Skyrider's Favorite Gear-Changing Aliases

This gear-changing system uses up to four different containers, most often the following four: one for a full set of tanking gear, one for a full set of hitting gear, one for a full set of mana gear, and one for all miscellaneous gear. This last category of gear would include items like leveling gear, stealth gear, rogue tools, fletching kits, Bowie knives, whetstones, and so forth.

Benefits of using this system

• You don't need to rewrite these aliases when you get a new piece of gear.
• You don't need to think about what gear you are currently wearing when you use any alias.
• You don't need to worry about any items being put in the wrong bag.
• You don't need to worry about any items being worn in the wrong slot.

Detriments of using this system

• You do need to etch each and every individual piece of gear involved.
• You may not be able to use items that you receive that have already been etched.
• You will produce lots of spam every time that you use some of these aliases.

Example Etchings

Here are suggested keywords to etch on both containers and gear using this system:

• miscgearbag: a container for miscellaneous gear.
  • levelgear: any gear used to maximize stats when increasing in level.
  • stealthgear: any gear used for stealth, such as a Ring of the Rat.
  • corpsegear: an item for working with corpses, such as a Bowie Knife.

• tankgearbag: a container for a full set of tanking gear.
  • tankgear-l: a tanking light.
  • tankgear-h0: a tanking wielded weapon for rogues, such as a Sharp Dagger Named 'Poison'.
  • tankgear-h1: a tanking wielded weapon.
  • tankgear-h2: a tanking shield.
  • tankgear-x: a tanking held-item.
  • tankgear-c: any item of tanking gear that is not a light, weapon, shield, or held-item.

• archgearbag: a container for a full set of archery gear.
  • archgear-l: an archery light.
  • archgear-hg: a longbow for grouping
  • archgear-hs: a crossbow for soloing.
  • archgear-c: any item of archery gear that is not a light or weapon.

• hitgearbag: a container for a full set of hitting gear.
  • hitgear-l: a hitting light.
  • hitgear-h1: a hitting wielded weapon.
  • hitgear-h2: a hitting offhand weapon.
  • hitgear-h3: a hitting shield for bashing, such as a Black and Silver Shield.
  • hitgear-x: a hitting held-item.
  • hitgear-c: any item of hitting gear that is not a light, weapon, shield, or held-item.

• managearbag: a container for a full set of mana gear.
  • managear-l: a mana light.
  • managear-h1: a mana wielded weapon
  • managear-h2: a mana offhand weapon.
  • managear-h3: a mana shield for bashing, such as an Adamantite Shield.
  • managear-x: a mana held-item.
  • managear-c: any item of mana gear that is not a light, weapon, shield, or held-item.

All tanking gear could be etched simply as tankgear, and so forth, to allow for simpler aliases; however, using these variants shown above provides some advantages, as in the following examples: (1) etching lights like this can help psionicists to create effective torching aliases; (2) etching weapons and shields like this can help to ensure that these items are always equipped in their proper slots and whatnot; and (3) etching held items like this may help rogues to create effective more aliases for using some of their skills and tools.

Example Aliases

Here are suggested aliases to change gear that is etched as suggested above:

• For many classes:

 alias weartank      heighten senses : heighten senses : heighten senses : remove all.hitgear :
 put all.hitgear hitgearbag : remove all.managear : put all.managear managearbag :
 get all.tankgear tankgearbag : hold tankgear-l : wear all.tankgear-c : wield tankgear-h1 :
 hold tankgear-h2 : hold tankgear-x : put tankgear-h0 tankgearbag

 alias wearhit       heighten senses : heighten senses : heighten senses : remove all.tankgear :
 put all.tankgear tankgearbag : remove all.managear : put all.managear managearbag :
 get all.hitgear hitgearbag : hold hitgear-l : wear all.hitgear-c : wield hitgear-h1 :
 hold hitgear-h2 : hold hitgear-x

 alias wearmana      heighten senses : heighten senses : heighten senses : remove all.tankgear :
 put all.tankgear tankgearbag : remove all.hitgear : put all.hitgear hitgearbag :
 get all.managear managearbag : hold managear-l : wear all.managear-c : wield managear-h1 :
 hold managear-h2 : hold managear-x

 alias wearoff       heighten senses : heighten senses : heighten senses : remove all :
 put all.tankgear tankgearbag : put all.hitgear hitgearbag  : put all.managear managearbag :
 put stealthgear miscgearbag : put all.levelgear miscgearbag : put corpsegear miscgearbag

 alias stealthon     emote enters |BK|stealth mode|N|... : sneak : sneak : sneak : move hidden :
 move hidden : move hidden : get stealthgear miscgearbag : wear stealthgear

 alias stealthoff    remove stealthgear : put stealthgear miscgearbag : heighten senses :
 heighten senses : heighten senses : wear all.tankgear-c : wear all.hitgear-c :
 wear all.managear-c : visible : emote exits |BK|stealth mode|N|...

 alias levelon       get all.levelgear miscgearbag : wear levelgear : wear levelgear :
 wear levelgear : report tnl : fluff self : grin

 alias leveloff      remove all.levelgear : put all.levelgear miscgearbag : heighten senses :
 heighten senses : heighten senses : wear all.tankgear-c : wear all.hitgear-c :
 wear all.managear-c : emote |BG| romps about in ecstasy|N| as he |BG|gains another level|N|!!!

 alias bashmob       hold hitgear-h3 : hold managear-h3 : bash %1 : stand : hold hitgear-h2 :
 hold managear-h2

 alias butchercor    get corpsegear miscgearbag : wield corpsegear : butcher corpse :
 remove corpsegear : put corpsegear miscgearbag : wield tankgear-h1 : wield hitgear-h1 :
 wield managear-h1

• For archers only:

 alias weararcs      heighten senses : heighten senses : heighten senses :
 get all.archgear archgearbag : hold archgear-l : wear all.archgear-c : wield archgear-hs :
 put archgear-hg archgearbag : hold bolts

 alias weararcg      heighten senses : heighten senses : heighten senses :
 get all.archgear archgearbag : hold archgear-l : wear all.archgear-c : wield archgear-hg :
 put archgear-hs archgearbag : hold arrows

 alias wearoff       heighten senses : heighten senses : heighten senses : remove all :
 put all.archgear archgearbag : put stealthgear miscgearbag : put all.levelgear miscgearbag :
 put corpsegear miscgearbag

 alias stealthon     emote enters |BK|stealth mode|N|... : sneak : sneak : sneak : move hidden :
 move hidden : move hidden : get stealthgear miscgearbag : wear stealthgear

 alias stealthoff    remove stealthgear : put stealthgear miscgearbag : heighten senses :
 heighten senses : heighten senses : wear all.archgear-c : visible :
 emote exits |BK|stealth mode|N|...

 alias levelon       get all.levelgear miscgearbag : wear levelgear : wear levelgear :
 wear levelgear : report tnl : fluff self : grin

 alias leveloff      remove all.levelgear : put all.levelgear miscgearbag : heighten senses :
 heighten senses : heighten senses : wear all.archgear-c :
 emote |BG| romps about in ecstasy|N| as he |BG|gains another level|N|!!!

 alias buthercor     get corpsegear miscgearbag : wield corpsegear : butcher corpse :
 remove corpsegear : put corpsegear miscgearbag : wield archgear-hs : wield archgear-hg

 alias skincor       get corpsegear miscgearbag : wield corpsegear : skin corpse :
 remove corpsegear : put corpsegear miscgearbag : wield archgear-hs : wield archgear-hg

This first group of aliases above may be very easily edited for characters that use only one or two sets of gear instead of three by simply deleting all irrelevant commands from them.