Curse

firstwave · Jul 14, 2005, 07:03 PM // 19:03

I think the henchemen improved. I did Dune of Despair with henches and we didnt die once.

Damon Windwalker · Jul 14, 2005, 07:07 PM // 19:07

No more "celebratory firestorm?"

Xonic · Jul 14, 2005, 08:11 PM // 20:11

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Originally Posted by Wa$d

First, this is not a rant on updates, and its not about the whole update, just then hench. Im in the crytsal desert and we are being swarmed by all sorts of enemies, jade, 2 hyrdas, and rockshot, and i go down.......all the hench are left. Im like "thats it, we are died!" but then they start to focus fire on one enemy at a time, by now the hrydas are dead, but before they went down they were firing meteor so i am like "MOVE hench!" and guess what they did, they spread out!

they kill them, and start to kill the rockshots, kill them, and finily the scarabs, so they killed everything without me, i am very impressed with it! Good soild hench AI update!

nice, one more reason I will perfer hanchmen teammate over human teammates. some human players have Very poor AI...

Divinitys Creature · Jul 14, 2005, 08:25 PM // 20:25

Even before the latest patch I noticed henchies are acting a little differently. They don't just fight until they die, Stefan and Little Thom (I like to call him Little John ye-ayah

) come back to get hgealed and then go back and fight some more.

Wa$d · Jul 14, 2005, 09:17 PM // 21:17

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Originally Posted by Arvydas

http://www.pockethouse.com/gallery/d...album=71&pos=2
Heal Area! Heal Area!

Back to topic. I haven't really noticed substantial improvements in henchmen AI.... they blocked my path once...

thast has to be one of the funniest things i have ever seen!

Numa Pompilius · Jul 14, 2005, 10:56 PM // 22:56

Some more things...
1) Alesia is still suicidal, making Lina work overtime keeping her alive.
2) Stefan now has knockdown, charge! and balanced stance (!).
3) In a whole day of serious fighting, Orion only firebombed corpses once. Considering the casting time of firestorm, that's impressive.
4) Did Reyna used to use disruptive shot? I don't remember, but she does now.
5) Lina 4 teh WIN! No-one can doubt the power of protective monks after a tour with her!
6) The henches still can't be ordered to disengage.

And finally... Does anyone except Grawl and necromancers ever use Heal Area?

Kamatsu · Jul 14, 2005, 11:10 PM // 23:10

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Originally Posted by Shandoo Bilari

You do not get DP when you die within the first 20-30 seconds of being rezzed.

I'm sorry, but I have to dispute that. I have gotten to 50% DP thanx to Alesia rezzing me and me promtly dying withing 10-20 seconds. So either I'm bugged or your information is incorrect.

And i have to disagree, Henchmen AI is probably even more stupid now than b4 :P What happens now is Alesia will decide to run point with stefan a bit behind her and behind them both is me. How they know where I am going is beyond me of course :P

and as for getting in fights.. why does Alesia always run to the behind of the monsters? LOL So we have me & Stefan duking it out with the monsters, the monsters next to us, Alesia on the other side of the monsters (and usually the target of another monster or group which she triggered by running around there in the 1st place) and Renya behind us firing safely with her bow. Stupid AI on Alesia.. she still think's she's invunrulble.. good AI on Renya tho IMO.. and Stefan.. he's just the same. good for a fight tho :P

And as for Alesoa and rezzing.. ARRG... my complain about DP.. had +10% morale from killing some bosses.. w00t... then I ran into some tuff critters (can't remember their names, sorry) .. but was confident that I should be able to make it. course Alesia runs arouns and triggers even more critters. damn her! Unusually the new monsters actually targeted me rather than Alesia... I proceeded to die :P Took down a few b4 I died.. no worries I thought, the henchies were actually doing some good.. but down to -5% dp in 1 go.. bah!

so what happens then? yep, while the critters are still monstly alive (the henchies were actually surviving and focusing fire.. which would have worked maybe.. LOL who knows, their hp bars were going down fast as well.. but the critters weren't focusing on anyone (more on Stefan tho.. which is a good thing.. heh)).. Alesia rezzes me. Now I must have just rolled the bad luck dice.. because before I could do anything about either flee'ing, healing or anything.. I'm lying face down dead again since the monsters decided I was too juicy a morsel to pass up. Down to -20% DP. I died in under 20 seconds.

now this happened another 2 times b4 we finally managed to kill the damned things an dmove on. Course by that time I was on -50% DP... luckily for me I had cleared out most of the critters on the map where I was trying to do a few quests.. so nothing bad came of it. Just a short time of frustration at Alesia.. the stupid idiot monk henchmen :P

JoDiamonds · Jul 15, 2005, 08:29 PM // 20:29

I've never seen the henchmen try to rez anyone during combat. I was already impressed that they didn't do that. On the other hand, their pathing has really screwed me sometimes, which is what they patch says got fixed, which makes me happy.

Other than them getting stuck on some things, I've mostly been happy with the henchmen. Alesia heals people before trying to rez anyone, at least; even if there's no enemies around. =)

Alderman Sweet · Jul 15, 2005, 09:11 PM // 21:11

The henches seem to be at their best when I die. When I'm pasted to the dirt, they become absolute football heroes. Therefore, for the sake of the free peoples of Tyria, I have decided to die as often as possible. There's probably some flaw in this plan, but I can't be bothered about details now.