High dps bot: mage or scout?

[Plavok]

Hi all

I tried to search something about this, but couldn't find anything. I'm sorry if I missed it!

Anyway, I was wondering if you could share your experiences with high dps bots for various classes. My warlock doesn't seem to perform very well, but the coercer is. I do not have any experiences with scouts yet, except bards.

How well is the assassin bot working? What about the ranger bot?

Thank you very much,
Plavok

 

[mistrornge]

I think the ranger bot is broken since GU52. The spells haven't been updated. I do 3k ish on swash similar on coercer. 2-2.5k on wiz i guess.

 

[eccentric]

My interpretation is that slower casting classes are at a disadvantage when botting because they aren't as keen as a normal player to know when to move and when not to; much dps is lost to interrupted casts. If I went by the book and didn't have preference to caster classes, I'd stick to melee because combat arts can be cast in motion.

 

[Pygar]

Assasin is out of date.

The support classes and healers are written the best, cause thats what we bot the most.

Warlock is probably the better of the pure dps classes, but contrary to previous poster, the only code in there to move that bot is related to if your out of range, providing you're in range it wont move at all.

The issue is, your focusing on parse outputs, and depending on the situation the bot is going to parse well or it is not.

It has no knowledge of pre-pull, so short terms don't start till combat does, and the bot has no notion if this is going to be a 5s fight or a 15 min fight and approaches both fights the same. The quicker your group is killing things the less 'dps' your going to observe from the dps bots. Given extended fight times, the 5s of dps lost on the pull vs a live player become negligible and they parse respectably.

Enchanters due to their extremely fast cast speeds have much less initial delay before they pump out dps, so your observing your coercer to do better than your warlock.

If you set both bots up on a training dummy solo, you'd probably find your results will be different than in a group killing heroics in 15s fights.

 

[Plavok]

Enchanters are definitely quite impressive and I guess it makes sense that the support classes got more love since that is the primary field for bots. I never thought of it that way.

So if the assassin script wasn't outdated, I assume a big-hitting class would be better due to the missed time at the beginning?

Thx for the very informative post, Pygar.

 

[Pygar]

Assasin could be better I supposed.

Its more about the time it takes some classes to cast / ramp up. Sorcerers are fairly dependent on pre-casting as an example.