Hi Guys n Gals -
I've been using Kick's Profile Pack for quite some time with much success to level many toons. Recently I began to find that pressing the "Stop" button did not stop the bot right away. The bot would continue on, and often cause much FPS drops and "Stuck" issues. Making the bot jump all over the screen and look very "Bottish".
At first I thought it was a change to HB, but the problem didn't occur with Combat bot or Dungeonbuddy. Only with Questing Bot.
After trying various things one at a time like disabling/removing plugins, and disabling addons... I found that even with all plugins and addons "Disabled" the bot still takes 5-10 seconds (down from 15-45) to "Stop". The only way it was (close to) instant, was if the Addons folder (WoW) and the Plugins folder (HB) were completely empty, not just disabled.
That lead me to examine the Kicks profile I was using -- [H - Quest] 12-58 K-EK [Kick]
I've discovered that it's not an HB component that is causing the issue. It's the Kick's profile itself. It appears that each time the "Stop" button is pressed, the profile wants to take an inventory of the WoW client's UI Addons, as well as the HB Plugin's being used. While I'm sure this is useful information for Kicks, and Chinajade to troubleshoot, it is causing problems with the bot shutdown. Especially if there are many addons/plugins to inventory, regardless of if they are enabled or not.
To test my theory, I switched to Cava's profiles. The issue is gone and the "Stop" button works instantly.
Any thoughts about this?
Can this be improved, or maybe can the inventory be moved to the startup of the profile instead of the shutdown?
There are many times when I'm questing that I need to stop the bot right away such as if someone tries to talk to me and I don't want to look like a bot and just run away while I'm trying to talk. Also if someone tries to ask me about sharing a particular mob kill for a quest. I like to be able to stop the bot, invite to group and kill the mob in question, instead of being a jerk and killing the mob without saying a word.
Thanks for all your time and efforts!
Respectfully,
Fuego