"Buff Bot" help
 

I've got an npc that I'd like to hand out buffs to those players who ask, aka the good ol' "Buff Bot".

The issue I'm having is that I can't get her to cast group spells on the target, they won't land on the hailing player or anyone else. I have to set her up with the single target version of the spells to get anything to work.

Here is a simple example below. I've commented out the line where she casts Conviction, but it does work, she casts Conviction on the hailing player if I uncomment that line. What I want her to do instead is cast Hand of Conviction on the player so it will land on the whole group, but it won't land.

sub EVENT_SAY
{
if($text=~/hail/i)
{
$npc->Say("Buffs for you!");
#plugin::CastOnGroup(5257, 0, $client); # Conviction
plugin::CastOnGroup(5278, 0, $client); # Hand of Conviction
}
}

Buff says 'Buffs' for you!
Buffy is filled with a powerful conviction.

The above line is the verbose text in game, it shows that she just casts it on herself. This sounds like a /TGB ON issue if it were a player, but it's an NPC so I'm a bit confused.

Below are the comments in the plugin itself, I don't think I'm using it wrong.

Thoughts?

# Usage: plugin::CastOnGroup(SpellID, MaxDist=0, Client=$client);
# This script will cast the spell on the client's group from an NPC (such as a buff bot).
# SpellID - This is just the spell ID to be cast.
# MaxDist - This is an optional field for setting the Max Distance for the spell to land on group members.
# The Default 0 setting for MaxDist disables the check for distance so it will be cast on all group members in zone.
# Client - This is an optional field to set a specific client to cast buffs on their group (Default is the client interacting with the NPC)

You looked at this at all? http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=36479

For scripting, there is a TON of stuff here in the forums. Just have to look around for it.

Also, I'm pretty sure if you're casting group buffs you don't need to castongroup. I think castspell will accomplish the same thing.

I'll try castspell instead of castongroup when I get home.

This is the script I have on my buff bot. It checks for a group and levels, then
cast the appropriate spells.(setting NPC level to 70 helps with buff timer).

Thanks all for the assistance. Below is what I ended up writing for levels up to 70. It will iterate through the hailing pc's group and give them the level appropriate buffs.
I didn't bother testing group buffs, I just buffed everyone with the single target versions.
I'm still an extreme novice with Perl but I'm learning (I'm mostly proficient in C#, Java).