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Playerbot Strategies

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'''Playerbot Strategies''' control how Playerbots behave during combat, travel, movement and general gameplay on the Shadowmourne Realm.

Strategies are one of the most important parts of the Playerbot AI system.

A bot's class, specialization and role determine which strategies make sense.

Strategy Types

Playerbots separate strategies into different AI states.

The most important are:

  • combat strategies
  • non-combat strategies
  • dead-state strategies

Combat strategies are controlled with:

co

Non-combat strategies are controlled with:

nc

Combat Strategies

Combat strategies affect what a Playerbot does while fighting.

Use:

co

to inspect or modify combat behavior.

Typical syntax:

co +STRATEGY
co -STRATEGY

Examples:

co +tank
co +aoe
co +focus
co -aoe

Available strategies depend on the bot's class, specialization and installed AI.

Non-Combat Strategies

Non-combat strategies affect behavior outside active combat.

Use:

nc

Typical syntax:

nc +STRATEGY
nc -STRATEGY

Non-combat strategy behavior may include:

  • following
  • looting
  • questing
  • eating
  • drinking
  • mounting
  • travel
  • buffs
  • PvP preparation

Follow Strategy

The Shadowmourne Playerbot AI includes a dedicated Follow strategy.

Use:

follow

to make a bot follow its master.

Follow is useful for:

  • world travel
  • dungeon movement
  • regrouping
  • recovering separated bots

Stay Strategy

The Shadowmourne AI also includes a dedicated Stay strategy.

Use:

stay

to make a bot remain near a selected position.

Stay is especially useful for:

  • healer positioning
  • ranged DPS positioning
  • boss preparation
  • preventing unnecessary movement

Tank Strategy

Tank bots should use tank-oriented strategies appropriate to their specialization.

Tank classes include:

A tank strategy should prioritize:

  • threat
  • survival
  • enemy control
  • protection of the group

See Playerbot Tanking.

Healing Strategy

Healing bots should prioritize:

  • injured party members
  • tank survival
  • emergency healing
  • mana management

Healing classes include:

See Playerbot Healing.

Damage Strategies

Damage strategies vary by class.

A damage bot may focus on:

  • single-target damage
  • area damage
  • ranged damage
  • melee damage
  • crowd control

See Playerbot DPS.

AoE Strategy

An AoE strategy encourages area-of-effect abilities.

Example:

co +aoe

AoE is useful when fighting groups of enemies.

However, AoE can be dangerous when:

  • threat is unstable
  • crowd control is active
  • additional enemies are nearby

Focus Strategy

A focus strategy encourages the bot to concentrate on a selected or priority target.

Example:

co +focus

This is useful during:

  • boss fights
  • priority-target encounters
  • dangerous elite pulls

Crowd Control

Some Playerbot classes can use crowd-control strategies.

Crowd control may include:

  • polymorph
  • roots
  • stuns
  • fear
  • shackles
  • other class-specific effects

See Crowd Control.

Dead-State Strategy

Playerbots also maintain behavior while dead.

The AI contains a dedicated dead-state strategy system.

This can affect:

  • corpse recovery
  • resurrection
  • following after death
  • regrouping

Class-Specific Strategies

Different classes have different AI strategy sets.

Examples include:

  • Mage — Arcane, Fire, Frost
  • Death Knight — Blood, Frost, Unholy
  • Druid — Bear, Cat, Restoration, Balance
  • Priest — Holy, Discipline, Shadow
  • Paladin — Protection, Holy, Retribution

The bot's specialization should match the intended party role.

A tank bot should generally have:

  • tank specialization
  • tank-compatible gear
  • threat-oriented strategy
  • good positioning

Run:

maintenance
autogear

before difficult content.

A healer bot should generally have:

  • healing specialization
  • healing gear
  • sufficient mana
  • safe positioning

Use:

stay

when precise healer placement is needed.

Damage bots should have:

  • correct specialization
  • correct weapons
  • appropriate gear
  • controlled threat
  • suitable combat strategies

Dungeon Strategy

For a normal five-player dungeon:

  • Tank — tank strategy
  • Healer — healing strategy
  • DPS — single-target or controlled AoE

Before a boss:

  1. position the tank
  2. position ranged bots
  3. check healer mana
  4. disable dangerous AoE if needed
  5. begin the pull

See Playerbot Dungeon Guide.

Raid Strategy

Raids require more coordination.

Important strategy considerations include:

  • multiple tanks
  • healer assignments
  • ranged positioning
  • melee positioning
  • boss targeting
  • AoE control
  • threat management

See Playerbot Raid Guide.

Troubleshooting

Bot behaves incorrectly

Check:

  • specialization
  • combat strategies
  • non-combat strategies
  • equipment
  • role

Bot moves too much

Use:

stay

Bot will not follow

Use:

follow

Bot attacks wrong target

Use:

attack

or adjust focus/assist behavior.