Daurdabla, Song Overwrite Order

Something like this maybe?

<var name="When">Midcast</var>

<!-- Equip harp and low dura gear for dummy song -->
<if spell="DummySong" buffactive="Nightingale">
<castdelay delay=".2" />
<if NotEquipRange="Daurdabla">
<equip when="Precast">
<range>Daurdabla</range>
</equip>
</if>
<equip when="$When" set="LowDurationGear" />
</if>

<!-- Change "when" variable to precast if Nightingale is up -->
<if spell="Nightingale">
<action type="Var" cmd="set When Precast" />
<cmd when="Precast">wait 60;sc var set When Midcast</cmd>
</if>

Change the "DummySong" to whatever song you want to use and increase the wait 60 if you use relic +2 aug.

You can see from the code from Thorbean above that you'll need to make sure you don't use duration enhancing gear for your dummy song. You can use that code if you'd like and depending on how your current xml works it should be able to take care of it.

I just recently revamped my brd xml to make it less laggy. I've taken out many of the wildcards (*) and variables so it runs faster and doesn't stutter the game anytime you cast for those who don't have amazing processors.

I've posted my older version around a few times but you can look at this one if you'd like.

http://pastebin.com/6LpzhP43

If you don't have Gjallar you will need to change the instruments it uses in the rules area(technically there are 2 spots for each type, this ensures that the instrument is geared on both precast and midcast just in case you use instacast gear or are in abyssea with the atma).

I've only been using this version for a few days but so far it works pretty well and I got rid of a few bugs from the last version. But if you run in to a problem, it could very well need fixing. So let me know if you find any issues or just need help.

http://pastebin.com/QXGr2NB2

This is the SC I made for me. not anything fancy or copy/pasted from someone else. just a workaround on daurdabla, aftercast gear and autopianissimo (btw... I know I could have made it more simple.. like using a variable for the weapon, only thing that change in precast sets, or using song elements but meh... its SC lol)

this is what cast.txt have

and In game 1 Macro,
/console sc var set instrument Daurdabla
/echo Daurdabla Next Song.

So for 3rd song I press the macro Once, and the next song will be casted with daurdabla.

For you w/o Gjallarhorn its more complicated but doable using a Variable like 3rdsong , the macro would be /console set var set 3rdsong 1, /equip daurdabla, / echo daurdabla next song, the a rule if that variable is 1, lock in range daurdabla and in the .txt instead having "sc var set instrument Gjallarhorn" would be "sc var set 3rdsong 0",(sorry for this explanation, just supposed that you might have a little knowledge of basic coding to understand what I said.)

I used to use the spamming macro to equip daurdabla mid song, But I never used Nightingale, My precast gear let me cast song @ 18-25%, even w/ troubador(25-30%) they cast fast enough.

AI just can suggest you.. start working on Gjallarhorn if wanna make your life less painful coz overwriting songs issues. No matter "dumb" song you use.. daurdabla alone => +3 songs, so by the time you cast your 4rd song(after the dumb one), the first one will have pass enough duration to be replaced by the real 3rd song.

Thanks. I guess I should have been clearer that my issue is getting up the third song at all with nightengale, not even worrying about overwrite at this point. If there was a way to set it so it knew if I'm doing my third song and buff active is nightengale, that would cover it, but I can't figure anything out that works consistently. I am working on ghorn but again would have the same issue I'd imagine regardless of instrument because it's just to get that dummy song up to begin with that's an issue in this situation.

I will have to see if any of these work for me. I appreciate the responses:)

If you want to work it out yourself:

• A song that is currently up will not replace itself unless the remaining duration is below two minutes.

• A new song (not currently applied) will always overwrite a song.

• When a non-same song is overwritten, it is always the one with the lowest remaining duration, even if that it is the most recently cast song.

With Nightingale up and 5/5 merits songs are instant, so your macro to swap to Daurdabla won't be fast enough to ensure you get a 3rd song.

The way I did it, was to make it so when I hit a macro, the next song will use Daurdabla, I also have trigger songs that always use daurdabla. Between these two methods, it works fairly well.

My variable is <var name="3rdSong">0</var>

When 3rdSong is 0, nothing happens and it simply skips that rule.

When 3rdSong is 1, it passes so it goes in to this rule section and makes me lock daurdabla on.

Note that this rule retains duration bonus gear as it currently is, I generally only use this when I need to get songs up fast and I can't wait for placeholder songs.

If you want to make a certain song use darudabla as a trigger just use this:

This locks the Daurdabla set in which has no duration gear but has fastcast/songcast gear so you cast faster when Nightingale isn't up.

I hope that helps you get your issue solved.

Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about- 5/5 Night./Troub. Do you need to make in game macros to hit before each song in addition to using this code or does it do it automatically? Is your only variable for 3rd song? This looks like exactly what I am looking for! Thank you!

In the second code, why is the variable for 3rd song in there if you're always using a Daur for that song? Is your "Daurdabla" set just a set with no duration gear? I currently have Daur also included in my code for those songs for typical third song casting and that's working well for me.

If you want to use daurdabla with ANY song, just make a macro that changes the var to 1. And yes, only use this for the song you want to use daurdabla with.

/sc v s 3rdSong 1

If you want to have a song that always uses daurdabla, use the second section of code and use any of the songs in the rule to put up the 3rd song.

I put it in there just in case I hit the macro prior to using one of these songs. It just resets the variable to 0 so the next song won't use it.

This is my Daurdabla set:

This works, thanks! I'll have to take a look at the rest of the code to update my SC, but for third song, works very well!!! Solved my problem :)