Gangaskan's Guide to Spell Linking

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Gangaskan's Guide to Spell Linking

Postby Gloriana » Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:01 am

Gangaskan's Guide to Spell Linking: High cool factor


if you want to put this in the medicine cabinet or whatever mods ~ ~dosent matter


i would link it from TSWarrior but i think its down well anyways

step 1 make a hotkey
step 2 find the hotkey in your name_server file that contains your hotkey information open it
step 3 find the hotkey you made ex. slow, malos, etc, etc
step 4 find the peice you want perferably an un augmented peice of equipment or item. it can be made auged fake like but thats harder to do
step 5 make your key lets say ---> %T <--- is SLOWED ! at this point you can use character map to make it snazzy or whatever if you wish
step 6 use this box it will be what you need to start off the link
step 7 to get the code of the item use ;t item link it will say could not find player blahblahblahblah
step 8 make your link like so 0016994-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001E8BC5E4DŠŁőŵΈ&#273; this is an example mine i use it links Whore's bane
step 8 make shure you have text going on the front of it and the back
step 9 save it and use Save as .... under where it says encodeing use UTF-8 thats what eq uses to read it
step 10 reload your UI or you can zone / log it dosent matter but reloading the information is what is critical


there you go its all good and going

this is my Slow msg
Page2Button9Line1=/gu → 0024699-00001-00001-00001-000018EO5AFD1 %T ← is 0016994-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001E8BC5E4D ŠŁőŵΈđ I know Kung Fu

it shows %T and Slowed as a link if your gonna use %T as a link make shure you add in spaces to make the full name get in and good luck if you have any more questions ask

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Gangaskan Gnollbasher
65 Shaman
Kaeuvil Smoothsack
Blades of Wrath
Ghengis Khan said, "It's not enough that I win, but all others must lose."
"Shamans are the Al Bundys of EQ. Sure we scored 4 touchdowns in one game back in highschool, but now we just sell shoes."

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Duurg's addition:

Was bored, so made some links for MGB, slow, malos and a couple more.

Code for some of them are as follows:

Fo7: 0026917-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001BED13F04
Tali of Boar: 0028499-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001650CE4E7
Tali of Wrulan: 0028493-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001BE204FC
Turgurs: 0019265-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001546DB724
Malos: 0026915-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001C7442067
Plague of Insects: 0007627-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001CA087F24
Tnarg's Mending: 0021660-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001A5FA0056
Cripple: 0019269-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001AEFEFBCA
Blood of Saryn: 0026916-00001-00001-00001-00001-000014165E2C0
Quiescence: 0026918-00001-00001-00001-00001-000010AAC3C8D

Balance of the Nihil: 0059838 ... 00001C8C2BB51
Dulad's Mending: 0059839 ... 00001F6134037


Enokk's List of Shaman Spells link codes:

AoDarKura: 0019528-00001-00001-00001-00001-0000178BB686B
BoNihil: 0059838-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001C8C2BB51
Bane: 0059615-00001-00001-00001-00001-000010ADBC66F
BoReplenish: 0028531-00001-00001-00001-00001-000018487af93
BoSaryn: 0026916-00001-00001-00001-00001-000014165E2C0
Cripple: 0019269-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001AEFEFBCA
DuladMend: 0059839-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001F6134037
Focus: 0030432-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001192AE695
Focus7th: 0026917-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001BED13F04
Malos: 0026915-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001C7442067
Malosini: 0019282-00001-00001-00001-00001-000015414F5E4
Nadox: 0059525-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001DC40E6CF
PoInsects: 0007627-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001CA087F24
PetEarth: 0026946-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001CA7E7DDA
Quiescence: 0026918-00001-00001-00001-00001-000010AAC3C8D
RCurse: 0019542-00001-00001-00001-00001-0000147D3ECEF
RGCurse: 0019522-00001-00001-00001-00001-000016DD9DB27
SoBilhi: 0007624-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001BFACB4A1
ToAlacrity: 0026911-00001-00001-00001-00001-000010220931C
ToBoar: 0028499-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001650CE4E7
ToTribunal: 0028494-00001-00001-00001-00001-000014876D169
ToWrulan: 0028493-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001BE204FCE
Tigir's: 0019285-00001-00001-00001-00001-0000104586430
ToSaryn: 0028495-00001-00001-00001-00001-000010DA30307
TnargMend: 0021660-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001A5FA0056
ToPoison: 0019274-00001-00001-00001-00001-000018B93487D
Turgurs: 0019265-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001546DB724


Rascalan's helpful tip:
If the cut and paste isn't working here may be the reason why....

