New Problems or old?

[Melcrin]

To group your bots now you have to use the actual invite button. The problems with bots runs deep. What I have noticed since I began playing again two months ago is the cleric bots don't seem to heal as well as they used to they just use their heal over time spells.

Bots now travel through zone with you but after you zone with them they don't follow you. Bots don't seem to buff you anymore, I believe due to the bot zoning with you addition. The goal I think was to just have bots with you the entire time, so they would simply recast buffs when they wear off. Problem with this is you won't always have your bots with you and so your and the bots buffs will be on separate timers. (problem is with group buffs not singles}

Bards don't seem to sing, they are good for a couple fights then they just quit singing altogether. The #bot picklock command isn't working. Don't use the #bot archery command it will freeze your client. #bot group summon is starting to have a habit of freezing your client.

I'm not sure what happened but when I was playing many months back they didn't seem to have these problems. But hey, you can guild your bots now, so that is cool.

[kryanforums]

Yeah i can group them just fine, but problem is in making a bot group of itself with the new commands. worked ok using the old raid commands, but I think it's likely on my end on most of this.

Bots are zoning with me, healing me, buffing me (they never let a dropped buff go unattended!) and they are following me great, even after zoning. Only time they havent zoned with me (with the new BUILD 1047) is when I died.

On the healing note.. when they arent healing is usally cause I let them go without medding (bad habit of mine) but I have noticed they dont seem to use CHeal, if so i've overlooked it.

Bards, well I can see what they're doing, they *cast* song then they stop until it wears off signaling they need to do it again, but when in combat, yeah sometimes they get engrossed in fighting.


My suggestion on bot buffs would be for a *switch* to turn them on, let them buff, then turn off the buff switch so they focus on other things.

I've been toying with a few ideas, and this *switch* is something I considered looking into.


Overall, no probs with the bots atm, just a mess in my DB or build one.
I'm resourcing a fresh DB as I type this. Hopefully i"ll have some *useful* feedback to report on the bots soon !