Buffing NPC - Casting Several Spells

[Riklin]

Level DOES affect the duration of spells. IT's a SIMPLE thing to test. take a level 1 GM level character and type #cast 312. This will cast Valor with around a 3 minute duration. Then type the GM command #level 70 and set your test character to level 70. NOW type #cast 312. The spell lasts for a duration of 54 minutes 6 sec.

Level has been a known entity in spell duration for as long as I have played EQ.

Selfcast uses your stats when it casts the spell you have requested. Level is a key part of determining how long the spell will last (duration). That simple test proves it...

The thing I'm trying to get some answers on is how to increase the duration of a "selfcast" spell. "castspell" works perfectly, but it only works for casting a single spell. It does not work, at least I cannot get it to work, for cases where you want to cast 2 or more spells back to back...

Rick

[Maceblade]

I have been playing around with this for about 30 minutes now trying to help you out and im on one last hope that I figured it out but its doubtful.

I used:

 UPDATE spells_new set buffdurationformula = 11 where buffgroup = 32

spell group 32 seems to be associated with all cleric HP buffs like Aegolism, Courage and Temerity. buffdurationformula 11 is supposed to set the formula to = the entire duration yet seems to not over power the level scaling. Spell group 32 does not change every cleric HP buff its random ones, like tenacity is spell group 1032.

If I knew the buffs I wanted to change the formula for I would do it this way;

UPDATE spells_new set buffdurationformula = 11 where id = 9820 and id = etc etc etc

... you get the point.


*I stand corrected I did get it using that code, however I would do more research on the exact "spell group" before doing it as I did, or perhaps put all the spells you want into a spell group and then you can change them together if you do not like the results. You can effecitvely cast Temerity rk 3 on a lvl 1 using buff bot for a 2 hour duration.

[Riklin]

What makes this even more frustrating is I've tried having an NPC use the castspell command with group type buffs. The problem is that it seems the NPCS do not have "/tgb ON" set, so they cannot cast their group buffs on groups. They only self buff the NPC.

Right now, I have figured out how to cast buffs that do not last for more than 3-4 minutes. Cast spells on a single target only (not the group or pets or mercs. Cast group spells on the NPC, but not the group itself.

It seems like this should not be as hard as I'm making it, but there don't seem to be many options.

One thing that DID work is to temporarily set level to say level 70, then selfcast, then set level back to what it was before. That causes the duration to work perfectly. The problem with this is obvious. Sooner or later the level setting code will fail and someone will be left at level 70...