scritchin's Blog

Laters Chalram, nice meeting you mate.  :)

Cragwind Legendary Weaponry : http://www.vanguarddreadknight.com/forums//showthread.php?t=208

Harvestable Mobs:  http://www.vanguardcrafters.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22414

Useful Links:  http://www.slyderule.net/Vanguard.aspx

Link:  http://talonsofjustice.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=12&p=79#p79

I have just roll a little DK he is level 10sih currently so bear with me.

DPS:
/targetnearestnpc  <----- Put this in when soloing
/reactionautochain
/reactionautocounter
/cast "Harrow"
/cast "Malice"
/cast "Dark Ward"
/cast "Vexing Strike"
/lootall <-----  Put this in when soloing it will auto loot the mob

1. Ranged attack

/cast "Charge"
/cast "Barrage"
/cast "Shout of Defiance"
/cast "Infuriating Shot"
/cast "Ranged Attack"

2. This sets up for a fast kill and the mitigation decreases on mob and equips 2 weapons

/wear "Primary Weapon"
/wear "Secondary Weapon"
/reactionautocounter
/cast "Grim Determination"
/cast "Bloodrage"
/cast "Press the Attack"
/cast "Raise Defenses"
/cast "Shout of Fury"
/cast "Killing Blow"
/cast "Rend Armor" <---- Mitigation decrease for 30 sec

3. This DPS finisher can be used to activate a Decimate normally or can force a critical every 60 seconds with Myrmidon's Gift. Coercion also has a 60 seconds refresh.

/wear "2handed weapon"
/reactionautochain
/cast "Myrmidon's Gift"
/cast "Coercion"
/reactionautochain
/cast "Riposte" <--- 300% weapon damage use 2 hander
/cast "Killing Blow" <--- 400% +xxx weapon damage use 2 hander


4. Nice chunk of DPS with a Damage over time at the end.

/wear "Primary Weapon"
/wear "Secondary Weapon"
/cast "Enrage"
/cast "Taunt"
/cast "Stunning Bellow"
/cast "Shout of Defiance"
/cast "Kick"
/cast "Pommel Smash"
/cast "Killing Blow"
/cast "Savage Cut"

5. Normally the nail in the coffin on a 2 dot mob.

/wear "2handed weapon"
/cast "Enrage"
/cast "Devastating Blow"


6. Power Attack without the energy drain to get Unyielding Might.

/cast "Power Attack"
/itemuse "food"

7. This macro can replace #3 and will use more defensive finishers before Decimate. The drop in DPS is significant with this macro.

/wear "Primary Weapon"
/wear "Secondary Weapon"
/combatformset "Defensive"
/cast "Myrmidon's Gift"
/cast "Coercion"
/cast "Hold the Line"
/cast "Warder's Bulwark"
/reactionautochain
/cast "Disarm"
/reactionautocounter

8. AoE DPS
/targetnearestnpc
/cast "Steel Tempest"
/reactionautochain
/cast "Whirlwind"
/cast "Sunder"

9. AoE taunting.  Note: This will burn through your energy very quickly
/cast "Shout of Defiance"
/cast "Inmidating Snarl"
/cast "Roar of Fury"

The following macros are for duel wield purests and have no weapon swapping:

1. Used fo normal DPS, forcing crits, and when blocks and parrys are activated
/cast "Riposte"
/reactionautocounter
/cast "Myrmidon's Gift"
/cast "Kick"
/cast "Grim Determination"
/cast "Bloodrage"
/cast "Press the Attack"
/cast "Raise Defenses"
/cast "Shout of Fury"
/cast "Killing Blow"
/cast "Rend Armor"

2. Performing the critical and force taunting
/reactionautochain
/cast "Kick"
/cast "Coercion"
/cast "Mountainous Barrier"
/reactionautochain
/cast "Killing Blow"
/cast "Devestating Blow"
/cast "Waylay"
/cast "Brutal Strike"

3.  DoT, stunning, taunting, forcing critical and a nice chunk of DPS
/cast "Enrage"
/cast "Taunt"
/cast "Stunning Bellow"
/cast "Shout of Defiance"
/cast "Strike Now"
/cast "Kick"
/cast "Pommel Smash"
/cast "Killing Blow"
/cast "Savage Cut"

To make a macro right click on a hot bar

Loot macro:
/endloot
/lootall
/loot
/targetnextcorpse

Auto Harvest:
/targetnextnode or /assist <name>  if harvesting in a group or with a friend
/autoattack

Graphics:
/setfog 999999

Quests:
When quests need to use an item to collect something.  Eg collecting the souls at Strand of Ancients
/target <mobs name>
/itemuse <quest item>

UI:
hold your mouse over the window on your screen you want to change and hit this macro
/uiwinscale .8  <----- 1 is default size for UI scales
/uiwinfontscale .9

Crafting Macros Link:  http://talonsofjustice.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=12&p=79#p79

Note on hot swapping: There is a bug that items will not hot swap with a macro if they have the same name.

