I've been doing some Arch botting today and twice found my bot stuck on a find that it can't loot. I did some looking around and found reports of this as a bug in WoW, so I'm not blaming the bot for that. Even after a relog I couldn't loot these nodes. Quite possibly due to phasing issues based on the thread I saw just now.
However ... it would be nice if the bot would stop trying to loot it after a couple of failures. I don't know how long I was there the first time but I do know I watched it repeatedly try to loot. I'm watching it do it right now in Valkyrion, Storm Peaks, 25.8 x 60.0 and the bot has tried to loot over 10x in a row while I'm watching. Patrol mobs come by, it kills them, then keeps trying to loot over and over again. Pretty obviously a bot when you are just sitting there failing to loot something over and over.
I ended up taking over, depleting the dig site manually, and then on the last find it popped in the same exact spot. I looted it, but didn't disappear (as in, there were 2 finds in the same spot) and tried to loot again and this time it worked.
1 failure with no aggro should be enough to fail and skip that node. Perhaps a short blacklist for that spot ... then a final re-check of that node when the site is depleted before moving on? At the least though, temporarily blacklist the bad find.
However ... it would be nice if the bot would stop trying to loot it after a couple of failures. I don't know how long I was there the first time but I do know I watched it repeatedly try to loot. I'm watching it do it right now in Valkyrion, Storm Peaks, 25.8 x 60.0 and the bot has tried to loot over 10x in a row while I'm watching. Patrol mobs come by, it kills them, then keeps trying to loot over and over again. Pretty obviously a bot when you are just sitting there failing to loot something over and over.
I ended up taking over, depleting the dig site manually, and then on the last find it popped in the same exact spot. I looted it, but didn't disappear (as in, there were 2 finds in the same spot) and tried to loot again and this time it worked.
1 failure with no aggro should be enough to fail and skip that node. Perhaps a short blacklist for that spot ... then a final re-check of that node when the site is depleted before moving on? At the least though, temporarily blacklist the bad find.
