Suggestion: Raising Hirelings from the dead safely

[TavernTails]

I think calling hirelings AI is an insult to AI in general.

Insult?
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[Bjond]

I think the post title implies that if you don't raise them right, they'll come back as undead and omg, will they be mad.

 

[Mobius]

I think calling hirelings AI is an insult to AI in general.

Years ago, I decided to assume that AI stood for Artificial Idiocy. Once I did that, life with hirelings became much more tolerable!

 

[Enoach]

I think a good solution to all this is to simply have Hirelings refuse to walk into lava, lightning water, through a trap or anything that would cause them to take damage as it comes to the environment. They already have the feature if they are too far from the one that hired them that they port.

It solves the need to raise from dangerous places through reducing the hire being in those dangerous places.

 

[Bjond]

have Hirelings refuse to walk into lava

Pathing is HARD. Any "fix" involving any change or improvement whatsoever to pathing will never happen. What they could do easily is make them able to live through bad pathing. They could also fix the coding on follow distance and actions.

What some other MMOs do to "solve" this issue of avoiding AE/etc is simply to make hires utterly immune to any damage that isn't directly targeted at them. SWTOR does this AND the hires actually try to do their roles; heal mode will only heal, dps does just that, tank mode and they'll try to agro everything. It's not this ridiculous DDO coding where a hire has to cast nimbus of light before every heal.

In SWTOR, for example, a fully improved hire is better than about 2/3 of the player-base; they're really strong. The fear of "omg, if we make hires too good people will never group" never happened. People still punt hires to add a player that is half as good. The player has to be near troll-level bad to earn a punt and replace with a hire.

 

[Col Kurtz]

can't they fix the manual AI clickies on the hires dropdown menu?

The settings we UN-Click reset to default... at some point; I'm guessing when they teleport on a map or we call them manually to us?

We don't want healers to charge into melee/ at this point they are all Leroys