The "Things I wish I had known sooner" thread...

ewoksrule

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I will copy this from this great thread on the Official Forums. If anything was missed, please add it.

* When you get a larger bag, you can drag it over the smaller bag and it will replace it and move all the items from the small bag into the larger bag.

* Under Setting->Interface are NUMEROUS checkbox's that can totally change how the game plays for you, including things like targeting my target and showing actualy health numbers in bars, etc

* You cannot chain cast via a single macro, however you can put multiple abilities in a macro and hit the same key and it will cast whichever one it can first. Ie, put reactives, then timed melee, then melee, then timed range, then range and just press the single button. Works great for making sure you dont miss the reactive popup, however in PvP it can make you a little worse because you arent always casting the exactly right ability.

* Runes (from runebreaking) make a HUGE difference in character ability.

* Do more rifts, planar shards matter.

* Purple and Blue planar shards are only good in the zone you earned them, but planite is good in all areas

* If you hit Escape to get to the main menu there is an "Import" button. It will import all settings (keybinds, graphics ooptions, layout, etc) from another character that you have already set up to the one you are on

* This link: Slash Commands- Shows the useful /commands, including such things as how to save and load equipment when you change roles.

* This link: ACT - Shows how to set up Advanced Combat Tracker for Rift (lets you fine tune your damage per second by trying different things and seeing the results) This is for the very technical

* This link: Rift Junkies Combat Parser - is another damage meters addon that is easier to setup. This is for the less technical

* In the Raid window people's names are color-coded by their role.
•Red = tank
•Purple = support (typically Bard)
•Blue = Healer
•Yellow = Ranged DPS
•Brown = Melee DPS

* When you complete some major quests, a diamond appears top center of your screen, click it to claim your loot for that event.

*In settings you can make it so you can queue spells / abilities up (default is short queue, can change to long queue or no queue)*

*Turning VSync off can DRASTICALLY improve your Frames per second*

*Under Settings there is a greyed out Global UI size. This will scale the bags and Character box, which you can not do manually under Edit Layout*

*If you collect an artifact, and when you go to add it the artifact window is just a blank screen - close it, press C, click on Artifact - and your option to add it will reappear*

*The Planar Lure that you get from an early quest will allow you to convert Tears to Rifts. You will get an additional point bonus for doing this, which will boost you up the leaderboard*

*Under Settings there is an Auto PVP Flag option - turning this off will not put you into PVP mode if you accidentally hit an enemy stone*

* When you have to use an item for a quest, no need to search it in ur inventory. Just press the icon apearing in your quest list on screen.

* Press Ctrl+F (default) to search your bags

* When key-binding, hover the mouse pointer over the action bar slot you want to bind a key to and press the key you want to bind to it

* /twitter <text> and /twitterpic <text> to make twitter updates while playing

* To search on H for an item, if you have one copy of it in your Bag, just Right click on this item and AH will auto-search the AH.

* Many NPC's offer daily quests, for crafting, winning Warfronts, or simple quests. Doing them nets you nice rewards, experience, and faction coin for buying special items

* If you have a soul with no training points spent in it, you can swap it out for another soul without going to any trainer. Please note you must have at least 4 souls for this to work.

* At level 13 you can get quests (one at a time) for the other 5 souls you have not already gained. To get it, just go close a rift and then use the item in your bag, then turn in the quest. This lets you have 8 souls to choose between.

* You can have uip to 4 roles (each one costs more) so you can have 4 different setups. Also, you can make a macro that changes your role and all your equiipment (if neede, ie tank to dps spec)
 
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One of the great slash commands I found was in that list linked was:

/saveequip followed by an index number (e.g. “/saveequip 1″)
o This saves the currently equipped set of equipment to the specified index.

/loadequip followed by an index number (e.g. “/loadequip 1″)
o This loads the saved set of equipment from the specified index.
 
This:

*In settings you can make it so you can queue spells / abilities up (default is short queue, can change to long queue or no queue)*

:eek:

I only knew about a 3rd of the stuff listed there. I'll be spending time tweaking tonight for sure!!


EDIT: After looking for this in the settings, I don't see it. Anyone know how to update it?
 
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Also, I am HORRIBLE with macros...We have anyone good with them?

How do you do this?
* You can have uip to 4 roles (each one costs more) so you can have 4 different setups. Also, you can make a macro that changes your role and all your equiipment (if neede, ie tank to dps spec)
 
This:

*In settings you can make it so you can queue spells / abilities up (default is short queue, can change to long queue or no queue)*

:eek:

I only knew about a 3rd of the stuff listed there. I'll be spending time tweaking tonight for sure!!


EDIT: After looking for this in the settings, I don't see it. Anyone know how to update it?

It is under settings - combat - there is a drop down box for the ability queue.
 
Also, I am HORRIBLE with macros...We have anyone good with them?

How do you do this?
* You can have uip to 4 roles (each one costs more) so you can have 4 different setups. Also, you can make a macro that changes your role and all your equiipment (if neede, ie tank to dps spec)

I am in queue so i can't test it but i think you just make 2 macros or 3 or 4 if you bought roles from the trainer.

1st macro
/role 1
/loadequip 1

2nd macro
/role 2
/loadequip 2
 
I am in queue so i can't test it but i think you just make 2 macros or 3 or 4 if you bought roles from the trainer.

1st macro
/role 1
/loadequip 1

2nd macro
/role 2
/loadequip 2

This is going to be awesome when I actually get diverse gear....at lvl 50 with those heroic dungeons it will matter...right now all gear xfers over :)
 
Check out how awesome this is.....

*Calling out Targets with group support*

\\\Calling out a target\\\
mark 1 @mouseover
party Prepare to spike damage in 2 seconds
cast @mark 1 debuff/snare

\\\Rest of team applies damage with this double tap\\\
cast @mark 1 Damage on a cooldown
cast @mark 1 Spammable damage
 
I don't like queue'd abilities for PvP...but I will admit with buffing my motifs in combat they are great for making sure I don't miss one due to GCD!
 
Also, I am HORRIBLE with macros...We have anyone good with them?

How do you do this?
* You can have uip to 4 roles (each one costs more) so you can have 4 different setups. Also, you can make a macro that changes your role and all your equiipment (if neede, ie tank to dps spec)

/mouseover =target
/cast ______ (spell)

/showtooltip for whatever spell
/cast spell (only works with spells with CDs)
/cast spell (again as before)


These work well in pvp. Especially mouseover macros. I use mouseover with basically every spell. Makes life easy.

I have one for my mount so when I mount I say something random.

Also you can work with a random cast. I have 3 different mounts all same speed and I do /castrandom and like the 3 mounts. Works for me and I get a surprise everytime you mount up. Haha
 
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