* Paladin buff logic: Sanctuary+Kings synergy, role-aware targeting, safer Greater buffs
* Update PaladinActions.cpp
* Update PaladinActions.cpp
* All configs should be implement into PlayerbotAIConfig and sPlayerbotAIConfig used in code
* added: prayer of fortitude
* Magic number removed
* Update PaladinActions.cpp
* Update PaladinActions.cpp
* Update PaladinActions.cpp
* Update PaladinActions.cpp
* Update PaladinActions.cpp
* Add patch for solo paladin in group
* Correction review
* Update PaladinActions.cpp
* Add harcoded text to DB
* Shaman Overhaul
Hello everyone,
I bring to you the Shaman Overhaul. This was the most fun project I've had so far.
Here is a simplified list of the changes this brings:
1. Added Call of the Elements - making the shaman able to set 4 totems down simultaneously! This saves them multiple global cooldowns in combat.
2. Totems are now selected based on their combat strategies. These strategies set totems on the Call of the Elements bar, as well as change what totem is summoned if a single totem is missing. NOTE: Only one strategy of each elemental type (earth, fire, water, air) can be active at a time.
Earth - strength of earth, stoneskin, tremor, earthbind
Fire - searing, magma, flametongue, wrath, frost resistance
Water - healing stream, mana spring, cleansing, fire resistance
Air - wrath of air, windfury, nature resistance, grounding
There are a few exceptions to totems without strategies: Stoneclaw Totem, Fire Elemental Totem, and Mana Tide Totem. These each have triggers that fire under certain conditions:
Stoneclaw Totem: Resto/Ele shaman has low health and isn't in a group
Fire Elemental Totem: Boost trigger for Ele/Enhance
Mana Tide Totem: Resto Shaman medium mana
3. Added Totemic Recall - a spell that picks up the totems outside of combat to regain 25% of the mana spent. Useful to avoid patrols.
4. Changed the config slightly - Enhance uses Fire Nova Glyph for crazy AoE damage, and enhance pve spec uses both clearcasting and improved shock talent now.
5. Enhancement Shamans will use their Spirit Wolves' Spirit Walk ability - this helps them close the gap and improves their DPS on fights that require movement.
6. Boost Strategy - Moved Bloodlust/Heroism/Fire Elemental Totem from the generic strategy triggers to a new Boost strategy. Now you can control their uses with Boost! (co +boost or co -boost. Enabled by default.)
7. AoE Strategy - Unified both of the AoE strategies for Ele/Enhance to "aoe", rather than "caster aoe" and "melee aoe". NOTE: Healers will still aoe under "healer dps". (co +aoe or co -aoe. Enabled by default.)
8. Moved the weapon imbue strategies from combat to non-combat. I noticed that they were only casting their weapon imbues during combat - this fixes that.
9. Added logic for only using Lava Burst on targets with Flame Shock active, ensuring that it's as close to 100% crit chance as possible. I did notice on a sample size of 112 lava bursts in testing that it still fails to crit around 3 percent of the time - that is because the lava burst starts to cast while flame shock is on the target, but by the time the projectile lands, flame shock has worn off.
10. Added Earth Shock as an execute ability for elemental shamans only. This helps their DPS tremendously at low levels, as well as in PVP. There is logic in place to prevent the use of Earth Shock as elemental entirely on bosses (it's garbage on bosses), as it will only be used as an execute if the target has less than 1500 hp and it's at 25% hp or less.
10. Added chain lightning as an AoE option for enhancement shamans while maelstrom weapon is at 4 or 5 stacks. This continues to push the AoE dps on enhance higher!
