Healer Henchies not working so well now?

Has anyone else found that just recently alesia and mhenlo seem to get bugged sometimes, and stop healing? For instance, right at the start of a fight against a big group of white mantle, the elem in our group got targeted. She was being wiped out, and alesia was standing next to me, blasting away at the enemies with her staff, not healing the elem at all (she died). This was right at the start of a fight, after we had rested for a while, so no way was her energy the problem (she had no hex on her or anthing either, the only person who had been targeted so far in the fight was that ele).

An almost identical thing happened in Grenth's with mhenlo - i was in a farming party of 4 humans and mhenlo, and throughout an entire fight he refused to heal anyone at all - again just blasted away with his staff. We all died, and he was left standing. He just kept blasting away 'till he died too. Again, i don't think his energy can have been the issue, and he had no marker on his bar to suggest a hex.

Anyone else experienced anything like this?

Yes.

Same thing...really bad hench reflexes. I have died many times because they couldn't be bothered to throw a heal my way.
I was like "WTH Mhenlo?!!"

And another thing, henchmen seem to ignore my commands too. I could order them to attack something and change my mind but they stay on the same target like the fools we expect to see in a party of people.
If this was some kind of reality balance, it stinks. If this is my mind playing games on me, i need more coffee.

Maybe Anet will check it out. Someone accidentally deleted a 0 in a spreadsheet or GSC file or whatever they use

Player Cynn/launch fire storm when enemy at/1 health/yes
Player Mhenlo/cast heal other when ally at/30 health/yes
Player Lina/res ally even when safe/no
Player Mhenlo does it instead/yes/after a cup of tea/yes
Player Dunham spam distortion/yes
Player Dunham use skills/no
All players ignore target caller/yes/15 seconds
Player Devona/Charge!

I'm noticing that hench are either getting smarter, or dumber depending on how you look at it... I was using them in Witman's Folly... Thom was fighting the same target I was but Stefan and Orion were attacking others... The healers did an awsome job though. At times it does seem like they need to be told "Ok you can fight now as I'll be in a battle while the hench just stand around... I've gotten to the point of ctrl+double click a hench to get a healer to res them or myself to get them to res me or heal me. Seems to have something to do with where you are though... Hench seems smart in some areas, and dumb in others.

I noticed when I switched targets accidently when the mob was just about dead, Devona stayed on the old target to finish it off and then moved to the one I accidently targeted. This was in SW. It use to me it could have 1 hp and they move away from it before.

I've even notice that by switching targerts you can get them to fight diffrent things at the same time. It's been working out nicely overall at least in SW.

The other night, in the Furnace, Lina got herself stuck between one of the gearboxes and the rock wall. Now there seemed to be about 5' between the box and the wasll - she just kept running back and forth between them. My party all got killed, and we didn't get rezzed because she was just..well...running back and forth....

I have had hench get stuck before/left behind/gotten me stuck many times. Most annoying is the quest in the north shiverpeaks where you use dwarve kegs to blow up levers... hench have gotten me stuck between those levers so many times. You should be allowed to run through hench like you can through players in town.

Just tried one time to go on a map with my El/me and alesia.

I managed to get focused and not her (which is a big deal ! ) with proper skills (aura of restauration) and spamming spells i managed to fight against several mobs but eventually my health reaches 0..... while alesia was firing fire bolt with her staff.

for those who speak about mana shortage, when i died she eventually get focused... and spams 3 orison of healing on her.

And they call that a healer

and that's just ONE example among many others

Yep, something's weird about them... most definitely. Another example and discussion (alone with a side-discussion) about the issue can be found here, with some possible insight to the problem.

devona pulled a classic uuber w/mo move by running off and aggroing 2 groups while we were waiting for my freinds energy to recharge we werent even moving and all the sudden its like "weres devona going?"

Well, a couple of ppl managed to answer the actual issue i posted about there... it really does seem like a bug, as i am almost totally certain than energy was not the issue. And my experience does seem to have been confirmed by a couple of posts, both here and on the thread i was linked to.

If you havnt already seen this.


http://www.pockethouse.com/gallery/d...lbum=71&pos=18


Alesia has always tanked first and healed second for me.

Well... it happened to me countless times, instead of healing, they keep "shooting" at mobs ...

And, either they r healing themselves, or when whats left is ONLY the 2 of em healers, they keep healing each other ...they dont raise ppl

i find that the healer hanches will sometimes just stop. and look at you for the 20 seconds until you die. and the ele henchies will be chased around by melee mobs until the last of the enemy rangers is at half health then will cast firestorm.
Eve is cool and casts the energy renewal spell when you need it.
Claude dies.
Dunham doesn't even shoot things.
Rayna uses nothing remotely resembling a skill.
the warrior henchmen are cool though, apart from when ice elementals body block them and they stand around shaking hands with them.

Here's my thing..Guild Wars is based around grouping with other people..since it's an online game...so why then do the Devs force us to play with bots most of the time because it takes so long to form a group of people?

I've also noticed it. Devona seems to aggro EVERYTHING she can while Mhenlo thinks he's a warrior. It's been happening way too much actually..

what might give a hand is "spawning" a hench when someone leaves/disco