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BJMovement-2014.12.17, Version 1.73

• Ossuary: Sanguine Fountains (Heroic)
  • The Sanguine Fiend
    • Command: Set up for BJ Fiend
    • Required Group Roles: Group Role 1 and Group Role 4 (Must be enchanter!)
    • Auto-Disable Conditions: The Sanguine Fiend doesn't exist, you are further than 60m from the GR1 camp spot, or your entire group is dead.
    • Description: GR1 will tank the named in the middle. It is very important to this fight that the named not move much once he has been pulled in. When an add is spawned, GR1 will spin the named so that GR1 is in between the two. GR1 will never move to avoid the red text. GR4 will auto-target the named and dispell his buff when needed. GR4 will ignore the buff when an add spawns and will attempt to mezz the add before resuming buff duty. Everyone other than GR1 will joust the red texts.
  • D'Nari the Bone Sculptor
    • Command: Set up for BJ Sculptor
    • Required Group Roles: Group Role 1 and Group Role 4 (Must be enchanter!)
    • Auto-Disable Conditions: D'Nari the Bone Sculptor doesn't exist, you are further than 60m from the GR1 camp spot, or your entire group is dead.
    • Description: When Touch of Death is detected, GR1 will move everyone away. GR4 will use an autotarget to keep the named targeted and will cast a single target stifle spell every time it is available. This will override the Cast Stack listing for the spell.
  • Ritualist K'Deru
    • Command: Set up for BJ Ritualist
    • Required Group Roles: Group Role 1
    • Auto-Disable Conditions: Ritualist K'Deru doesn't exist, you are further than 60m from the GR1 camp spot, or your entire group is dead.
    • Description: Will turn on move behind or move in front depending on your group role.
  • High Inquisitor V'Raudin
    • Command: Set up for BJ Inquisitor
    • Required Group Roles: Group Role 1
    • Auto-Disable Conditions: High Inquisitor V'Raudin doesn't exist, you are further than 60m from the GR1 camp spot, or your entire group is dead.
    • Description: GR1 will camp spot. Everyone else will move behind. All will turn off aoe's and turn on singular focus in order to burn the named to 45%. At this point, they will turn aoe's back on and cancel singular focus.

Hello Everyone,

With the launch of Altar of Malice behind us, I hope that many of you are enjoying the new content available to us.  I have been working very hard to get new encounters coded and am fairly happy with quite a few of them.  Thanks to everyone who have been sending feedback.  It has been very valuable to me and I feel that those encounters that work best are because of this feedback.  My current work plan is to code at least one more challenging zone and then double back to the easier zones for bug fixes and script refinements.  

A few common problems I have been seeing brought up on IRC since the expansion are:

1. Why did you code encounter "X" to do this, when you should be doing it this way?

Answer: When approaching an encounter for the first time, I try to find a way to kill the event in the most simplistic way possible using my current group makeup.  Once I have something that I feel works well, I will then work on refining the script to make it as easy as possible for all combinations of group makeups.  This is really the most challenging part because not everyone will have a certain class.  Group Roles do alleviate this a little bit, but in some encounters a certain class can make the difference between having a stupid easy time killing something and struggling to kill it. After things are released, I do take polite feedback on changes into consideration for future patches.

2. What gear and group set up are you currently using because I can't beat encounter "X"?

Answer:  I am currently using a Berserker, Warden, Defiler, Coercer, Ranger and Dirge group.  Coming into the expansion the Berserker was a Guardian, Defiler was a Channeler and Ranger was a Brigand.  My gear was 4 gemmed potent with easy raid gear jewelry.  The first thing that I did when I started to struggle was drop the Channeler for a Defiler in order to increase my group survivability.  Next, I increased my resists by dropping all of my jewelry in favor of handcrafted resist gear.  As I completed the daily missions for blue gem gear, I made sure that I was putting max hp gear on my characters to increase their HP pool.  Now that I am fully blue gear and have started to get green gem gear I am slowly replacing my non-tank with more dps oriented gear.  Having said all of that, if you can't beat something using the encounter scripting, please take a close look at your gear, AA and OgreBot profile and your group makeup.  OgreBot profiles that were DPS heavy and worked for you at the end of last expansion may not be what you need right now at this point in the new expansion.

3.  Why haven't you coded this zone yet?

Answer:  I haven't had time yet.  Creating these scripts takes a lot of time.  I have a full time day job and have been coming home to work 4-6 hours more a night and 8-10 hours during the weekend.  I've reached the point where I will be slowing down on coding new content while I wait for my gear to improve with the green gear and gems.  I know that this may be frustrating to some of you, but if you had better gear at the start than me or more play time than me, you will be progressing faster than I can code.  Please be patient and understand that I am working as fast as I can.

