As we all know from the Definitive Guide to Raiding, sometimes you have to DPS very, very slowly (at least, before you have enough dps to ignore a strat. Two examples I have currently are
1) Holding back dps on last boss of Spire:Repository (Xerxes'Kade) just before 37% so you can really go full burn on the first add (yes, my group dps is still fairly low)
2) Stopping toons blowing their best abilities while bulwark/1000 plagues are up
In general my casting order is good (fully ordered by total dmg/(cast+recover), with exceptions for specials), so I want this to be what I use most of the time. Sometimes I need to be able to issue some form of command to "hold back" specials (e.g. please don't use ethershadow assassin while the boss is immune).
I have two basic thoughts about how this would be achieved.
a) Each toon has a "go slow" profile. I could somehow (how?) create an MCP button that switches the profile for each toon. I could then have a separate MCP button with a queue of abilities to fire off in order. This seems a little cumbersome
b) I could somehow use the tags that seem to be available to attach to each ability in the cast stack. For example, I could tag critical "full burn" abilties with "holdback". I could then create an MCP button (how?) that tells each toon to temporarily disable/ignore any ability with the "holdback" tag.
I like the idea of (b), though I'm not sure if it's possible. Equally I could be missing an obvious way within Ogre to achieve what I am after. Any advice on how to achieve this would be most welcome.
1) Holding back dps on last boss of Spire:Repository (Xerxes'Kade) just before 37% so you can really go full burn on the first add (yes, my group dps is still fairly low)
2) Stopping toons blowing their best abilities while bulwark/1000 plagues are up
In general my casting order is good (fully ordered by total dmg/(cast+recover), with exceptions for specials), so I want this to be what I use most of the time. Sometimes I need to be able to issue some form of command to "hold back" specials (e.g. please don't use ethershadow assassin while the boss is immune).
I have two basic thoughts about how this would be achieved.
a) Each toon has a "go slow" profile. I could somehow (how?) create an MCP button that switches the profile for each toon. I could then have a separate MCP button with a queue of abilities to fire off in order. This seems a little cumbersome
b) I could somehow use the tags that seem to be available to attach to each ability in the cast stack. For example, I could tag critical "full burn" abilties with "holdback". I could then create an MCP button (how?) that tells each toon to temporarily disable/ignore any ability with the "holdback" tag.
I like the idea of (b), though I'm not sure if it's possible. Equally I could be missing an obvious way within Ogre to achieve what I am after. Any advice on how to achieve this would be most welcome.
