Curse

Brian the Gladiator · Nov 28, 2006, 01:12 AM // 01:12

They need to adjust the AI so that the hench will use arcane echo only on the skill to the right of it (in relation to the skill bar). I don't see a problem with this and I think everyone would benefit from it, unless u are uninformed. If you are uninformed, then you don't deserve to use echo correctly, lol =)

ManMadeGod · Dec 04, 2006, 02:20 AM // 02:20

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Originally Posted by ManMadeGod

I found the AI of heroes are somewhat weird and interesting.

Sample3. Echo FoC nuker:
Arcane Echo, FoC, Suffering, Desecrate, Defile enchantment, Sig of Lost Soul, Sig of Sorrow, Rez

Hero can't use this build wisely. First, he uses FoC immediately when it is available, he rarely casts suffering first to boost the damage of FoC. Second, He Arcane Echo druing battles and then finds a target that is below 50% so he uses Sig of Lost Soul and removes Arcane Echo, he does this combo often...

The worse thing is the hero won't use Desecrate/Defile easily if enemies are not enchanted. We just want him to spam these huge armor-ignoring AoE spells, but he rarely casts them. Even you let him bring ONLY Desecrate/Defile, most of the time he will choose to wand instead.

As for Sig of Sorrow, AI uses it often without considering if the target is near a corpse. 30 sec recharge makes it a waste of slot.
If you let the hero bring Barbs instead, most of the time he will just spam Barbs only. *Sigh*
We want AI to use Desecrate/Defile more often, but use Sig of Sorrow conditionally.

After the current update
1.FoC: not tested yet
2.Desecrate/Defile Enchantment: AI uses them much more frequently! Even the target(s) is not enchanted, armor ignoring 71 (with AtB) AoE damage is sweet.
3.Signet of Sorrow: AI still uses it if target is not near a corpse.

Thallandor · Dec 09, 2006, 08:46 AM // 08:46

Sample. Touch Ranger:

Heros know no fear or hesitation and stick to the spamming build religiously.

Francis Crawford · Dec 10, 2006, 03:13 AM // 03:13

I guess one could manually "call" Arcane Echo and the followup spell -- but you'd probably have to keep the hero skill bar open and do it every time.