Great video! I'm just started expanding my 6-man box team to include a 2nd group. This was very helpful. Would love to see videos of your 54-toon army taking on some later expansion raid targets and showing how you handle certain mechanics. That is a struggle I have. The straight up tank/spank ones are simple enough, but gets really hairy when there are mechanics that I need to have either one or more toons follow to not cause a wipe.
The emulated server I use goes up to Gates of Discord, that will be as far as I can go with the 54x. The real struggle as you said is doing more than 1 thing in a raid, thats where some of this falls apart unless you make specific macros to handle the fights.
Thanks Hammack, this is great. Do you think you could just make a pastebin and dump all your macros into it? I'm in the process of learning Macroquest, and I would love to just go through yours and see how you write your macros. -Edit to clarify, the .mac files you use, it looks like you have some pretty lengthy ones.
I'm trying to compile Macroquest2 with VS2019 but can't find the eqgame.h, EQData.h, EQStruct.h because the developer does not release those with the source code zip. Where do we find those files? Or does the test server files work if renamed? Thanks
As far as I know it is not possible to compile macroquest2 yourself. Eqmule prevents it, there is a whole be thread about it on the KissAssist message boards. All of the memory offsets are also withheld preventing anything. If you just looking to play the game, you can use the PEQEQ MQ2 download with E3 and that works on the emulated server. If you have Tier2 on KissAssist(20$ a year or so) you can download KissAssist / Macroquest2 which is the newer version(2021 compile) which works fine. I made some videos on KissAssist on EQEMU but I haven't posted them yet because I streamed it.
@@hammackj Yeah thats what I thought eqmule/brainiac is doing. Withholding files so people cannot compile it themselves...1) to prevent people from modifying the source code to warp around the EQ world,...an entire guild got banned for that and 2) keep his $5 per month fiefdom of his build server...both violates the GPL/GNU licensing. All executables are suppose to have the source code included (MQ2Auth.exe, mkplugin.exe, etc) but there is not source code included. Plus he withholds files and modifies the source code so it will not compile on a system other than his own build server at $5/month.
The shrink thing might be a data base thing I'm pretty sure my kissassist dose the same thing lol Anyway can u tell me how to give faction and how to revert to older zones like tov or maybe change the old Freeport to the newer one?
Sorry for the delay. TOV should be Velious level. VP would need to have the database changed. I will see if I can find the SQL I used to change mine. Freeport is probably a no go. I didn't bother changing it as I never went to it other than epics.
Hey buddy, adding some of these macros to my team. One that I'm looking for I can't find. Trying to get a command that will display what each box has in an inventory slot. I think i've seen in one of your videos where you have them reporting in echo. I'm close but I can't figure out how to get it to be for each char. If I do /bcaa //say ${Me.Inventory[MainHand]} then all of the boxes will just say what the char that issued the command has in their hand. What do I replace 'Me' with to get it to report from each box? The longest part of raiding is doing loot, lol. Need to get a quick glance at everyone's inventory to know who to give the loot to, instead of clicking to each window and looking.
I think /findslot will print out what your looking for. It is defined in macroquest.ini "/FindSlot=/bc Find Slot" It will display the slot to say. /FindMissingItem will find missing slots. Let me know if that doesn't work. You just run it from your main character and they all will say.
@@hammackj that works really great lol, makes it so much faster. I like you can use /only and /not with it to and just get the classes you want to see based on what drops. Thanks buddy. I also never knew about the tank pickups. That makes potime a lot easier too haha. Appreciate you and your videos my dude.
I really like that, especially because you can do like /findslot hands /only|leather if a leather item drops, it's great! lol. Anyways, do you know if there is a way to use the GM command #summon, in a /multiline ? I have found that GM # commands don't work with that. I wish #summon would work with multiple names. If I do #summon rhun clerika, it will only summon rhun.
I have the latest e3next and MQ macroquest ini files and they do not have near the amount of commands under aliases. I would like to add some of yours. Do you have a file somewhere?
Question - what macro do you use to reset the character once you've made a change to thier macro ini? I keep having to log out and back in to make it work...much appreciated!
How do melee characters position themselves? I mean, I understand you tell it to run a script, but how does the script know where the characters are facing and need to be facing etc.
Mq can read client memory and position the character to the correct spot based on how that character is configured. So a rogue will goto the back and a tank will do front. I believe all the code is in the mq melee plugin.
Error in your Heal Chain macro. For two commands on one line they are separated by a comma not a semi colon. /pause 20, /chaintiming 4s I had to full screen it but it looks like a semi colon, disregard if you got it right lol
If you are using the version of E3 I linked it should have a these, in the macroquest.ini /taunton=/varset doTaunt 1 /tauntoff=/varset doTaunt 0 So /bct TANK_NAME //taunton would turn taunt on and /bct TANK_NAME //tauntoff would turn it off. I wasn't aware of this until I just looked. Good question.
@@hammackj just asking because have an issue when more then one tank in the group and they fight for aggro. And I'm trying to plvl a warrior. I tired doing the command and it said to connect to bccmd and when I did that it said can not connect. It's cool was hoping there's a quick fix to it. Sucks to waste dps.
