New Problems or old?

[kryanforums]

ahh, yeah. Been kinda waiting to see what he has up his sleeve. Hard to run in every direction at once P As sure as I go messin with it, he'll release something tomorrow :P

I have got the fresh DB up and going, and still getting the same errors. sooo, I had to have missed something in the new build. Gonna go take a look at it again. I was running in like 5 directions when I built it last night, so I likely left a wrench layin where it shouldn't be.

[Kaain]

I haven't been doing any raid level bot testing lately on my lan server, but I know that the casting AI for higher level bots is fubar at the moment. My druid stops healing once I ding 34 and #bot update, I stopped using cleric altogether, and bards do have song issues. Most of this has been noted in several threads over the last month or two. I 'think' Wildcard has chosen the AI as his next code project so we just have to be patient for a bit on these. I updated from Rev948 and am currently running Rev1038 windows (not Linux) source and db using the binaries Cavedude made on the 24th. I also made sure to source all the sql files for every rev between the 2 versions from the Updates folder.
From my limited testing this week I can group with 1 or 2 bots, fight until I want to move to another zone, then zone (around 10 different zones on purpose) with the same bots, and they have no problem following me or assisting me except for the ongoing healing issues. Healing is such an issue for me atm that I backed off playing bots until we all get a chance to test some of the AI changes once they start getting released.

[Valdaun]

If you want to "fix" the (Cleric) healing yourself, you just have to remove all the regrowth line of spells from Druids and Shaman in npc_spells_entries or don't roll a Druid/Shaman bot + Cleric bot in the same group. The Cleric isn't super smart, post 39 he will only do a 4 tick HoT on damage and then wait for CH (no middle ground direct heals), but it does work. It's especially worked well for me once I started playing a Shaman as my class. As long as I can get something slowed, the long wait for CH + whatever I might toss out for heals gets us through.

My wife and I are playing on a private LAN server with rev 1038 and we have been doing well in a single group together with 4 bots, or even as a mini raid with each of us leading an additional 5 bots. She plays a Druid and I play the Shaman so we don't encounter the regrowth buff = zero direct heals bug.

[kryanforums]

I reloaded fresh 1038 DB, and sql'd 1039 and up. Working ok now.

The errors I mentioned seeing in the zone server, I think are likely debug errors that aren't seen in the release version of the server? ( at least I'm not seeing an issue in game)

The problem I was having with #bot botgroup command was that I wasn't capitalizing bot names to add them to the group. They HAVE to be spelled as the name appears (Case sensitive) Np there now.

I would like to see pets workin a bit better.. for now I've removed pets altogether, especially after the wiz familiar KS'd Cazic leavin no corpse nor xp from it. ( not sure why but the #bot pet remove cmd does not work for me I get "you must target your enchanter, druid, etc, bot" I've scoured the DB to see if I was missing a field for this but can't see anything missing)

@ valdaun: thanks for that info. Was about to attempt tweaking that to get better results from cleric.. I'll try dropping shammy after buffs! (lvl 51 + atm)