10-07-2013, 07:03 AM
(10-07-2013, 01:54 AM)Sully13 Wrote: Been running FATE grinding most of the day so will now post my observations. I have been running the Western La Noscea mesh and added three grind markers. I was grinding fates with Max lvl of 22 and min lvl of 20. I set an evac point in Aleport on the mesh. Most of the time I did fates with grinding but set it to fate only for a while to test evac point.i can confirm i have the same issues as #3,4,5
1. I had no crashing problems the entire time. Bot ran very stable.
2. Evac worked perfectly. At one point I checked do only FATE and he would return to the evac point whenever a fate was not active, just like he should.
3. Seems to ignore the FATE level designations. He would continue to go to FATES that were more than 5 levels below the min setting. That would not be so bad except for the next problem.
4. I can't find a way to activate the level synchronization when he goes to a fate which is more than 5 levels below. The synch window pops up and, unless I manually clicked on the synch level button, he just tries to attack and gets the error he is too high a level for the fate. If I click the synch button his level is adjusted and everything happens as it should. There is good xp to be had from doing fates that require level synchronization so I hope there will be a way to address this problem, especially since the min level doesn't seem to be working.
5. Several times during the day the bot would move to a fate or a grind spot and just stand there and do nothing. When he was just standing like that the task was always MOVETOPOS. Several times I let it go like that for several minutes to see if he would ever activate again, but he never did. If I moved him with the keyboard he would start moving again or attacking if mobs were around but that was the only way he would recover. I observed this happening at fate locations as well as grind spots and it happened a good 6 to 9 times over a 2 to 3 hour period.
6. I am running a lvl 20 Thaumaturge with a fairly simple skill manager profile. When playing manually I use the following attack rotation:
fire, fire, fire, transpose, blizzard blizzard (at this point the mob is usually dead). This rotations takes advantage of Astral Fire and Ice and conserves MP so I never run out, but the transpose is an important part as it converts the astral fire to ice and vice versa. I haven't been able to figure out how to get the skill manager to perform this rotation, especially using transpose at the proper time. As a result, my dps and mp usage is very sub-optimal when botting. If anyone knows how to do this please educate me.
That's it. I think mmominion is doing quite well considering it is only day 2 of the beta. Great job and hopefully some of my observation will be helpful.
Sully
Also would like to add my memory usage on the bot increases my FFXIV slowly throughout time, starting at 600k all the way up to over a gig