Yay! Milestone passed!

[amadmonk]

Well, I had to put this SOMEWHERE... I'm so excited that my little xxBot was successfully able to duo Utgarde Keep last night. Admittedly, non-heroic (heroic is a totally different bag of worms, and I'd probably have needed at least 3 if not 4 bots for that).

The only input I provided was navigation; since the bot is going to be mostly an instance multibox bot, I haven't bothered putting in navigation code (it moves, but blindly). Other than that, the bot made all decisions about what buffs to apply, dots to apply, how to keep the MT (a pet) alive, how to keep aggro on the MT, how/when to loot, and so on. It skinned dead skinnable mobs! It even dealt fine with the Keleseth encounter (the one where you get frozen in blocks of ice). If I were running it on heroic, I'd probably add one extra bit of code to tell the bot to target ice tombs above all else, but still it came through in flying colors.

I wish I was less paranoid; I'd post a few SS's on the SS thread, but still, I just had to brag a little, since this is the mmm 3rd fully-functional bot in the 3rd language I've got running now.

Now I wonder if I can tackle heroics... shouldn't be THAT much harder...

[warsheep]

edited.
I'm an idiot, excuse me ;_;

[KuRIoS]

congratulations now go work on ulduar ;D

[SKU]

So what are you asking for? Help with your bot or are you just showing off? >_<

Moron.

Very nice work, monk.

[amadmonk]

Ulduar, yeah, the day I can afford 10 accounts is the day I retire. I can barely justify 3...

[Xarg0]

awesome work, how about a video shoing your bots @ work?

[Sednogmah]

awesome work, how about a video shoing your bots @ work?

As he said, he's paranoid and thus won't show us any screenshots. It's too easy to reveal criticial information about your character. Take for example the cast bars which are stored server side. How many players have duo'd Utgarde Keep with the exact same cast bar configuration recently? I bet it's not that many.

That said, congratulations and good luck for your further efforts, dude!

[miceiken]

As he said, he's paranoid and thus won't show us any screenshots. It's too easy to reveal criticial information about your character. Take for example the cast bars which are stored server side. How many players have duo'd Utgarde Keep with the exact same cast bar configuration recently? I bet it's not that many.

That said, congratulations and good luck for your further efforts, dude!

I lol'd. Paranoid ****ers.

[flo8464]

It is more realistic to get killed by a comet...

[miceiken]

It is more realistic to get killed by a comet...

Don't challenge the stones from da universe it may turn in to a true Rain of Fire.

[2dgreengiant]

Sick work dude great job

[EmilyStrange]

I'm so excited that my little xxBot was successfully able to duo Utgarde Keep last night.

First, congratulations are in order on achieving that milestone.

Your bot sounds similar to how I am creating my "bot," I have navigation in there (a combination of very simple pathing and following a breadcrumb trail), but the main navigation is by a human, who does the majority of the running around, deciding what to pull next, etc. Once the "bot" engages, it is pretty much hands off until the conclusion of the battle.

I am curious though, currently I am reworking my healing routines (an order of paladins, or pride of druids or even a lodge of hunters backed up by a single priest, are my usual group makeups) and whilst these combinations work amazingly well, the decisions of who to heal and when (and why) is quite a challenge.

My current setup involves using moving averages for health and mana with a fuzzy evaluator but I am curious to know how (or if) you have solved this problem too.

Any thoughts?

[BoogieManTM]

Nice job! this is also one of my goals

[Tanaris4]

well done :-) I've always wanted to do something like this, so far I only have a "follow + heal" mode which will also dish out some damage in a grp if he has enough mana, can select a tank too - but it's not that great

[tanis2000]

Grats on your project fella! I'm looking forward to when you'll tell us that you can farm heroics as well