Assassins Perspective - Basics (questions)

_Anonymous_ · 02-06-2009, 10:33 AM

Greetings, I am looking for two things; a little help on what I can do to improve and/or track my dps from an analytical standpoint, and have a short resource for assassins.

"I want to use ACT and TTS to anounce Dispatch only when it lands, along with the caster's name."

How-to:
Regex:

(.+?)'s? (?:Dispatched|Dispatch)(?: critically)? hits.+

TTS:

$1 Dispatch

"I want to use ACT and TTS to anounce when CoB and PoTM is spam'd into Chat_Window_X"

Careful with this one, it is meant to be broad and needs to be given a little customization and time but it seems to be the baseline for ACT notifications

How-to:
Regex:

\\aPC -?\d+ [^:]+:([^\\]+)\\/a says to the (?:group|raid party|guild), "(.*?([Cc][Oo][Bb]|[Pp][Oo][Tt][Mm]).*)"

TTS:
$1 X
-or-
$1 N X

Example for TTS:

$1 has just casted $3

Where N is option text - anything you want and X is $2 or $3 depending on preference:

Just some notes about this regex. If used in a replace string, such as TTS:
$1 = Player name
$2 = Entire quoted chat text
$3 = "CoB" or "PoTM" as matched

How-to create custom timers <a good start>:
http://www.eq2flames.com/general-act-discussion/16634-making-accurate-timer.html

To-do's:
For Jcap I would like to be able to hear TTS when I recieve Jcap and when I am able to recieve it again

I would also like to be able to know when it is cast, who cast it and who it was cast on.... I believe there is an emote when it is cast now, can anyone help me with this?

If you have information on improving what I have done in this thread please post it, or other good ideals for assassins / must haves for raiders

Thank you ...

Just crap I want to keep for now:

Let's take the first Regex:
\\aPC -?\d+ [^:]+:([^\\]+)\\/a tells you, "(.*?([Ss]hard|[Jj]cap|Jester).*)"
You can replace the green text with the keywords you need. Things like [Ss] means it looks for a single S character of either case.

If you want to use TTS, you can have it speak some of the things it captured. As I mentioned before, "$1 $3" will simply say the player name and the keyword.

The following will look for things in raid, guild or group chat...
\\aPC -?\d+ [^:]+:([^\\]+)\\/a says to the (?:group|raid party|guild), "(.*?([Rr][Oo][Dd]|[Pp][Oo][Tt][Mm]).*)"

You may notice that these are considerably more complicated than the other ones given. There is no other reason than they are more efficient. Meaning less CPU time consumed by ACT.

EQAditu · 02-06-2009, 11:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _Anonymous_

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I would like to be able to parse out Dispatch and who's cast it was, then using the TTS in ACT have it say PlayerX Dispatch.

So far I have:
.+? (?:Dispatched|Dispatch)(?: critically)? hits.+

This is TTS'd to say: 'Dispatch Dispatch' and with only one brigand this works well, however I would like to be able to say PlayerX Dispatch, and while I understand how to change the TTS, I'm not sure on how to put in PlayerX's name. I have seen some mention of this in a few forums but not sure I understand how the ... is it called Regex? or syntax for the entry.

Does this Regex mean that Dispatch has landed or has been cast? I would like to only have it say TTS if the spell has landed.

Is this right? would this provide my disired outcome:
\\aPC -?\d+ [^:]+

[^\\]+)\\/a .+? (?:Dispatched|Dispatch)(?: critically)? hits.+

Then for the TTS I could put in 'one dollah Dispatch' or rather '$1 Dispatch' and that would say PlayerX Dispatch

The part that you added to the second regex which was originally the first regex would only remotely work if combat messages had player name links. They are simply text, so there's no funny syntax to get the player name.
(.+?)'s? (?:Dispatched|Dispatch)(?: critically)? hits.+ will work. It is looking for a hit specifically. Any sort of avoided attack will not be matched by the regex.

Quote:

If it is not too much trouble I should also like to do the same for Jcap and CoB if you have the syntax.

For CoB and PoTM is this still accurate? I think this is almost the same thing at the bottom of this post:

\\aPC -?\d+ [^:]+

[^\\]+)\\/a says to the (?:group|raid party|guild), "(.*?([Cc][Oo][Bb]|[Pp][Oo][Tt][Mm]).*)"

Just some notes about this regex. If used in a replace string, such as TTS:
$1 = Player name
$2 = Entire quoted chat text
$3 = "CoB" or "PoTM" as matched

For Jcap I would like to be able to hear TTS when I recieve Jcap and when I am able to recieve it again

I would also like to be able to know when it is cast, who cast it and who it was cast on.... I believe there is an emote when it is cast now, can anyone help me with this?

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The regexes here are for when the casters themselves notify you through chat. I'm not really privy to what the new emotes may be after AAs.

_Anonymous_ · 02-06-2009, 02:12 PM

So I will need to find the emote and post it here, and someone may be able to help me with a regex. Thank you for the reply