Skill Priority In Bot

[justing943]

Hi!
In my skills section for mage, my Lightning has higher priority than my Rising Tide, yet for some reason Lightning never seems to get cast even though Rising Tide is cast very often. I thought it might be due to the Range limit on Lightning, but sometimes even when the monsters are pretty much right in front of me, this still happens. Here's the chunk of the .xml regarding my issue:
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<skills_mage>
<skill name="PRIEST_URGENT_HEAL" modifier="" hotkey="VK_6" priority="100" hpper="50" />
<skill name="PRIEST_REGENERATE" modifier="" hotkey="VK_5" priority="120" hpper="55" />
<skill name="MAGE_LIGHTNING" modifier="" hotkey="VK_3" priority="90"/>
<skill name="MAGE_FLAME" modifier="" hotkey="VK_2" priority="100" />
<skill name="PRIEST_RISING_TIDE" modifier="" hotkey="VK_4" priority="80" />
###
Does anyone know what my problem is

Thanks in advance,
-justing

[Administrator]

MAGE_LIGHTNING has a set min and max range on it. It's pretty pointless to use it when a monster is in range of you. I believe the max range on it is also shorter than PRIEST_RISING_TIDE, so that would explain it.

[justing943]

Ah, okay thanks. Doesn't that mean though, that once the monster is within Lightning's range, lightning should be cast with higher priority than rising tide? If I remember correctly it seemed that this wasn't happening

Thanks

[Administrator]

Yes, that is what should happen. However, you will probably already be mid-cast on another spell (most likely Rising Tide) when Lightning becomes usable. As computers aren't able to logically think and plan ahead, it makes it quite problematic to solve.