NPC Spell List Recast Delay Not Working

[moydock]

I believe I had this working a couple months back when I changed all my npc's. I'll test again and let you know.

[moydock]

Yeah mines working fine. I'm not on the latest build, but fairly recent.
It's in seconds for me. For example, the heal I just tested:
ID: 367
npc_spells_id: 6
spellid: 200
type: 2
minlevel: 1
maxlevel: 8
manacost: -1
recast_delay: 30
priority: 1

[So_1337]

I noticed this recently, and it's especially obvious among death-touching mobs like the Golems in Fear. I was even considering a work-around.

Currently, they cast it shortly after they're first aggro'd, and then you never see it again. On Live, it had a refresh timer of one minute, and they'd nuke whoever was at the top of their hate list. I know perl isn't the best solution for this, but I considered writing a script that would fire it off once a minute as it should, using a timer.

But if this recast delay and priority thing is straightened out, it'd be much better, for sure.

[trevius]

Maybe it has something to do with the Spell Type setting for the NPC Spell Lists. I am wondering if only certain types will recognize the Recast Delay setting and some will ignore it. IMO, they should all follow the Recast Delay restriction. The ones I have tested so far are set to type 1, which is the Nuke setting. So, maybe the Nuke setting doesn't follow that restriction. Maybe I can try setting them to another type (maybe the DoT setting) and see if that makes any difference. Though, I still think that they should all follow the Recast Delay restriction.

[moydock]

I don't think it affects it. I'm only testing lvl 5 npc's but my druids never nuke twice in a row as well as not healing. I've got 15 second delay on their nukes too. They'll cast bust of flame, and then firefist, or whatever that dot is, but never 2 burst of flame in a row.

[trevius]

The proc chance might be why you aren't seeing them very close together. Try upping the proc chance up to 100% so that they should try to cast it every time it is available. Then, try setting your recast delay to something longer like 180 seconds and see if they cast it before that 3 minutes are up.

I will have to do more testing on it, but it is hard when I can only reset my server every now and then to test the changes, or it will effect my players too much if I reset alot.

[moydock]

I tried setting the proc rate to 100 and oddly they don't seem to try to cast any quicker. Like, I attack them, and they wait awhile to cast the first nuke. Possibly because they need to wait the recast delay before casting the first spell.

Trust me though, I've sat in front of these things a lot. I would have seen one double cast by now.
I originally implemented the recast so that healers wouldn't chain heal themselves when they got low on health. And they don't anymore. I guess it's possible this has been broken in one of the somewhat recent updates.