After a day of gold farming here are my impressions (and bug lists);

[Lightsan]

Was working great for me this morning, however now I get "Generating path to Core End, waiting for path request to finish...." in diagnostics over and over until I forcefully move the character quite a ways away or attack a mob.

60 Wiz
285% GF
12% MS boots only
32 pickup Range
Skills - piercing orb (mouse 1) and frost nova (slot 1)
NM Core runs
355k/hr (this morning), ~100k/hr-ish (with d/c's, disconnects, and stuck issues tonight)

A few other bugs/issues;

- Constantly getting stuck on chests/things to open.
- If bag gets full of loot the bot stops attacking and repeatedly tries to go to town (even if there is a mob still on it, have died to elites quite a few times times this way as well as standing in fire/lasers while trying to tp)
- Network Disconnects are frequent when character stalls (probably due to overload on inputs?) Have been dc'd at least 50 times tonight.
- No relog feature when character gets stuck meaning I can't even begin to think about walking away from the bot for more than a minute or two
- Character ignores goblins quite frequently or starts attacking and gets distracted by something and the goblin gets away as a result
- Have seen the mob skip loot as a result of chasing mobs (especially goblins), sometimes the opposite scenario (gets distracted by loot and quits attacking goblins and it gets away)
- Bone piles seem to take priority rather than currently being attacked goblins
- Ranged Elites are often left alone (especially the 3/3 blue elites) as they kite often and sometimes leave attacking range while the character is distracted with others
- No hazard avoidance
- Buffs don't work properly in All-In-One combat routine and Generic causes me to lose over 100k/hr when running smooth (not sure why? when only 2 dmg buffs are added per every 120sec)
- Generic doesn't seem to have the "Against Elites" working properly for buffs and with hydra it just spams it.
- Seems to be approximately around 1/2-3/5 the GPH as other bots running the same profile types

Demon Buddy client requests
- No multiple instancing implemented
- Have to copy games to run multiple instances of the game itself

 

[outofammo]

I second all of the above, especially the speed....... 200% GF and 25 % MS and still maybe making tops 60k GPH because of the slow speed and ineffecient decision making of the bots AI. Friends with similar stats on other bots have been making 3-400k GPH and it really annoys the shit out of me, call me a fanboy, but since i've used hb ive been very impressed with the buddy team. So i really want db to work out.

 

[sGkz]

Well I must agree, this bot isnt good at all, there is to many bugs, the farm is fucking slow, wtf is 150-200k/h dude? Are you serious? Thats the worst diablo bot online atm.
So sad, I did not buy a trial day before...
I'm not here to flame, i'm a old HB user, you can check my join date..

 

[Amoney21]

Well, I agree that the bot is not performing like we all want it to, but come on guys, it was released hours ago.
The devs are EASILY working on all of these bugs to make the bot just as good as HB.
Not only that, but do you see all the other "bots" you talk about getting banned left and right? DemonBuddy does not have a single ban.
This bot will be great, I know it, just give it some time and some patience

 

[sGkz]

We already did wait 3 weeks, and during that we all lost a lot of money, we bought a beta bot, thats not correct at all.

 

[AgentOrange01]

need to agree to sGkz.
Still have the impression this could be a really cool one.
But if we won't be able to go for more than 100-200kph this is just not enough.

My actual stats:
78562 (!) gph
114 GF
104 MF

Sorry but this can certainly not be the best the bot can do!

 

[Zytan]

Well my thought about DH ... slightly below average product so far. Looks like an early beta test tbh.
Even GUI is unatractive and does not even provide one tool tip or help button explaining in short what might one setting do.

Documentation about how to create your own profiles is non existant same goes with plug-ins.
User experiance is really really poor. There is one guide how to set up loot tables and such (most important thing)
and you have to study XML file for about 2 hours and additional day or 2 of testing to set it right.
This should be made trough GUI in my opinion.

There are other problems with GUI but i covered a few most important ones (to me).

