I dont know if it has been mentioned before, but the AI of the winter wolfes appears to be not working correctly, at least in the new mod 10 areas. Sometimes they just stand around, after being aggroed, doing nothing, or attacking with the ice blast, but still take an awfull lot of time until they go into cc (close combat) range. And even there, if you move a bit around, their throw attack mostly misses. I doubt that this is intended.
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I can't really put my finger on it, but they are more sluggish. Maybe it's that they don't make much of an effort to reposition. Or maybe we've all just gotten a lot tighter at dodging and these wolves seem easy in comparison.
Still, wolves in IWD feel less sluggish.
In SKT, I find that the wolves try to position for combat advantage quite regularly, if not controlled. They can be a real pain in the backside (hah). I suppose that most mobs that are spawned as add waves are a little slow to wake up, so to speak. I've been not doing these quests because I find them intolerably tedious, but the wolves that are already present at any location seem normal to me.
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Wolves on the Stronghold map are dire, not winter (unless those come from a mob upgrade I haven't reached yet), so they have no breath attack and only melee.
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And now that I think about it, I definitely experience this more significantly on my DC and CW (ranged and constantly dodging), and it hasn't struck me as much on my OP (melee and just taking it in the face).
I get annoyed on my DC because the wolves won't group up nicely for low-radius AoEs like they do on SH and IWD maps. But since they are often starting with the clunky breath attack, that makes sense. And then when I dodge away they get confused rather than coming after me.
Speculation, but it seems consistent with my experience.
It's pretty clear that something is not quite right with the breath attack, and it's causing the wolves to behave rather un-wolf-like.