The Bindstone

1. Install Dark Age of Camelot from the official download page, or copy your existing folder to one named Dark Age of Camelot - Bindstone.
2. Unzip Bindstone into that folder and run Bindstone.exe.
3. Log in. If the realm is asleep, press Wake the Bindstone; it is up in about a minute and a half.
4. Press Enter Realm. The Bindstone stays beside the game with Crew Up, Travel, Buffs and Ready Up.

Windows may warn that Bindstone.exe isn't signed yet: choose "More info", then "Run anyway". It only writes inside that folder, keeps game.dll.stock, and Bindstone.exe --restore-stock puts everything back.

The Bindstone Helper: the strip that stays beside the game once you are in. Six buttons, each for your own character; the orders under Bots move your realm.

Your first night in Bindstone: one evening, using the Helper’s buttons in order.

1. Ready Up. Press Ready Up, take Level 50 and the capped set (choose your class at your trainer first if you are new).
2. Crew Up. A balanced eight around your class, or a named crew.
3. Buffs. All Buffs, on you and the group.
4. Travel. To the war ground; the strip shows where the war is tonight.
5. Fight. The gamebots hold the keeps and run the raids; your crew sticks with you. /crew rejoin brings them back.
6. Bots. When you want the whole realm moved, send it at a keep or call a raid from the Bots button.

Your first night in Bindstone

• Pick a realm and bind at your capital. Albion, Midgard or Hibernia. Your bind point is home; the stone at your capital is where you'll keep coming back. /tc takes you to your capital's Realm Exchange when you need it.
• Fill your group. Crew Up in the Bindstone app fills it out to your realm's standard eight: a song-and-speed support, two healers, a crowd controller who keeps the adds asleep, a shield tank who stands in front, melee for steady damage and casters for the big hits. /spawn adds one class at a time, and /classes lists your realm's classes and what each one does in a party.
• Start the fight on your terms. Target something and /pull: your tank goes in first when it can and the rest follow. Found a good camp? /grind keeps pulling from where you stand until you say /grind stop.
• Set their mood. /defensive keeps the group near you and lets the fight come to you, good for harder pulls. /aggressive is the default: they jump on whatever you hit.
• Find your people. /tele <name> jumps you to one of your realm's gamebots by name, and /faction <message> talks to everyone in your realm, players and armies alike.
• Join an expedition. When your realm marches on a raid you'll hear about it; /raidport drops you at the staging point (not mid-fight, once a minute).
• The war doesn't wait. Your realm's armies keep fighting in the Old Frontiers while you're offline, so check the war below before you log in.
• House rules. One account per person. Companions are for your own group only; there are no companion raids for players. No hacks, no bots of your own, no exploits, and no GMs: everybody plays by the same rules.

Commands

Crew Up, Spawn AA, Travel, Buffs, Ready Up and Bots live in the Bindstone program beside the game.