Discussion: Mage tool bar setup.

Dumoss · Post by **Dumoss** » Wed May 07, 2003 3:31 pm

I have started playing a mage a little more (at least an hour or 2 a night).

I have been adjusting the spells all over the tool bars.

I still have yet to find the best layout for me.

I known that this would be all opinion based, but I am looking for help from some of the expert mage players on their toolbar configurations.

Phade · Post by **Phade** » Wed May 07, 2003 3:47 pm

Well remind me when I get home and I'll give you mine

Dumoss · Post by **Dumoss** » Wed May 07, 2003 4:13 pm

Ty you Phade, I would like that.
But I would also like to have something documented here on the forums for all clans members.

As I think this would help many people.

I will get with you IG

Pipi · Post by **Pipi** » Wed May 07, 2003 5:20 pm

Hmmm my tabs are

I = all my various play around spells.
II = My buffage spells
III = Banes
IV = Portals and weapon buffage
V = Others spells
VI = PK / Monsties Debuffs
VII = Tab of death for all.

Flanker · Post by **Flanker** » Wed May 07, 2003 5:29 pm

Here is the way I set mine up. I also use the Dysfunctional plug in which provides extra quick slots by hold the CTRL key and the according #

All spells are level 7 unless otherwise specified

Tab 1
Stam to mana
Revitalize self
Health to mana
drain health
drain stam
drain mana
Stam to health 1
Heal self
Heal other
Harm other
Dispell critter
Dispell Life

Tab 2 War spells alpha order
Whirling Blade (slash)
Shock wave (blug)
Peirce
Acid
cold
Fire
Lightening
Then ring spells and wall spells plus a few streaks and volly's

Tab 3 corresponding vulns
Blade vuln
blug vuln
peirce vuln
acid
cold
fire
lightening
Imperil
yield
yeild 1 (for dragging mobs you already vulned)

Tab 4 Banes
Imp
Blade
Blug
Peirce
Acid
COld
Fire
Lightening
BD
HS
Defender
SK
Heratic Link

Tab 5 (life prots)
Armor self
blade self
blug self
peirce self
acid self
cold self
fire self
lightening self
then life prots other's

Tab 6 buff other people
all weapons
then all attributes
then all other critter buffs

Tab 7 critter self
Critter self
focus
will
mana c
life
war
item
then attributes
then other skills (loaylty, leadership, melee d, sprint, magic d)

On dysfunctional tab
Tab 1 dagger, sheild, health potion, lock pick and the likes
Tab 2 all portal spells
Tab 3 debuff others
Tab 4 misc

Tynerion · Post by **Tynerion** » Wed May 07, 2003 5:58 pm

I once asked my patron Ishamael this question once. And his answer was.. "you don't want to know!"..

Hehe, I guess so I would blame him when I got confused and got wiped out because I couldn't find my Stam to Health spell fast enough.

So even though I think there is no "right" or "wrong" way to lay out your spell tabs, I'll give you an idea of what I have set up. In the end though, it is what makes you most comfortable.

Tynerions Tab setup:

Tab 1 - This is my fighting tab. All vulns/imp/fester/yields/drain and war spells are on this tab. And there's a bunch of them so it is my largest tab. Because of this, I have limited it mostly to war arcs except in a few cases. If I put all my war spells including those special ring and column spell on here, it would become extremely unwieldy and I would be scrolling alot.

Also, I put my most used vuln/war combos at the beginning of this tab. Fire/Bludge are my favorites so they are always in sight. I also stick drain at the beginning because when I only have 10 health left, it's nice to have it right in front of me.

Tab 2 - I put my healing/mana/stam/heath transfer spells here. When I am fighting Tab 1 and 2 get most of the action, and I switch between them alot. Because of this, on the end, I drop a few of the war-ring spells like cassius and the bludge one in case I am surrounded by tuskers or olthoi which I usually am.

Tab 3 - I put all of my "Other" Buff spells here. If someone at the mansion asks for fletching/focus/coord, I go to this tab. It's better than setting up a billion NB routines.

Tab 4 - This is where all my "Self" buff spells reside. Though I rarely use this tab since NB contains most of what I typically need, it doesn't have everything like LP and Dagger mastery for the sake of keeping my buff times short. So when I need it, this is where I go.

Tab 5 - This is my portal tab. All of my tie spells, Primary/secondary portal spells, individual portal spells like Aerlinthe and Alpha Lassal go here.

Tab 6 - This is where I put all of my Item/Weapon bane spells. Again, NB does most of the work in this area, but I don't always bane elementals to keep the buff routine shorter. And since someone often needs thier weapon buffed, I can hit the 4 spells for that quickly.

Tab 7 - This last one is kind of mix and match tab. Firstly, I have the War specialty Ring and Wall spells there that are not used alot and then I put those that would typically be used for PK like ineptitudes and such.

So there you have it. I am pretty sure that everyone that posts will have a different setup and all are good. This works for me because I am used to it. And any setup you are used to, is always a good setup.

Magickid2002 · Post by **Magickid2002** » Wed May 07, 2003 6:01 pm

hey this way has always worked for me somehtign I saw my friend doing and it's aweosme in my opinion

tab 1) Self buffs
tab 2) other buffs
tab 3) Vulns
tab 4) war spells
tab 5) Item spells
tab 6) secondary war spells if I have vitae or the such
tab 7) all spells of the next lvl. i/e ( I cast 5's easily but with bufss I can cast 6's they go on this tab.)

and if you didn't know about being able to use the INSERT/PAGE UP to scrool through tabs

and you can use DELETE/PAGE DOWN to go to certain spells and the END button to cast them

INSERT: changes tabs from greatest to smallest tab 7----> tab 6 ----> tab and so on

PAGE UP: changes spell tabs from smallest ot greatest tab 1-----> tab 2--->tab 3 and so on

DELETE: GO TO THE NEXT SPELL TO THE LEFT

END: CAST SELECTED SPELL

PAGE DOWN GOES TO THE NEXT SPELL TO THE RIGHT

good luck and I hope this helps

GK

Pipi · Post by **Pipi** » Wed May 07, 2003 6:02 pm

Let me lay this little tool of wisdom on you Ranger. This is good for both PK and PVM. Stam to Health 1 or 2. Nothing better for emergencies. Saved my butt many a time. And gives you that little bit of time to replenish yourself rinse and kill the rest of the goobs beating on you.