@@hammackj I don't do anything to complex so I just stick with ini. And I adapt my play style to those. Had to learn to do kael mission with the duck command 6 boxing.
I have a new questions rofl 1. How do u turn off auto duck? I get stuck one literally everything rofl 2. What do you use for auto loot 3. I don't remember been up since 3am rofl
1. Should be in the options under general settings in the game client. 2. For e3 I use the autoloot it has, in the config for a character that you want to look you need to turn auto loot on. It should be at the bottom of a characters config. I hope that helps!
I hope everyone understands that you are running this on a private server. Though you can use this tool on live servers, you might not be to popular at Daybreak if they discover it. Boxing a group using these tool most likely will not be a problem as long as you at least skip your personal GM ;).
I have noticed a couple of things not sure what would cases it lol never got the dB editor working so it's not that but u might know emotes don't produce any animation Not that big of a deal lol but this on will case problems my players windows shows the buffs my toons have my target window shows no debuffs, I have maxes it out to the size of the screen to make sure lol
The missing debuffs are due to the leadership system. They made them a perk from that system. On your group leader hit L and enable it and you will gain it over time. It is annoying and I typically change it in the settings to take one kill per point vs the default 100ish.
Great video! I'm just started expanding my 6-man box team to include a 2nd group. This was very helpful. Would love to see videos of your 54-toon army taking on some later expansion raid targets and showing how you handle certain mechanics. That is a struggle I have. The straight up tank/spank ones are simple enough, but gets really hairy when there are mechanics that I need to have either one or more toons follow to not cause a wipe.
The emulated server I use goes up to Gates of Discord, that will be as far as I can go with the 54x. The real struggle as you said is doing more than 1 thing in a raid, thats where some of this falls apart unless you make specific macros to handle the fights.
Thanks Hammack, this is great. Do you think you could just make a pastebin and dump all your macros into it? I'm in the process of learning Macroquest, and I would love to just go through yours and see how you write your macros. -Edit to clarify, the .mac files you use, it looks like you have some pretty lengthy ones.
I will see what I can do. I keep my macroquest folder in git locally. I can probably put it on github.
I would also be interested if you could please do that
I'm trying to compile Macroquest2 with VS2019 but can't find the eqgame.h, EQData.h, EQStruct.h because the developer does not release those with the source code zip. Where do we find those files? Or does the test server files work if renamed? Thanks
As far as I know it is not possible to compile macroquest2 yourself. Eqmule prevents it, there is a whole be thread about it on the KissAssist message boards. All of the memory offsets are also withheld preventing anything. If you just looking to play the game, you can use the PEQEQ MQ2 download with E3 and that works on the emulated server. If you have Tier2 on KissAssist(20$ a year or so) you can download KissAssist / Macroquest2 which is the newer version(2021 compile) which works fine. I made some videos on KissAssist on EQEMU but I haven't posted them yet because I streamed it.
@@hammackj Yeah thats what I thought eqmule/brainiac is doing. Withholding files so people cannot compile it themselves...1) to prevent people from modifying the source code to warp around the EQ world,...an entire guild got banned for that and 2) keep his $5 per month fiefdom of his build server...both violates the GPL/GNU licensing. All executables are suppose to have the source code included (MQ2Auth.exe, mkplugin.exe, etc) but there is not source code included. Plus he withholds files and modifies the source code so it will not compile on a system other than his own build server at $5/month.
These videos are awesome! Thanks so much for making them. You saved me tons of time learning how to use MQ2.
Glad you like them!
should record a video showing the peel tank thing and the pbae stuff pofire/pofear
Great idea. I will do one on that.
Hi, is there a way to make a Macro to bind a Clicky let’s say Cloak Slot and kick to the same key? Thank you.
/useitem item full name
This is great stuff... how do I contact you directly ?
Thanks! There is a discord link on the newer videos, my email should be on the channel page. Twitter/Twitch/etc.
The shrink thing might be a data base thing I'm pretty sure my kissassist dose the same thing lol
Anyway can u tell me how to give faction and how to revert to older zones like tov or maybe change the old Freeport to the newer one?
Sorry for the delay. TOV should be Velious level. VP would need to have the database changed. I will see if I can find the SQL I used to change mine. Freeport is probably a no go. I didn't bother changing it as I never went to it other than epics.
Hey buddy, adding some of these macros to my team. One that I'm looking for I can't find. Trying to get a command that will display what each box has in an inventory slot. I think i've seen in one of your videos where you have them reporting in echo. I'm close but I can't figure out how to get it to be for each char. If I do /bcaa //say ${Me.Inventory[MainHand]} then all of the boxes will just say what the char that issued the command has in their hand. What do I replace 'Me' with to get it to report from each box? The longest part of raiding is doing loot, lol. Need to get a quick glance at everyone's inventory to know who to give the loot to, instead of clicking to each window and looking.
