Kheldian Binds and Strategies

Just wanted to throw this up here, (not sure how old some of these commands are and if they changed or not since thier posting) but, City of Heroes Bind Macros

Might give you a few more ideas on new keybinds with Khelds, thats how I got started.

Some really great stuff in here.

One thing for me though, I don't use the tab key to cycle all the voids, quants, and cysts because I find sometimes I want to target other enemies (a lot of times it will target a cyst in a faraway spawn when I'm trying to cycle through the current spawn). I just keep tab for normal enemies and use another key for voids/quants/cysts/sappers.

Also, in using a bind to target a corpse for fluffy production, I much prefer to cycle through the next defeated enemy instead of the nearest, just to make sure I can cycle to one I know I just saw go down and not end up losing that fluffy to corpse-disappearance.

Edit: And in case anyone messes up while experimenting with these and binds, say, their 1 key to follow or something, you can use "/unbind [key]." (Was really frustrating when I couldn't figure out why some of my number keys weren't working anymore until I used this).

I've been using this bind and realized some others might want it too.

/bind [key] "powexecname Grant Invisibility$$targetcustomnext Extracted Essence"

Not massively useful, but it is a quick way to give your fluffies each a small survival buff between mobs. If you already have Grant Invisibility anyway for an LotG mule, why not?

Edit: This works better as /bind [key] "targetcustomnext mypet$$powexecname Grant Invisibility" after testing

Followup:
Most of my binds work perfectly... except the teleport part. Sometimes I get a reticle showing up and have to activate the bind again for it to go off..
So I've been following this thread
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...=teleport+bind
which states that lclick is not a valid keyname and that it should be Lbutton.

I'm hopeful wit ha reworking of some of the binds that I get it to the point that the reticle does NOT show up, and that the binds work as my stone tanks teleport does.

btw I've managed to mess up most of my bins.. i'm copy pasting from a .txt document... but that isn't working out so well.

Well after 6 hours of playing around and with the great help of @profit I was able to get my teleporting the way I wanted to.
But first with a bit of a background. I play left handed and I use the Right shift key to jump (smaller hands) so I needed a solution to allow me to jump with the right shift key.
That meant that chrording (Combining a Ctrl;shift;alt key) + another key was out.
That meant I had other options.. assigning a different chord with shadow step and black dwarf step; or set up a .txt load file.
I thought the first way was a bit too clunky and with my keyboard I don't have many chording options that I'd like to.
So ultimately I set up the following Keys:

/bind numpad1 "powexec_toggleoff black dwarf$$powexec_toggleoff dark nova$$goto_tray 1$$inspexecname escape$$ inspexecname emerge$$ inspexecname break_free$$bindloadfilesilent "c:\program files\city of heroes\warshadetp1.txt""

This sets up human form, eats a break free of a sort and loads warshadetp1.txt file The contents are:
ctrl+lbutton "powexec_name shadow step"

Then I set up Black Dwarf form:
/bind numpad3 "powexec_toggleon black dwarf$$goto_tray 4$$bindloadfilesilent "c:\program files\city of heroes\warshadetp2.txt""

and the warshadetp2.txt file is:
ctrl+lbutton "powexec_name black dwarf step"

So this rewrites the same chord option for each form. Now I simply hold down control (rctrl) for me and click to go. Also the sequence in the .txt files needed to be the way they are. Also note that my .txt files are in the folder with the Coh .exe file

I hope this helps out. You don't want to know how many times I needed to reset my keyboard trying to stop the chord.

my teleport bind keeps showing up in my window when i switch to human form.

NUMPAD1 "powexec_toggle_off Black Dwarf$$bindloadfilesilent C:\binds\teleport.txt$$goto_tray 1$$powexec_toggle_on Gravity Shield"


any ideas why?

nevermind, figured it out

good info, thanks!

Taxibot Joe had a great idea for multiple Powexec_name commands in another thread, and I thought I'd quote what he said here for posterity, since he said it so well!

