My thugs/poison keybinds - might be useful for you

Yo.

So I just started a thugs/poison MM. After a good 20 lvls I got bored with clicking an injured thug then cliking my heal so I read up a bit on some keybind guides, messed around ingame alot and a couple of hours later I ended up with the following keybinds. Don't really know if this is common knowledge for you guys or not but if I can help out just one guy I guess it's worth it, right?

First off, the following stuff should be put in a normal text file (ie. notepad .txt format) and put in some library, your choice, I just put it where I put it for convinience. Also remember to make sure that there is no extra lines before or after you copy/paste it into the file. I'll explain what it does later in the post.

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e petcom_pow Thug Attack Aggressive
lshift+e petcom_pow Thug Follow Defensive
lctrl+e petcom_pow Thug goto
alt+e powexec_name Call Thugs
r petcom_pow Enforcer Attack Aggressive
lshift+r petcom_pow Enforcer Follow Defensive
lctrl+r petcom_pow Enforcer goto
alt+r powexec_name Call Enforcer
f petcom_pow Bruiser Attack Aggressive
lshift+f petcom_pow Bruiser Follow Defensive
lctrl+f petcom_pow Bruiser goto
alt+f powexec_name Call Bruiser
g petcom_all Attack Aggressive
lshift+g petcom_all Follow Defensive
lctrl+g petcom_all goto
f1 "pet_select_name Bruiser$$powexec_name Alkaloid"
f2 "pet_select_name Enforcer$$powexec_name Alkaloid"
f3 "pet_select_name Enforcer$$powexec_name Alkaloid"
f4 "pet_select_name Punk 1$$powexec_name Alkaloid"
f5 "pet_select_name Punk 2$$powexec_name Alkaloid"
f6 "pet_select_name Arsonist$$powexec_name Alkaloid"
lshift+f1 "pet_select_name Bruiser$$powexec_name Equip Thugs"
lshift+f2 "pet_select_name Enforcer$$powexec_name Equip Thugs"
lshift+f3 "pet_select_name Enforcer$$powexec_name Equip Thugs"
lshift+f4 "pet_select_name Punk 1$$powexec_name Equip Thugs"
lshift+f5 "pet_select_name Punk 2$$powexec_name Equip Thugs"
lshift+f6 "pet_select_name Arsonist$$powexec_name Equip Thugs"
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Then ingame type the following: /bindloadfile "D:\City of Heroes\covbinds\binds.txt"

Okay, here is what it does:

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e petcom_pow Thug Attack Aggressive
lshift+e petcom_pow Thug Follow Defensive
lctrl+e petcom_pow Thug goto
alt+e powexec_name Call Thugs
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First line means that when I press e all my minions will attack my target, and go into aggresive mode.
Second line means that when I press left shift and e all my minions will go into defensive mode (bodyguard) and follow me.
Third line is all minions and the goto command (excellent for melee pets, learn to use it).
Fourth line simply activates the summon power of the minions.

This is repeated for all 3 groups, minions (e), lts (r) and the boss (f) aswell as all pets at once (g).

Also note that this above stuff works on GROUPs, ie, minions, lts and the boss. Other stuff works on names, as explained below. So, no need to change stuff here.

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f1 "pet_select_name Bruiser$$powexec_name Alkaloid"
f2 "pet_select_name Enforcer$$powexec_name Alkaloid"
f3 "pet_select_name Enforcer$$powexec_name Alkaloid"
f4 "pet_select_name Punk 1$$powexec_name Alkaloid"
f5 "pet_select_name Punk 2$$powexec_name Alkaloid"
f6 "pet_select_name Arsonist$$powexec_name Alkaloid"
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This is the magical "one click target and heal"-line. Say I got an enemy selected, then one click of f6 will target my arsonist and throw him a heal. Neat.

The above works on NAMES, so, replace Bruiser/Enforcer/Punk 1 etc. with the names of your pets.

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lshift+f1 "pet_select_name Bruiser$$powexec_name Equip Thugs"
lshift+f2 "pet_select_name Enforcer$$powexec_name Equip Thugs"
lshift+f3 "pet_select_name Enforcer$$powexec_name Equip Thugs"
lshift+f4 "pet_select_name Punk 1$$powexec_name Equip Thugs"
lshift+f5 "pet_select_name Punk 2$$powexec_name Equip Thugs"
lshift+f6 "pet_select_name Arsonist$$powexec_name Equip Thugs"
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Targets chosen pet and casts the buff. NAMES again, so change to match. Once you hit lvl 32 and get the final upgrade, just copy/paste those 6 lines above, change the buff name to match and change the hotkeys to lctrl+f1 - lctrl+f6

The following is the GROUP names for the other type of pets. So remember to replace only in the GROUP section.

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Robots: Battle/Protector/Assault
Mercs: Soldier/Spec/Commando
Undeads: Zombie/Grave/Lich
Ninja: Genin/Jounin/Oni
Thugs: Thug/Enforcer/Bruiser
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So, basically what all this allows me to do is being a tad more flexible with my pets. I can have my bruiser attacking a boss while my lts goes for something else and finally I can have my minions standing in bodyguard mode protecting my skinny a**.

I wrote all this about 5 am in the morning so if you guys can't figure out what I'm rambling about either ignore me or slap me around.

Hey Metheon_

Cheers for the post, the alkaloid pet heal bind is great, I've been doing it the old fasioned way for 32 levels!!! Never again

very very nice, might have to steal some of those

Can't wait to try these out at home. Have been using the num pad binds, while very good i hated to have to switch between W A S D for movement and num pad for pet controls.

Hope these work out as well as i think they will once i get used to them.

Cheers for that

As I have gotten more familiar with playing the whole mastermind AT I have changed the keybinding slightly. I hit level 34 last night and I can tell you it's simply hell having to use goto on your brute all the freaking time. Anyways, it should be quite obvious what and how you can change it around. I currently have the bruiser commands on E, enforcers on R, all on F and thugs on G. I hardly ever take the thugs out of defensive/follow. I don't have a self heal so I need the BG mode to keep myself from faceplanting all the time, so that is why I moved thugs to G (harder to reach for my fingers). He's mostly a solo character, and I have only died 6-7 times in those 34 levels, even on relentless.

The one-hit-heal thing is starting to annoy me. Atleast for me it seems to occasionally needing two presses to work, say 1 out of 10 times on average. As it DOES work as intented most of the time I am willing to bet it's the game that causes the fault, and not poor binding code on my behalf.