Debug help. Need help with my exp pot macro.

[rabidgoat]

This is driving me up the wall

Despite the thing working OK on monsters as far as I can tell, on pvp something screws up and it tends to instantly throw or just drop at my feet. Take a look.

{
Exec: Drink Explosion
Pause 1sec

If (sysmessage "3")
Pause 1.5 sec
exec: Last target

Else
If (sysmessage "4")
Pause 2.6 sec
exec: Last target

Else
If (sysmessage "5")
Pause 3 sec
exec: Last target

End if
Pause .25sec
}

To target, I use "Next humanoid target" Or in the case of reds, I use "target closest murderer" And I use Attack last target to initiate on them.

So what gives?

 

[omnom]

What 3rd party software is that for?

 

[rabidgoat]

Razor. my bad.

 

[Wizx13]

All you gotta do is go under hotkeys/potions and set explosion to whatever you want in Razor.

 

[halygon]

Well there is a lot of problems here -macro wise. Even with those fixed though, your macro will never work 100% of the time (not even 80%) of the time. In fact in a good fight, it will kill you.

Learn to throw pots manually and you can easy hit your target most of the time with a bit if practice.

I've been down the macro pot throwing road in the past and it definitely does not work well.

 

[Doug Lambert]

First things first, most of your issue is neither Razor or UOsteam are able to read the system message regarding the timing variable of an activated pot as far as I know. (I have worked this problem over myself) Secondly though, to even get a pot to toss at a "blue" target I have had to manually set that target with another hotkey. And while I am not a PK, I have even experienced trouble with a pot harming another blue character. (This may be due to a UO setting about warning about criminal activity, I don't know, haven't tested it.) Either way, the fix is, like stated above, to learn a different way of throwing the pots. I eventually settled on a 2 macro system:

Before macro: make sure your targetting hotkeys have the appropriate target highlighted and that they are actually able to set that as your "last" target or as your "enemy" etc.

macro 1 (set to a hotkey) : activates the pot, then cancels the targetting.

Now you wait until the appropriate time to release the bugger, I usually pick pretty close to when the 2 pops above my head, depending on how far away they are.

macro 2 (set to a different hotkey) : activate the pot AGAIN, and this time target your "last", "enemy" etc. target.

With some practice I have become quite accurate with this method and it allows me to slide in other moves from time to time while the pot is "cooking".

Now watch me get slapped around for telling everyone's secrets....

 

[Babethoven]

people use a macro for this?
noobz

 

[halygon]

people use a macro for this?
noobz

Oh please, if you use a drink exp pot and use the ESC key to cancel, YOU are the noob as that is much slower.

He isn't talking about an automated pot thrower - only two keys to do the canceling and repriming for him.

 

[Don Key]

People use purple potions?
noobz