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jabbyxd
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For those of you who use the Cleric Disciple as their companion when they first start out, would you mind answering me this question.
Why does my Cleric think it's a tank? I sit reading up on my new skills and feats when i level up, or checking out the AH and i seriously watch my Cleric run up to stand-by enemies and aggro them... Then when they kill her, they come to me.
Why does my Cleric think she is a tank >:l
I'm sad
Why does my Cleric think it's a tank? I sit reading up on my new skills and feats when i level up, or checking out the AH and i seriously watch my Cleric run up to stand-by enemies and aggro them... Then when they kill her, they come to me.
Why does my Cleric think she is a tank >:l
I'm sad
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Because they modeled the AI off of the worst things that players do?
* Stand in the fire
* Run AWAY from the tank when they get aggro
* Pull when you're not ready
* Stand and do nothing while you get mobbed by 16 things, and then throw an insufficient heal when its too late.
* Trigger the traps that everyone else walks around.
Honestly, though, the reason is because AI takes quite a bit of processor time, and there are thousands of companions running around, not to mention the mobs. To have smarter companions would take time to write the AI, and then would take up more server time for each decision. If the routine was complex enough it might slow down their reaction, making them appear dumber. There was probably a compromise at "good enough most of the time". Every game I've played that lets you take NPCs with you suffers from the same unintelligent AI (Skyrim, Guild Wars, Star Trek Online, to name a few).
1. Leashing option - stay IN FRONT of me, stay BEHIND me, stay WITH me.
2. Aggressiveness - DON'T attack at all, ONLY attack if attacked first, ALWAYS attack any enemy in range - (this last option may be best kept disabled if in dungeons/instances that require a team).
3. Add a checkbox next to each of a companion's active powers/attacks, so we can enable or disable them.
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That's exactly what they did with the new Fawn companion (you can earn/buy it at the Winter event) - no attack, strictly passing stats.
I've noticed my Cleric has been acting opposite this most recently. The problem is that she will attack any hostile that comes within range of her (I'm not sure what the range is) - and it seems the Cleric's attack range is farther out than the range of encounters (before they recognize your presence).
So what I'm seeing is that my Cleric will start attacking them, which will pull agro, while I'm standing around doing whatever.
She's a rather extroverted angry little wench looking for trouble, I suspect.
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2nd best almost wipe (hard to kill my GWF): approaching Karru, rounding a bend to first boss where trying to avoid Magma elite and his many Forgecaller giant friends.
These days, if I see a Cleric Disciple out, or indeed any other combat pet in a T2 run, I call it out immediately at the start of the run.
While doing my Sharandar dailies my cleric companion pulled no fewer than four separate groups while I was trying to fight them one set at a time. She will run from an attack and with her aggro radius trigger more mobs, then run from these and trigger yet more mobs, then run from these and.......
I would much prefer the companion AI / aggro changes returned to what they were previously as I much rather my companion dies because she doesn't run away from mobs to me dying because she keeps pulling lots of mobs.
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