Curse

Jackell · May 06, 2005, 06:01 AM // 06:01

So, I'm playing with my bad computer so my girlfriend can use my good one for her game, so I need to play with henchies. I go to do the Wilds mission. Whee! Wilds with Henchies. Oh boy....

As were crossing a log, Wind riders from below spot us, and start casting life drains on us. Since we were on a log above them, we couldn't hit back, and it kept telling me My view of the target was obstructed. Fine, I'll move on, I think to myself, and move on.

But my henchies don't. The keep running into the side of the log. Over, and over, and over, trying to get these Riders. Ok, I'll attack another enemy, and they'll come, right?

Wrong. The fighter and the healer do, but not to support me and my fight. The run right past what I was fighting and run face first into the side of a cliff. The others, still into the side of the log, getting drained.

I fall back because I have four things on me, and I need their help, just to discover that they spent so much time running into the log away from the healer that they've died from the life drains. It takes me a second to comprehend what the hell just happened, and before I know it, I'm dead.

Here come the fighter and healer again, run right past the mobs, and neither the mobs or the henchies attack each other. The healer gets to where she could possibly start rezzing, but the Fighter moves back to the center of the log, and gets life drained.

And I watch for a while, just watching in amazement, as Stefan runs into the side of the log, over and over, while Alesia, instead of rezzing, just keeps healing him every two seconds.

Eventually, she runs out of energy, and he dies. She gets her energy back, and she's going to rezz, right?

Wrong. She tries to attack the wind rider....

Life drain, and she keeps healing herself until she runs out of energy and dies herself....

HENCHMEN HATE ME!

Your turn!

Ollaolas · May 06, 2005, 06:04 AM // 06:04

Henchmen <3 me. I give them pie.

EDIT: The fighter hates me though. We were on a bridge, and he was attacked by mobs below. He ran all the way down to the mobs, aggroing all 20 mobs in the way, and died when he got there. All the mobs then came after me.

I swear, the fighter is a spy for the Charr.

Velric Shadran · May 06, 2005, 06:13 AM // 06:13

After wiping in the Kryta Province to an unprovoked wandering mystery army of enemies, I found my Brawler, after rezzing, running by his lonesome back to where we had died.

I applauded his initiative, but here he was running THROUGH the terrain! Hills, mountains, enemies. Anything in his way.

He was unstoppable!

Then suddenly his walk through walls spell ended somewhere near his original death spot. As I wiped again to the mystery army, my used Rez Signet, and my healer having perished, I looked on to see the Brawler, still alive stuck in his cage of granite, forever locked away with the only available rez signet.

Woah is me.

Jackell · May 06, 2005, 06:26 AM // 06:26

LOL

I had Little Thom, the big ol Brawler, tough as nails, in my party.

And he died.

No enemies nearby, nothing attacking us. I think he had a heart attack or something. Were talking about taking blankets to refugees, and he just keels over dead.

Manderlock · May 06, 2005, 12:25 PM // 12:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jackell

LOL

I had Little Thom, the big ol Brawler, tough as nails, in my party.

And he died.

No enemies nearby, nothing attacking us. I think he had a heart attack or something. Were talking about taking blankets to refugees, and he just keels over dead.

LMAO, if that really happend its one the best storys I have read about this game.

Jackell · May 06, 2005, 01:02 PM // 13:02

True story man.

I babbled in guild chat for like 20 minutes when it happend. I couldn't beleive it either.

Ollaolas · May 08, 2005, 11:29 PM // 23:29

Wow, I take back what I said about henchmen loving me.

I was doing the Gates of Kryta mission, when everyone except me dies. I revive the healer and we retreat. We come back when the undead leave, and it takes the healer 10 minutes to think of reviving the rest of the party. When the mage is revieved, he stays in the swamp, and dies of the posion.

Jackell · May 09, 2005, 03:41 AM // 03:41

Poison swamps at Sanctum Cay.

You have to go through them and fight some stuff. Ok, no problem. I get to an unpoisoned patch and start shooting. My tank henchies take point, charge through the swamp and start hacking. The archer and mage henchie decide it's a GREAT idea to stand right in the middle of the swamp and get poisoned.

My tanks die because the healer is too busy in the back, healing the morons standing in the poison. She runs out of mp and they die. So, the enemies charge me. Instead of healing me, the moron charges into the swamp to rez the fighters, then realizes she's poisoned, and starts healing herself.

Your party has been defeated. Return to outpost?

Mistress Eyahl · May 18, 2005, 01:05 AM // 01:05

I never.. ever.. ever.. wait.. .. ... no, EVER Take little Thom with me. He's the Chelsea supporter who get's drunk in Manchester, turns over a table and then yells "Awigh'.. hic.. Aaahll take the whole lotta ye' on!!!" And starts brandishing his beer mug at the barmaid.

I've noticed he's some sort of lapping buzzard. Decides to run right past the enemy, come back, flit between the enemy mobs.. and then die wonderfully at my feet. I can almost hear him say as his hand slips from my Gladiator skirt... "Tell them.. I tried.. urrgh..." >.<

Anyway I think I've been in.. 7 groups of "real" people.. Deff no more than 10. I've paired up with a real high level a few times when things get too tough, but I'm at Divinity coast now at level 17 and I've just completed most of the quests THERE as well as the other towns I've been to, with just the henchmen. I LOVE them, they rock. They do as their told and always invite me back for tea. Angels

Lews · May 18, 2005, 07:12 AM // 07:12

for Sanctum CLay I never went in the swamps. I fought my way through all the men and guards at all the towers. Fun bonus.

