AI for tanks and healers

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OR you can make a healer or a tank

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And still get slaughtered by poison :slight_smile: ahhh fun

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They should just make the tank:healer:dps ratio better. Say 1:1:4 or 1:2:7

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Flex dungeons for normal/heroic? 1 tank, 1 healer, up to 6 DPS?

Group finder tries to find 6 DPS, if it can’t after 30 seconds the queue pops with whatever number you have.

Just a thought. Although I have no sympathy for people who play classes that are capable of tanking or healing and refuse to when faced with 30+ minute queue times.

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the irony of a hybrid class whining about LFG ques, rofl

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If shadowlands turns out to be doodoolands, they will need to turn on the AI bots for all activities in this game.

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I choose Turalyon as dps, Anduin as healer, Yrel as dps, and maybe one or two others.

Carry me bots!

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I play tanks, heals and dps and I agree this definitely needs to happen. I’ve wasted so many hours waiting on queues over the last 10 years in this game. I think it should be introduced for normal/heroic dungeons and LFR raids. Nothing else.

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Which one is your necromancer?

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But how would AI tank and healers make mistakes like a human ?

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No thank you. AI is expensive and extremely subject to human error, and I would rather have a tank or healer I can actually thank or talk to.

Also, necro thread by Meehra.

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What they should do is give people more reasons to play the tanks and healers, I am a healer main but it sure would be nice to be able to gear up my alts while playing my healer. I want to play my alts but the que times for dps are too long. If I could be gearing an alt while playing my main healer it would be a really great bonus.

Not only would it give me more reasons to continue healing even after getting full gear but it would encourage others to heal /tank as well because they would enjoy the fast que times while also gearing up their dps chars.

I don’t think bots are a good idea, maybe it’s ok for lower dungeons like leveling, normal and heroic dungeons but I don’t think it’s a good idea for mythic+

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go to the hell, please.

Nobody needs people with such childish ideas.

AI’s would be very interesting, since apparently players prefer to play DPS.

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AI units should be able to roll Need on items, to add to the realism.

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Unfortunately, though WoW was able to do comp stomp, I doubt they would make AFKable dungeons.

Can’t really compare to FFXIV’s Trust system where dungeons are required for story progression, having no queue is nice but doing the dungeon with their AI takes anywhere between 3 to 5 times as long to complete compared to running with players (which often means AI+no queue still takes longer than Players+Queue).

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I know this was battle rezed, but sounds like the DPS Q times have been consistent for the past 3 years.

Also, you want to run a blizzard created bot tank? The same folks that took a decade to make my pet jump off a ledge with me and still manages to get stuck on a high place at times.

The same folks that gave us tab targeting, which is supposed to target the closest enemy, the one beating my face off, but will target that NPC just out of range on the horizon.

Yea, no thanks. I’ll wait for a human.

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I can I have an AI for 
 myself?

I have reached the nirvana of laziness.

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Better yet: have AI for dps. This way tanks and healers can learn the dungeons/raids with guidance and patience, not hassle and abuse.

Ergo, more people, now instance-trained, would play tanks/healers. Everybody wins.

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I understand why they do it for FFXIV. Half the dungeons are mandatory story quests that you can’t progress until you finish, so stopping the MSQ to wait for the queue over and over again isn’t ideal.

That said, it’s also the saddest freaking thing about that game.

They literally went back to early dungeons and simplified them specifically so they could toss in the AI teammates and have it work.

Sorry, but an MMO making their group content (in which queues DO still pop and only take like 10 minutes as DPS) easier for the sake of playing with bots instead of people has gone off the rails in a bad way.

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LFG doesn’t have queues that is dungeon finder (df).