I think /findslot will print out what your looking for. It is defined in macroquest.ini "/FindSlot=/bc Find Slot" It will display the slot to say. /FindMissingItem will find missing slots. Let me know if that doesn't work. You just run it from your main character and they all will say.
@@hammackj Ah yes, that's it. Thank you. I was looking for like an /inevntory command or something lol. Cheers mate.
@@hammackj that works really great lol, makes it so much faster. I like you can use /only and /not with it to and just get the classes you want to see based on what drops. Thanks buddy. I also never knew about the tank pickups. That makes potime a lot easier too haha. Appreciate you and your videos my dude.
Great! Thank you for watching!
I really like that, especially because you can do like /findslot hands /only|leather if a leather item drops, it's great! lol. Anyways, do you know if there is a way to use the GM command #summon, in a /multiline ? I have found that GM # commands don't work with that. I wish #summon would work with multiple names. If I do #summon rhun clerika, it will only summon rhun.
I have the latest e3next and MQ macroquest ini files and they do not have near the amount of commands under aliases. I would like to add some of yours. Do you have a file somewhere?
Might be one on discord but I not longer have these clients.
54x box, hahaha holy hell. Do you rock the Krono life, or pay for the sub just out of morbid curiosity?
This was emu. I only have 20x on live.
Did your guild lobby work right away or did you have to do anything to get it to work? Mine just crashes.
Are you talking about the guild hall instance? I had it working in one build and it failed to work in another.
how do you make a .mac file?
Question - what macro do you use to reset the character once you've made a change to thier macro ini? I keep having to log out and back in to make it work...much appreciated!
I found it - it was the e3 reset :) Thanks man for the videos - finding them very helpful!
I just reload it but glad you found something that works.
WTF LOL....when i saw that toolbar i was like " that poor computer is plotting like Skynet right now"
Yeah it is a bit much to box 54 chars ;)
How do melee characters position themselves? I mean, I understand you tell it to run a script, but how does the script know where the characters are facing and need to be facing etc.
Mq can read client memory and position the character to the correct spot based on how that character is configured. So a rogue will goto the back and a tank will do front. I believe all the code is in the mq melee plugin.
Error in your Heal Chain macro. For two commands on one line they are separated by a comma not a semi colon. /pause 20, /chaintiming 4s I had to full screen it but it looks like a semi colon, disregard if you got it right lol
Yeah I think I fixed that eventually, good eye.
DId you ever figure out the chain heal timing issue? I am stuck as well.
No but I think you sent me a patch I will check it out soon.
Can you turn off auto taunt on a tank? Without clicking something while playing?
If you are using the version of E3 I linked it should have a these, in the macroquest.ini
/taunton=/varset doTaunt 1
/tauntoff=/varset doTaunt 0
So /bct TANK_NAME //taunton would turn taunt on
and
/bct TANK_NAME //tauntoff would turn it off.
I wasn't aware of this until I just looked. Good question.
@@hammackj just asking because have an issue when more then one tank in the group and they fight for aggro. And I'm trying to plvl a warrior. I tired doing the command and it said to connect to bccmd and when I did that it said can not connect. It's cool was hoping there's a quick fix to it. Sucks to waste dps.
Are you not using the eqbcs to relay commands to characters?
@@hammackj I don't do anything to complex so I just stick with ini. And I adapt my play style to those. Had to learn to do kael mission with the duck command 6 boxing.
I have a new questions rofl
1. How do u turn off auto duck? I get stuck one literally everything rofl
2. What do you use for auto loot
3. I don't remember been up since 3am rofl
1. Should be in the options under general settings in the game client.
2. For e3 I use the autoloot it has, in the config for a character that you want to look you need to turn auto loot on. It should be at the bottom of a characters config.
I hope that helps!
I hope everyone understands that you are running this on a private server. Though you can use this tool on live servers, you might not be to popular at Daybreak if they discover it. Boxing a group using these tool most likely will not be a problem as long as you at least skip your personal GM ;).
Yeah this is apart of my EQEMU series playthrough. I don't recommend using MQ on live servers. =)
GM rez was hard to read after the CleanName.Arg part
Ah sorry older video, do you still need it?
@@hammackj I'm not 100% sure if I read it right and haven't needed to use it yet. Can hit me in discord and I'll compare with what I got. Ty ty
I have noticed a couple of things not sure what would cases it lol never got the dB editor working so it's not that but u might know emotes don't produce any animation Not that big of a deal lol but this on will case problems my players windows shows the buffs my toons have my target window shows no debuffs, I have maxes it out to the size of the screen to make sure lol
The missing debuffs are due to the leadership system. They made them a perk from that system. On your group leader hit L and enable it and you will gain it over time. It is annoying and I typically change it in the settings to take one kill per point vs the default 100ish.
@@hammackj ah OK thanks
Till I figur out why the editor won't work wonder if I can. Set it with GM 🤔🤣
I have the video made I just need to edit and render it to post it. Hopefully should have it soon.
@@hammackj sweet thanks 😊
You know its got problems when he boxes a raid and brings a GM just in case.......lol
Never can be to safe...