Ally AI

[RikOz]

I have no idea if this is even possible, but I'd love it if there was some way to smarten up some mission "ally" characters.

 

Specifically, I'm talking about phase 3 of the Shining Stars (the ones available at level 15).

 

In the mission, "Hell Hath More Fury That You Thought", we team up with Grym. Unfortunately, in this mission Grym is stupider than most enemy mobs, in that he insists upon standing in the fire and becoming too wounded to continue. Usually on the first pull. Even most enemy NPCs are clever enough to try to get out of AoE effects, but not Grym.

 

Then, in the following mission, "If You Don't Mind", we meet up with No Mind, who wants to be our sidekick because he can't fight the Praetorian Clockwork by himself. And then he proceeds to charge, by himself, smack into the middle of the first pack of mobs. Not only that, he then runs around the room smacking robots until he's aggroed the entire room, whereupon he promptly dies, about 60 seconds after I rescued him.

 

Honestly, I almost suspect that these two characters were deliberately "dumbed down", because ally NPCs that accompany me in Tip missions (Overdrive, etc.) aren't nearly that stupid and almost always survive to the end of the mission.