Now the game play ... this is really confusing. I have no idea where to start there are so many things that needs urgent
fixing ... let me try:

a) bot is slow ... way to slow. Its not even worth risking ban using it, because you can do everything what bot does in 1 hour of game play.
b) ...there should be some advance algorithm build in for hunting and killing mobs. I mean what the hell ... attacking one mob and running to
next one without killing the first ... then hitting 2nd mob once and running back to 1st in the mean while when blues (3/3) and one rare
are kiting me to death and spamming fire/lasers on me.
c) No AOE smart escaping ... ? Standing on 2 lasers and burning fire while having 10 mobs on me ... c'mon.
d) Disconect, stuck, stuck, stuck .... ??? This is a AFK tool ... meant to be Away From Keyboard ...
its like a releasing new calculator that doesnt have +,-,*,/ on keyboard.
e) No questing profile ... ok i can live without it but its a huge turn off that you didnt include it into release.
f) not ONE profile included in download folder?? So you have to wait till someone post one on forum??
g) Awesome warden protection (DEVs say so) <- i really hope this will hold because if i get banned in next wave this would really suck even more
because an autoit bot would be faster and free ...

DEV you really really have a lot of things to fix if you want this to be your flag ship bot and i have no doubt that it will be,
juging by your epic success in WOW.

To bad you have rushed with release so soon .... bot should be delayed for a week or 2 so you would have more time fixing things.

My 2 c and this is not a crying post or what not ... its just my pov on things so please dont be mad.

Thank you!

 

[kasia]

a) bot is slow ... way to slow. Its not even worth risking aban using it because you can do everything what bot does in 1 hour of game play.

Its slow because all paths and operations, are server side, in other bots its client-side. and it wont change i think so GPH will be allways less on Demonbuddy

 

[Zytan]

Its slow because all paths and operations, are server side, in other bots its client-side. and it wont change i think so GPH will be allways less on Demonbuddy

Nah mate that can't be it ... this is no excuse just a bad coding/planning. Sorry if a customer say something needs fixing it needs to be fixed.

 

[JonSnow]

I think the devs know the bot is not in an optimal state right now and is probably why we got a discount for being early adopters.
Lets keep things on track and post our bugs.


60 Barb
45% GF
12% MS boots only
16 pickup Range
Skills - Cleave (mouse 1) and Sprint (slot 1)
NM Core runs
60k/hr

Not going to repeat too much, just going to post the things that are most detrimental to my experience so far.

1. The enemy tracking is very poor, my barb hits a mob then runs away then comes back and runs away. Sometimes he will get an elite down to 5% health then run away to the next waypoint and teleport out.
2. Identifying yellow items causes a disconnect - The bot is performing actions too quickly when it comes to identifying items which often results in a d/c. Not only is this highly annoying but possibly a way to say "hey Blizzard, I am a bot!"

 

[Zytan]

Its slow because all paths and operations, are server side, in other bots its client-side. and it wont change i think so GPH will be allways less on Demonbuddy

Nah mate that can't be it ... this is no excuse just a bad coding/planning. Sorry if a customer say something needs fixing it needs to be fixed.

 

[nawdik]

Its slow because all paths and operations, are server side, in other bots its client-side. and it wont change i think so GPH will be allways less on Demonbuddy

Was worried about this actually. Makes sense in my limited-knowledge brain, lol. Hope that's not the case though and that we can get up to those high GPH numbers that have become standard in some areas.

 

[Lightsan]

Thanks Jon. Personally I love this bot and this team. I fully support them and will be running many accounts once the bugs are worked out. Bugs won't stop me from purchasing many accounts from the DB team which is the whole point of this thread. They are doing an AMAZING job in my opinion and in the long run you'll see why they're still one of the top bot companies out there. Quality/security >>>> speed of release -- Always. On a side note; I enjoy using this for scripting more than the other bots out there, it's much more user friendly and the cost is amazing compared to what else is out there.

Avidly working out the kinks as a community will ultimately lead to a much better product! -- This is why D3A does so well!

 

[Lightsan]

Back down to 200-210k/hr. Not sure if it's just the server being bogged down or what. Going from low 400k/hr to 200k/hr without changing things is clearly server side with this bot. On a side note I am getting stuck again out of no where every 3-5 runs, I -still- see the bot ignore goblins repeatedly, and I can't seem to get anyone to respond to me after the initial response in regards to upgrading my 1 lifetime to 3 lifetime.