~Jethal~

All,

There are some older posts on here that point to ACT's old forums. However, I'm an ACT novice.

I'm the second brigand in a raiding guild and need to time Dispatch's so they don't over lap.

I have the following under triggers:
.*?1stBrigand's Dispatch (?:critically )?hits.+
.*YOUR Dispatch (?:critically )?hits.+

We have a dispatch duration of 24.1 seconds, and I want to hit my dispatch right after his ENDS. How do I do that? Using a training dummy, I set up a timer that let's me know when my dispatch has started, but it won't tell me it ended unless the dummy is dead while dispatch is on it.

Please help and assistance appreciated.

EQAditu

First off and as a warning to anyone who does so. Putting so called wildcards such as ".*" or ".*?" at the beginning of a custom trigger where you are already clearly defining the beginning of the line is wasteful. You're wasting your own CPU cycles in doing so when it doesn't benefit you in the least.

I imagine the best way to accomplish what you're after is to make a Custom Trigger and Timer pair for either external or all Dispatch hits.

First, make a Spell Timer called say, "Dispatch CT" with a period of 24s, maybe to Panel B with whatever audio alerts you want for warning.

If you only want to detect others, I suggest using the following regex:
(?<attacker>[^ ]+)'s? Dispatch (?:critically )?hits.+
If you want to detect yourself as well, use the following as your custom trigger:
(?:(?<attacker>YOUR)|(?<attacker>[^ ]+)'s?) Dispatch (?:critically )?hits.+

In either case, you'll want the custom trigger to trigger the timer named "Dispatch CT". You'd be best off leaving the audio alerts to the spell timer, not the custom trigger.

EQAditu

Actually, I wrote all of that without really thinking... Just make the timer named "Dispatch" for 24s and forget the Custom Trigger altogether.