Here is a file-by-file list of the changes:
conf\playerbots.conf.dist - Enhancement shamans use Fire Nova Glyph as early as level 15, they also use the clearcasting talent in elemental and improved shocks in enhance. It really helps their mana usage. Also swapped the position of two glyphs in resto.
src\AiFactory.cpp - Set the default spec that new altbot shamans start as to Elemental. Put Arcane, Fire, and Frost comments on the mage specs. Set the strategies of the shaman specs to "ele, resto, and enh", as well as added the default totem strategies for each spec. Also added in the aoe strategy. Removed bmana/bdps, as those were set for lightning/mana sheld - those have been moved to both the non-combat strategy, as well as to each spec combat strategy. Enhancement will use Lightning Shield, and Elemental and Resto will use Water Shield both in and out of combat.
src\strategy\shaman\CasterShamanStrategy.cpp/CasterShamanStrategy.h - Renamed to Elemental.
src\strategy\shaman\ElementalShamanStrategy.cpp/ElementalShamanStrategy.h - Renamed from CasterShamanStrategy, most logic is the same. Moved the totem of wrath passthrough to the GenericShamanStrategy. Moved the Weapon Imbue to the NonCombatShamanStrategy. Moved the AoE spells to GenericShamanStrategy, under the AoE strategy there. Added the use of Stoneclaw totem, as well as Earth Shock Execute. Changed the use of Thunderstorm from medium mana to high mana, so it can be used more often in longer fights. Moved the individual casting of totems to the totem strategies. Added the use of Call of the Elements.
src\strategy\shaman\EnhancementShamanStrategy.cpp/EnhancementShamanStrategy.h - Renamed from MeleeShamanStrategy. Moved the totem passthroughs to GenericShamanStrategy. Refined the priorities in the default actions and triggers to closer match guides online. Moved the weapon imbues to the non-combat strategy. Moved the individual casting of totems to the totem strategies. Moved the AoE spells to the AoE strategy in GenericShamanStrategy. Added the use of Call of the Elements (while in melee range) and Spirit Walk.
src\strategy\shaman\GenericShamanStrategy.cpp/GenericShamanStrategy.h - Moved weapon imbue passthroughs to non-combat. Set up all totem passthroughs here so lower level shamans could function well. Set up a boost strategy for heroism/bloodlust/fire elemental totem. Set up an AoE strategy for Elemental/Enhancement. Cleaned up tablature of the code. Moved the Healer DPS strategy to the RestoShamanStrategy. Added a medium mana trigger so they can use more mana potions in longer fights.
src\strategy\shaman\HealShamanStrategy.cpp/HealShamanStrategy.h - Renamed to RestoShamanStrategy.
src\strategy\shaman\MeleeShamanStrategy.cpp/MeleeShamanStrategy.h - Renamed to EnhancementShamanStrategy.
src\strategy\shaman\RestoShamanStrategy.cpp/RestoShamanStrategy.h - Renamed from HealShamanStrategy. Moved weapon imbue to non-combat strategy. Moved the individual casting of totems to the totem strategies (except mana tide totem). Added in Healer DPS from genericshamanstrategy. Added in use of Stoneclaw totem and Call of the Elements.
src\strategy\shaman\ShamanActions.cpp/ShamanActions.h - Organized the actions by type. Removed the TTL check in the totem action and Flame Shock. Added logic in the Stoneclaw totem to only be used when not in a group. Added logic on LavaBurst Action to only be used when the target has flame shock debuff from the caster. Added custom logic for casting Spirit Walk (no code exists in AC/Playerbots to make a guardian cast a spell). Added in the "SetXTotemAction"s, which set a totem to the highest rank of the spell in the totem bar.
src\strategy\shaman\ShamanAiObjectContext.cpp/ShamanAiObjectContext.h - Cleaned up strategies, triggers, and actions as a whole. Renamed melee, heal, and caster to ele, enh, and resto. Changed the "totems" strategy to individualized elemental totem strategies.
src\strategy\shaman\ShamanNonCombatStrategy.cpp/ShamanNonCombatStrategy.cpp - Moved weapon imbues here. Cleaned up tablature. Added the Totemic Recall spell.
src\strategy\shaman\ShamanTriggers.cpp/ShamanTriggers.h - Removed the commented out section. Added triggers + logic for:
EarthShockExecute
Call of the Elements
Totemic Recall
"SetXTotemTrigger"
Spirit Walk
Elemental Mastery
No Earth/Fire/Water/Air Totem
src\strategy\shaman\TotemsShamanStrategy.h - Master hub for all defined constants and arrays used in other files, as well as names all of the totem strategy types.
src\strategy\shaman\TotemsShamanStrategy.cpp - Each strategy has a "set x totem" to change the bar totem, as well as a "no x totem" trigger with a corresponding "cast x totem". NOTE: some totems aren't learned by level 30 when a shaman learns call of the elements, so I had to set an alternative for those (Totem of Wrath, Wrath of Air, Cleansing Totem, and Windfury). Testing showed me that this is necessary - without this, the trigger would just fire over and over, and the shaman would recast the same totem over and over.
