TA inventory clickable

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[jdthomas]

The problem with upgrading ta in any way always seems to come back to the same basic issue. Mainly that the current dev seems to wish it wasn't there. Myself, I think its an impossible barrier to overcome, but thats just my opinion. The examples given in this thread look like ta would be a large headache to anyone trying to design an encounter.
The tacvi names talked about here for example. I'm not familiar with them, but I wonder. Did the devs even intend for you to magic slow them? Maybe they were intended to be like the old luclin names that weren't flagged unslowable but you had to use disease slow due to extreme magic resist. If you had to slow him without clicks, you just wouldn't. IF that or something like it was the case, it sure would be hard to hold that example up to a dev to show why ta needs improvement. After all, if you could cast infinite sinia and slow on the old evolved burrower, he'd never have been a raid mob. Seru would be another example, but not quite as fitting because he wasn't rooted.
The rs example would be another tough one. 12 adds in camp, do you think the devs intended for one shaman to slow all of them? Its possible, but how many offtanks,healers and enchanters are set to handle these adds. All you need is one shaman with a click stick though.
I suspect ta is just a big a headache for the devs that it is for the players. I'm seriously doubting we'll ever see it upgraded.

[Gaknab]

The Tacvi named are a very bad example to use.

They are all rooted and don't summon until damaged so you can sit there with all the other debuffers in your guild and pre-debuff them to your hearts content before your guild actually engages them with little to no risk to yourself aside from the odd AE.

The TA in no way shape or form helps you in this scenario aside from letting you cast Turg's mana free. Some of them it's very hard to land Turg's on, but it's been a very rare run where the shammies in my guild have not been able to stick a slow by the time all the other debuffs are landed and it's time to go make said MoB kiss dirt.

As for the hot key script I'll attempt to dig it up, I am fairly sure that it is possible without having to resort to third party programs and things that will get you banned.

And for the record, no I don't have a TA myself, and I couldn't care less if I ever got one. I do however have access to an account with a TA equipped shaman that I have played more frequently that I care to admit for various reasons. So I do have some idea of what I'm talking about.

How did I know one of the first things I read in response would be I bet you don't have a TA so you don't know jack!

How utterly predictable.

By the way, you could have changed that statement to "you don't have a TA so you don't know jack" by simply clicking on my magelo link and noting that nowhere in my magelo do I have one present.

[jdthomas]

I imagine the hotkey could be done similar to the forage macros being used. If you have all the required messages,clicks, etc in a hotkey bank somewhere, its just a matter of keystrokes to bring them up in the correct order. I'm betting this could be done without any violations.
Say on hotkey bank9, you have 1 set to bandolier to ta, 2 is setup with ta in it, 3 is bandolier back to original config. Your macro could just hit 1, hit 2, wait 3 sec, hit 3. Should be doable with forage macros already in use.

[Jind]

You cannot macro a clicky item - plain and simple. You can hotkey it by dragging it to your hotkey bank, but there is no in game command to perform the click on a clicky item. This has been discussed in-depth on the cleric forums forever in regards to being able to macro a "rez message" and the click of their epic.

Now, something like the Nostromo SpeedPad, which allows you to program macros and assign them to keys on the pad and passes the key presses to the game would do it. As to it's legality I'm unsure - as far as I understand, the only thing not allowed is "unattended macroing" so it very well may be a viable solution.

Jind

[Brohg]

$50 USD specialty input devices are not the answer to EQ itemization. Even Nostromo macroing doesn't actually deal with the issue.

I swear some days it's WAY too hard to help people.

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[siludorf]

Your credability skyrocketed when you mentioned how you don't need TA to be inventory clickable because you use a cheat to click it for you..

And any TA shaman that raids a lot can tell you there are situations where you malos+ta+discord+ta and the 2nd turgurs landed when discord did not. It is the same principle as our -40 mr check slow called nihil would get resisted and that bsts 0 mr check one would not resist.

Sometimes I bounce discord off of a mob and an echanter will have it slowed.

[Beafly]

Your macro (no way of doing it in-game that I'm aware of)...


Hotkey 1: Bandolier TA into Primary
Hotkey 2: Primary Slot
Hotkey 3: Slow Announcement
Hotkey 4: Bandolier Other Weapon into Primary

I would actually use two macros for this since I already use one to cast slow and one to call when it lands.
Nostromo macros would look something like...

Nostromo macro 1:
press hotkey 1
press hotkey 2

Nostromo macro 2:
press hotkey 3
press hotkey 4

Nostromo would handle the swap problem quite nicely. It will never cure the issue with past expansion items being non-upgradable.

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