Creating Drox like healing hotbar:
/combatformset "Healer's Focus"
/wear "<healing focus item>"
/wear "<healing focus item>"
/targetgroupmember #  <---- change this to /targetself to heal your self instead of a group member
/cast "<healing spell>"

Heal Debuff:
/assist %td <---- Or tanks name
/cast "Litany of Enjioning"

DPS:
Use this macro to equip your weapon after you have healed someone
/assist %td <---- Or tanks name (optional)
/wear "<2 hander>"
/reactionautochain
/cast "Replenishing Strike"
/cast "Smiting Blow"
/cast "Strike Down"
/cast "Ward Shield"
/cast "Hand of Censure"

Insane War Cleric DPS for 20 seconds:
/combatformset "Aspect of the Destroyer"
/assist %td or <player name>  <---- optional dpending if you are in a group
/cast "Turn Undead"
/cast "Speed of Ghalnn"
/cast "Favor of Vothdar"

Ranged pull:
/cast "Jin Surge"
/cast "Ranged Attack"

Meditation:
/sit
/itemuse "<food>"
/cast "Meditation"

DPS Drunken Style:
/cast "Fists of Celertiy"
/cast "Cresent Kick"
/cast "Staggering Punch"
/cast "Thousand Fists"
/cast "Flying Kick"
/reactionautochain
/reactionautocounter
/cast "Spinning Fists"
/cast "Boundless Fist"

DPS Teleport Drunken Style:
/targetnearestnpc
/cast "Storm Stride"
/cast "Crescent Kick"
/cast "Staggering Punch"
/cast "Thousand Fists"
/cast "Flying Kick"
/reactionautochain
/reactionautocounter
/cast "Spinning Fists"
/cast "Boundless Fist"

A note on Chaos Volley:  Once it gets to the x10 damage it goes into a cool down and cannot be used for a certain period :(
Macros:
This picks up a single mob and adds it to ya kite train:
/targetnearestnpc
/cast "Char"
/cast "Chaos Volley"

AoE kite macro:
/cast "Sprint" <---- Thanks Mileana
/cast "Mimic"
/cast "Amplify Acuity" <---- No global cool down 100% crit every 10 mins
/cast "Amplify Efficency" <---- No global cool down 1 free spell every 10 mins
/cast "Energy Rift"

Single target DPS macro:
/assist <player name> <---- use this in groups to assist the tank
/cast "Incinerate"
/cast "Mimic"
/cast "Disperse"
/cast Shocking Grasp" <---- This is optional if you have a cleric in your group with renewal this is great but if not you will burn through endurance to fast and gimp your Chaos Volley.
/cast "Chaos Volley"

Pulling macro:
/targetnearestnpc
/cast "Freeze"
/cast "Frostbite" <---- Wait for global cooldown and hit this macro again to slow the mob as well

This topic is a guide to good kite spots for sorcerers. The info is from the travels of Nukecraft. If you know of or find any good kiting spots lemme know

Levels 1-10 Doing the startup newbie quests etc.

Levels 10-12
Continent: Thestra
Chunk: Leth Nurae (Arcanium Dungeon)

East of the bindstone in the High Elf city is a valley that runs through the middle of the mountain range enter the building at the end of the valley, it is surrounded by Arcanium Defenders (floating swords and shields).
Head down the stairs and on your right at the bottom of the stairs is a hidden door that looks like the wall. This opens into a nice dungeon with clumped up mobs for kiting

Levels 11-13
Continent: Thestra
Chunk: Vault of Heroes

Just west of the dungeon: Vault of Heroes is an encampment of gnolls that come in clumps of 3-5 and there are a few named as well.

Levels 12-13
Continent: Thestra
Chunk: Tursh Village (Riftseekers Torrent Dungeon)
Dungeon Password: Utaalk Ataraav Utkin

This dungeon is NE from the southern most alter in this chunk. Very nice spot indeed all the mobs are melee but can stun. Some nice drops for casters off some of the 4 dot bosses. There is also a 4 dot named that drops racial mount coins.

Levels 13-17
Continent: Thestra
Chunk: Veskal's Exchange

This is a very nice chunk for aoe kiting. Firstly go and talk to: Veskal Rukeru who will give you some quests that will lead to Riker Avin. They are in the building behind the mail box, if you complete his quests you get a light shoulders item that gives you 10k faction with the Verdent Camps around Veskal. This makes all the NPC Verdent Mobs yellow to you and u can nuke away with impunity.
There are a number of nice blue items that drop off the Verdent Lurkers and also in the main encampment if you kill the names you collect their heads and turn them in for nice xp.
The 3 Verdent Lurker camps are east of Veskals on the other side of the eastern road. The Verdent Lurkers HQ is east behind the 3 camps.

Levels 15-18
Continent: Thestra
Chunk: Veskal's Exchange

SE of Veskal's is a small wooden fort full of brownies and a few spiders also a number of names. This place is camped fairly often however cause it is the drop place for a nice Bard instrument. if you can get a good run here without other peeps showing up it is a sweet spot.

Levels 17-21
Continent: Qalia
Chunk: Hathor Zhi

SE of the riftway are pools of water surrounded by elemental mobs and the pools are full of snakes. In one of the snake pools is a 3 dot named.

Levels 21-26
Continent: Qalia
Chunk: Coterie Infineum Sanctuary

Just east of the riftway and farther east over the mountain are 2 Vihaad camps with humand mobs in them. Quests can be found for the first camp at Donovans Roost the other lot of quests are given by an NPC in a small tent just outside of the encampment.

The second kite spot for this chunk is the spider pit directly east of Donovans Roost. There is plentiful Iron nodes and a named giant spider that drops a nice wand.

Link for level 26+: http://www.vgpsi.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=394