10-07-2013, 01:54 AM
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.
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
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