Mirror Match AI updated?

Saya

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

I saw a Monk complaining about not being able to beat his mirror self last night, so that I sent him a whisper with the skills I used to defeat it as a Monk back then.
He tried it a few times without any luck, so that I assumed he either had different attribute point distribution or used the skills wrong.

Anyway, I just finished the last trial with my necro as well shortly after that and went to the mirror fight, but got my ass handed to myself within seconds.
Reading through these forum posts pointed out to make use of blood ritual skills, so that the mirror basically kills itself.
However, equiped with 4 blood rituals, death swarm, rotting flesh and vampiric gaze, it used the exact same skills that I used and never touched one of the blood rituals, e.g.: I started off with rotting flesh the second the match started and he did the exact same thing.

It's hard to tell, since you can't rerun the mirror fight (or can you?), but it seems that the mirror AI got adjusted to the most common class tactics with the recent patch.

I finally managed to kill it, but since the pattern was always the same as the one I used, the mirror usually still had a tiny few HP left before it finished me off - at one time we both died the exact same moment, resulting in a failure nevertheless, but it looked quite funny.

Anyone else noticed a change in the mirror AI?

WeiPing

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

I hope so. I've ran it twice...first with my El/Mo, beat it on the second try. Then with my Wa/Ra, beat it on my first try.

I think it should be a bit more challenging.

C-Tzar

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

North AL, USA

E/Mo

You CAN rerun the mirror after you've beaten it. I love going in there and kicken my ass.

Saya

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by C-Tzar
You CAN rerun the mirror after you've beaten it. I love going in there and kicken my ass.
He he he,
I didn't know that - will be interesting to see if my earlier tactic still works or not.
Thanks for the info, C-Tzar.