Phantom Army not attacking in Night Ward - nor my confused foe

[Greycat]

So, noticed this at least once before, but...

 

Running an Ill/Storm through Night Ward, level 29. Ran across a group of Talons and Apparitions facing off on a rooftop. Cast PA right into the middle of them. Result?

 

PA wanders towards me like nothing's happening, even while being attacked, attacking nothing. Try dragging them through the spawn again - same thing. They're being attacked, I'm being attacked, I even initiated an attack with Freezing Rain - no go. Took down one talon, confused another - the confused talon (facing three Apparitions) didn't attack, either.

 

Inside an instanced mission (one of SIr Lionel's,) versus Drudges - no problem. Everything works as intended. I have no status effects such as confuse on me, so...

 

Did it with another group that was -1 or -2 to me, just apparitions - no problem, they fought.

 

Found a third group of the same make up, PA killed the lvl 29 Talons minion... then ignored the Talons LT and apparitions.

 

Edit: And since we can do this now -

 

(... not the *best* capture, but still. Up the resolution :) )

Edited June 5, 2021 by Greycat

[Greycat]

Further testing, finding a group of even con *just* apparitions, PA attacks just fine...

 

Even weirder. (Have to get a video of this up, because.. yeah.) Found a rooftop with that same combo on it (Talons vs Apparitions,) and Apparitions in the distance - same rooftop. All even con. Same thing happened. Pulled PA over to the group of apparitions, they attacked... but not the LT. And still completely ignored the other group.

 

(Edit - forgot the second link.

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Edited June 6, 2021 by Greycat

[Greycat]

... and another group, apparitions vs drudges, -1, didn't attack the apparitions. Trying to pick out what the heck's going on here...

 

Edit: Except for one drudge. Who came back. Now PA's not attacking any of them.

 

Edit2: Also seems to have nothing to do with level. Brought a 32 Ill/Sonic in. Similar group and level - 29 Apparitions and Talons together. PA completely ignored them. As well as a group of just-apparitions.  Phantasm doesn't attack them, either. Or a Shivan.

Power analyzer shows nothing stealthy.

 

Doesn't seem to affect MM pets - they'll attack happily, though they tend to be attacked first. At least they respond.

Edited June 5, 2021 by Greycat

[Katharos]

It feels like this is another strong argument for giving controllers the MM pet commands. 

[Greycat]

Bit of a necro here, but I didn't think an update needed a whole new thread.

Ran across this same behaviour in one other spawn - Brickstown, one of the Council spawns that has a few recruiters you can't attack with several regular enemies you can. Might be the makeup of the spawn, but it was just completely ignored by PA.