What are some of the "must have" commands you hope to see in Pantheon ? Having a /corpse command you can hotkey would be a good one for corpse dragging of course which existed in both EQ and VG. VG had a unique one /rope which allowed you to toss a rope down to people who couldn't quite make it up a giant stair or such and then pull them up to you. A lot of people I played with didn't know about that one. Emotes, while not "necessary" for gameplay help make the game a lot more fun for me. I always charged into battle with /warcry hotkeyed or used /stomp when the only tank went linkdead.
Most games have /sit and /camp and some even have /lay for laying down on beds in game, something I often had to use feign death for in most games to achieve lol.
What are some must have commands and/or macros that you can think of ?
Zoeii said:
I tend to use search or query commands a lot to see who is online or in my current zone. Of course, those commands were needed in FFXI because it had a very simple LFG feature. Even if Pantheon has a robust LFG system, I would still like to be able to run search commands from the console window.
hahaha I have similar memories and did the same on my Druid when EQ was still young, people begging for a taxi ride LOL
on my monk I had a macro of /dance /hug /feign death with appropriate pauses. Between those I had group says or says of "do a little dance, give a little love.. get down tonight!" It really brought out my personality to the monk class I played oh so much in EQ...I was kinda known as the groovy monk..
I liked the modifiers you could put on group say, raid say, etc... things like:
/g Incoming, one %T, get ready!
There were actually a fairly rich set of them so that you could have automated messages that made sense - and then attach them in a macro to a command or whatever.
Wandidar said:
I liked the modifiers you could put on group say, raid say, etc... things like:
/g Incoming, one %T, get ready!
There were actually a fairly rich set of them so that you could have automated messages that made sense - and then attach them in a macro to a command or whatever.
Something I thought was funny is in EQ1 I did this exact thing and would have incoming messages for the group for stuff I pulled. People who slowed and debuffed in EQ1 would also typically make such messages to send to the groups . But then ... EQ2 and other games came out and I would use the same kind of messages and people would be like why are you spamming that crap to the group ?!? LOL
I think knowing what was coming in EQ just mattered more. Was it a caster? Was it a healer? Did it run when it got low on health? It was useful to know that before a mob got to the group - maybe you would sit down quick and swap out a spell for example... because remember, you had EIGHT spells out of your whole book on your bar - while in EQ2, etc... you could have all of your spells up.
Also - in later games (including EQ2) - people just didn't really care what was coming... because killing it was usually a foregone conclusion - which was NOT the case in EQ.
I really liked the macro system in VG for groups/raids and classes. I used to have many macros set up to send a /tell to the main tank when I was forcing a small duration of 100% crits on them as they engaged to help with aggro and alerting my group/raid to the fact that i bit off more than I could chew and was wiping my aggro completely, so look out for a stray mob etc.
Also macros like /targetauto "name", /assistoffensive, /say Utaalk Ataraav Utkin, /group INCOMMING %to, /raid Poisoned G1 etc They were not only fun to create but helped communicate a range of things to people who you were not in a chat client with, it was very handy.
Oh... /loc
Probably the single most used command by me before in game maps. I sorta hope they do away with in game maps but I know they won't. Reason being, I think they make the world feel smaller because you don't have to spend time learning an area - you just need to look at the map.
But in any event - /LOC
Verant said:
Used /anon a lot as a cleric to hide myself from searches.... So many tells for rezzes. Felt like an a-hole when I first started to use it but it was nice not getting a tell every 15mins.
Did that as a wizzy when I didn't feel like getting tells for ports ...usually when I was busy questing. :) /anon and or /roleplay was another.
Not only were Inc, healing, mezzing and other Macros important to the game...they allowed your personality to shine threw...I played my warrior as a pessimist, so his inc macro read /g Were all going to die and its %t 's fault!"...silly, dumb but it made the character more mine. A good friend had the macro /g I ruined my own lands %t now I'll ruin yours!" again silly and dumb but was endearing and to this day I remember him and his toon even thought we havent talked or gamed together for a few years. On my bard I loved the /bandolier hotkey. with one macro I could stop my songs, stop auto attack, equip my instrument and start my mez song with a group message thrown in...it was simply brilliant! I also want any and all emotes you can shove into the game...dont really care if there are animations to go with them just the ability to convey a certain sentiment at a certain time...if that makes sense
Canadina - I had a friend I gamed with for years... whenever we ran into each other, it was customary to greet each other with /moon or /rude (or sometimes something else for variety - like /golfclap)
Silly - but it amused us. In short, it was customary to insult each other as much as possible. I think I started it one day when he first got a mount, and I said "Oh look, a horse with 2 asses - one behind the saddle, and one in the saddle"
:)
Westermann said:
/who
Ahh yes, /who.
Not just /who though. I want to be able to do this:
/who all 50 Ranger so that I can find all level 50 rangers, etc...
Keiiek said:
Just copy the VG command list and add /pause. I'd be happy with that
Yea, I loved VG's command list. It took EQs commands and expanded upon them to add functionality and flavor. I also miss /rope from VG. I still try to throw ropes to people on P99 hoping it will magically work >.<
Yes the VG system was awsome. You had /who for the chunk and /who all for the server. /rope was very usful in Trengal Keep by the big spider usually only 1 person could make it up there in the group. there was a macro that said I was interupting a spell to. cause usually casters to busy dpsing than interupt spell and tank usually died so it was required in trinity so we could see the slackers lol.
