Basically, it makes the life of a warlock much easier. It automatically recasts your buffs when you're not in combat. The little Warlock Buddy GUI consists of 5 toggle buttons.
* General buff toggle: This automatically (and instantly) casts all your long lasting buffs. Should for whatever reason your buffs expire (because you rested or perhaps because you died), then it'll recast the buffs automatically.
* Invisibility toggle: This automatically buffs your Walk Unseen for you when out of combat. When you get Retributive Invisbility, both spells will be cast. Retributive Invisibility only has a 3 round duration, so if you're out of luck, it expires right when you walk in to combat. Fortunately, Walk unseen will also still be cast, so even if the improved invisibility fades, so still remain unseen. If you want to be sure that you keep your improved invisibility, it's still possible to cast the spell manually from the quickcast, ensuring you have a 3 round duration. If you want to hide in combat, you'll also have to cast the invisibility spells manually.
* Flee the Scene toggle: This will continually recast Flee the Scene for you when not in combat. You and your party will travel hasted without you having to do anything for it besides toggling on this button.
* Dark Foresight toggle: This will recast Dark Foresight for you when out of combat. You'll get a fresh new layer of 150 points damage reduction without having to go to the trouble of recasting the buff yourself. Just like with the other buffs, when you want a recast IN combat, you'll have to do it yourself, since automatic and instant recasting during combat would be cheating ;)
* Hideous Blow toggle: The skill that started it all. This toggle button will instantly cast Hideous Blow for you and it will keep recasting it for you every round. When this skill is toggled on, it will also display a list of all essences to choose from. This makes it possible to change your Hideous Blow essence mid combat.
And the good thing, it has it's own scripts, so it won't mess with any other spell changes you may have. The only file that could possibly allready be used is a custom quickcast GUI. (quickspell.xml).
Installation:
- Put all the files in the override
- Go to your installation directory and go to UI\default (C:\neverwinter nights 2\UI\default). Look for a file called ingamegui.ini or ingameguix1.ini and add the below line at the bottom of the first list called [MandatoryGUI]. I added it to both files to be sure (x1 is probably the game used when MOTB is installed, but I wanted to be sure).
SCREEN_WARLOCK=warlock.xml
Should you allready have a custom Quickspell.xml, then open my quickspell.xml and look for the button called WarlockToggle, should be below the spontanious conversion toggle. Be sure to copy the entire button entry (about 10 lines) and paste it into your other quickcast GUI.
For those wondering how to get the Warlock GUI to appear: There's a toggle for the warlock GUI below where the spontanious metamagic toggle is, right next to the metamagic pane of the quickcast menu. That's it. As easy as that :)
I have noticed a problem while using this mod in multiplayer. While playing with my brother, both using WarlockBuddy, if the person that is not hosting activates any of the WB features the games freezes while trying to do a transition to another area. I was trying to play the MotB campaign in a direct connect game. This happens if I host or if he hosts, in either case the one that is not hosting suffer this bug.
Posted by AnthroPlayer at on03/27/08
I came upon and used this a while ago. I am now using it with every warlock I make, a good tool to have. _________________________ @===============================================@ Vinchenzo made a post here. Plz check out my entries. I'm currently making a few simple modules, designing 3 special characters, and hope to someday be good this stuff. This is Vinchenzo, finishing his post with the following advice: Don't use Latin improperly (Lupis means grey, Rufus is red, Canid is dog, so on.) Furries annoy me with their improper usage of such. And I'm a furry!!! Ugh... Don't vote for Beta things unless told they are finished, unless posted specifically by the author. Don't abuse the vote and post function, don't vote for your own/friends stuff just to get a high vote. Don't flame vote either just to be an ass. There is a voting system for how the points are used, even I forget, but we should follow it (and tattoo it to our forehead, lol) @===============================================@
Posted by Ottawa at 2008-01-2116:03:29
I updated to patch 1.11 of OC (not MotB) and Warlock Buddy stopped working for me as well. The menu appears, and the bufs work but Hideous Blow doesn't function. The plyaer's hands glow but no additional damage is dealt out on a successful hit. Any suggestions?
Posted by Aranen at on01/15/08
Realized I forgot to vote for this. This makes the warlock into what it should have been. Thanks for making it.
Posted by Lord at 2008-01-1103:47:09
I've found the bug in a script that prevents Imbue Item from recognizing about a half of the recipes in the game, including the most useful basic enchantments of weapons and armor with Power Essences. I've uploaded the fix and called it "Imbue Item Indexing Bug Fix".
Posted by Dragoon001 at 19:00:08 Voted10.00
Maybe you need to update your ingamegui.ini/ ingameguix1.ini for MotB again?
Posted by GLWizard at 16:32:48 Voted9.75
Hi, chemonz and Antenni- I recently updated to patch 1.11 of MotB (including the hotfix), and Warlock Buddy is working just fine for me. I might be able to help you get WB working for you again, though I'll need to know exactly what's going on. Is the WB toggle not appearing at all, or is it appearing but not doing anything? You can either post a response here or E-mail me through the Vault site, and we can go from there. _________________________ NWN: Shifter Expanded Classes hak, GLWizard Spell Pack NWN2: GLWizard Spellpack with Extra Invocations
Posted by Kunikos at on12/18/07
Great stuff, love how SlimGUI 1.2 has it as part of the installation as an option.
Posted by Antenni at on12/18/07
This is an absolute must for all warlock characters! Though I hope you can update this as soon as possible since after you update your game to the latest the warlock buddy stops working for some reason.
Posted by nicethugbert at on08/26/08
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