Convalesce 4.0 Discussion thread

Lots of changes are happening to paladins as most of you know. These changes have put alot of stress on me to get things not only updated but also add new features to make the update worth wild. Since alot of you use Convalesce I am hoping for some general discussion reguarding the CC. Maybe features requests or previous bug reports can be thrown here. I have spent over a month on this version and I hope it works out great for everyone. Some things I am still trying to figure out is the the final rotation. I am trying to figure out if its better to burn holy power on healz or save that holy power for dps. While I do have each user set it up the way they want I am considering adding logic that would bank holy power if in need of a heal. Otherwise it would just use all non holy power healz.

Anyways, here is the changelog to date. It doesnt seem like a months worth of work, but just ask fpsware who has a copy of my source. It is! If I have time I will add more features.

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Convalesce 4.0
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--Complete and major overhaul of the CC

--All new GUI. Among the new look, you can now set up the
CC based on your spec. So holy pallies no longer need to
worry about any retribution spells or talents and so on.

--You can now save and load settings. Just setup the CC the
way you wish and save the settings. You can also load settings
from a file that you or others have created.

--All new spells that were added in 4.0 are now included

--All spells that were removed from 4.0 are no longer included.

--New option for Pulling. You can now choose the spell you cast
while the target is approaching if you choose so.

--New interupt options are available.

--New options for dealing with casters are now available.

--You can now buff others in battlegrounds when out of combat.

--You can now buff random people nearby not in your party or raid.

--New rotation. All Holy power generating abilities are used first
allowing you to stack Holy Power

--When casting a spell the CC will now wait an extra 125 ms for the 
spell to complete (if not instant) before moving onto the next action. 
It will also detect when the spell has a shorter cast time so you dont 
stand around. Also the CC will now detect if you are moving and stop
before casting any non-instant spell.

--If you do not have Righteous Fury checked the CC will make sure you
dont have it on. If you do it will remove the buff for you.

-- Holy Shock is now available as a pull method for Holy Pallies.

-- Flash of Light has been removed as a spell to cast while resting.

-- You can now cast either Hammer of Justice or Repentance before
casting a long heal.

--Party healing has seen a major overhaul. All healing spells are now
supported for party healing except for Beacon of Light. Also, leaders
may now assist healz when in a group. Perfect if you are the only pally
in the group whom is also the tank.

--Party Followers will now wait for the target to come within melee range
of the leader and will no longer cast any ranged spells while this is 
happening. This is to prevent a party member from pulling agro from the
leader.

--BG healing has been re-writen from the ground up. It no longer uses any
code from shamwow. All healing abilities with the exception of cleanse
and beacon of light are now available to heal in a battleground. There is 
currently no priority sorting so it will heal anything that needs a heal.
I plan on adding sorting at a later date. Also the raid list is updated
every pulse to prevent double healing. In my tests I found it took about
3-5 ms to create a list from 40 raid members. Also the DPS Healbot feature
has been revamped. If you choose to assist healz the primary goal is still
to burn down your current target. When your target is dead the CC will then
check for those needing a heal in the area and heal them. It will also check
for healz while out of combat and before pull. Only dedicated healers will not
engage the target or search for targets to kill.

--If you are out of melee range of the target, or they are running away from you
the CC will now cast all spells that are within range instead of just chasing the
target around without casting anything. Even if the target is running.

 

Thanks Mord, looking forward to using it, I am sure it will be superb as always.

G

 

This means, we can except HB soon ? like 1-2 days ? )))

It will be awesome new CC. My full pvp gear hpally rocks like hell with new talents Looking forward to it!

 

Here is the intro screen in the Gui. You will set up the CC based on your spec. That way you dont have to worry about spells that dont apply to you. The best part is that you can save all these settings to an xml file. This will allow you to xfer your fav settings or share your settings with others.

 

Holy Paladins get a wealth of healing options. Almost too many to even need to setup. Most of these healz I would consider to be party healz as you will rarely need them when leveling in ret spec.

 

Retribution specs pallies will enjoy the new options for dealing with casters and runners. While Prot and Holy spec pallies still get a few options, they obviously dont get rebuke and repentance. I also redid the logic for these. If a caster is casting you can either choose to move in or cast your ranged spells on them first. Those of you whom are high dps can burn the target down with ease.

 

This looks fantastic, thanks for all the hard work you've put in.

I'll shoot over a donation on paypal when I can!

 

This is awesome sauce, mechanics of the game still mess with my head, someone much smarter than I will i guess figure out the best settings and share.

G

 

My pally's already 80, I might just make a cow and level him to 80 to come cata just to use your cc.

 

Happy to hear about it. I will use it, when the new version of Honorbuddy is released.

Would it be possible to use a font like Arial and an other color? Yellow isn't so nice.

 

Nice work Mord, it is looking fantastic!

 

looks very promising

 

I have been using this CC to level my paladin for a while now, he's 68. I think as far as leveling goes, and perhaps even level 80 dps for instancebuddy you probably want to use your Holy Power for DPS and then just using regular heals to heal yourself up if you need them. I haven't played around with the new stuff enough to know for sure, but I believe this will work out the best.

 

This CC is done. I am still waiting on a test hb release to give this a 48 hour run. As far as I know this may not even compile.

Now I turn my attention to Cimmerian.

 

hb beta is out now. Looking forward to this a lot mate!

 

Thanks Mordd, testing out the CC now. 49 Ret Pally.

*EDIT* Is the default CC Mordd's 4.0 release? If so, i can't config it and if it's not, where is the download?

 

HB 4.0 is working good for me right now, just waiting for Mords 4.0 Paladin Release; than my life will be complete!

 

Yeah, it seems to be that when using the Default that came with the release, it only uses Judgement.. Well my version.. xD

 

When do you will release it?

 

Did you really just ask this in both threads?

When it's out, it's out.