• Python 2.7.x

Magic. It's a great thing. Stick it on raids and watch the damage go up. But people get real picky about which to apply where, and others have problems keeping up with what the best should be.

This utility is designed to help find the best (and next-to-best) magic for any raid given its tags, which are supplied on the command-line, and the user's status and parameters (e.g. number of mounts owned) in the script itself.

The default configuration for the script is for (mostly) f2p players who have been playing for a long (4+ years) time and have focused on obtaining premium troops/generals, while sometimes splurging a bit on NIPs and other special limited time events.

If you haven't installed Python 2.7.x, install it now before going any further. NOTE: If you have to install Python as a Windows user, ensure that Python is added to your PATH variable during installation; this isn't checked on by default.

Open a command prompt in the directory/folder the script is and type

python dotdmagi.py <N> [T1] ... [TN]

• Where N is the number of magic slots the raid has
• Where T1 through TN aret he tags (e.g. orc, dragon, deadly, etc.) that the raid has.
• T1 through TN may also contain additional options which affects the script
  • profile=maxed sets the OWNED dictionary to max out everything. All the troops. All the items. All the everything.
  • profile=alt sets the OWNED dictionary to have the sort of things that a general purpose raid summoning alt account may have. Also what a new(-ish) player could have.
  • raremagic=true allows for the use of rare magics
  • avgmode=max changes optimization to highest proc damage, for leaderboard hits.

Example 1: You want to find the optimal magic setup for the raid Deadly Drakontos. You look up the raid and find that it has eight magic slots and the tags Deadly , Aquatic , Dragon , Terror. You would type the following into the command-line:

python dotdmagi.py 8 deadly aquatic dragon terror

Example 2: You want to do the same with Deadly Vas'ok. It too has eight magic slots, but has a load more tags: Deadly , Dragon , Shadow Elf , Magical Creature , Underground The people who want to magic this raid also has the good stuff. Rare stuff.

python dotdmagi.py 8 raremagic=true deadly dragon shadowelf magicalcreature underground

Example 3: You want to beat up poor Horgrak. Not even the deadly version, just the poor, abused, oft-slaughtered kobold. He has two magic slots and no tags.

python dotdmagi.py 2

Example 4: Someone gave you a link to a Deadly Black Hand Lieutenant, and it's your job to help magick it up. It has five magic slots and the tags Black Hand , Winter , Human , Deadly. This privately shared raid is also going to be hit by a bunch of high-rolling people, so they'll want it magick'd up accordingly.

python dotdmagi.py 5 profile=maxed blackhand winter human deadly

Example 5: You have a bunch of alt accounts. They're poor and destitute, but you're trying to turn their lives around. So you summon up a Zugen in the hopes that they can nab that Weaponsmith Scroll 5. Thing is, you gotta pick magics that are friendly for the needy. This raid has just one tag: Ogre. It has four magic slots. Pick wisely!

python dotdmagi.py 4 profile=alt ogre

Or just let the script pick for you.

Example 6: Someone gave you a link to a private Deadly Erebus and they want you to help out with magic. Thing is, they want to keep it under wraps so they can work it for leaderboard (Destroyers) hits. This raid has 10 magic slots and the tags Deadly, Dragon, and you can safely assume that the guys hitting this raid are totally tricked out.

python dotdmagi.py 10 avgmode=max profile=maxed deadly dragon

Open up dotdmagi.py and scroll down to the line that starts with

OWNED = {

Below it are the entries full of stuff which the script uses to calculate procs with based on what you own.

'SPELLS' is a list of all the magic you own. You can either use abbreviations or full names.

Entries which contain either True (you own this item) or False (you do not own this item) should only have one of those two options.

Entries which contains numbers may only be non-negative whole numbers.

• Magics that depend on other magics being cast may not return correctly. Work has been done to solve this, but no rigorous testing has been done. Be aware of this possibility.

