Playerbot AI Guide

You earn the ability to spawn one AI companion for each character on your account that reaches level 80 without being used as a bot companion itself before that.

If you have AI Bots available to you, you can spawn any other character on your account as an AI companion. These AI bots are controlled via simple commands that can be given through /tells or /party chat. Unlike NPC pets however, these bots work just like a regular player in the game world, earning XP from kills and quests, looting & skinning corpses, harvesting resources, perform tradeskills, getting achievements, etc.

Our AI is fairly competent and, if properly set up, can easily survive even chaotic dungeon encounters.

Spawning and Removing AI Bots

The ".bot" command lets you list, spawn and remove bots:

   /s .bot list

This will list all characters and their levels that you can currently spawn.

   /s .bot add {Charactername}

Use this command to add the specified character to the world.

   /s .bot remove {Charactername}

As simple as adding a bot, you can remove the specified bot with this command.

Once you have a bot spawned, you can start interacting with it by /tell -ing, trading with them or inviting them to your group.

Combat

By default bots will defend themselves when attacked and aid their master. You can however specify combat orders for your bots for a more orderly approach to combat.

Available combat orders:

Looting & Collecting

The bots are able to smartly loot and skin corpses, obtain quest items and harvest resources. Each bot can be instructed to automatically collect items on the basis of the following toggles:

Good To Know

While bots act very much like real players, they are controlled internally by the NPC system. This means that they are subject to the same pathfinding as any other NPC and they will not be able to follow you if you take shortcuts. Don't worry though, if you ever lose sight of your bots you can summon them and they will appear at your location after a few seconds.

If a bot turns non responsive or gets stuck in a way that cannot be "cured" with summon, simply removing the bot and re-adding it may solve the problem.

Pro Tips & Known Issues

• Discovery (quests updated by visiting a location) and Escort Quests will not give credit to bots in the group; doing these types of quests requires you to login on each bot and get quest credit manually
• quests that have you collect non-quest items (usually used for crafting, like boar meat) can be a bit more tedious to complete as these items don't drop for each character in the group; you will have to farm the necessary amount to complete the quest for each bot in your group
• some scripted events and quest credits may not work on bots in the group
• the HealBot addon conflicts with the bot system and needs to be deactivated
• sometimes a bot may miss the fact that you have picked up a quest; before venturing out, it's thus always a good idea to double check that all your bots have those quests active
• if you use a bot as tank in a dungeon, make sure to set it as your focus and target enemies using a /focustarget-macro
• the auto equip function isn't perfect; it is recommended to occasionally inspect your bots and make sure they are using optimal equipment
• hybrid bots with the ability to heal as well as do damage (shaman, paladin) can do both (DPS + Heal) only if they do have no specific combat orders (orders c none)
• make liberal use of the bot attack and pull commands in order to separate mobs from groups; you can also create a macro to have a bot cast Polymorph for additional crowd control

AI Bot Commands

All of these commands can be issued by /tell -ing the bot (/t {Botname}). Some of the commands can also be issued over the party chat, allowing you to give commands to all of your grouped bots at once.