Hero IQ's dropped sharply in GW:EN?

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Maybe its me but my heroes and hench are just that stupid to not run away from AoE spells. I'm always looking at what I'm attacking then next thing I'll know, Sandstorm is thrown out from the enemy and I'm guessing they aimed for the casters and what do they do? They just stand in it, its the same if you have protective wards, can't be be programmed to try to stand near them?

Also when Iwas in the burning forest of EotN, I walked to a point and my henchman were behind just standing near some trees on fire not bothering moving and just burning to death...

If only Hero/Henchmen AI were as smart as enemy AI...

I've had pretty good hero/hench groups so far. Lina's kept me as protected as I ever expect a hench to do, and Zho's interrupts are the shit. I have yet to see her fail. No complaints about Devona either, which surprises me because she used to be as bad as Koss about racing to aggro things off the compass.

On the downside... Mhenlo does like to tank still. As someone already mentioned, he'll rush to absorb the first hits. Even flagging won't keep him in the back. What a trooper. >_> I've also had issues with Gwen not running from enemy tanks because she's frantically waiting for something or other to recharge.

I've also had problems with Talon trying to ignore my flag and run toward far-away enemies I've targeted (but not called), but that's nothing new. 9_9

Ehh I actually have no idea if Herta is useless, because I'm never in the wards she supposedly puts up...I actually bring a lot of defense (2 henchmen monks + Herta + SS Livia + 3 copies of Aegis + Watch Yourself!), and henchmen are pretty good at killing people, so I haven't had that much trouble so far.

I really have to point out how annoying it is when 7/8 of your team is squishy, and all of them seem to rush AHEAD of me, the warrior, to gather agroo? I really don't understand why they have to walk closer than casting range, it's really irritating sometimes when I try to gather monster agroo...

It seems like the Heroes in GWEN seem to shuttle back and forth more. I find myself using the "lock on target" button much more now. Also, the AI seems to not understand how to use certain skills, which is fine- but couldn't we at least get some official notice on what skills are bugged with heroes? For example, the only way Ogden Stoned healer will use Signet of Devotion is if I push the button for him.

I could add a lot of suggestions here, but instead I'm just going to suggest the #1 on my list.

A "Stay there, don't move, ever, not even if someones dieing out of range, or you feel like randomly leeroy'ing, Yes, even you dunkoro, JUST STAY THE **** THERE." Button. Please.

I dont have a huge problem with aggro control. For what you're using (computer AI), its just not gonna be able to know every move on the map that you wanna do. I think the implementation of generally being able to control your henchie and specific hero movement is great for what I'm giving up by not going with real people.

I do find there to be many problems with heroes that I found even before GW:EN, so I dont think its a matter of all of a sudden somethings different. The problems I've always had is as the OP pointed out: mobs are smarter than my heroes. before the update that reduced the mobs running out of aoe in normal mode, it was undeniable that heroes were much much worse than some simple-minded mob at avoiding aoe. I still find that after aoe has found a place in pve again, heros still suck at getting out of aoe. A previous poster was absolutely right: if a mob sends in a maelstorm, my hero party is dead. They will continue to cast while in it for like 3-4 seconds, while all the damage accrues.

I've noticed it before, but its become increasingly annoying in GW:EN, where when i click for a hero to use a specific skill, if that hero was just about to use the skill and right before I click on the icon, he/she starts to cast, he/she will stop casting, thus using up energy, and then recast, thus using up twice the amount of energy. In using Gwen as a hero sometimes, this is really frustrating with backfire....as it uses 30 en instead of 30. I dont know if that kind of thing can be fixed (in pure logistics, it seems like it could) but its a royal pain.

Overall I agree that heroes could be pumped up a bit so that they act better than henchies and the difference isnt just that you get to choose their skill set, but I disagree that GW:EN has brought about a stupider line of heroes...but hey, maybe I just didnt notice....

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