There are two things that are really bugging me about Druid Flight Form for Gatherbuddy.
First is how the bot approaches mining nodes. More than 50% of the time the bot will fly down towards the node, then shift out of Flight Form before it gets to the node (about 10-15 yards above the node) and overshoots the node, landing 10-20 yards away from the node. It will shift back into Flight Form, fly up, and do it again. It usually takes three tries at approaching a mining node before it will land on top/right next to it and is able to harvest it. This looks extremely bottish and with all the people farming in Twilight Highlands & Uldum its a serious threat to being reported.
It seems the fix for this would be for the bot to wait for the druid to be on top of or next to the mining node and not flying before it attempts to shift out of flight form and harvest the mining node.
My second problem is how Druids handle harvesting herbs when an aggressive mob is near it. I run Tauren Druids with GB so it harvests herbs extremely fast. What usually happens is the bot will land on top of the herb, and if a mob is near it will get into combat as soon as it touches the ground. It will then proceed to shift out of flight form and fight the mob, ignoring the herb until the mob is dead. As a druid, the bot easily has time to pick the herb and fly away before the mob has a chance to hit it, even more so for Tauren Druids because of the .5 second harvest time.
The fix for this would be for the bot to attempt to harvest the herb one or two times even if it is in combat, then fly away if successful in harvesting said herb, and it ignores the aggressive mob completely. This would save so much time and make the bot so much more efficient instead of wasting time fighting mobs it doesn't have to fight.
I have attached two logs of my druids farming Twilight Highlands and Uldum as an example of these issues.
Thank you for taking the time to read my concerns and I hope there is some way to correct these issues and make Gatherbuddy an even better bot than it already is.
First is how the bot approaches mining nodes. More than 50% of the time the bot will fly down towards the node, then shift out of Flight Form before it gets to the node (about 10-15 yards above the node) and overshoots the node, landing 10-20 yards away from the node. It will shift back into Flight Form, fly up, and do it again. It usually takes three tries at approaching a mining node before it will land on top/right next to it and is able to harvest it. This looks extremely bottish and with all the people farming in Twilight Highlands & Uldum its a serious threat to being reported.
It seems the fix for this would be for the bot to wait for the druid to be on top of or next to the mining node and not flying before it attempts to shift out of flight form and harvest the mining node.
My second problem is how Druids handle harvesting herbs when an aggressive mob is near it. I run Tauren Druids with GB so it harvests herbs extremely fast. What usually happens is the bot will land on top of the herb, and if a mob is near it will get into combat as soon as it touches the ground. It will then proceed to shift out of flight form and fight the mob, ignoring the herb until the mob is dead. As a druid, the bot easily has time to pick the herb and fly away before the mob has a chance to hit it, even more so for Tauren Druids because of the .5 second harvest time.
The fix for this would be for the bot to attempt to harvest the herb one or two times even if it is in combat, then fly away if successful in harvesting said herb, and it ignores the aggressive mob completely. This would save so much time and make the bot so much more efficient instead of wasting time fighting mobs it doesn't have to fight.
I have attached two logs of my druids farming Twilight Highlands and Uldum as an example of these issues.
Thank you for taking the time to read my concerns and I hope there is some way to correct these issues and make Gatherbuddy an even better bot than it already is.