With the holiday season upon us, I will be taking a vacation to spend time with my family, starting on December 22, 2014 and lasting until January 4, 2015.  During this time, I will still be available for technical support and may do some light coding, but the rate at which I have been patching (1 - 2 times per week) may be slowed until after the new year.  

As a way to celebrate the holiday season, I will be offering a 50% off automatic coupon on all carts that are $10 or more.  This sale will start on December 24, 2014 @ 12:00 AM EST and will end on January 6, 2015 @ 11:59 PM EST.  In addition to this sale, my current promotion of "Double the Credits! Double the Savings!" will be extended until January 6, 2015 @ 11:59 PM EST.  

Lastly,  I want to thank you for your continued support for the 2014 year.  It was an amazing year for me, with Quest Bot being released and being given a very positive review from all of you.  Have a wonderful holiday, spend time with your family and friends and I will be looking forward to working more with you in the new year.

Happy Holidays!

bjcasey

PS. Want to see which zones have Movement or Quest Bot coding?  Check out this link!

BJInventory-2014.12.13, Version 1.48

• Fixed the save/load location for Stock Me lists.

BJMovement-2014.12.13, Version 1.72

• BJ Movement Immunity Chain
  • A new routine has been added to BJ Movement that will allow you to trigger your group to start casting damage immunities on the target.
  • Command: a_BJMovement_GetDamageImmunity (CastOn) (ForWho) (DamageType) (TargetType)
    • CastOn - This is the target that you want all spells to be used to save. This must be a player name.
    • ForWho - This is who should search their spells. It can be subclass or all.
    • DamageType - This is the damage type you want to be immune to. It can be physical, magical or all.
    • TargetType- This is the target type you want to be used. It can be self, other or all.
  • Disable Conditions: The routine can be ended early by sending the command again while it is still active. It will auto-disable if all group members do not have any save spells available.
• Zavith'loa: The Hidden Caldera (Heroic)
• Defender Honu
• GR1 wil now joust to the group during the casting of Rear Guard instead of the other way around.
• Lavacrafter Peleaina, Augur Kaimanu, and Obsidian Warrior Koa
• Group Role 4 will no longer call for assist during the set up. They will now be the only person attacking the Augur at the start. They will disable a specific interrupt spell and cast it on the Augur to interrupt their heal. Group Role 6 will now call for assist during the set up and will kill Lavacrafter, Augur and then Obsidian Warrior.

BJMovement-2014.12.07, Version 1.71

• Ossuary: Resonance of Malice (Heroic)
  • Praetor Pheris
    • Corrected a bug that would cause an infinite loop and encounter fail if the first priest did not have a damage/death prevent ready for use. It will now skip that priest and move on.
    • Added Equilibrium to the templar and inquisitor death prevents.
• Zavith'loa: The Hidden Caldera (Heroic)
  • Added an additional parameter to the auto-disable by name condition. All named encounters will remain active, even if the named has been killed, if you are still hated by something.
  • Lavacrafter Peleaina, Augur Kaimanu, and Obsidian Warrior Koa
    • Group Role 4 will no longer have Lavacrafter Peleanina as an autotarget with less than 97 health. This should speed the fight up.
• Zavith'loa: The Lost Caverns (Heroic)
  • Huntmaster Au'mari
    • Changed where GR1 and Group camp spots were located. They are now much closer to the named.
    • Added auto-disable conditions for this encounter.
  • The Swamp Mother
    • Changed the auto-disable by distance range from 60 to 130.
  • Grat'ta the Mountain
    • Added a pull spot for GR1. When GR1 has 100% threat, they will move to join the rest of the group.
    • Changed the auto-disable by distance range from 60 to 100.
  • Mo'iana the Ravenous
    • Fixed a bug that would cause the person calling for curse to fail.
    • Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause the script to falsely trigger the auto-disable by name condition.
    • Changed the auto-disable by name condition to only be checked after Mo'iana the Ravenous has spawned. This change will allow you to use the set up during the ring event portion of this fight. When Mo'iana the Ravenous spawns all group roles will find their camp spots.

BJQuestBot-2014.12.04, Version 2.07

• The following atom is now available and takes one parameter:
  • QB_PauseResume <pause | resume>
• The following zones have been added to the allowed heroic list:
  • Ossuary: Resonance of Malice (Heroic)
  • Ossuary: Sanguine Fountains (Heroic)
  • Ossuary: Choir of T'Vyl (Event Heroic)

BJInventory-2014.11.30, Version 1.47

• General Setup
  • Removed the Import OgreBot Login Information button because it wasn't supposed to be visible yet...
• Inventory
  • Added sample lists that are the ones that I use.
    • 1 - Primary List: I run this one on my primary seller.
    • 2 - Secondary List: This is run on everyone other than my primary seller with my primary seller as the target for trades.
    • 3 - Price Matching: I run this on my primary seller to price match.

