Aethro: Reforged — Playerbots Update
We’ve refreshed Playerbots with a large round of combat, travel, dungeon, raid, and stability improvements.
What’s improved
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Smarter dungeon and raid behavior across Karazhan, Naxxramas, Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, Zul’Aman, Gruul’s Lair, Magtheridon’s Lair, Hyjal, Tempest Keep, Icecrown Citadel, and more.
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Improved strategies for Hellfire Ramparts, Sethekk Halls, The Underbog, Magisters’ Terrace, and The Mechanar.
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Better group behavior: LFG handling, party leadership, bot queues, ready checks, and player-owned bot interactions.
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Travel upgrades: stronger taxi support, cross-map travel fixes, improved flight-node handling, and fewer instance movement issues.
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Class and combat improvements across Rogue rotations, Priest tank support, pets, interrupts, loot behavior, and target selection.
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Expanded autogear controls, including quality-based gearing, item-level targets, matching a player’s gear level, plus reset and regear options.
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Improved random-bot management, including optional level brackets and tools to concentrate bots where players are active.
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Stability and performance fixes for logouts, commands, crafting, loot, random-item selection, and activity tracking.
All Races, All Classes
Any race can now play any class. Human Druid? Go for it. Blood Elf Shaman? Absolutely. Undead Priest? You could already do that, but now everyone gets in on the fun.
New Dungeon System
The Dungeon Master is now available in major cities. Run randomized dungeons with friends, with your bots, or solo—and earn new rewards along the way.
Constant Rested XP for Premium
Premium players can now turn Constant Rested XP on or off through their SmartStone Premium Services menu. Keep the doubled kill XP from rested status active whenever you want to level faster.
Cross-faction has been turned off.
It was causing too many problems across too many systems. Alliance hates Horde. Horde hates Alliance. Deal.
This update is live now and requires a new launcher update.
Other bugs being worked on this week:
Bounty Board is being stupid. The numbers should become player names and actual huntable targets within the next day or so.
Have fun and enjoy!