Scope of Testing:
8/5/25 (2 hours): Began work on the Shaman class. Cleaned up actions and triggers.
8/6/25 (3.5 hours): Tried what felt like everything to get the totem bar changed. Seems impossible to change a client-side thing with cpp.
8/9/25(3 hours): Initial totem strategies created. Through the help of Revision, I was able make a functioning action that would change the totem bar's spell. The spells are stored in the database! I was able to get a strategy of each type working, and Call of the Elements was casting the correct totems.
8/10/25 (3.5 hours): Testing on Noth the Plaguebringer. The elemental shaman's dps was low - I noticed that the shaman was casting lava burst regardless of if the target had flame shock. I fixed this. I also noticed that the enhancement shaman was casting call of the elements at max range, resulting in the magma totem never doing damage. Changed so enhance would only cast Call of the Elements in melee range. Also, had to add "cast x totem" spells to each strategy, so magma totem would recast once expired (as well as other totems).
8/11/25 - (2.5 hours)Did a full run of Naxxramas. Enhancement did crazy dps for the gear it had. Elemental was consistently placing between 14-18th place of 18 dps. I noticed that totemic recall was messing up with the KT encounter, and had to look in the AC repo for logic to check if a boss encounter is active. Fixed it, and shamans weren't spamming totemic recall between packs. I wonder what I can do to fix elemental?
8/12/25 (1.5 hours) - Added a check in lava burst's isuseful to ensure flame shock was on the target. DPS went up a little bit. Also, made chain lightning the highest spell priority - DPS went up quite a bit after that. It is quite costly, but it is worth it - even on one target, but especially 3. Added spirit walk for enhancement.
8/13/25 - (5 hours) Tested on level 1-10 level, 15, 25, 35, 45, and 55 instances: I had a ton of bugs at level 35. Essentially, the shaman was standing there casting the totems it didn't know (wrath, cleansing, wrath of air). I had to add some checks and passthroughs for it to run smoothly again. Elemental was still doing just okay dps at lower levels, while enhancement was CRUSHING it. The fact that enhancement has the fire glyph from 15 on now is crazy.
8/14/2025 (2 hours) - Tested in 65/75 instances, as well as little bit of ulduar. I am pretty happy with the state of shamans now, they are consistently performing highly (enhance top 5, elemental top 8 in ulduar). Tweaked elemental mastery to cause lava burst to be instant cast, not chain lightning. This improved the DPS of elemental shamans right out of the gate.
Total testing - 23 hours
If y'all have any questions or comments, please let me know either here or on discord!
* Fixed the Bracket so the code will compile
Fixed the Bracket so the code will compile
* - Code refactoring
* - Non windows compilation error fixes
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Co-authored-by: kadeshar <kadeshar@gmail.com>
* Update playerbots.conf.dist
Added Half-Burried Bottle to the list of dissallowed GO's
* Update PlayerbotAIConfig.cpp
Added Half-Burried Bottle to the list of disallowed GO's in the standard values of the source to complete this PR
Fix error with isUseful check that caused bots not to run away from Shadow Nova when no Infernals were spawned + some tightening of code to avoid Shadow Nova
simplified code
fixed bug where neutral creatures were not captured by the aggroby filter
trim white spaces so space between filter and message is permitted but not required
* Add SMV area IDs to PvP Prohibited Areas
Sanctum of the Stars and the Altar of Sha’tar
* Update source default pvpProhibitedAreaIDs
* Update source default pvpProhibitedAreaIDs
Now with Sanctum of the Stars & Altar of Sha'tar as well
* Revert "Correct side effects of merge f5ef5bd1c2 (#1512)"
This reverts commit 966bf1d6af.
* Revert "Fix ACCESS_VIOLATION in mod-playerbots: purge stale AIs, add thread-safety, and harden HasRealPlayerMaster (#1507)"
This reverts commit f5ef5bd1c2.
