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Bots & Healing

Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 4:43 am
by Seipher
Would it be possible to disable bots from casting Heal Over Times?

Re: Bots & Healing

Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 8:15 pm
by Arremis
Would suck for ranger and druid bots he he :D

Re: Bots & Healing

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:07 am
by Tyler
Almost anything is possible - the question is, if it is wanted in general. Adding a new command to toggle this feature would be the best but most time consuming option.

Re: Bots & Healing

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:09 am
by Lillu
BoT AI will change and hopfully improve a lot once we update to the newest revision. The update is on hold atm till Striat is back in action and till we are done with full content review.

Re: Bots & Healing

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:27 pm
by Seipher
Well from what ive noticed so far in my short stint, anything but the paladin is utterly useless to me, cleric just hots which doesnt help at all, druids do nothing but nuke, shamans just debuff/nuke and never heal either, i just think its funny how alot of the population uses Paladin bots if they dont 2 box or something.

Re: Bots & Healing

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 4:56 pm
by Arremis
Tyler wrote:Almost anything is possible - the question is, if it is wanted in general. Adding a new command to toggle this feature would be the best but most time consuming option.


I like the idea.

#bot HealOnly on|off - forces the bot to use only direct heals (not HoT's - they do that normally)

Hopefully though, like Lillu said, the AI will be VERY improved :)

Re: Bots & Healing

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:36 pm
by Ydiss
Seipher wrote:Well from what ive noticed so far in my short stint, anything but the paladin is utterly useless to me, cleric just hots which doesnt help at all, druids do nothing but nuke, shamans just debuff/nuke and never heal either, i just think its funny how alot of the population uses Paladin bots if they dont 2 box or something.
With ranger, shaman, druid you can click off the regen as a temporary measure - in a fight they will opt to direct heal you until high enough health.

This is a temporary work around.

Re: Bots & Healing

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:55 pm
by brasileira
What about giving to shamans/druid that allow them ONLY to heal and another just to Slow/Debuff/Nuke

Re: Bots & Healing

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:45 am
by ChaosSlayer
yeah healer bots are very stupid =)

would be nice to give them specific commands, or rather set them into specific modes , like direct healing mode now!, dps mode! etc

Re: Bots & Healing

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:32 am
by windsofwar
why not.....bot stances.

for example. shammy has 3 stances....healing.....debuff/dps buff

war dps/tank
pal tank/heal/dps

cleric heal/dps?/buff

this would most likely be a major redo for congdar to work on but ive seen stuff like this for players on sod several years ago so its not outside of reason that something like that could be applied to bots.

if i had a single choice though id say either just temporarily disable the hot's till ai rev comes through or a single cmd that applies to any kind of class that can heal to disable hot healing. ok shutting up now :")

ok not shutting up.....i had thought about this the other day but....if my memory servers the bots use a special spell list that refers to a certain non player set of spells in the spells file. if thats the case you could as a temp fix make hots heal more dmg per tick to make them more effective but also increase the mana needed as well so it would be balanced. so bots can still heal consistantly but it would cost as much mana as a chain healing bot :)