Spellup Plugin

[AardwolfScars]

From    : Scars: SpellUp Plugin Enhancements
Forum   : Personal - #318744
To      : Scars hadar
Date    : Thu Dec 31 15:44:18 2020

Note #291889 originally posted to : Crowley	Note forwarded by : Scars on Thu Dec 31 15:44:18 2020	Hey Crowley,
Thanks for even remotely entertaining this.
There are 3 things I think that WinkleWinkle's (can't comment on Bast)
spellup plug in doesn't seem to address very effectively.
1. Managing the "wear aura" versus "cast sanctuary/biofeedback" situation.
2. Managing recovery timer versus affected by spells/skills.
3. Spell order of wraith form and wolf spirits.
Expanding on #1, which I'll arbitrarily decide to call: AutoAura.
I think this is pretty straightforward, but for the sake of making
sure we're talking about the same thing, I'll be more verbose than I think
is necessary.
Sometimes, notably at SH, there are a number of float items that are
better stats than the Aardwolf Aura of Sanctuary. Ideally, to
maximize the value of the item, you would wear the float item and cast
sanctuary. However, when in combat, you could be dispelled. You'd want to
quickly (automatically) wear the Aardwolf Aura of Sanctuary during
combat. Upon exiting combat, you'd remove the Aardwolf Aura of
Sanctuary and cast sanctuary per usual.
As a special circumstance, you may want to REQUIRE than the aura be worn,
so disabling the AutoAura script. That may be for raids, epics, whatever.
Expanding on #2, which I will needlessly call: RecoveryManager:
Many subclass skills are subject to recovery timers that do not line up
with their duration. Because of this, we have to do a bit of "can I cast
this spell yet" check in or randomly initiate a spellup to make sure
things like power projection or ironfist or whatever are up. With the new
totems out there now, this feels like so much unnecessary micromanagement
that passive monitoring would really help simplify.
I (now) know you hate miniwindows, but my idea was having something that
showed an abbreviated / modified version of what's shown on using the
"affected" command. In this miniwindow, all recovery oriented skills that
are available to the player are shown.
The display has 3 scenarios:
CASE	AFFECTED	ON RECOVERY	COLOR
#1 Y Y green
#2 N Y yellow
#3 N N white
I suppose for an added feature, on top of this, players could identify
which of the skills/spells they want to auto-cast when available. That
would ensure things that are mutually exclusive like rage/ironfist behave
in an expected manner. Also, a way to ensure that the auto-cast uses the
required "selection" for these gems:
cast 'elemental focus' [air	earth	fire	water]
cast 'elemental ward' [air	earth	fire	water]
cast 'gaias focus' [air	earth	electric	cold	water]
cast 'gaias totem' [ent	bear	owl]
There may be more, but these are the one's that I know.
Expanding on #3, which I'll needlessly call SmartCast.
Wraith Form, Wolf Spirits and any other spells that give affects that are
covered by other spells, should be cast after them. For example, sneak
should always be before wraith form. This isn't a big deal to me, but I
thought I'd share it anyway.
Anyway, there you have it. That's what's on my mind!
Thanks,
Scars

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Pushed to production, closing this idea, anything else needed to be done needs a new issue