Tank bot dps issue

[joeylu]

If the player plays tank role, his bot's dps will be sacrificially lower than any DPS player, with same level equitments. For instance, in 3.3.5, a tank with full sets of 245 equitments, his bots only average 2.5k dps, a same level DPSer will get over 5k-6k from his bots

[joeylu]

update: I tried druid and deathknight as tank, there are no isuues for their bots' dps, however, if I play paladin as tank, the dps for his bots are way down

[trickerer]

This happens because bots' stats are based on master's and bot's equipment.
More attack power - more damage. Bot also gains damage from it's weapons.
This is one of basic concepts event though there is no manual or anything for bots, I am too lazy to make one yet, sorry

[joeylu]

that explains why, tks for the reply guess i have to live with it for now, maybe add some special item dedicated to paladin/warrior tank to increase their attack power anyway, just want to say great work, and keep it going, we have a community with thousands of fans to back you up!

[joeylu]

btw, is it possible to take out paladin bot's spell (Hand of Salvation)? it seems the bot will cast it no matter which role it is, i'm playing tank and my dps/healer paladin cast it to me all the time, will be better if non-tank role warrior/paladin/dk dont' cast any taunt spell as well

[trickerer]

Problem is that bots don't 'know' you are the tank. While setting up party with bots use .mt command on unit which is gonna be main tank.

[joeylu]

tks for the advice, trickerer but i'm not able to set myself .mt, and that's the issue came from i've already set my paladin bot dps/heal only, while in the battle, it keeps taunting the boss and casting hand of salvation whenever it's available

[trickerer]

Oh, I guess I removed .mt command recently.
Bots check other bots by roles. In raid they check players by maintank flag (/mt). But in party there is no way to check it. I'll make one but for now... use raid (/mt only on players) or set bot as tank (any bot can tank and some classes look pretty funny at it).

[joeylu]

i kinda figured it out this too, lol.. setting /mt on player in raid works perfectly, again, excellent work! .. one last minor issue: for the past month massive tests, apparently even with the same level armor/weapon equipped, mage bots always made themselves top DPSer, while warlock and priest(dps role only) gets themsevles about 50%+ lower, others classes between 20% - 50% lower. for a temporally solution in my server wow server, I tried to set bots damages a bit equally by modifying the creature_template table. After modify the dmg_multiplier field, i'm able to match melee dpser (dk, warrior, etc) to mage bots, however, not for spell dpser.. any solutions? FYI, this is not a compliant, i'm perfectly fine to summon 20 mage bots to fight with me, just a bit less fun ^^

[trickerer]

Well... you can lower mage's damage in bot_mage_ai.cpp by commenting out these rows:

void ApplyClassPassives()
{
    uint8 level = master->getLevel();
    //Dam+(-Hit)
-    if (level >= 50)
-        RefreshAura(ARCTIC_WINDS,3); //+15%/-15%
-    else if (level >= 25)
-        RefreshAura(ARCTIC_WINDS,2); //+10%/-10%
-    else if (level >= 10)
-        RefreshAura(ARCTIC_WINDS); //+5%/-5%
+    //if (level >= 50)
+    //    RefreshAura(ARCTIC_WINDS,3); //+15%/-15%
+    //else if (level >= 25)
+    //    RefreshAura(ARCTIC_WINDS,2); //+10%/-10%
+    //else if (level >= 10)
+    //    RefreshAura(ARCTIC_WINDS); //+5%/-5%
    //CHILL

Balance problem will persist anyway, especially for poorly geared characters/bots; at some point casters have base damage for their spells while melee classes have only some basic attack power (no str/agi from levelups, no weapon damage).

Balancing classes gives me headaches since 2011

[joeylu]

agree, balancing is a troublesome issue at all time, lol, anyway, just wanna say thank you for your fabulous work!