Recent AI update?

post of the year! To funny.

So, I'm not crazy!

I had something change on my interrupters back in January - they'd use Leech Signet fine, then for about a month, they'd only use it to interrupt spells. Now, they're back using it fine again.

But, they are acting oddly... standing there not casting, or not using an attack skill that has energy or adrenalin available, doing nothing - then use some other skill after it recharges.

Maybe they've gone West World buggy? Has the AI gotten pissed about all the complaints about them, and they're protesting?

(Could this be because of the new micro-management keyboard options they set up so we can assign hero skills to hot keys?)

LOL What an IGMO you are Kiethark. Until you've run it don't knock it. I've run into countless people like you who without even trying the build knock it not even seeing the synergy behind it. And then when they do try them they are like WOW they never knew the synergy could be so great. Yeah my builds rock and I can run 3 heroes and myself practically thru the entire game, can you? No, you can't because you don't know how to build them and try to live around stupid Protection skills lol Come back and QQ more when you THINK you have something better. Until then quit lying to the public like you can do better. hahahaha what an IGMO.

Since I wanted to chop you're lil essay to pieces I decided to use the quote function.




Yup thas right in pve it surely is thas why none of my heroes or myself ever dies.

Because my warrior uses a wand from the rear that's where all the monks and necro is as well IGMO. Thus there's no running into melee range cause everything is there to begin with when the enemy does rush in to attack. They also remove the conditions from themselves and the necro, but, you're too igmonomous to figure that out I guess thinking one diminsional I see.

With one of the monks having blood ritiual and the necro does have SOME soul reaping he has loads of energy just fine with a mere 6 soul reaping as opposed to high numbers and no real value of combat spells in soul reaping anyways. SS and Death Nova more than make up for any added energy the necro might gain. But, you not knowing anything about necros except soul reaping once again are too igmonomous to figure that out. Thinking one diminisional again I see.

Obviously you know nothing about armor and the value of a 15AL shield maxed out with a mere 6 points into tactics. This coupled with the extra 10AC from runes and the +10 vs slashing (one of the most common forms of melee encountered in GW) makes for a very defensive and armored monk and the loss of the few extra hps healed in the Divine Healing attribute are unnoticeable since with more armor characters require less heals except for armor bypassing spells and those aren't that common in PVE (not the places I play anyways). Once again your ignorance shows as you are thinking one diminsional. Both my monks have cold/fire spears with +5 energy and +30 hps and they both have an energy bank of 40 which is quite enough with the way they use their skills. Sometimes I throw shivers on my necro build and let the monks do the interupting. I switch the spears around as needed depending on the mobs. A lot of energy isn't the issue in this game "energy management" is. And you don't have to have 16 in soul reaping using OOB to have good energy management for a Death/Curses Necro.

Lol you have such visions of IGMOism it just makes me laugh more. There is no frontline as everyone is at the same spots. The mobs have to come to us anyways nobody rushes forward since my warrior is using a wand to pull. More one diminsional igmonomous thinking on your part.

Oh lots more than that. Try to protect against a rain of fire when you have been also iced in your tracks. Tell me how well a protection monk works when a mob of five rain of terrors in pounding you in HARD MODE. lol

I see once again you have no experience in the game with a lot of builds. A warrior with a fire wand, Conjure Flame and Mark of Rodgort and PRIMAL RAGE with high strength can take down a mob within seconds and in PVP in Fort Apsenwood throw in I will Avenge you with it and you have a speed demon hitting for amazing damage and regaining hps at the same time. But, of course you think too one diminsional to figure that out.

The actual person who is BAD AT THE GAME is YOU as you are very inexperienced and just do not know of enough ways and builds to create more powerful heroes and yourself. Perhaps if you stopped reading the WIKI's with all those kiddie copy cat builds you might find there are some better builds you've never even seen on the wiki. But, you enjoy playing your Protection Monks now yah hear? hahahahahah

1) igmonomous is not a word. Ignominious is probably the word you are looking for.

2) That's Divine Favor, not Divine Healing

3) You use only healing monks vs Ele bosses which hit for 600hp+ AOE spikes in HM? Seriously? While keeping yourself and your heroes balled together in a group?

Sorry, that had to be done...

Knightfall, your build might actually be the best thing ever, but you come across as an arrogant, spoiled child and are doing yourself no favors. Typically, people as arrogant as you, and who use caps as much as you do, have nothing useful to tell me or anyone else.

inb4catsandlock

Seriously, does anyone think that knightfail is NOT just trolling?

Anyway, i think that we are all waiting for VIDEO of knightfalls epic team killing group of rains in HM. Should be entertaining and whatnot.

No, he's definitely trolling.

is this a joke?

you've got to be one of the most ignorant players i've ever met.

Have fun frenzy wanding or whatever you use.

