Used: Quickslotted Counterspelling

One of the most annoying changes I found over the various NWN patches was the removal of the ability to quickslot counterspelling. Counterspelling is one of my favorite things to do with casters. Having to click on the enemy caster, and navigate through the radial is a massive pain, and one already is dealing with an initiative check when counterspelling.... trying to click on the caster and navigate the radial cuts out precious moments of time needed to make counterspelling really an effective practice.

I found a module that has an item that will activate counterspelling from the quickslot with an item. It's from Genisys' 1.69 server resources pack ( http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Prefabs.Detail&id=1060 )

1 item, 1 script with tagbased scripting enabled. Put the item into the quickslot, and then target the enemy caster with the item when you want to go into counterspelling mode.

Code:

//Script Name: speedcaster
//////////////////////////////////////////
//Created By: Genisys (Guile)
//Created On: 9/4/08
/////////////////////////////////////////
/*
  This is a tagbase item script for the
  item tagnamed "speedcaster", it will
  run through all of the user's memorized
  spells and have them buff themself very
  fast!  This is the item, because you
  do not have to keep charging the item!
*/
////////////////////////////////////////

#include "x2_inc_switches"

void main()
{
    int nEvent = GetUserDefinedItemEventNumber();

    object oPC;        //The caster
    object oItem;      //This item
    object oTarget;    //The Target of the Item

    int nResult = X2_EXECUTE_SCRIPT_CONTINUE;

//this handles "use" or activation of item.
 if (nEvent ==  X2_ITEM_EVENT_ACTIVATE)
 {
  oItem = GetItemActivated();
  oPC = GetItemActivator();
  oTarget = GetItemActivatedTarget();

//They have to target a creature..
if(GetObjectType(oTarget)!= OBJECT_TYPE_CREATURE)
{
 FloatingTextStringOnCreature("You must target a creature!", oPC, FALSE);
 return;
}

    //They must be a caster to use the item!
if ((GetLevelByClass(CLASS_TYPE_CLERIC, oPC)>0)||
    (GetLevelByClass(CLASS_TYPE_DRUID, oPC)>0)||
    (GetLevelByClass(CLASS_TYPE_SORCERER, oPC)>0)||
    (GetLevelByClass(CLASS_TYPE_WIZARD, oPC)>0))
  {

    //They must be a caster to use the item!
 if ((GetLevelByClass(CLASS_TYPE_CLERIC, oPC)>0)||
    (GetLevelByClass(CLASS_TYPE_DRUID, oPC)>0)||
    (GetLevelByClass(CLASS_TYPE_SORCERER, oPC)>0)||
    (GetLevelByClass(CLASS_TYPE_WIZARD, oPC)>0))
    {
    AssignCommand(oPC, ActionCounterSpell(oTarget));
    }

  }
  //If it's not a caster they are targeting...
  else
  {
  string sMsg = "The target is not a spell caster!";
  FloatingTextStringOnCreature(sMsg, oPC, FALSE);
  return;
  }
}



 //Pass the return value back to the calling script
    SetExecutedScriptReturnValue(nResult);
}

Could we get something like this in Aenea? It'd rock, make spell casting more interresting.

Interesting. I've never actually used counterspelling myself (I often play solo and just prefer to kill my enemies as fast as possible).

I could make it an item, but I want to see if I can get one of the Player Tool feats to do this.

Thanks for the suggestion.

That would rock as a player tool The perfect Aenea Mage's rock compliment to the arcane attacks.

Cool.

of course, this will make life much for interesting for crid in duels

manny's melody of the mundane on Alastair makes casting a nightmare, now he is gonna harass me with counterspells... bah!

this is delightful, I only found counterspelling useful in singleplayer due to the addition of pausing. With the quickslot system back in effect, or well, this replacement, I will be able to use such things online!, or at least here.

An option i would like to have seen was what i used in a console based dnd game i played.

You just had a button that *turned on* the counterspelling ability....and then while it was active any time a caster cast at you it checked for the appropriate spell and if memorized would attempt to counterspell it automatically.

This eliminated the horrid radial search/need to clik a button thing we all hate.

Any update on this and the quick-cast player tool?

MannyJabrielle wrote:Any update on this and the quick-cast player tool?

I'll be testing this after the next planned update. Just added code that will, hopefully, get this working.

looks like this is all done. locky locky?