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Making Presets

Tools to Make Presets

Most presets are not made directly in duties or events. They are created using recordings of them, provided by a first-party plugin called A Realm Recorded. This is available directly through the /xlplugins command. It records any duty and you can play them back at any inn.

Triggevent is an addon for ACT that is helpful for figuring out triggers, effects, and other game events happening during a fight.

Lastly, BossMod has a useful replay feature to capture all of the events that happen in a duty into an organized log file for you to reference when developing a preset. Another helpful feature of BossMod is when it gets updated for a certain fight, a list of all of the encounter's spells are published to their GitHub. See here for an example.

Naming

Presets should adhere to the following naming scheme:

  • Groups are named after the dungeon, trial, boss name, or raid, prepended by it's abbreviation, difficulty, or level. Some examples (the text in parentheses is not required):

    • EX1 - Worqor Lar Dor (Dawntrail's first extreme trial)
    • 97 - Worqor Lar Door (Dawntrail's first normal trial)
    • P1S - Erichthonios (Asphodelos: The First Circle, Pandæmonium's first boss on Savage difficulty)
    • 97 - Alexandria (level 97 dungeon)

  • Layouts are named after the mechanic or boss it covers. This may not be adhered to all the time, but please try to stay true to this when developing new presets. Some examples (the text in parentheses is not required):

    • Avalanche (for EX1 in Dawntrail)
    • Half Full (for EX2 in Dawntrail)
    • Amalgam (for the second boss of the level 100 dungeon Alexandria in Dawntrail)

  • Elements you have free reign over, just try to be descriptive of what the element is. For example, during Projection of Triumph in Dawntrail's EX2, the elements are called Line Donuts and Line Point-blanks.

Most importantly, make sure everything is descriptive.

Advice

If you have any questions, the Splatoon channels on the Puni.sh Discord server are a phenomenal resource and many of the preset creators are active and will answer your questions. We're always happy to have more help creating presets for new content.