BJMovement-2014.11.30, Version 1.68

• When OgreBot is paused, BJ Movement will now pause except for the auto-disable conditions. The test zone for this is Hidden Caldera (Heroic). If it works out, I will add the code to other AoM zones.
• Corrected a bug with group roles and sorcerers. They will now properly save their group role.
• Zavith'loa: The Lost Caverns (Heroic)
  • Mo'iana the Ravenous
    • Added additional debug code to the console to assist in figuring out why it will sometimes fail to cure the curse properly. People will show their curse cure call in the console.
• Zavith'loa: The Hidden Caldera (Heroic)
  • High Priest Hamanu'akaloa
  • GR1 autotarget list has been modified to reduce it's heal. At 30% this list will no longer be modified.
  • Lavacrafter Peleaina, Augur Kaimanu, and Obsidian Warrior Koa
    • Group Role 6 will no longer ask for everyone to assist them on this fight.
    • Changed the camp spots of GR1 and GR456 to be closer to GR23 in order to rezz better.
    • If a Dirge is in the group, they will use Magnetic Note to keep Obsidian Warrior on GR1.
• Brokenskull Bay: Bilgewater Falls (Heroic)
  • Lady Bipsie
    • Auto-Disable Conditions: Lady Bipsie doesn't exist, you are further than 100m from the GR1 camp spot, or your entire group is dead.
    • Description: GR1 will load an autotarget list. All campspot changes are initiated by GR1. Group will turn sprint on and navigate to Lady Bipsie when she ports away. Upon reaching Lady Bipsie they will turn off sprint. Any dead group members are ignored on the way to Lady Bipsie because you have a time limit to get to her. On the way back to the Middle Fighting Camp Spot, the group will attempt to stop and resurrect fallen allies.
  • Captain Berlon Bilgewater
    • Auto-Disable Conditions: Captain Berlon Bilgewater doesn't exist, you are further than 80m from the GR1 camp spot, or your entire group is dead.
    • Description: GR1 now has a pull spot to initiate the encounter. Once aggro has been locked, GR1 will move to the normal tanking spot.
• Brokenskull Bay: Hoist the Yellow Jack (Heroic)
  • Navigator Barius the Cursed
    • Fixed a bug where the group members would camp spot.

BJQuestBot-2014.11.30, Version 2.06

• Changed how Gear Score is calculated for level 96 to 100.
  • Players:
    • Critical Chance is greater than or equal to 100:
      • MyHealth + 100 + (PhysicalMitigation + ArcaneResist + NoxiousResist + ElementalResist) / 3
    • Critical Chance is less than 100:
      • MyHealth + MyCriticalChance + (PhysicalMitigation + ArcaneResist + NoxiousResist + ElementalResist) / 3
  • Zones:
    • (HighestRecommendedHP + HighestRecommendedResist) * 1.15
      • Recommended HP and Resists can be found by using the new Scout prestige ability called Detect Weakness. Please use the highest numbers for the zone.
• Corrected a long time navigation bug related to looting and shinies. Ground navigation should now be more reliable with collectible looting enabled and disabled.
• Removed some debug code related to navigation.
• Removed the Collectible checkbox from the Loot page. Looting collectibles can make for unreliable Quest Bot runs due to randomized placement. It may return in a future update.

BJInventory-2014.11.24, Version 1.46

• Fixed a bug that affected anything that used the EQ2ResourceInformation.xml file (Deleting common materials, placing status items, etc.).

BJMissions-2014.11.24, Version 1.03

• This script has been renamed from BJToVMissions to BJMissions to better reflect it's intended use.
• Inserted a parameter as the first parameter. All parameters will now need to be increased by 1. Parameter 1 is now the expansion initials. This change will break existing buttons.
• When starting the script the following delays will be used to mimic legit boxer behavior:
  • Fighters will start immediately.
  • Priests will be delayed by 2 seconds.
  • Mages will be delayed by 4.5 seconds.
  • Scouts will be delayed by 7 seconds.
• Updated for Altar of Malice.
  • Added the following Solo/Heroic options
    • -a (Advanced Solo)
    • -sa (Solo and Advanced Solo)
    • -e (Event Heroic)
    • -he (Heroic and Event Heroic)
  • Altar of Malice does not allow you to share all missions so quest sharing is disabled with AoM missions.
  • Daily and Weekly missions are not easily selected based on solo/heroic choices, so if you select to get the daily or weekly missions you will pick up ALL daily or weekly missions available.
  • If OgreBot is running your character will perform the following actions:
    • Enable Move2Area
    • Disable/Enable AutoAssist
    • Hold Up
    • Runs to the desired quest giver as long as they are within 60m.