I would interested in how others issue commands to the group.
What I have done, partly based on the way Pete said he was using the bot in early thread, and partly for my play style, is run the bot on all toons, it's fine for my purposes. Pete has a harness macro he runs which provide him additional functions he either doesn't want in the bot or has not got round to adding. I have a very tiny harness, then, myself. For moving around I use "the bot way" totally - all have stick to leader set, and I manage the leader toon in play. For myself, the leader is not the assist, nor the tank, instead being either a puller, a crowd control, or both, depending on what I am doing and which toon I use. I do those jobs sometimes manually, and sometimes partly assisted by the bot.
I have buttons to pause & unpause the bot, same place each toon. I have buttons to /bcaa to all toons - pause and unpause, clear aggro, and to toggle follow mode on and off. Also to accept rewards, hail, and a few other semi regular things.
I /bcaa npc conversations and the like.
I have a spell set for each toon that includes buffs, and a spell set for general use. There is some overlap. I switch between and cast the buffs I need, then back to general use, and maybe restart the bot so it will use the correct spells as needed. Buffing is a lot easier at max level. The bot does a lot, but not great with group buffs when people die, or some classes single target buffs on others.
I have a few little helper macros, that would be part of a single harness but I don't need them at the same time so they remain separate. I have ones to get HA, zone in, then zone all the others in. For each HA npc.
For moving around I use a class that can bind and group port there, quite a lot. I haven't really been sitting in zones grinding.
Feedback on the bard mezzing. My bard mez's. Mez is in gem slot 8. out of combat twist is 5 6 7, combat twist is 1 2 3 4.
when I say my bard mezz's - he does so sometimes.
I have enc and bard. They are both set to mez. The bard does mez, but sometimes because it switches targets about, it will pick a toon mez'd by the enc, and try to do stuff to it. At this point it tends to unmez the mob by meleeing it. All the other toons will be on a different mob, and so it will get killed by that one released mob. No idea why this happens. Bard mez is great when this doesn't happen, gives enc time to lock all down. At times I have disabled the bard mez. I may again if this keeps happening.
bot healers were trying to cast spells which were being reported in eqbc however in the game they were failing to cast
Not sure what exactly was happening there. I use 2 healers, no problems. They cast as necessary. I've used out of group healers healing in to group. They cast okay. I levelled toons using both these techniques. So there's no *general* problem with it and you should be able to have the healers cast, of course.
Them not casting ... do they stop mid cast and try to cast something else / the same thing again? Or do they report casting but then never even start the cast bar?
