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Hiya fellow Scouts,

Have an odd request... Does anyone know an efficient way to create a macro for throwing traps other than taking the batches that I make and adding them to the function keys? /throwtrap appears to be the command, but I can't figure out the syntax... for instance, "/throwtrap Lepacine" says invalid target, whereas "/throwtrap" does nothing (not even an error message).

Idealy I want macros for each trap that will work on any target given that I have the specific trap in my inventory, it gets annoying replenishing my batches in the function keys once I use 3-6 of the early traps, y'know?

Thanks,

-Chima, Wookie Scout, Theed, Naboo, Gorath

would love to see the answer to this... anyone know?

Need to bump this and try and get an answer.....

have you tried using the %%T or whatever it is (book no here, book no here!) at the end of your

/throw Trap TrapName macro? that might get you a 'valid' target but I dunno. Would like to see this work as well.

I figured this out tonight. One of my favorite traps right now is the Sharp Bone Spur, so I have it in the middle of my macro now. The line has to read like this:

/throwtrap sharpbonespur

So other traps would be:

/throwtrap wiremeshtrap

/throwtrap noisemaker

Now macro away!

Just drag your traps from your inventory onto your hotbar. I have shift+F1-F8 filled with all my favourites. That way, I can launch whichever trap I need with no worries.

WEll I could have sworn what I suggested above worked fine last night. Today I type /throwtrap sharpbonespur and my avatar just shakes his head. So then I tried /throwtrap sharp bone spur and still nothing. I don't know now.

I've never discovered the /macro for this, and I spent a few hours (at least) in beta typing everything I could think of. Slapping them in your toolbar seem the only way.

I just drag the trap icon from my inventory into an empty space on the hot key rows up top.

-Zartan-

the brotherhood

Fear what you do not understand

I swear, there's GOT to bea way... we know there's the command /throwTrap, we just don't know how to use it.

Using the function keys is a simple solution, but it isn't good enough. Why? Because you only get 5-10 or so traps per bundle, what happens when you're taking out a mob and run out of traps... I for one don't have the time to waste opening my inventory and either double clicking the trap (much less finding it), or dragging a new set to my function keys.

I still want to be able to type "/throwTrap trap-name target-%TT" and have it find any instance of trap-name in my inventory and throw it at the target-%TT.

Is that so much to ask? It's not like it'd make getting trap exp any easier or give someone an advantage, it'd just quite possibly save my life, or a comrade's life (depending on the type of trap) in sticky situations.

-Loco Micah

as mentioned the drag and drop system seems to work best

I know they've been in mine. Nothing works, and I believe this is totally intentional. I'm not sure why, though, but it probably has something to do with a bug that happened in beta up until late Beta III: If a creature was killed before a trap was succesfully utilized, you could never use the trap again, it would repeatedly tell you "This item/trap/whatever is not ready to be used again." I'm not really sure, because I'm not a programmer, but I'd hazard a guess that its just a mechanical problem with traps that requires you to activate them directly.

I think the fact that dragging the traps to the quick bars working is not really his point. He (Loco Micah) makes a very good point about the reasons why using a macro would be a better option. I tend to agree, and I would have to say there must be some way to make it work, simply because there is a /throwTrap slash command.

Haven't fooled around with it much myself yet, but I'm curious, have the traps been in your default (non-backpack) inventory while trying this?