Quote:

Originally Posted by TaxibotJoe apologies if this is one of the guides - I have not seen much mention of this method, but I would not be surprised if this was already common knowledge when you bind multiple pow exec to a single key, only the power on the right gets executed and the rest are never reached, but more interestingly, powers you don't have are ignored for example: area healing /bind numpad0 "pwexecname Healing Aura$$powexec Transfusion$$powexec Twilight Grasp" since you could only have one of those powers, when you hit the zero, the one you have will be executed once you take into account the extra power trays and overriding the default keys, using this method on a Kheld gets even more interesting example follows starting with a PB with nova & dwarf forms as well as Gleaming Bolt & Blast put your dwarf & nova powers in trays 4 & 5 (not that it matters) and leave them open create a bind file so: ADD "powexec_toggleon Bright Nova" SUBTRACT "powexec_toggleon White Dwarf" NUMPADENTER "powexec_toggleoff Dark Nova$$powexec_toggleoff White Dwarf" 1 "powexecname White Dwarf Smite$$powexecname Bright Nova Blast$$powexecname Gleaming Blast" 2 "powexecname White Dwarf Strike$$powexecname Bright Nova Bolt$$powexecname Gleaming Bolt" now, without swapping trays, key 1 always fires the strong attack and key 2 will always fire the weak attack of whichever form you're running at the moment so if you get knocked out of nova, the 1 & 2 keys will fire attacks without having to swap the trays around note: this does not work with powers not chosen or chosen by virtue of being in a form

I edited the main post with this information. Thanks again, Joe!

I just made 2 new binds using what i learned here and a little trial and error that might make you cry with joy.

/bind [key] "+down$$powexec_auto stygian circle$$powexec_name black dwarf"

Simply when you hold down the bound key you will drop out of dwarf form and use stygian circle and when you release the key you will pop back into dwarf form. As an added kicker it also removes the auto power from stygian circle so it will work properly the next time as well!

/bind [key] "+down$$target_custom_next enemy defeated$$powexec_auto dark extraction$$powexec_name black dwarf"

This one is the same idea except it will target a downed enemy and summon a fluffy! and as soon as that long summoning animation is done you will go right back to dwarf form.

For those more clicky types out there it seems you can macro this:

powexec_auto stygian circle$$powexec_name black dwarf

and all you have to do is click it twice real fast for the same effect as the key bind.

I am a macro type of guy and I was wondering if anyone has a macro for my PB? I need one macro to toggle on Shining Shield, Thermal Shield, and Quantum Shield. Then I need a second Macro to toggle on Acrobatics, Super Speed, Super Jump, and Tactics. Thinking of dropping a power to pick up Dwarf. Thanks for your help.

~Big Soto~

I've got an issue with this bind:

I made some macros based off of these binds. What they do was i have a nova and dwrf macros on the far right of my power slot 1. They change the active tray to that form's tray and changes to that form. in that form i have macros with the same name except it turns the active one off or if you click the other form's macro turns that one on. I'll post them in here when I get on the computer that the macros are on.

Me too! I had the same problem with the TP bind after I got Dwarf.

Yeah - this bind isn't working. A simpler way to do it with one key combination is to put your black dwarf step and your shadow step powers in slot 10 of their respective trays.

The bind would then look like this:

/bind shift+lbutton powexec_slot 10

Since you'll be switching trays with forms, then you'll always be assured that whatever power that is in slot 10 will be the one activated, regardless of which tray you've got active (in the bottom position). Since you've put the teleport powers in slot ten in their respective trays, you'll have no conflicts.

Another way to do it is to rebind shift+lbutton in your form switching binds. Looks like this:

/bind [key] "powexec_toggleoff black dwarf$$powexec_toggleoff dark nova$$goto_tray 1$$bind lshift+lbutton shadow step"

/bind [key] "powexec_toggleon black dwarf$$goto_tray 8$$bind lshift_lbutton black dwarf step"

Hope that helps - I've got several sections of the main post to edit with disclaimers, now.

Really? Now that's something I should know, but for some reason didn't. Makes perfect sense, though. Doh.

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