Class-Specific and Optional Trigger Groups
What are Trigger Groups?
Triggers and groups (folders that can contain triggers or other groups - for neatness/organization) show up to the right of the list of characters you've added to GINA. There is a red box pointing out the three Eternal Sovereign trigger groups in this screenshot:
Trigger groups have a small triangle to the left of their name. If it's a hollow triangle pointing right, like in the following screenshot, it means that group is "collapsed"... the triggers and other groups within it are hidden:
If you click on that triangle, it will turn blue and point down and to the right. This "expands" the group - showing you what's inside it (the triggers and other groups inside it will be "indented" to the right a bit):
Eternal Sovereign has three groups (folders) of triggers that will appear at the "root level" of GINA. The "root level" is what you'd see if you "collapsed" all of your groups as far as they would go.
The first image in this post shows the three Eternal Sovereign groups - "
Eternal Sovereign", "
ES - Optional Triggers", and "
ES - Class Specific".
The Eternal Sovereign Trigger Group:
The
Eternal Sovereign group is the most important. It contains all of the essential triggers that we should all be using when on guild raids.
This group should have only triggers that are relevant to all (or at least most) classes and that most people would agree are worthwhile (even if they may be a bit annoying). All of the triggers in this group should be enabled when raiding with ES.
The
Eternal Sovereign is frequently updated and shared out. It will be continually refined and expanded as we do new raids, learn more about the emotes in raids we've been doing, and come up with new ideas for general-purpose triggers that would be helpful to - and appreciated by - most people in the guild.
We will check everyone's version of the
Eternal Sovereign group before each raid - both to make sure that GINA is working for everyone and that everyone on the raid has the most up-to-date triggers for the raid we're doing.
The
Eternal Sovereign group has three main subgroups:
Common - This group contains utility triggers that are relevant to (or at least not annoying to) most. Things like an announcement when your character hit max AAs and is no longer gaining experience.
Group - This contains utility triggers relevant to grouping (like a heads-up if you've been invited to a group) as well as group-event-specific triggers. For example, triggers related to the Kael AoW group event where you have to kneel (duck) and back off in response to emotes.
Raid - Contains important utility triggers relevant to raiding (like AFK Check, Starting Soon, Wiping, Tribute reminders, and other similar triggers). Also contains raid-specific triggers for any current content (and possibly previous expansion) raids.
The ES - Optional Triggers Trigger Group:
The
ES - Optional Triggers group contains utility triggers that some people may find useful, but that are not essential to us (if they were essential, they'd be in the main
Eternal Sovereign group). It also contains raid-specific triggers for older content that we may not be doing as official ES raids anymore.
It contains three subgroups:
Older Expansion Raid Triggers - Contains raid-specific triggers for older content raids. I recommend un-checking this group unless you are doing an older raid. This will speed up GINA's performance, as the program isn't comparing every line of text from EQ to a list of triggers for old raids that you won't be doing frequently.
Raid Optional Triggers - This contains triggers for current content raids that some people may like and others will hate.
For example, on the ToFS2 (Wedding) raid, there is a special mechanic where your spells won't do anything unless you're closer than 55 ft. to your target when it finishes casting. We made a trigger to alert casters to this. Most spell casters appreciated this, as otherwise they could easily miss that their spells are doing nothing. But it turns out that Rangers can deal archery damage from farther than 55 ft., but were getting angry about the spam from this trigger when their ranged attack spell procs were failing. For that reason, it was moved into the
Raid Optional Triggers group where those who want it (spell casters) can enable it while Rangers can switch it off.
Utility Triggers - This group contains a bunch of utility triggers that some people may love and others will hate. None of them are essential for our raids, which is why they're not in the main
Eternal Sovereign group that everyone should have enabled. Rather, players can pick and choose which of these optional
Utility Triggers they like, and enable just those.
An example of an optional utility trigger is
audio announcements of all mez breaks (note that
text-only mez break announcements are part of the main
Eternal Sovereign group). Some people may like this. Others would find it very annoying and distracting. Because it's in the
ES - Optional Triggers group, people can pick and choose which triggers to enable or disable to meet their preferences!
The ES - Class Specific Trigger Group:
The
ES - Class Specific group contains utility triggers that are relevant to particular classes (like
Cleric or
Warrior) and also groups of triggers relevant to
categories of classes, like
* Mezzers * (Enchanters, Bards, Necros),
* Healers * (Priest classes and maybe Paladins?),
* Tanks *,
* Splash/Group Healers *,
* Pet Classes *, and so on.
As an example, a Paladin might have the following groups selected:
Paladin,
* Tanks *,
* Splash/Group Healers *,
* Rezzers *, and possibly also
* Healers *.
A Magician might choose to have:
Magician,
* Pet Classes *, and
* Ranged DPS *.
This "
ES - Class Specific" folder needs a LOT of work. Many classes and categories are empty or missing entirely. I don't think any would be considered done yet. It's very much a work-in-progress. I have a lot of requests for class-specific triggers, but a combination of being a slacker and prioritizing raid-specific triggers that apply to everyone means I'm behind on working on these. I will get to them eventually, though!
If you have old triggers, triggers from someone else, or triggers you've created that you think should be part of one of the three Eternal Sovereign trigger groups, please contact Cantus in-game or
send a Private Message to Cantus on the forums!
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