CoffingQuest uses the Playerbots modification. The mod itself has its own Wiki, however this page condenses some of that knowledge into something easier for getting started. If you're looking for more advanced/obscure commands and techniques, please see their wiki page.

Up to 2,000 bots are actively playing on the CoffingQuest server at any given time, ranging from levels 1 through 80. These bots will queue for dungeons and battlegrounds, use the auction house, and quest among other things. There are two ways that players can engage playerbots:

• Players can engage the active bot population by bringing them into their group. Use the search feature to find bots near your level and start throwing out invites. Side Note: Engaging playerbots this way is by far my preferred method. At first I wanted to control their gear choices, however the playerbots in the world perform exceptionally well even if poorly geared. Because of that, I don't have to work to maintain 4+ account playerbots and can instead focus on my main character while easily bringing in exhisting playerbots when needed.

• Users can create alts on their own account, and then summon them in-game from their main character. Spawning new in-world bots that haven't been created on your own account has been turned off.

Regardless of the method, once the playerbots are in your group they can be controlled via the party chat channel.

This section is only necessary if you want to use your own account Playerbots. You will first need to go through the process of creating multiple characters on your account before using this method, which is why we recommend using playerbots already in the world. To see a list of available playerbots on your account, type in the following command: .playerbot bot list. This will display the characters available for you to spawn:

To spawn Blumpkin, I would issue the following command: .playerbot bot add Blumpkin. That playerbot will automatically join my group:

Once in your group, simply type in party the following word: summon. This will bring all playerbots in your group directly to you:

Here are a list of commands that can be used to control the Playerbots:

• Give Leader: If you find yourself in a group with Playerbots and one of them has leader, this should give it to you.
• Follow: All of the Playerbots will follow the player in-game.
• Stay: All of the Playerbots will stay in at the current location of the player in-game.
• Attack: All of the Playerbots will initiate combat against your current target (if applicable).
• Release: This will cause any dead Playerbots to release and respawn at the nearest graveyard.
• Revive: Usually just release is all you need, but if not this should get the Playerbots moving.
• Disperse set x: This causes the Playerbots to spread out, with x being the amount of yards they need to keep between one another. This is typically only used during certain raid fights. Note: This will only work if you first execute the disperse enable command.

While the commands above were given in the context of playing in a single group of Playerbots, those same commands can be invoked at both individual playerbots or at the scale of raiding.

• To give a command to an individual playerbot, simply give them a whisper. Something I urge everyone to do is to whisper a playerbot the following: talents spec list. You will occasionally find a playerbot in a dungeon doing stupid PVP stuff. using this command will give you a list of their available specs, which you can change on-the-fly. For example, if you want to switch your priest to a holy PVE spec, you would whisper them talents spec holy pve.

• If you are the leader of a raid, you can target specific groups with commands using raid chat. Each group is referenced by @GroupX, with X being the group number. Let's say you wanted group 1 to stay in your current location before moving the rest of the raid elsewhere - you would do this by saying the following in raid chat: @Group1 Stay.

While this guide should be a good start, I implore you read more into the Playerbots wiki that I linked above. And if you feel that this page could use more information regarding Playerbots, please help us out by trying to add some information yourself as having input from multiple community members will always enhance content for the positive and help cut down on misteaks.

Thank you, go have fun out there!

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