• Battousai, Brough's Trick, Buster 2.0, Haste, Leprechaun's Luck, Mad Marcia's Momentary Massacre, Magic Torch, Shadow Strike, Web of Aeons, and Wish were not added due to their procs not being quantifiable with available input, not available, or not usable.
• Beastmaster was simplified such that the script assumes your herd of mounts individually is at least 10,000 strong. That isn't hard to do these days.
• Abbreviations/nicknames were altered due to collisions:
  • "Guilbert's Banquet" renamed "GuB" due to Gravebane (GB) existing.
  • "Heaven's Kiss" was renamed (by PureEnergy, thanks a lot) "HvK" (despite "HKi" making more sense). This avoids collision with Hell's Knell (HK).
  • "Intoxicate" named "intox" because Intermission (int) is more important.
  • "Savage Melodies" named "SaM" because Shattered Moon (SM) is still in popular use. Despite this, both are still abbreviated "SM" due to use-case context. (SaM only used on giants and SM only used on humans, and there is as of yet no raid that has both tags)
  • "Shadowstep" was given "SS" although "Shadow Strike" made more sense. It is this way only because the latter magic was omitted (see further above).
  • There are three magics that could have been abbreviated as "dis", which are "Disintegrate", "Dismantle", and "Discord". Those were abbreviated as "disi", "dism", and "disc", respectively.
• The magics you get at levels 2500, 5000, 10000, and 20000 are not given names since they depend on the platform you play on. They are instead listed as the level in which you get those magics. It is up to you to interpret them under the correct name.

It's the MIT License. See LICENSE for more details.

Instead of displaying optimal magics, the script can do other things. Most of these exist for debugging purposes, but they might be useful to you.

• python dotdmagi.py dumpnames displays all registered name/abbreviation pairs, including doubles for sorting purposes
• python dotdmagi.py selftest performs various internal consistency checks and displays the results of those checks.
• python dotdmagi.py dumpavg displays all spells and pairs with their averages calculated. Assumes no tags nor any synergies were applied.
• python dotdmagi.py count displays the number of spells and automatically generated spell pairs (metamagic).
• python dotdmagi.py find=[spellname] searches the database for the spellname or abbreviation (w/o brackets) and prints the found spell's name and abbreviation pair. If the name contains spaces, you must enclose the whole name in quotes. These searches are case-insensitive.
  • Example 1: python dotdmagi.py find=ToTH
  • Example 2: python dotdmagi.py find="Traditions of the Hunt"
• python dotdmagi.py proc=[spellname] searches the database for the spellname or abbreviation (w/o brackets) and prints the proc information it finds. If the name contains spaces, you must enclose the whole name in quotes. These searches are case-insensitive.
  • Example 1: python dotdmagi.py proc=MID
  • Example 2: python dotdmagi.py proc="Mark of the Infinite Dawn"

Another copy of the script was generated via the 2to3 tool to hopefully run with Python3. Cursory testing shows that it does not immediately crash and burn, so run it with care.

To use this, instead of doing

python dotdmagi.py

do this instead:

py dotdmagi3.py

All parameters used will be the same as with the original script

Example: py dotdmagi3.py 10 deadly dragon

• 0.1 - First release. Seems to largely work
• 0.2 - After some revisions and a lot of magic addons, the magic list is as complete as I want it to be. For now.
• 0.3 - Edited procs for additional correctness. Made tag input on command-line case-insensitive. Made the instructions more readable/skimmable.
• 0.4 - Easter egg(s) w(as|ere) added. Performance was improved on very long OWNED['SPELLS'] lists. Work was done to try to solve the problem of calculating cast magic synergies. Profiles added. A toggle to allow use of rare magics added. Added a switch to allow optimization for leaderboard hits.
• 0.5 - Made internal magic name and abbreviation searches case-insensitive. Made the database user-searchable via find and proc commands
• 0.51- Added another magic