The Tillers Farming Daily, any tips on speeding the process?

[Khatovar]

I didn't get to try this in a true run, I kind of had to piecemeal it together as I went, so there could be issues with the setup but I'm hoping not. Let me know if you find anything wonky and I'll see if I can figure out a fix.

[Khatovar]

Made a change and a note of two now that I've been able to run it all as one fell swoop instead of in bits and pieces.

1. I changed macro 2 {KILL IT!} to put Tilled directly under Farmer Yoon. I flaked on the rule of "targets from the bottom up" and the location it was in was interfering with the rest of the macro. Personally, I'm probably just going to remove it, since I have no use for it and it actually screws things up if you get the bug where you plant something and Tilled Soil is still showing.

2. I didn't do this in the macros here, but I like the way my toons would go off to hang with an NPC when they had nothing to do for macros 2 and 3. It was a nice, easy visual indicator that they were done, so I added /tar Gina to the top of macro 1 {Gina Mudclaw was my first "Best Friend," so she chills on the farm with me} so "hug an NPC" is always the "nothing left to do" step in each macro.

3. Found a way to work the "Tangled" plants since I changed who my original macros were targeting. Now that the WEED IT macro uses Andi and the KILL IT macro uses Farmer Yoon, you can simply call the WEED IT macro and then the KILL IT macro. Whoever has tangled plants will grab the tangle and then run to Farmer Yoon, pulling it out. Everyone else will just run back and forth between Yoon and Andi. Or if you use the above setup {2/Gina} you could use that instead.

[crowdx]

Ok, spent the last few hours working on this and I'm sure there's other ways to accomplish the same thing, but here's what I've got.

It doesn't look like you can use multiple-targeting with modifiers so I was forced to use multiple macros. Bummer. So what I did was break up the various actions into different macros. All macros are used in conjunction with IWT.

Macro 1 - IWT only

/tar Ripe
/tar Plump
/tar Bursting
/tar Untilled
/tar Runty
/tar Black-nose
/click ExtraActionButton1
/console UnitNameFriendlyGuardianName 1

Used with no modifier, this one will pick all your ready to harvest plants, stomp marmots, use whatever's on ExtraActionButton {Hammers, Chickens...no use in the Tillers Farm, but still useful}, turn on the plot names {see earlier post}, use any untilled soil and go to any Runty Crops {you will still need to jump to pull them, of course}.

Macro 2 - KILL IT!

/tar Farmer Yoon
/tar Tilled
/tar Occupied
/tar Alluring
/tar Wiggling
/console UnitNameFriendlyGuardianName 1

Ok, technically, you don't need UnitFriendlyGuardianName 1 again. I actually don't even have it in these macros, I have it in my click below, but in case you want to stick it on a certain macro, there it its.

Anyway, this one is used with a modifer. Problem is, it'll only "use" one critter-spawning node at a time because they stay "Alluring/Wiggling/Occupied" until the critter is dead. Which, I guess is ok if you don't have the ability to tank several mobs. It's still faster than going toon by toon, I guess. If you don't have a critter spawner to target, it'll target tilled soil so hopefully your toons won't go running off to kill other things/players, or target Farmer Yoon so you can IWT your way into the phase from the market outside.

Unfortunatly, you can't IWT to Tilled Soil. It's up to you, you could move /tar Tilled to the first macro and add /use *whatever* to plant your seeds after you've tilled the untilled soil, but I just planted them one at a time cuz things were chaotic when I was trying to figure out how to do this.

If you want to try "auto planting" in the first macro, make note that the /tar seems to work from the bottom, up - so you'll want to put /tar tilled and /use *seed* UNDERNEATH /tar Untilled. But even then, I can't promise that it'll work 100% because of the delay between soil tilling being completed and actually showing as "Tilled". You could end up IWT-ing away from the soil you just did or something.

Macro 3 - Weed It

/tar Andi
/tar Tangled
/tar Stubborn
/tar Encroaching
/tar Wild

This one is used with a secondary modifier.

