q. Pet Pulling?
A. No, we have no plans on doing that.
Q. Why am I using Dissident over Composite?.
A. We will use Dissident if you are wearing tbl/tov raid t1/t2 bp after feb 12th, 2021 as the tbl/tov raid bp gives you double duration on your dissident. This is only checked upon plugin load, so if you upgrade your bp, reload the plugin.
Q. Why am i Using Composite over Ecliptic?
A. We will use Composite if you are wearing the cov/tol double duration bp. This is only checked upon plugin load, so if you upgrade your bp, reload the plugin.
Q. Shaman only slows the MA's Target?
A. This is correct. We currently don't, and don't have plans to target around to slow at this time. We will likely eventually change around which slows are used for the memorized slow spells to mimic the useslow and useaoe slow (as those currently just function for AAs).
Q. Shaman is putting a small bag on the ground?!
A. Shaman Squall line places a bag on the ground where the spell originates from - this is an EQ thing.
Q. Shink only doing it once?
A. We only try and shrink something that is greater than 2.04 height. There are a ton of reasons for this, but tl;dr - some things get larger when shrunk (eq bug), and some things have a large minimum height, and trying to shrink them would a: make them larger, or b: do nothing and then spam
Q. My shaman is meleeing in assist mode - I only want to heal.
A. /shm UseMelee off
Q. How can i get it to break invis to heal?
A. MQ2Shaman will break invis to heal if a camp is set - so mode 1 would break invis to heal, where mode 0 would not.
Q. What is stance?
A. Stance are options for what kind of spell lineup to load automagically. currently: 0 is heal focused, 1 is hybrid heal/dps, and 2 is dps. This is now just "loadout" because despite saying it is only the loadout, folks are convinced it turns you into a wizardassin.
(Stance change your spell loadout, not behavior)
Q. I am not using Canni?
A. You probably don't have enough hps. We won't do it if it is going to take you too low
for the AA it is 20% health
for the spell canni it is 30% health if you have mobs on xtarget, 20% otherwise (this is for low level / old timey eq where that can get you aggro and deadeded)
Q. Languid Bite?
A. If you have Languid Bite toggled on - we will momentarily toggle it off if we try and use Turgur's Virulent Swarm, and then toggle it back. Make sure that you understand that "using Languite Bite: Disabled" is enabling it and vice-versa. Many folks get confused at this spot.
Q. Root Punt / Paralysis AA?
A. We won't be doing any punting of mobs. It can quickly turn into a bad time if you're punting mobs around.
Q. Spirit of Urgency / Inconspicuous Totem?
A. We try and avoid automatic usage of abilities that might cause undesirable outcomes; Spirit Urgency is one of them. It taunts and memblurs and this might cause you to have issues. Same with Incon Totem - this mezzes you for a minute and makes you invis and such.
Q. I don't want swarm pets?
A. No problemo, We have a toggle for both "Visionary Unity" and "Spirit Call"
- You can adjust "Visionary Unity" with /shm UseVisionaryUnity
- You can adjust "Spirit Call" with /shm UseSpiritCall
Q. I have usenuke off but I still use GiftDD?
A. We use GiftDD for the twincast proc. If you turn off UseSquall you will treat it as a regular nuke respecting usenuke. (as discussed in the next FAQ question).
Q. What if i don't want to squall?
A. We reluctantly added UseSquall - you can toggle it off if you don't want to squall.
- if UseSquall is on "Will use Squall Line (and GiftDD to proc twincast). Does not let a twincast go to waste if squall is ready."
- if UseSquall if off we will treat GiftDD like a regular nuke as far as "when, where, how, and why"
Q. Why am i not using GiftDD or Squall?
A. You need to ensure you have your MA set - and if you're in "/shm raidmode on" that you have your raidma assigned in your raid window, and in your "/shm raidassist #"
Q. Trying to go mode 1 but says I need a mesh?
A. The plugins require mq2nav for movement. You will need to run the mesh updater in your RedGuide's Launcher. Please watch the video > HERE <
Q. Why no mending line at high level?
A. Once you get into levels where you have 2 reckless, mending underperforms and just doesn't fit into how we want to do things. You can BYOS if you want to use it, but we're not going to have it part of the
Q. Do I need to assign what Xtargets to watch for XTargetHealing?
A. Nope - Just toggle on UseXTargetHealing and it will check all your Extended Targets to see if they are PCs and then heal them at the NotMA # you have
Q. Do I need to assign what Xtargets to watch for XTargetBuffing?
A. Nope - Just toggle on UseXTargetBuffing and it will check all your Extended Targets to see if they are PCs and then buff them (they still need to be running mq2cwtnbuffs and be local)
Q. It isn't rezzing out of combat - Rejuvenation of Spirit AA?!
A. Keep in mind, Rejuvenation of Spirit requires out-of-combat AND fast regen, not just out-of-combat.
This also requires your UI to ACTUALLY have the fast regen information, because this is where MacroQuest gets your combat state from.
If you don't report back correct information when you /echo ${Me.CombatState} then you might want to consider updating your UI. Otherwise, we don't know you are in fast regen.
Q. Epic 1.5/2.0?
A. We automatically use your 1.5/2.0 - for MQ2Shaman it has the option of /shm shmepic 0, 1, 2 for never, burn only, combat.
Q. My plugin says it's out of date since I patched.
A. For Live: Check the plugins tab of your VV launcher. For Emu/Test: it is automatically downloaded when you update.
Q. I sometimes get stuck in my spell book?
A. This is often due to your background fps not being high enough. It is strongly advised to utilize at LEAST 30 fps for background, recommended 60+ background fps. The fps cycle for eq is where "work" is done. If your background fps is set to "min" you can and will have undesired results with all sorts of automation activities.
Alt-O -> Display -> Advanced - > Max Background FPS
You will also need to check if you are using any external background fps limiting software - like isboxer - and adjust that accordingly.