MacroQuest

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Word up Front

Macroquest, or often referenced to as MQ2, is a fantastic tool to help you in game.
Mostly it is used for boxing, since it's the easiest program out there, that allows you to send commands to your box toons.
It can quickly get very detailed and extensive, but this guide is to act as a helpful "start-up" reference.
If you are going to be boxing, it is suggestible to use something like Wineq.
It is very easy to set up, and lets you work easier with multiple clients from the same directory.
If you want to do this, at the bottom of the page, the very last topic, is a "quick" explain on how to.

Ofcourse if you are already very formilar with it, this guide is probably not for you.
MQ2 can also be used in combinations with Keypress, but that is overall even more complicated to memorize / work with.
You can also use / build batch macro's, but this is even more complicated.
It would also require a minimal amount of knowledge regarding scripting this.

For this guide though, we are going to stick to the basics, and a little bit extra.
You can obtain MQ2 here, here, or here (server specific).
Make sure you download the version suited for the EQ client you are running!
There are of course tons of guides, info, and websites to be found on the internet with information regarding MQ2,
and with that in mind, this page is just a guide to get the basic info that is useful to start using it.

Options that are going to be treated

  • Getting started
  • Plugins
  • Sticking
  • group / raid invite and auto accepting
  • Attack
  • Casting
  • Twisting
  • Multilines
  • Delay Commands

Getting started

After downloading, extracting and installing it,
Best / easiest is to right click the rar file, select the option extract to <same name as the rar file>, then after that rename the folder to how you want it,
Cut and paste it to a proper place (it would be best to put it into your EQ directory since it sort of belongs together),
and then from inside that folder, right click the EQBCserver and MacroQuest2.exe files, and copy them to your desktop for easy access.
This is merely a suggestion, you don't have to do this!

EQBCserver is used to proces commands you are giving from your main (or currently played) character to your boxes / the rest.
EQBC means EverQuest Box Chat, or if you prefer to memorize as a more flowing name, EverQuest BroadCast.
Macroquest ofcourse takes care of the rest.

Before you start your EQ client, first run MQ2.exe and EQBC.exe.
Normally the IP set up in the MQ2Eqbc.ini file works properly.
Should it not work properly, you can set it up with your personal IP address.
If you do not know how to do this, find a way on your pc to open up the command prompt (CMD).
The way to open this, varies per windows version.
Once you do have it open, type in ipconfig and hit enter.
In there find the line : IPv4-address, and copy / type over that number in your MQ2Eqbc.ini file, which is located in the MQ2 folder.

Even if the default IP address works, you can change it to yours, it does not make any difference though.
For each following time, before you start up EQ, run MQ2 and EQBC first, that's all you have to do.
The above info is only needed for the very first use.

Plugins

Sticking

group / raid invite and auto accepting

Channels

Attack

Casting

Twisting

Multilines

Delay Commands