Hello everyone,
Back again with another class overhaul. Here is a list of what changes have been made:
1. Consolidated the AoE strategies into "aoe". For light aoe (2+ enemies) the mage will use Cone of Cold (frost)/Arcane Explosion (Arcane)/Multi-Dot with Living Bomb (Fire/Frostfire). For medium aoe (3+ enemies) they will use Flamestrike -> Blizzard. Also, the mage will automatically cancel channeling their blizzard if there is less than 2 enemies around. This is huge, since the mage would often stand there and finish their entire channel during a boss fight after the adds died.
2. Organized actions, triggers, and the aiobjectcontext
3. Enabled Deep Freeze to be casted on bosses regardless of their immune status. Big benefit for frost dps on boss fights.
4. Slight tweaks in the conf so Arcane gets Arcane Barrage and Frostfire gets 2/2 Firestarter
5. Streamlined Arcane DPS to use Missile Barrage proc when at 4 stacks of Arcane Blast
5. Streamlined Fire/Frostfire DPS to keep Improved Scorch active (5% spell crit) unless there is a debuff of equal type
6. Added "firestarter" strategy, that utilizes the Fire talent Firestarter better. The mage will multi-dot Living Bomb while running towards melee, and cast Dragon's Breath -> instant cast Flamestrike -> Blast Wave -> instant cast Flamestrike -> Blizzard for bonkers damage. Disabled by default - not everyone wants their mages running into melee. Enable by typing "co +firestarter" on fire and frostfire mages.
7. Streamlined Frost DPS by finally adding support for Cold Snap for mages. It will proc when both Icy Veins and Deep Freeze are on cooldown. There is an exception to this - if the mage is level 30-59, it will not check for Deep Freeze - only Icy Veins.
8. Added Conjure Mana Gem support in the generic non-combat strategy and Use Mana Gem support in the generic combat strategy. This might be the biggest benefit of the overhaul - the gem has a 90 second cooldown, not shared with mana potions. It really prevents the mage from gassing out in longer fights. And the mana gem has 3 charges!
9. Added Mana Shield ability, which triggers on low health.
10. Changed Mirror Image from a boost ability to an anti-threat tool. Not many people know this, but it's best use in PvE is it's anti-threat modifier: "Mod Total Threat - Temporary Value: -90000000". It also doesn't do good damage, and is essentially used best as a pre-pull spell. But until the mages know how to react to a pull-timer, it's going to be used to reduce threat.
Let me know what y'all think!
Hello everyone,
This PR addresses issue #1464 - Now, when you change a strategy, the new pet will be summoned accordingly - as long as the warlock knows the pet. I tested this myself with level 80 warlocks, then moved to lower level warlocks. It was nice to see that when my affliction warlock went from level 29 to 30, it automatically summoned the felhunter (while having the succubus out prior).
List of changes per file:
src\AiFactory.cpp: Set default level 1 spec to demonology for altbots - it was affliction prior. This will allow them to use Curse of agony, corruption, and immolate between levels 1-10.
src\strategy\warlock\GenericWarlockNonCombatStrategy.cpp: Added the "wrong pet" trigger to each of the 5 pet strategies, coupled with the appropriate summon action.
src\strategy\warlock\WarlockAiObjectContext.cpp: Registered the "wrong pet" trigger and moved the unstable affliction static trigger all to 1 line, cleaning it up a bit.
src\strategy\warlock\WarlockTriggers.cpp: Added the logic for the wrong pet trigger here. I tried to leave detailed comments as much as possible explaining it's thought process.
src\strategy\warlock\WarlockTriggers.h: Added the WrongPetTrigger.
Hello everyone,
I'm still working on fixing issue #1439 , and I have a theory - it could be because the clients that are having the issue are not english, and the code currently checks for strings "soul shard" and "soulstone". This PR converts the check over to the item IDs, so it should work regardless of what client is being used. I tested it myself with the english client and there is functionally no difference than before - but I hope it solves the issue #1439 for the non-english clients and community.
Hello everybody,
This PR is to address issues #1439 and #1451.
I added a 1 second cooldown to the createsoulshard action, as the warlock wouldn't ever use more than 1 soul shard per second.
I also added a cooldown check to the soulstone trigger, so it doesn't simply try to use the ss healer, ss self, ss tank, or ss master if the soulstone is present in the inventory. I checked the logs, and was able to recreate the issue of #1451 - the bot was shifting targets over and over again, and that was because previously the trigger was just checking to see if a soulstone was present at all. Now it won't fire if it's on cooldown.
Hello everyone,
I was working with hunter bots and I feel like I didn't have enough control over their pets. So I started working on a chat command for the hunter pets, and it's been a blast. Below is a description of what the commands do:
pet name <name>
Summons a tameable pet by its creature name (case-insensitive).
