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A Beginners Guide for the Virindi Tank Plugin

Virindi Tank

Click the Tank icon on the Virindi Views(VVS) bar to open the main Virindi Tank plugin.

Options tab

The main options page handles basic Vtank ranges and a multitude of easy-access options.

For detailed explanations of the individual options on the main tab, visit the Standard Options page

You can also view the entire Advanced Options which will be linked to throughout this guide.

Profiles tab

Macro Setting Profiles

Understanding how profiles are managed is vital to running an organized macro. You will likely have many profiles for different locations and tasks. There are two types of profiles we will talk about: Those with Mine Only enabled, and those without.

• Click the Macro Settings dropdown list
• You will see [Default] and [ByChar] -- You never want to edit settings within these, think of them as templates. You load one, make a save with a specific name, then edit and use the new save.
• [Default] settings will always reset on logout
• [ByChar] is associated with the Mine Only radio button. This is the profile type you will use the most.
• When creating a new character specific profile you want to have the Mine Only radio button enabled, selecting the [ByChar] profile automatically enables Mine Only.

Saving [Char] Macro Settings

• Select [ByChar] from the Macro Settings dropdown then click the "CopyTo" button
• Your chat bar will be filled with the string "/vt settings savechar" -- Type a name after "savechar" and press Enter. (eg. "/vt settings savechar TuskerIsland")
• You will now have a "[Char]TuskerIsland" profile in the Macro Settings dropdown - You can now safely begin making changes to the settings.
  • Changes made within profiles are saved immediately and automatically. You do not have to save after making alterations. This is the reason for using [ByChar] as a template to make new profiles.

Transferring [Char] Profiles to Alt Char.

• To transfer a [Char] setting profile over to another character you will need to load the [Char]profile, disable Mine Only and click CopyTo.
• In your chat bar you will see the string "/vt settings save" - type a profile name and click enter. (eg. "/vt settings save TuskerIsland")
• On the character you want the profile transferred to, uncheck Mine Only and select the Macro Settings dropdown. You will see "TuskerIsland" listed without a [Char] tag.
• You now need to save the cross-char profile as a [Char] profile. Select "TuskerIsland" from the dropdown and then enable Mine Only. Click "CopyTo" and the string "/vt settings savechar" should appear in your chat bar. Type TuskerIsland and press Enter.
  • You should now see "[Char]TuskerIsland" in your macro settings dropdown list.
  • Now you must populate the Items/Consumables tab with your items, and assign any weapon types in the Monster tab that may have become unassigned as a result of transferring the profile.

Auto-Navigation Profiles

• Nav profiles can utilize the Mine Only feature but it is not necessary and is mainly for the sake of organization.
• To create a new route, select [None] from the dropdown and then click the "CopyTo" button - "/vt nav save" will appear in your char bar, type a name and hit Enter
• Build and edit your routes on the Routes tab

Looting Profiles

• Displays a list of loot profiles, select one to load it
• Profiles loaded from your \\VirindiPlugins\VirindiTank folder

• Loot profiles for Virindi Tank are built outside of game using the Virindi Tank Classic Loot System
• The classic looter is extremely powerful. Example profiles are available on the above page.
• Immortalbob.com provides a profile called "Lootsnob" that has hundreds of rules for all manner of armor/weapon/trophies/collectibles.

Meta Action Profiles

• Select a meta profile from the dropdown list to load it
• You build metas on the "meta" tab

Vitals tab

The vitals tab is crucial to your survival. Depending on your skill level you will want to adjust the sliders to best fit your circumstances. Lower level spells do not revitalize as well so the sliders must be adjusted to give you maximum benefit. Trial and error is the name of the game.

• The first three sliders manage your vitals during combat

• The second set of sliders manages your Top-off vitals. When there are no combat targets in range you will recharge to these values.

• The third set of sliders managers your Helper spells

• • Advanced Recharge Options can be used to set exact percentages of vitals, enable Helper spells, and set ranges.

Monsters tab

The monsters tab is where you will manage the different types of attacks, debuffs, and weapons you use against specific monsters.

• Type in a monster name and click Add, or select a monster in the 3D window and click Add Sel.

• Once you have a monster name entered you can set the ways you want to react. Hovering over each of the letters will show a tooltip.
• To change the Dmg type/Ex.Vuln/Weapon/Offhand/PetDmg click the text to cycle through the available options.

The monster list can be very simple or quite complex, depending on your needs and desires.

There are advanced operators and variables you can use to account for very specific situational problems

Check out Monster List Matching for more information.

Items tab

Within the items tab you add all of your weapons/wands/shields/pets you want to use in your profile.

• Select an item in your inventory and click "Add" to add it to the list.

Once an item is listed it can be set in the Monsters tab under the appropriate options.

Advanced Crafting Options

Consumables tab

• If you use any type of gems/foods/healing kits/potions/lockpicks etc, you can add them to the Consumables list and have Vtank automatically use them at the appropriate times.
  • Items that cast spells lasting less than 5 minutes will not work.
• If you don't want to use high level spells you can exclude Scarab types so the spells aren't cast. This is handy for saving on spellcomps when hunting lower level areas on a high level character.

Buffs tab

Vtank reads your characters skills, spellbook, and available spellcomps to determine which spells to cast.

Creature buffs are always cast. Which ones are used are selected automatically based on the skills that you have trained.

• The buffs tab is used when you want to Add or Exclude buffs from your buffing profile.
• Normally you will not need to change anything on this tab.

• Life protections and banes can be selected through the advanced panel by changing the BuffProfile_Prots and BuffProfile_Banes options. The builtin selections are:

   All (Bludgeon, Pierce, Slash, Acid, Lightning, Cold, Fire)
   None
   B (Bludgeon)
   BPS (Bludgeon, Pierce, Slash)
   BPSA (Bludgeon, Pierce, Slash, Acid)
   ALFC (Acid, Lightning, Fire, Cold)
   Custom (see below)

'Custom' element sets are specified similarly to the above, by selecting among the letters BPSALFC. To do this, set the option in the advanced options panel to 'Custom' and then issue a command like the following, replacing BPSALFC with the letters you want:

   /vt opt set BuffProfile-Prots BPSALFC
   /vt opt set BuffProfile-Banes BPSALFC

Set skill thresholds so you can pick up scrolls and attempt to cast spells above your skill level

Advanced Buffing Options

Route tab

This is where you will build all of your auto-navigation routes.

• Turn your character with camera turning must be disabled for auto-navigation to function
• Default movement keys must be used in your keyboard configuration

There are 3 types of routes you can build:

• Circular routes traverse waypoints in the order ABC-ABC.(After last waypoint, will return to first waypoint)
• Linear routes traverse waypoints in the order ABC-CBA. (Will run back and forth from beginning to end)
• Once routes traverse a route just once. Waypoints in the route tab will appear to delete themselves, reloading the route reloads the waypoints (Good for ToVendor/ToDungeon routes.)

• To build a route you simply run while clicking the "Add" button to add waypoints.
• Aside from waypoints you can input Recalls, UseNPC/Portal, Pauses, and Chat commands

• Standard Options
• Advanced Options have tweaks for approach corpse distance, lockpick difficulty threshold, opendoors enable/disable, nav priority boost and others.

Meta tab

The Virindi Tank Meta system is a way to control what the macro is doing on a higher level than normal operations. The system allows you to implement a [Finite-state machine]. This machine consists of rules and states.

Check out the Meta System page for more information.