They should make an AI version at least for normal dungeons and LFR raids. Also for those from previous expansions, allowing people to queue alone with AI with their level reduced like in Timewalking dungeons. I would love to be able to play old forgotten dungeons and raids where it is not possible to find a group anymore without killing everything in one hit.
i dont like this idea. The ai would either have to be very good and built from scratch or they would be overpowered and far stronger than players. Either way people probably would use this to semi afk run trough dungeons. Non legacy content could use it tho. Because soloing the previous expansions raids and dungeons is not very fast or doable at all. But it doesnt belong in current content at all, normal and heroic dungeons are done pretty easily and mythics shouldnt be soloâd with bots at all. and well legacy content can be oneshot
Lfr can be frustrating when people leave, but adding bots to the mix will either make things much harder or it would promote afk leeching more. They should give much better rewards for backfilling in progress lfr, especially roles like tanks and healers. Enough so someone wich normally doenst do lfr might have a good reason to enter.
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I donât necessarily think bots should replace LFR in which there are players available, like the current raid. But bots could be useful to play previous patches and previous expansionsâ LFR versions so it would be possible to play the encounter even for things like Legionâs LFR (Soloing is not the same, it is too easy, you are not actually playing the encounter if the boss dies in 5 seconds). Enable it only when no one plays the content so it can be queued just for the story.
The same for dungeons. Begin able to play with bots in a Timewalking way on any past dungeon and raid of the game.
There is no real AI in WoW, i really cant see them actively developing this for the sake of people botting trough content. Besides imagine a premade entering lfr and trying to kick you just to replace you with a bot because the bot probably would be much stronger than players
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There is no need to have real AIs, it is only a way of talking. PVE is scripted content so an âAIâ bot wonât be AI nor bot, it will a scripted NPC like any other scripted NPC in the game, including enemies and allies through dungeons.
Also, I insist I said it would be a good idea for previous LFRs, not current ones. So a group couldnât kick you from LFR to being replaced by a bot if there are no bots on that version. Basically having only two types of LFR, one with all human players without bots and another with one human player and the rest bots, only being able to queue for the second when the content is no longer relevant.
precisely, if they dont give it a good ai then it basicly just becomes a walking stat stick wich has alot of hp because they wont dodge fire and do the tactics, and high damage or little damage at all because it wouldnt be a player properly playing a class.
You cant balance that very well, either they would outperform alot of lfr players resulting in people afk leeching more, or they would be so useless it wouldnt be worth having them around.
Why wouldnât it move? Doesnât the boss is also scripted move? They script the NPCs to do exactly the same in an encounter, so if they script the âbotsâ for an encounter every time it plays the encounter it will be exactly the same. They will move because they will be scripted to move. If boss to that ability bots do that thing. Thatâs it.
You are mistaken. In the end, it is irrelevant if the bots do anything or not. They are not players, they do not need to âplayâ, they only need to look as if their playing. They are only decorations with no real inputs on what happens. Only players are.
So, to make a dungeon version with NPCs they only need to script the encounters to always happen exactly the same no matter what players do and then implement some checks for the player. If the checks fails they could make the bots automatically die to simulate a failure. Things like not moving out of the fire, stopping dpsing or healing, not moving, making low damage, etc will make some bots die until eventually, it will fail the encounter.
If they dont need to do anything then why should they be there at all? Just make lfr more flex like so you dont require as many healers or dps to create a group
I play an Enhancement Shaman, I always find it ok when a caster like an Evoker leaves interupts to me because they have to stop their cast to do it. It takes me 2 secs. Itâs different if itâs an important spell that needs interupted and all melee have theirs on cd.
Would rather the evoker in my group didnât cancel their fire breath or held in aoe thing to do a stupid interupt the melee can do.
Because raids and dungeons are designed to have more than one player. So the easiest way to make it solo-friendly would be to have a scripted version in which NPCs look like they are doing the job of a human player and then put the player on that scripted version and check what the player is doing.
Pretty sure theyâve done it in the past for specific beginner level dungeons
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There are AI bots for Arathi Battleground, which should be harder to make than dungeon âbotsâ given the PVP content is not deterministic, in wich what happen varies depending on what the human player is doing. While a PVE encounter is deterministic, it always happens the same on a given encounter based on how it is scripted, which in some way denies the need to have actually AI. So, if there are NPC AIs for PVP content against players, they could have NPC âAIsâ for playing against other NPCs in PVE content. But those AIs hardly can be called AI, just like PVE bosses are not AI. We overestimate it by calling it AI.
just dont be bad,idk ⌠if people are wondering how you got your IO ,then there might be a reason for that. either get good or play with friends,not with randoms
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Missing a cast to do an interrupt is not a big deal. And again, since the person in question was not rude I donât get why you overreact like that.
u meen so called âstory modeâ ?
IO score in normal or heroic?!
What now?
Iâve done exactly 3 dungeons. Because I had quests for them. Thatâs how Iâm going to do it; I will do a dungeon if I get a quest for it. Anyway⌠Havenât had any issues tbh (except from some personal irritation about 2 of the 3 tanks somehow thinking this is M+ and needs to be speed run or something⌠those guys just kept racing like maniacsâŚ).
Missing a cast no, wasted your big damage dealing spell to make an interrupt thatâs meaningless? So then be called out for low dps lolâŚ
Point is he should have said nothing, the run was quick and easy but ofc he had to have his 2cents worth.
if hunter is pulling agro of you then you must be doing something seriously wrong with how weak hunters are this season -_-
Iâd like this for Shadowlands DGâs and raids and BFA raids now that they are old content at the very least. All I got from looking for raids for Battle For DazarAlor was a bunch of mythics that wouldnât invite me at the time cause of low ilvl and I doubt thatâd change now.
yeah imagon beeing afk and still getting all the loot for ur self 