The bot checks if the pet is exotic and requires the Beast Mastery talent if so.
If successful, the bot announces the pet's new name and creature ID.
If not found or not tameable, an error message is given.
pet id <id>
Summons a tameable pet by its database creature ID.
The same exotic pet checks apply.
Success is announced with the pet's name and ID.
Errors are given for invalid IDs or untameable pets.
pet family <family>
Randomly selects and summons a tameable pet from the specified family (e.g., "cat", "wolf").
Only families with tameable pets are considered.
Exotic pet checks and talent requirements apply.
Success is announced with the pet's name and ID.
Errors are given if no suitable pet is found.
pet rename <new name>
Renames the hunter's current summoned pet to a new name.
The name must be 1-12 alphabetic characters (A-Z, a-z) and is automatically formatted (first letter capitalized, rest lowercased).
Forbidden or reserved names are disallowed.
After renaming, the bot sets the new name, saves the pet, and updates the client.
The bot dismisses and attempts to recall the pet using "Call Pet" (if the hunter knows it) to update the UI.
If the new name isn't visible immediately, the bot instructs the player to dismiss and recall the pet manually.
Confirmation and guidance messages are provided.
Additional Details:
All commands display errors if requirements are not met (wrong name/id/family, forbidden name, lack of Beast Mastery, or hunter below level 10).
After changing or summoning a pet (except renaming), the bot initializes the pet and its talents, then announces the result.
TLDR:
pet name <name> Summon a tameable pet by name
pet id <id> Summon a tameable pet by database creature ID
pet family <family> Randomly summon a tameable pet of the given family
pet rename <new name> Rename the current pet and refresh its name in the client UI
Description of files changed:
src\strategy\actions\ChatActionContext.h: Added the "pet" action for the whisper command.
src\strategy\actions\PetAction.cpp: New chat actions for all things related to hunter pets.
src\strategy\actions\PetAction.h: New header for the PetAction.cpp.
src\strategy\generic\ChatCommandHandlerStrategy.cpp: Linked the trigger and action in the chatcommandhandlerstrategy, for the bot to take action when whispered "pet" (trigger).
src\strategy\triggers\ChatTriggerContext.h: Added the "pet" trigger.
Hello everyone,
This PR is to address an issue that was posted recently - a player has shown that soul shards are being created in excess, spamming the player's chat log. I am adding an isuseful() check to the createsoulshard action, so it will never be executed if they have more than 5 soul shards.
Also, out of an abundance of caution, I am lowering the cap for CastDrainSoulAction::isUseful() to 20 from 32. That way, if for some reason the warlock has 20+ shards, it won't attempt to collect any more / use drain soul.
Hello everyone,
This fixes these two classes so they respond to the command "co -aoe" and "co +aoe". This also fixes the survival hunter so that trap weave is not a default strategy - they will not walk into melee anymore.
Hello everyone,
This PR addresses two errors that players have been getting with the new warlock changes:
Firestone - Fel Firestone, which is rank 6 of create firestone, learned at level 74, is creating an error in the worldserver that is quite annoying. That is because the database has an incorrect enchant effect of a chance on hit for that rank. This PR changes the CreateFirestoneAction to skip that spell rank entirely, thus never having that error. Note: You might need to wait a little while after the new change for the errors to go away - that is because there still be pre-existing fel firestones on the warlocks, as well as enchanted on their weapons. Once those disappear, the error will not be there anymore.
Excess soul shards - There is an error that currently exists where if a Warlock uses Drain Soul while they have 32 soul shards, it will spam in the chat log "I can't carry anymore of those". This PR will automatically delete soul shards if they have 6 or more. This PR also will reduce the number of soul shards the warlock receives from maintenance to 5. I figured 5 is a good maximum so their inventory doesn't get clogged with 32 shards. Between "DestroySoulShard" and "CreateSoulShard" actions, they will always have between 1-5 soul shards.
Hello everybody,
I saw that the hunter class had one strategy for all 3 specs, and decided to create specialized strategies for each one. Here is a list of the changes:
conf\playerbots.conf.dist: Redid the talent trees and glyphs slightly, for more consistent dps
src\AiFactory.cpp: Changed the default strategies assigned for each spec.
src\strategy\hunter\BeastMasteryHunterStrategy.cpp and src\strategy\hunter\BeastMasteryHunterStrategy.h: Strategy for BM hunters. Includes all of the original logic from DpsHunterStrategy, with the addition of kill command, bestial wrath, and intimidation.
src\strategy\hunter\DpsHunterStrategy.cpp and src\strategy\hunter\DpsHunterStrategy.h: Old Dps strategy used for all 3 specs - removed.
src\strategy\hunter\GenericHunterStrategy.cpp and src\strategy\hunter\GenericHunterStrategy.h: Tidied up code, added Dragonhawk passthrough to hawk, moved rapid fire to inittriggers for generichunterstrategy and increased its priority (it is still a boost trigger, so it will function the same).
src\strategy\hunter\HunterActions.cpp:
Added isuseful check for aspect of the hawk, to ensure it is never cast if the bot knows aspect of the dragonhawk.