I just got this to work last night after messing around with it for about three days.

What I was doing wrong is if you read the post it says you need the "box" linked item (slow message or any other message)than a "box"


The box, item link, message, and box need to have no spaces between them.

The part I missed is before the first box and after the last box you need text without spaces also. You must have some form of text touching the first and last box. Than it seems to work.

Hope that might help some of those struggling with this matter.

and a clarification of the tip from Rascalan...

This is how the link should be made....

some text,"box",item link, message, "box" some text

All the text must be running together to get this to work. No spaces in between them.

The link will than be the right click of your message, ie

Turgurs: 0019265-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001546DB724

I would type something like this for slow message:

>> %T ~~ 0019265-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001546DB724SLOWED!!! ~~<<

My message would read >>target ~~SLOWED!!!~~<<

You would then be able to click on SLOWED and would get the scroll of the spell listing what it does.

The no spaces are required and is why I used the "~~" before and after the item box.

Winterfury's Summation
I took what I read here and experimented a bit and got it working just fine. Once I started using it, of course, all the tells came in asking "How the hell did you do that?" So, I put together the following message for them. It's basically a re-write of Gangaskan's message, written with the ini.file noob in mind.

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The following technique can be used to incorporate item links into your hotkeys, so that messages can actually contain more information for the viewer, linkable and unobtrusive, but communicative. Using these links, players can actually see links to the spells referenced by your messages, so that they can better understand what you’re actually casting. The credit for this goes to Shaman (yay) Gangaskan Gnollbasher on Torv, whose post on the Crucible site was the first I read on the topic.

Step 1: Make a hotkey and give it a recognizable name, like Linktest. Give it some kind of /say text like “/say I have SLOWED %t.”

Step 2: In your EQ folder, find the file named [YourCharacterName]_[ServerName].ini. So, for example, my file was Winterfury_Firiona.

Step 3: Open the above file in Notepad and find the hotkey you made. You’ll see the text next to the hotkey that’s labeled by page number, line, etc. You will be editing this text.

Step 4: Your hotkey will start with some kind of /say or /g, /rs, whatever. The rest of the text will consist of whatever you would ordinarily put in a hotkey message, but will include a snazzy new link. The link you will create consists of four parts:

a) an opening “box” character (hex 0x12);
b) an item code;
c) a label; and
d) a closing “box” character.

I’ll explain how to get an item code and make a “box” character below. But the result should look something like this:

/g 0026915-00001-00001-00001-00001-00001C7442067MALOS on ---> %t in 4.3 seconds ...

Note the opening /g makes this a group message. Following this is the required “box” character which denotes the start of the item link, followed by the item code, the label (“ MALOS”), and finally the end “box”, followed by the rest of the hotkey message. The text that you put between the last number of the item code and the closing “box” character (in this case “MALOS”) is the label and is the pink text that people will see as a link in the message.

Step 5: Save As … the file and make SURE that you select UTF-8 encoding in the bottom drop down. This is the format required to be read by EverQuest and is the only way that this will work.

Step 6: Once the file is saved you’ll need to reload it into EQ either by restarting or just zoning will do. I test these by standing next to a zone line, alt-tabbing out to edit in Notepad, then jumping back in and zoning.
Ok how do you get the item codes and how do you make that little box character? Every item in EverQuest has an item code and it’s accessible using a simple technique. Send a ;t to an item, and EQ will return a message saying it “Can’t find player xxx…” where xxx… is the item code. Simple, huh? So, typing ;t followed by a link to an item will get you that item’s item code. It’s just like sending a tell to someone but sending it to an item instead of a player.

The box is not so simple, I’m not sure how to natively create a hex 0x12 character but fortunately you can just copy and paste it right from this example above.

That does it. Let me know if you have any questions about this technique or suggested improvements. I get a great variety of responses to these messages in my groups, ranging from “Ahhh, so THAT’s what Cripple does” to “Wow, your HAXXORS ROXXORS my BOXXORS”. It’s always neat when a fun technique turns out to have some nice utility as well.

EDIT: Added in the little red (to stand out) s so that the posts make more sense; but don't copy them from here, follow the instructions for getting them.
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