Bodyguard Mode Can Be Broken?!

[Rudra]

So I'm going after Stheno again... ... you would think I have an axe to grind with her... and something weird happened. The swarms of Cobra Hatchlings I was currently fighting panicked and ran, and when they came back, it was with a vengeance.

 

How the situation unfolds is I'm staying out of Stheno's room to avoid aggroing her until I'm ready. I'm also staying well away from the "doorway" to her room because if any combat happens, I don't want any pets aggroing her early. And all the eggs are hatching and the hatchlings are racing out to fight me despite not entering. That's good. I was wondering how to get them to hatch and come out of the room to fight without risking Stheno's attention, and they just chose to do so without any prompting or me entering the room. Very considerate of them. So I'm slowly dropping snakes. Lots and lots of snakes. And suddenly the remaining dozen or so hatchlings that were fighting me just up and run back into Stheno's room. They are running around, sometimes coming back out without doing any attacks before running back in, but just more or less aimlessly running around. More eggs hatch and the running snakes stop running around. Instead, they just swarm me. And here is the part that leads me to think Bodyguard Mode broke. The snakes attacked me, while still in Bodyguard Mode, and my pets took no damage. At all. I died in an awful hurry as my pets started trying to fend the snakes off, still without any of the pets taking damage from the pounding my MM took. (Of course, all the pets died when my health hit 0.)

 

Edit: Yes, I am well aware that Bodyguard Mode only works if the pets are in Defensive Follow and they stay in range. They were all right in front of me, well within Supremacy's radius, when this happened. That is where they returned to when the snakes decided to run.

 

Edited April 30 by Rudra