Added isuseful check for arcane shot to never use it after explosive shot is learned (so the hunter can use it as it levels survival, but drops it after that). Also added a check for arcane shot, so it won't use it above 435 armor pen rating (steady shot is superior after this arp).
Added isuseful check for immolation trap so it won't use it after explosive shot is learned.
src\strategy\hunter\HunterActions.h:
General cleanup/alignment of actions based on type.
Added TTL checks to all DoTs and debuffs - hunters weren't using hunter's mark, serpent sting, black arrow, explosive shot on enemies that it thought would die too soon.
Black Arrow - added a strategy check here as well so the bot won't use it at all if trap weave is enabled. There was already a check in the trigger, but it was still getting cast, so I added this check.
Explosive Shot Rank 4, 3, 2, 1 actions- Added these so the hunter can downrank explosive shot dynamically based on the level when lock and load procs. So if the hunter is level 70, and a lock and load proc happens, it will fire rank 2 - rank 1 - rank 2, similar to how the level 80 version will fire 4-3-4.
src\strategy\hunter\HunterAiObjectContext.cpp:
Added strategy support for bm, mm, and surv (and their aoes)
Added trigger support for kill command, explosive shot, lock and load, silencing shot (as an spellcasting interrupt), and intimidation
Added action support for the 4 ranks of explosive shot and intimidation.
src\strategy\hunter\HunterTriggers.cpp: Kill command was completely non-functional because there was no buff trigger associated with it. Adding this will correct that, and the hunter will use kill command.
src\strategy\hunter\HunterTriggers.h: Added Kill command, silencing shot, intimidation, lock and load, and explosive shot triggers.
src\strategy\hunter\MarksmanshipHunterStrategy.cpp and src\strategy\hunter\MarksmanshipHunterStrategy.h: Strategy for MM hunters. Includes all of the original logic from DpsHunterStrategy, with the addition of kill command, silencing shot, chimera shot, and aimed shot.
src\strategy\hunter\SurvivalHunterStrategy.cpp and src\strategy\hunter\SurvivalHunterStrategy.h: Strategy for Survival hunters. Includes all of the original logic from DpsHunterStrategy, with the addition of kill command, explosive shot, black arrow, aimed shot, lock and load triggers + downranking explosive shot.
This PR aims to achieve 4 main things:
1. Manual Curse Strategies - Each curse has it's own toggleable combat strategy, with curse of agony being the default for affliction and demonology, and curse of the elements being default for destro. The other curses that are available are curse of exhaustion (if specced for it), curse of doom, curse of weakness, and curse of tongues (6 total). You can add these by typing "co +curse of weakness", or similar. Note: Curses are part of the WarlockCurseStrategyFactoryInternal(), so there can only be one active.
2. Firestone/Spellstone Non-Combat Strategies - Players requested to me that they can decide if they want to use a spellstone or firestone for their weapon enchant, so I added them as non-combat strategies. Spellstone is the default for affliction and demonology, firestone is the default for destro. To add these, type "nc +firestone" or similar.
3. Soul Shard Replenishment - I noticed after hours of running a server (15+ hours) that altbots and rndbots would only cast imp and not use their soul shards. This is because they were actually running out of soul shards, without the ability to maintain themselves accordingly. I added a trigger (no soul shard) and action (create soul shard) that triggers if they are out of soul shards, creating only 1 soul shard (to not clog up the inventory). This way, you should never have a warlock using the wrong pet, or failing to cast shadowburn, failing to create soulstone/spellstone/firestone/healthstone, or failing to cast soul shatter.
4. Tidying up the code -
I removed the built-in curse code from the DPS strategies, and migrated it to the manual curse strategies.
I clumped the curse triggers and actions together in the associated files.
I added logic for Curse of Weakness to check for conflicting debuffs.
I moved the summoning strategies and curse strategies to their own strategy factories - WarlockPetStrategyFactoryInternal, and WarlockCurseStrategyFactoryInternal. This way they can only have one curse and one pet strategy active at once. I also renamed the "NonCombatBuffStrategyFactoryInternal" to "WarlockSoulstoneStrategyFactoryInternal", which was more accurate.
I changed a single talent point in the Affliction Warlock PVE spec, taking one from destructive reach and adding it into nightfall for those sweet, sweet free shadowbolts.
I added "ss self" as the default non-combat soulstone strategy, as before, they didn't have one assigned. The player can still of course remove that NC strategy and apply another, such as "ss master", "ss tank", or "ss healer".
