Internal aggro in mission

[srmalloy]

In the mission "Talk to the person in charge" mission from Tina McIntyre -- the follow-on to defeating the Clockwork and Carnival leaders in Waxahachie Park -- I had approached Vanessa de Vore, who had a blue reticle, indicating that she was 'friendly'. When I approached, a nearby Seneschal aggro'd on her, and has been spending the last five minutes futilely blowing fire at Vanessa and whacking Vanessa with her torch. There's no chance that the Seneschal will be able to do enough damage to defeat Vanessa, but it's amusing to see her own people turn on her like this.

 

[lemming]

33 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

In the mission "Talk to the person in charge" mission from Tina McIntyre -- the follow-on to defeating the Clockwork and Carnival leaders in Waxahachie Park -- I had approached Vanessa de Vore, who had a blue reticle, indicating that she was 'friendly'. When I approached, a nearby Seneschal aggro'd on her, and has been spending the last five minutes futilely blowing fire at Vanessa and whacking Vanessa with her torch. There's no chance that the Seneschal will be able to do enough damage to defeat Vanessa, but it's amusing to see her own people turn on her like this.

 

I've occasionally used the Vanessa group to beat up the other carnies since Vanessa and group are friendly, and the others are not.  I don't remember if Vanessa took part or not, and it's been a few years since I did that.

[srmalloy]

In my case, Vanessa was alone, and it was a lone Seneschal that aggro'd on her, so it was just the two of them. Interestingly, the burn patch the Seneschal was putting down didn't affect my character (verified by her Mental Lance power not showing the 'in combat' yellow ring) as I was standing in the burn patch talking to Vanessa. 

[Wavicle]

I've seen similar problems in Rikti maps. Static spawns and ambush spawns fight each other. IIRC this was true in Levantera's arc...maybe Montague also?