Pretty easy to figure out, if you've got a weed, this will use it. I just spam 1 for the stubborn and encroaching. Might take a little longer, but it's faster than 1 at a time. And if you don't have a weed, you'll go to Andi and be ready to leave the phase.

For the tangled, the /tar Andi might work, but I can't be sure both because of range and because when I made it I was using /tar Farmer Yoon when I was testing. Then I changed it to Andi to prevent the Kill It macro from causing your "not busy" slaves to run out into the market to go attack other players. :X So, it might work as is, or you might need to strafe/back up your slaves to pop the Tangled plants.

Macro 4 - Optional - Tangent Ahead!

I actually use an additional macro because I don't like to be bothered with extra keybindings when I can just use Jamba's Item Bar for macro swapping.

Here's the Master Version

#show Raw Turtle Meat
/click [mod:shift] MultiBarBottomRightButton3; [mod:alt] MultiBarBottomRightButton2; MultiBarBottomRightButton1
/click [button:2] InterfaceOptionsMousePanelClickToMove 1
/console UnitNameFriendlyGuardianName 1

And the Slaves

/click [mod:shift] MultiBarBottomRightButton3; [mod:alt] MultiBarBottomRightButton2; MultiBarBottomRightButton1
/console UnitNameFriendlyGuardianName 1

At the core of it, all it does is click one of the above macros based on what modifier I'm holding. I, however, have my Jamba Item Bar set up as a click bar instead of just using the hotkeys so that when I click something in the item bar, it triggers assist and/or IWT depending on what button I use and then sends the hotkey combination.

Beyond that, the master's version also has a toggle for Click to Move when I right-click the macro to make things a bit easier and a #show line that I use for stuff I'm farming.

If you want to make use of the item bar, you'll need to make sure the macros you're using are all named the same and are in the same location on all your toons. {Or I'm sure you could probably do it using Jamba Macros, too, but I don't know how to use those.}

I have a couple of macros I swap around to use this way. They are set up under my General Macros in the first few slots - named "1", "2", "3" and so on to keep them in the same location in the macro panel so they work with Jamba's Item Bar. 1 would be the above macro. 2 would be my various buff foods. 3 would be profession stuff I do a lot like make bolts of cloth/prospect/smelt ore and so on. This way I just have a collection of macros I can drag and drop as needed into the item bar instead of permanent bindings.

So I finally got to set this up this morning in ISBoxer. I setup the target and IWT on a click bar. For the most part it worked REALLY well. Although some of the stuff to kill were missing above, I think i will be adding those tomorrow when I get the correct names from the mobs. Overall it made quite a difference in time taken to do the dailies and I see it getting better as I fine tune it during the next few days.
Thanks again, amazing work.

[Khatovar]

Yeah, I didn't add the names of the actual mobs you have to kill, just the plants you have to interact with to spawn them. I have autotarget enemies in my actual Dps macros so it would have been redundant with my setup.

[crowdx]

Yeah, I didn't add the names of the actual mobs you have to kill, just the plants you have to interact with to spawn them. I have autotarget enemies in my actual Dps macros so it would have been redundant with my setup.

So in your dps macro you have targetenemy

[Khatovar]

So in your dps macro you have targetenemy

My DPS macros all use

/assist party1
/targetenemy [noharm][dead]

So if party1 is available, they will assist for a target. If not, they will pick their own target.

[JohnGabriel]

My DPS macros all use

/assist party1
/targetenemy [noharm][dead]

So if party1 is available, they will assist for a target. If not, they will pick their own target.

Only problem I run into using targetenemy or startattack in a macro (except for my tank) is often when spamming dps button my slaves will pull the next group of mobs.

I do have it on my tank though.

[Khatovar]

I have long since trained myself not to overspam. No good ever comes from it.

[Ñightsham]

Can't wait to try this out as well..........Thanx Khat

....PS, can I just put you on a retainer for stuff like this

[Khatovar]

Can't wait to try this out as well..........Thanx Khat

....PS, can I just put you on a retainer for stuff like this

Hehe it pays to have time on your hands sometimes.