Grawl Crones and bosses in Witmans Folley

Now I rarely do PvE, in fact the only form of PvE I've done in the past month is chest running. It's a thing I've always enjoyed doing when I have a couple minutes to spare, or when there really isn't anything to do PvP wise.

I've been doing the chest running for awhile, and I do all of it in Witmans Folley. I have never had this problem pre-nightfall I believe.

Alright, here's my rant. The crones and ranged bosses chase after you FOREVER. I can't outrun them 75% of the time with just one speed buff, it usually will have to include a sprint and a Charge to get past them even though I'm far, far out of their aggro bubble. I just popped a chest, and died because at first the azures body blocked the chest. Eventually I chased them out a bit and got to the chest, but died before I could pick up the gold sword. Not a real big deal, stuff that like that happens. So I run down back to where I was, and I can't make it back out to the sword because there's a swarm of crones and Alena Papek or something throwing lighting strikes at me. The part that unereves me is that, those crones were literally from a quarter of the map back. They really don't stop chasing you unless you unload everything you got. However you can't do that considering it's not just crones.

All in all, I'm simply curious why crones seem to have a 24/7 speed buff on them. It's quite frustrating.

It the new AI update from a few weeks ago. Its not just Witman's Folly, its all of Guild Wars.

Like I said, I don't really PvE much to notice this.

However, it only seems like the crones do this. Not once has anything besides a crone, or a crone boss done this to me. Maybe it's just different for everything.

Insanely frustrating update.

I see it around more then Witmans Folly too, but haven't chest ran sicne Nightfall came out so I'm not sure how hard it is for me to do my "runs" around the usual area.

True, although some things seem to chase you a lot further than others. I've had skale and mergoyle who were off my radar map but still continued the chase and caught up with me.

It's caster enemies, they now have a permanent 50% speed buff or something.