Friendly NPC A.I. Bots for Dungeon Finder Groups

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Yes lets just go full lobby mode with this MMORPG and remove any social necessities. Not.

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They would kick all players and replace them with more bots.

That’s basically how Skynet started

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He look like night elf but speak like orc.

Looks like evolution favors Blood Elves

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You’ve done an escort quest before, right? So let’s assume you’re DPSing with a robet tank, can you imagine the path they’re going to be mapped into taking? They can’t just follow you like pets, that tank is gonna escort quest your butt through that dungeon, running off to kill every trash mob that gets within LoS.

Nah, I’m good.

Us players aren’t perfect but wipes and learning are fun. I’d rather wait in line than willing put myself through escort quests for “fun”.

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Tried learning how to heal and honestly it was the rush monks that turned me away from it so yeah sure tank bot sounds so much better not running a head of me, pulling an entire room getting themselves killed and then quitting and ending the entire run because theres no replacements

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Funny you say this because FFXIV is going to heavily expand on their AI bots to make their game more solo-friendly.

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If that is the case I will indeed go and try FFXIV. Thanks for the tip:)

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lol @ pretending it isn’t.
WoW is not the FF killer.

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Forgive me but I really don’t understand this rivalry between some Wow Fans and some FFXIV Fans. From what I’ve heard Both games are good in their own respective ways. There is no law that says a gamer can’t play both games.

I came to Wow from Everquest. Over the years I’ve played most mmorpgs out: Guild Wars, Anarchy Online, Phantasy Star Online, Champions, Star Wars Galaxies, Star Wars the Old Republic. And many many more. I enjoyed all these games and more. Each Game is unique to itself. We are Gamers and Gamers Play Games of all types.

Ah the nostalgia. One of my favorite games was Everquest Online Adventures for the PS2 console. Playing Everquest with a game-controller was great fun. Based my home zone in Halas way up in the frozen north. Oh the memories.

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Tara you know nothing. yuo not fur real gamer like me. dos games you talk about Wuw an FFXYZ are just junk. all other games junk. best game in world is checkers. everybodi know dat. checkers only for big smarts people like me. not puny little girl like you. and wit checkers no need no stinking fancy campoter. just need board and little peices.

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great idea, id do dungeons like this.

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Gross.

Like in Comp Stomp? :rofl:

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I personally think WoW has way too many mechanics to some of its bosses and difficulties to make and effective AI possible when it comes to a players group perspective. We already have issues with brain dead players causing groups to fail on easy mode.

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Not yet tho, it will take a while until they can implement “older content” with AI’s. Right now its only the last 2 expansions.

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Hahahaha Ya Wow players stupid moorons they pull all mobs. day stand in fire. day run wrung way. da fall sleep on keybard. vwery stupid. now if players like me no need bots.

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Then why even make dungeons for 5 people? What you want is a solo dungeon.
I think what needs to be evaluated is the importance of the trinity system. The games health is too dependent on two roles most people don’t play.

IMO all plate wearers should be default tanks. Boss mechanics should be telegraphed and interactive. And hybrids should be off-healers that do less DPS.

It would take a ton of class reworking to make that happen though. But I think having to have both a dedicated tank and healer per group is too much these days.

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I tend to agree with you. Your idea makes sense to me. But I can already hear the Tanks and healers complaining that it would destroy their class. The meaning of their class. But on the other hand it would cut down on Dungeon finder wait times effectively.

Your statement made me realize something: what is happening now with as an example the level 10 monk twinks is that they run through the dungeon at top speed kill draw agro kill everything themselves leaving the rest of the team behind, they heal themselves too. The only deference is that you still have wait times because the dungeon wont start until the trinity requirement is satisfied.

I agree if we could get rid of the trinity requirement altogether that would streamline the Dungeon Finder system. But like I said wait for the Howls from tanks and healers.

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If this is your experience, you would benefit strongly by making friends. A lot of us are playing a completely different game than you are.

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nerf friends TOO OP :frowning:

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I’ve been in support for something like this since Cata when they had several quests lines that teamed you with a group of A.I bots.
I think it could be something controlled off the mission tables where you could pick some of your followers/companions to fill out the team.
Another idea I had is being able to assign some of your alts to the roles. While assigned as your dungeon group they are unplayable but gain rewards as if they were players including loot and automatically equip improved gear they get.
My opinion is it should be limited to normal level dungeons and legacy content only but I think it could work.