kx9488 wrote:i'm wondering if it could be part of, or used with a user function so that it can be turned off and on, or maybe it wouldn't have to from the way i am understanding it's use?
The variable will be stored in
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settings.profile.options.PRIORITY_CASTING
So you could just change that value to turn it off and on.
kx9488 wrote:i would personally like to use this for boss-fighting so that my single target DPS skills get spammed off their cool-downs to burn down bosses,
then turned off to only spam my AoE skills in my profile through the instance's trash mobs (i'm loving you are adding thunderstorm).
You're talking about changing skills priority or sequence. I'm not looking to add support for that but you could put your aoe skills with higher priority and add a 'mobcount' value so they don't get used until a group of mobs or adds appear.
kx9488 wrote:putting a priority value on the skills instead of using a sequential list might eliminate the need to remove all single-target skills in my profile if i only want to use AoE skills for trash mobs and skip bosses.
Yeah, if set up properly the intention is that it can use aoe as part of the regular rotation. And I'm not "putting a priority value on the skills". Enabling priority casting just changes the meaning of the 'priority' values from, the sequence it gets cast to a true priority value.
kx9488 wrote:so i guess my question about this feature:
since purgatory fire/thunderstorm really don't have cool downs, how would someone toggle between only using those skills to farm weak mobs, then skipping their cast on boss encounters with this feature?
will it just count the # of mobs?
Well there's your answer. You use the mobcount value to control when aoes are used.
kx9488 wrote:or is there a ChangeProFileoption_Mage_Purgatory_fire_priority(100) function that can be used in way point for skills to be altered before/after boss encounters?
You can't change the priority of skills after they are loaded. The priority is only used when loading the skills so changing them afterwards would have no effect.