Playing with playerbots

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HoneyWoW is populated by playerbots: characters controlled by the server that level, quest, trade and fight like players. You can group with them, and you can also turn your own characters into bots that follow you. This guide covers both.

Two kinds of bots

• Random bots: the inhabitants of the world. Around a hundred of them, from level 1 to 80, live their own lives. You will see them questing, at the auction house and in the chat channels.
• Your bots: characters from your own account (or your guild's, or a linked friend's) that you log in as companions. You control them completely, gear included.

Inviting a random bot

Invite it to your party like any player. A random bot turns you down if it is more than 5 levels above you (unless you share a guild), so invite bots close to your level. Once in your party, they follow you and fight with you.

Adding your own characters

Type in the chat:

• .playerbots bot add Name: logs in your character "Name" as a bot. Separate several names with commas.
• .playerbots bot remove Name: logs it out.
• .playerbots bot list: lists your available characters and which ones are online.
• .playerbots bot addclass priest: brings a bot of the class you need (warrior, paladin, hunter, rogue, priest, shaman, mage, warlock, druid, dk) when you have no alt of that class.

Then invite the bot to your party. You can control up to 40 bots at once, enough for a whole raid. With the account linking option on the website you can share your bots with a friend.

Basic orders

Write these words in the party chat (/p) to talk to all your bots, or whisper them (/w Name) to talk to just one:

Command	What it does
follow	Follow you.
stay	Stay where they are.
attack	Attack your target.
tank attack	Only the tanks attack your target, to build threat first.
flee	Run away with you.
summon	Teleport them to your side; it also repairs their gear and, if you are out of combat, revives the dead ones.
release / revive	Release the spirit / return to life after a wipe.
loot all	Pick up everything around.
stats	Show bag space, money, durability and experience.
who	Tell you their class, spec and level.
leave	Leave the party.

Gear, talents and upkeep

• maintenance: the bot learns its spells, spends talent points, refreshes consumables, repairs and enchants its gear. Ideal after a few levels.
• autogear: the bot equips itself with gear appropriate to its level (up to rare quality on this realm).
• talents: shows its talents; you can also change its spec from there.
• repair: repair at a nearby vendor.

Strategies

Bots behave according to strategies, which you can turn on and off. co changes combat strategies and nc non-combat ones, with + to add and - to remove. For example, co +aoe lets them use area damage, and co -aoe stops it (useful near enemies you don't want to pull). If you are not sure, the MultiBot addon gives you buttons for all of this.

Practical tips

• Mark targets with raid icons: bots focus the skull first.
• Before a dungeon, check that everyone has the right role: a healer bot set to damage will not heal.
• If a bot acts strangely, reset botAI resets its state.
• The addons MultiBot, PlayerBotManager and BotGrid make all of this much easier.

Want the full command reference, roles and party compositions? Read the complete playerbots handbook.