Strange monster caster ai behavior.

Just for the heck of it, I just tried farming the IDS for the first time.
The weird thing is, a lot of avicara casters will now stick with you, and follow you even if you are using 33% speed boosts. And they follow *at least* across half Mineral Springs map. When you stop, they would start casting offensive spells, but never wand. If it's a monk avicara, he just stands there doing nothing.

If you attack them, they will try to run away, and sometimes it makes them stop following. But then they just stand there and don't even try to return to their mob.

Fix plz?

wow

thats a weird bug

hope it'll be fixed soon, cos it can be rly annoying

I just checked in Unwaking. Outcast rits act the same way.

Can anyone confirm this?

oles, you already confirmed it.

some rot wallows now act retarded and run in circles or back n forth

Mountain trolls chased me till i got to droks

Yes. Mergoyles outside LA does this as well as the fire imps. Speed boosts given by sprint is unaffected. They continue to cling on to you.. just to cast spirit shackles. Then stand there like a stone, once spirit shackles end, they renew it. If you decide to go for them, they run.. even with sprint on, i had a hard time catching up.

Never had this.

I've had this before the NF update, if the casters start casting a spell while you're outside the casting range they'll chase you untill they cast it. Happens on occations, but it's not something I see every day.

Went to Dragons Gullet for a few salvage items, and saw some hydrae running in circles.

It's not just one particular type of MOB. The warrior henchies no longer tank consistantly; they tend to run back and forth between MOBs and your position like they can't decide what to do. And since henchies don't heal themselves while in chicken-without-head mode, the warriors are often the first to die. Less aggressive and more suicidal.

Melee MOBs have similar problems. They often just turn their backs on a fight and slowly walk away. Then they just stand there at a short distance with their backs turned while you kill them. Griffons are pretty suicidal.

Some spiders in the Crystal Desert are also doing pointless running away at high speed.

I just chased a bog scale across the entire stretch of North Kryta beach.

This must be fixed, its just down right lame.Makes the game go from fun to GRIND-something I so don't have time for.