How often is Combat() called while... in combat?

[ski]

I tried changing all my spell casts to a massive switch/case statement, so that the conditions would be checked each time combat() is called (to allow for better reactions instead of just running through all the if-thens sequentially) but there is like 5 seconds between each spell cast.

Do we know how often Combat() is run through? Is there a better way of doing combat logic then a bunch of if's or nested-ifs? I want it to make a decision on each spellcast, as opposed to a series of sequential decisions.

With Ifs:
- Check to see if we should death coil
- Check to see if we should heal
- Check to see if we should dot
- Check to see if we should heal pet
- Check to see if we should sbolt
- Repeat

Now the problem with that is, if I don't meat the conditions for step 1 right as I hit it, I have to run through every other conditional check (and subsequent casts) before I can hit step 1 again.

What I'd like to happen:
- Check to see if we should death coil, or heal, or dot, or heal pet, or shadowbolt
- Repeat

I'd like it to check to cast before each spell, that way the logic is more intelligent. Is there a good way to do that with the current way Combat is called?

 

[ski]

I should clarify a bit, I'm trying to implement my spells casting in something of a priority queue. I want things like heals, death coil, and fear to have a higher priority than spells like shadow bolt. Essentially, I want to be able to write my combat section in such a way that no matter what, the highest priority spells will be cast regardless of how far along it is in the Combat() region as a whole.

 

[flo84642]

You are free to implement a complex behaviourtree for your combat logic, you just have to pulse it inside Combat()

 

[ski]

You are free to implement a complex behaviourtree for your combat logic, you just have to pulse it inside Combat()

Can you go into more detail?