Jackell · May 18, 2005, 09:30 PM // 21:30

LOL

Yeah, I'm starting to agree with you with Little Thom. Today I outside Yaks Bend running around with my alt, and get jumped by a ton of stuff.

Everyone's fighting except for Little Thom, who runs far away to attack some dormant mob that was just sitting there watching the fight.

We survived, he didn't. I used Putrid Explosion on his corpse, even though nothing was around. That'll show him!

Taranis · May 19, 2005, 03:48 AM // 03:48

Sometimes my henchies surprise me, I think it was the Riverside Mission, me using Little Thom, Stefan, Alesia, Orion and this Archer...Well I was attacking a 3man group of the White Mantles, one of my henchmen ran too far and lured and other 2 team and we wnt up fighting up to 10 White Mantles...in the end I had to watch 2 White Mantles fight Orion and the Archer since everybdoy else got slaughtered. I was all depressed because I thought I'd have to re-do everything but after a 5mins long fight they got one down, 2 more mins later the 2nd ones both having less than || HP left....scared me for a sec but well..

jray14 · May 20, 2005, 07:27 PM // 19:27

I tried to do the Kryta Gate bonus with just Little Thom. We paved our way through most of the undead by the skin of our teeth. Then a skeletal ranger dropped a gold item. I got so excited that I forgot about my poison and died. Before picking it up

. Ok, no problem, Thom will rez me. But no!! He marches off (way farther than the aggro radius should be!) and fizzles in the last group of undead. Not even Oink can save me now

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Banzia · May 20, 2005, 07:35 PM // 19:35

my best one was my and my henches dies some place in the desert area.. we clone then all of a sudden alesia(sp?) .. the healer jumps 30 feet in the air and takes off running.. she keeps running over high mountings etc, minute later her health bar just drops and she dies, i go through a teleporter and she's lying dead next to me

Jackell · May 21, 2005, 03:59 AM // 03:59

Today: Way to Kryta.

Shiverpeak Warriors slaughtering refugees. I'm taking my new character through there, get wiped. The second we restart, Alesia takes off like a bat out of hell, running through mountains. I figure, she's just going to get stuck in a mountain like always, so I carry on. Make a wrong turn or two, two more henchies dead, it's just me and Alesia somewhere. When I get back to where the party wipe was, there she is, healing the heck out of all the Refugees, who weren't in any danger anymore, and seemed to be perfectly fine. But still getting healed.

Now THAT'S dedication to a cause.

A11Eur0 · May 21, 2005, 08:32 AM // 08:32

that's got to bethe biggest bug in this game that everyone needs to report en masse to AN to get fixed. Seriously.

Eos · May 21, 2005, 10:04 AM // 10:04

In that quest in the iron horse mine where you have to blow up all 9 switches, why is it that every henchman except little thom gets stuck on the bomb stockpile when you go through that little cave? If Thom can do it, why dont they use his AI for the other henches? The first time I went through there i didn't realize what had happened and the dolyak riders made short work of me and Thom, and we didn't respawn cause alesia and the mesmer were waiting patiently in the cave. Luckily the dolyak riders and dwarves made their way all the way down to the cave and killed alesia.

Alzbeta · May 23, 2005, 03:27 AM // 03:27

I have no fantastic story to accompany mine, but I will add that I've had to gate back to cities and lose all my progress because all but one of us dies, and that one survivor is stuck on a sign, column, wall, etc, so we don't go to a Rez portal. Yay.

sybban · May 23, 2005, 03:49 AM // 03:49

On the way to do the capture signet quest my party full of henchies died. When we ressed they walked through the wall straight to the enemies, needless to say they were shortly dead and I just stood there....with my mouth open trying to figure out what happened. I tried to follow through the wall but the laws of physics seemed to apply only to me

pHobac · May 24, 2005, 06:41 AM // 06:41

I've found that henchies cant be troubled to abide by the laws of physics or logic.

I was utterly confused in the crystal desert not to long ago as I was out there with Thom and Alesia. We were fighting along, I was going to the rare materials crafter in the Arid Sea, when I saw a group of sand elementals, both henchmen were still on my radar map so I attacked them.

My bone fiends started to fire, but when the elementals charged up and Little Thom charged towards him. I realized that my henchmen were on my map, but I couldn't see them. I started looking around for them, I knew they were somewhere cause Alesia kept healing me and little Thom. I got caught up in the moment, and didn't notice that I let all of minions die. I thought the sand elementals would attack me. But they didn't.

They started attacking nothing, and when they attacked, Little Thom got hurt. I cast Healing Breeze on Little Thom and the moment I did he came flying down from the sky and landed right in the middle of the sand elementals. I did the same to Alesia, and she came flying down too.

But 10 seconds later, when the breeze wore off, they poofed. And not like they had before. They showed up as dead, and I couldn't see them, nor target them with a restore life or rebirth. I decided to rezone to get them back, and when the zone loaded, there was no one in my party but me.