My archer stops - um, arching...?

toddhd · Post by **toddhd** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:11 am

I just wanted to see if anyone else has this happen? Sometime during large battles, my archer stops shooting whatever it is he's shooting, and run up to the monsters and starts beating them with his bare fists instead. This often leads to a quick demise for the archer.

I don't really have details yet - I've begun to notice it as my archer seemed to be dying a lot, and when I started to pay more attention, I saw him doing it. He is clearly equipped with a long range weapon (I've tried several, wondering if perhaps it had something to do with the weapon type) and sure enough, at some point, he stops shooting and goes postal on them with his fists.

Has anyone seen this, or have any ideas?

fable · Post by **fable** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:55 am

Yes, I saw that happen, as well, with a mini-boss. Not a good experience. I'm not sure why it occurred, since the bow was still in the weapons slot, and clicked.

toddhd · Post by **toddhd** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:48 am

Yup, same here - his weapon we clearly equipped. I tried changing his attack method (went to spell and then back weapon) but it did no good. It looked like an episode straight from "The Sopranos". Unfortunately, it's my archer that gets "whacked" in the end...

swcarter · Post by **swcarter** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:11 pm

I've had characters stop attacking. I think that happens when they autocast and you're in "mirror" mode. No idea about the other part, but it seems like it would be sort of funny.

SWC

toddhd · Post by **toddhd** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:17 pm

That's a good point - I had thought maybe it might have something to do with Autocast - everyone in the party has heal in their autocast - but I hadn't thought about the correlation of Rampage or Mirror mode. I do switch modes now and then. I don't care much for rampage generally, because the NPC AI goes in the toilet as far as pathing goes. They start to get stuck in places. And it cracks me up when I use a teleporter to go somewhere, and half the party teleports and the other half doesn't.

I'll try messing with those settings and seeing what happens.

Gaal Dornik · Post by **Gaal Dornik** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 5:46 pm

It happened to me twice after Deru casted teleport and switched back to bow, before the cast animation was complete. Looks like just another bug..

hiitory · Post by **hiitory** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 11:13 pm

Yea there is still alot of bugs that needs to be worked out my team some times stop attacking all to getter.