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[Aramid]

OK, just found out something I didn't know before nd maybe the coders can figure out why it's happening. I tested this with a Shaman, Wizard, Enchanter, Druid and Necro.

All except the Wizard will load there Default Pet XXXX, where XXXX = Class Spells instead of there own spells.

See if this is what is happening to you as well. Spawn your Bot and before grouping or anything, target it and issue the #showstats command. You will see that it has loaded spellslists in the 500's. They don't have a pet spawned at this time either, as they aren't even grouped yet. Funny thing too, my Wizard doesn't spawn a pet (Familiar) at all even though it has the spell and has the correct list loaded.

My Cleric seems to always load the spells I setup for it.
With the Shaman, I created a short list in the 606 slot and it did not load those spells until I used the #ai command. It loaded it's default pet spells. Yes I set it up to use that spellist in the db

Hope someone can figure out why.

[Congdar]

The peq database has default spell lists for all caster classes in npc_spells table starting at id 1 and going through id 12 with names "Default <class> List"
Also in the database are separate entries id 514-524 with names "Default Pet <class> List"

I don't know the reason for needing both, but the bots that can cast pets are hard coded to use the 514-524 list AND the Wizard code is rem'd out.

Maybe Cavedude can shed some light on the multiple default entries as the pet classes would never need the default entries in favor or the default pet entries. It seems the bot code uses the 'Pet' version for pet classes, so any custimization you do should use the higher range unless we hear some reason not to. (We should probably make a 'Default Bot' list, what id range should we use?).

Since the wizard bot code is not changing to the Default Pet entry it is instead using the Default entry. The default entry does not have any pet spells in the list.