(Dev ?) Rare/Ex Ammo Woes!!!

Its very common to quickly do 2x Quickdraw to help get yourself over 1k TP to do a weaponskill.

So in a short spam of time the current system fails because in a short span on time during laggy combat:

1) You swapped gearsets from Ranged Tp / Melee Tp set to Quickdraw Set
2) used /ammo and another macro to switch to quickdraw ammo
3) used another macro to remove the ammunition once you've executed 1-2 quickdraw
4) swapped to ranged weaponskill set and different ammunition to execute the weaponskill

I just did a full round of naakauls to exchange the paragons for another Animikii Bullet, and did 3 hurkans this week to store a spare bullet in my delivery box in case I lose them.

You introduced rare shuriken and make that give a full pouch of 99 shurikens which ninjas can go crazy with an use Sange/Daken with - so when can you give corsairs at least a bullet pouch that would just dispense a single animikii bullet every hour (with 99 charges or something)

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Originally Posted by Sapphires

2) used /ammo and another macro to switch to quickdraw ammo
3) used another macro to remove the ammunition once you've executed 1-2 quickdraw

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Just add /equip ammo "your ammo" before your /ra for #2 and then /equip ammo after /ra (after a wait perhaps depending on lag). {If you want to use multiple different ammo then you can always have a macro for each ammo type. each macro will equip it and then perform the /ra and then unequip slot}

The point is that as long as you make it a habit that you never ever have anything in your ammo slot, then you can never ever accidentially shoot the ra/ex ammo when you only ever equip that ammo before your QD and remove it immediate after as well.

I just put none ex/rare ammo for TP/WS set, and added a /wait 1 /equip ammo none ex/rare ammo right after QD macro.

So everytime when I fire off QD it should swap back, if it doesn't then I can click WS/TP macro to swap the ammo back. Everytime when I do an event I just make sure I have 1 full stack of none ex/rare ammo so I don't run out, if I do /ra events I make sure I have 2 stacks.

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Originally Posted by Dreamin

just add

/equip ammo

to the very last line in your macro.

If you want to be double sure, add that into a separate macro and hit that before and after every fight/entry-exit of BC/etc.

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Just for the record, this works great! *BUT* I have this on *all* my macros, and on my /equipsets I have it swap to a "bullet" as well. And yet - as mentioned in my original post you can still loose the bullet - I'm pretty sure Iron Giants and the Birds in Flux 13 WOE can cause an encumbrance state which does not allow you to swap the bullet and loose it on a WS unknowingly. (If the move goes off the instant you start you WS) I know I have lost at least 1 this way. Hence my sheer frustration with the issue.

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Originally Posted by Yottaxa

Just for the record, this works great! *BUT* I have this on *all* my macros, and on my /equipsets I have it swap to a "bullet" as well. And yet - as mentioned in my original post you can still loose the bullet - I'm pretty sure Iron Giants and the Birds in Flux 13 WOE can cause an encumbrance state which does not allow you to swap the bullet and loose it on a WS unknowingly. (If the move goes off the instant you start you WS) I know I have lost at least 1 this way. Hence my sheer frustration with the issue.

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Yeah those encumbrance will lock it so you won't be able to unequip it. My advice is still to make a separate macro that does nothing else but to empty the slot (/equip ammo). So if in doubt, just hit that 1st.

Sadly, there's no perfect solution. Just work around that can get you almost as close to prefect as possible.