What's your experience with Dungeonbuddy in public groups?

I am interested in some of the dungeon farming profiles (timewalking satchel farming) but am nervous about sending even a secondary account in to farm with a public group because of how bottish it seems. What's everyone else's experience with it (healing specifically.)

Thanks

 

Enable loot all. Except this, i was fine, but i only ran as healer.

edit: and disable all "port out of instance", if u use singlar (which i recommend) disable also use racials.

 

Yea I would definitely be going as healer.

 

Doing it close to everyday as DPS or Tank

 

How long have you been doing it?

 

One problem with DB in pickup groups is the bot tends to follow a set pattern and the people dont. So the bot will wander off or go in a direction the party doesnt. Funny thing though I see a few bots in the parties because they do the set pattern thing. I monitor all my toons through dungeons and use DB on and off. If the party wants to go another way then I turn on combat bot. The advantage of DB is it has boss logic which is good, but the disadvantage is set logic.

I have done followers and tanking by DB. mixed results. Turn off all gathering and skinning before you go or your toon will be doing those actions, sometimes ignoring the set plan and pulling unwanted NPCs. The safest way to use DB is with a five man team.

One advantage of monitoring is you can interact with the party and change the actions of the bot. Be careful of stopping the bot or even pausing it as it will try and run to the start or the last hotspot it remembers.

 

The best for you is just to run it monitored then examine if it does satisfy you or not.

In WoD LFRs, with very small exceptions, Healers are performing from well to decent.

Tested with Druid/Shaman and Disc Priest for Satchel farming so far.

With all but the priest made several 6-7 hours long sessions - from late afternoon to 2-3 a.m.

The only issues was from two Bastion of Shadow navigation stucks, which does present, if the healer have no food/water, and get out of Iskar OOM, then wait for resting. Once its recovered, the raid is very away and it stuck, the same apply to the next boss - Socrethar. But all above is reported to HB Devs, so we could see navigation fix there anytime soon.

Small polish for priest Singular should be to disable fearward, pretty odd to refresh it on cooldown.

 

Given your obvious practice with using it, which class would you recommend for healing? I plan on sticking mostly to dungeons.

 

i had the best experience with druid. it's also versatile and allows you to have multiple specs should you choose to farm other stuff as well.

 

As written above, under Singular, I have tested it realistically only with Druid and Shaman, both in the 705-710 ilvl range. While the druid is decent, the shaman seems to have better aoe heals, and with this to top the skada meters almost every encounter.
The Disc is not geared enough to be comparable with them, so far.
This week would give some love to a pala and monk healers, to see how they are performing in the LFR wings too.
Disclaimer again - its personal impression, not objective testing on them - all ran under Singular, and having mostly Kazzak/Tanaan Baleful/Mythic dungeons gear.

Yes, you have named the key purpose here - its versatile - you can either tank with Guardian, change 2 trinkets and damage with Feral too.

From my recent experience with feral under singular, it looks very good, in therms of damage output, selfhealing and speed moving (with appropriate talents)

 

Few months on my main. LFRs as DPS. Dungeons as both Tank and DPS

 

Maybe it's just me/the fact i'm at low levels with it right now, but I'm having a hell of a time getting the healer to work without blatantly looking like a bot. i.e. stagger-stepping to stay X distance from the leader.

 

To solve the stuttering problem make the toon walk. Put a macro you can hit when needed. I have problems with the party not following my script, ie: missing some npcs mytoon goes after or taking a different fork or going after other bosses not in the script. Most troubolesome now is Mauradon

 

You could test to enable movement from Dungeonbuddy and disable it from your combat routine.

 

It's all good man; I've been doing it on multiple toons in everything from leveling to raids; all good.

 

That more or less did the trick. Now it's just fine tuning, at least it isn't stagger stepping anymore. Thanks for the help!