1621

is there no way to set your reactive abilities to a hotkey? i can’t seem to find it.

1622

Er, no. You don’t take Warden for that build. It’d be an awful 3rd soul for that build offering close to nothing. This isn’t a “bursty ranged nuking” build, it’s an multi-pull AOE grinding PvE build. You take purifier for the shield so you don’t die while getting beaten upon by 3 or 4 mobs at once. You BoJ the first mob (using your auto crit if it’s on cooldown), dot the 2nd mob with Sanction Heretic and Vex, dot the first mob with vex, dot the 3rd mob with vex, toss up the shield, Soul Drain (and later Circle of Oblivion) and repeat. No Warden skills needed or even useful in that rotation. These are mobs, they’re not running away or anything.

I have a somewhat similar build for PvP that goes Inq/Sentinel/Warden. The difference here is that I’m a ranged caster who focuses primarily on critical hits, DOTs and controlling the action by using Quietus, Bewilder and pushbacks (Excommunicate and Crushing Wave). Spamming Water Jet is entirely needed in that build along with the pushback from Crushing Wave. It’s fairly effective, if a bit fragile.

So while both of these builds are very similar in that they heavily use the Inquisitor soul, you have to play them very, very differently. Again, that’s why I really enjoy this soul system. The differences in the 2nd and 3rd souls dictate an entirely different play style.

1623

under keybindings, you can hover over an icon, and make any keypress combination adhere to that icon.

1624

Or you can just move your reactive abilities onto your action bar, like any other abilities.

1625

Or your could add all your reactive abilities to a macro and put that macro on your action bar. This way you have one button to press whenever some reactive ability is active.

Or you could add your reactive abilities to a macro that also includes your regular fighting abilities. This way you push one button to fire your regular abilities and if a reactive ability is active, the macro will fire that instead. This might not be the best way for some classes/abilities but it works great for Shaman.

1626

How do you make a macro that includes more than one action, though? I thought you couldn’t do that? I tried to make one using the guides I found online but it didn’t work.

1627

If you have a macro with several /casts that have cooldowns, such as:

/cast Shadow Shift
/cast Angelic Flight
/cast Stealth
/cast Planebound Resilience

It will try to do each cast in order, and move on to the next one if the previous one is on Cooldown. You can do the same for a bunch of reactive abilities.

I haven’t found a way to have a single button press do both an ability that doesn’t trigger the global CD as well as a followup action.

1628

I’ll give it a try. I did something like this but I think I had /stopcasting in between each; maybe that is why it gave me the ‘can only perform one action per macro’ message.

1629

AFAIK you can never ever fire off more than one ability per keypress. You can, however, add a “suppressmacrofailures” line to avoid the “that ability is on cooldown” or whatever message. So this*:

#show bolt of radiance
suppressmacrofailures
stopcasting
cast fanatacism
cast bolt of radiance
cast waterjet

Will fire off Fanatacism (next ability autocrit, no GCD, 45s c/d) or the Bolt of Radiance if it’s off c/d, then Waterjet otherwise. And you can spam it. So if Fanatacism is up, you have to hit the macro twice to get your actual damage spell off, but at least it’s just one button and limits your keyboard dancing.

* I don’t actually macro Fanatacism to those abilities, because I’m better than that.

1630

DPS clerics, make sure to have backup heal builds for pvp/wf! after arnd 35 in pvp spot instant/1 sec cast heals are essential for teamplay. combined with aoe heals and bard heals, things can never die. that is if the team is setup right.

seems for wf theres some essential character builds for some classes… like rogue bard/sabo. warrior champ/rift. cleric warden/sentinel. mages… chloro heals/stormcalling aoe stunslowdowns.

btw, we have a good size # of ppl on wolfsbane drop bears guild. come join! i have had no queues in over a week for the server.

1631

I didn’t know about suppressmacrofailures. Thanks!

1632

Did they Coin Lock everyone during that last downtime? I got Coin Locked when I logged back in, and the e-mail I received kind-of implied that perhaps everyone got Coin Locked.

If not, I changed my password and ran Malware Bytes, but it came up empty. Not sure how worried I should be.

1633

Yes.5

1634

Thanks. The Coin Lock was rather disconcerting, and I wanted to make sure my security was not remiss.

1635

Some random observations on Artifacts. While artifacts seem to respawn at the same locations, the actual artifact changes. I’m not sure what the respawn period is, I’m guessing 1-2 hours. The respawn appears to be triggered by when the artifact, not some global refresh.

I’m not positive, but I think some of the artifacts are region-wide, whereas some only appear in very specific parts of the region – for example, I find Gloamwood Toadstools everywhere in Gloamwood, but so far only Spider collection elements in the Spider pass.

There are a heck of a lot of collections. I’ve setup a little collection farming run in Scarlet Gorge which with luck pulls in six or so artifacts, and while I’ve got a fair amount of duplicates, so far, at least, the non-duplicates are as likely to be from some set I don’t have any items from, as from an existing set.

I noticed on server restart, all the artifacts on my run were there. That could be because server restart repopulates, or it could be just that the server restart took long enough that the regular artifact refresh time had occurred.

1636

Edit: Eh, nevermind, I’ll wait until free trials or a sale. Thanks though!

1637

Any euros want to play on Firesand you can find me there as Harag (guardian). We have a small clan that could use some more members :).

1638

ohh - thats the RP-PVP server, right? I have a few toons there…

but…but…guardian???

I’ll look you guys up!

1639

Doing stuff in the third zone out now, level 30-ish, and running into world PvP finally. Pretty good stuff so far, though as a squishie a Warrior ten plus levels higher than you is NOT what you want to run into!

1640

I’m having serious trouble earning Sourcestone from rift invasions. I can earn the second-tier Sourceshards pretty easily – both from rift invasions and closing major rifts. But I haven’t earned the top-tier Sourcestone rewards since I left the 1-19 starter area.

Any suggestions? Does anyone have any idea what earns a Sourcestone in a rift invasion? The last invasion, I was the sole player character who kept one of our wardstones up (no other PCs around), using blessed wardstone, and champion abilities, being a bit over-leveled for the area helped as well. I then helped take down the big baddie, and still no Sourcestone :-(