The CC written by Gilderoy (which you continued) used to be the best for Holy priests. But now it's outdated... in DS is a mana-burning machine... so, with all due respect, I don't think it's just a matter of putting a couple of hours worth of code, otherwise I think you would have done it...
it would never ever handle all situations if it is not coded, and you can only code things for
- static events (and refine them on blizz changes)
- current situation of the group
- timed events
- emotes (and other hints)
- everything i can't imagine (and this is the point which makes one CC better than another
one dev learned more bout finding and handling situations, anoother dev goes for theorycrafting and would never handle specific situations)
Nothing else is done by Deadly Boss Mod or a human players
Human Players have only ONE advantage, they can learn from their mistakes (or from doin things again and again and again)
These learning process has to be reflected with code in a CC by writing down code.
And some things have to be coded in a Class to reflect something like intelligence
A Oracle-Class that watches players health for example and calculate time to death of a player on current incoming damage (nothing else does a human player when priorizing whom to heal)
And this is absolutely not that hard
- Players max Health, Players Current Health, time last seen, current time -> calculate time to death (of course you have to handle incoming heals on that player, for a human player this is reflected by many unit frames which are telling the human that someone is casting heal on player xyz -> could be checked to
)
Things like that were done multiple times (Calculating time to death of a unit is done (ignoring / resetting data on gaining health -> has to be refined for Playerhealing), Oracle-Classes already exists (most of the users never seen it cause it is beyond their borders or they missed it)
If mechanics will change, than the human has to learn it and the CC dev has to reflect it in his CC but this is not a big deal (if we do not take into account the time a Dev needs to reflect certains things, and if the CC is still supported)
ShamWoW is really good, i've never looked at the code,but i'm sure their are some specific boss logics (UltimateHealer had these logics too for some / most of the bossfights).
I do not want to offend Bobby53 or his great work, but Shamans are (in my opinion) the best fucking group healers out there, uncomparable to priests,droods or paladins and you can't compare a priest (nor paladin) to a shaman in same situations.
Where Priests/Paladins have to wait for a procc to cast ONE spell as instant, Shamans can activate Casting while moving ... Priests/Paladins have to stop moving to grant the same amount of heal to their target/group. Droods have hots (okay can be cast while movig) but have to stop moving too if they wanna grant the same amount of heal
So absolutely not comparable (i understand what you mean, but this is a preference of Shamans and their ability to heal, not an advantage of ShamWoW).
I have to give many respect to Bobby53 and his amount of code he wrote, because i did some attempts to reflect different situations in a Healing-Framework ,before my RealLifeJob took too much time, and i canceled because everytime i started i've seen that it does not match MY needs to a healing CC.
- Fully configurable
- all classes supported (Healing only)
- Blacklisting players / Groups
- Accurate and simple Dispell-Logic to implement new situations like dispelling Disrupting Shadows (or other Debuffs with different Conditions) - i learned a lot the last weeks bout that and could handle this now
- easy implementing of PVE,PVP,Arena,Raid,Dungeons (most of the situations only needs rearrangig behaviors -> Healing, Dispelling, Cooldowns)
But atm, with MoP release at the horizon, there's much ongoing with some (currently) private development for Healers and i'm sure there will be a release for all the healers out there, which have the same demand to a CC like me.
While updating Ultimate and supporting some devs with code snippets, hints to solutions i noticed that it is very hard to code for specific class without knowing anything bout that class, but it is easy to provide a framework to give others the ability to create healing logics.
So it needs not only a dev, it needs someone who understand the class ! (and i think this is an advantage of bobby53 he really knows the Shaman! other devs (still no offense against other devs) have not that knowledge cause theiy write for to many classes
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ower word Shield), and in the case of the priest, it has some other useful spells such as Circle Of Healing (another AOE Spell), Prayer of Mending (Multitarget Healing Spell).