Wow, that's just great. I tried it and it certainly kills every mob in seconds.
How did you came up with that? No offense, but a build that great, can't be made by a single person.

omg i forgot, high strength = extra armour penetration! omgz!!!

i have probs with gwen and psychic instability....once she has that enhancement on she AVOIDS using the interrupts....wtf?

I've been having a massive issue with Vekk and [skill]Rodgort's Invocation[/skill].
He had Firestorm and SH on him (The sky falling down is looking SOOOO pretty! ) - and he'd drop those two and then WAIT for recharge and not even touching RI.
Which meant he was wanding for 30 secs.
Switched him to SF and now he works fine.
Have no idea what the issue with RI was ...

Yeah, you're an idiot.

Carry on lads.

Gwen always runs to the frontlines just to cast some silly spell, which is odd as she could have casted it from a farther distance away.

Oggy is a melee magnet and loves to draw them to him, I think he thinks he's a 55.

Koss is asleep half the time, Jora is fine but she distracts Dunkoro and any other male henchies.

Vekk doesn't know how to run Searing Flames, apparently renewing Fire Attunement every 45 seconds (even when its duration is 60+) is more important than dealing damage. When he's set for Echo Nuking, I gotta control him else he wastes his echo on Aura of Restoration or some stupidity. Whilst I'm busy looking at his hero bar I forget to look at my minimap which reveals 10 red dots headed to my monks from behind.

the issue is, heros only use rodgorts invocation on enemys who are low on health

Ohhh had no idea of that!
Thanks!

Riiiiight... your group of 4 never dies? Try killing Snapjaw Windshell and his gang on HM. With your group of 4.


Yeah... think of all those lovely warriors and sins closing down on your monks, without your warrior up there to block them...

I can do much more damage with a sword than a wand. Have you ever tried it?

You can only gain energy from Soul Reaping 3 times every 15 seconds. I think that having more than 6 soul reaping would give you more than 6 energy.

...So if your points are in Death and Curses, how much will you have left for OOB? And how do you run an SS necro with OOB? It's Divine Favor, by the way, Divine Healing is a skill.

You were a wonderful source of laughter for my guild and I, dear

So taking 400 damage from a single spell is good? O ok

[skill]Shielding Hands[/skill] [skill]Shield of Absorption[/skill] [skill]Protective Spirit[/skill]

That build is funny, but bad. You can't catch kiting foes, you can't snare, you don't do more than 50 damage, you can get obstructed by walls and stuff, block stances > you, touch rangers > you...


Right. And you continue playing that wand warrior, I'm waiting for you on my Domination mesmer sweetie <3

Edit: To what you say about synergy, you can use Meteor to begin a knockdown chain for an assassin but that doesn't mean it's the smartest thing to do.

Master Knightfall's post is joke, a trolling joke. Nobody can post that with a straight face.

Except the bit about the shield, that makes sense. A bit. I stopped reading that passage there, after having read it first, you see

No one can read it with a straight face either

I haven't really noticed any glitches, but I find that sometimes the healer henchmen will "lock up" and stop healing, basically just wand stuff to death... and then they spam healing spells on themselves, even if they're at full health while everyone else is at low health.

Today I've noticed much Hero idiocy, what with 'Gaurd' heroes running after fleeing enemies and the like. Freaking annoying when you're monking your way to 26k Norn rep...

Devona has a death wish. Her boyfriend dumped her. At some point they twiked the hero AI more to the stupid range but I can't tell you where or when and don't think they will adimt it. At first he heros used the skills properly but now they spam skills even while you are trying to regen, and sometimes they will not ever use a skill. I do think it was to appease the Puggers because everyone was using the heros and not pugging.

I took 3 hero eles for Snowman today. I put the flag in a safe place so they won't aggro or stand in the traps. All 3 eles run in the meele range of snowmen.
Artifical intelligence? More like artifical retardation, mirite?

You are right.

On a few occasions, mostly with Charr in EotN, I kill most of a group and one or two just give up and run like hell. If they're not going my way, I usually just let the bastards go. I've seen MoW and Vekk run two compass lengths away to take them on long after I've stopped targetting them, and flags be damned. If I re-plant the flags they sometimes come back, but it's not something you can bank on. :P

I have just started to notice this as well.
Devonna is particular now will run to the other side of the compass in the middle of a fight and ignore flags.

Sabway seems to fail on me some days.....
Well, mainly most of the time should I say.

But other times they friggin roll the area faster than you can say "Vanquish".

I've notice the AI is pretty unreliable these days, doing stupid things they've never done before. Still, if this is anet's idea to make people pug more, it's fail. Cause I'd rather start taking a res again and bring back the odd AI without complaint, than take a res and bring back the odd pugger who will likely be cussing someone in the party for letting them die.