Agro management, is there any such thing?

[Fugl]

Agro management, is there any such thing?

Hola :smiley:

Just tried my luck on hc with first few untwinked chars, and since dying is supposed to not happen i began to wonder what makes mobs attack me and not my merc, Crystaline passage got real annoying for my sorc.

All mobs seem to pass my merc and go straight for me, despite i tried run long way backwards, merc hitting mobs didnt seem to distract them either, it was especially Moonlords that made it dangerous, but other mobs did it too.

So despite having played lots of chars i havent wondered bout this before, how do i get merc to do tanking instead of me ? figure ill get raped pretty bad on nightmare if its same setup there :shocked:

/Fugl

 

[waflob]

This is annoying and the only way I've found to make this stop is to close the game and open a new one.

It seems to me that at some point, the monsters just ignore the merc and never get back to attacking him/her again. I actually consider this to be a bug, but I'm szre Blizzard will say that it is 'working as intended'.

I suppose you could use this to your advantage, by trying to keep the merc between you and the monsters and letting the merc get the hits in. Could prove tricky though.

hth

DelBoy

 

[Fugl]

Ahh, thx for info

 

[AgentMarth]

Yeah I've had this happen to me before, but it was back when I played SC, I don't remember why, but I actually liked it at the time, I was playing a character that could tank but had a weak merc, so monsters skipping him was actually nice.

Playing HC though, I would hate it so much. Its just a random bug though, so a new game, or at worse, a D2 reboot should be needed.

 

[MrKaxe]

As a sorc it is easier to position merc as you can tele and he is right with you...tele 1/2 a screen away and try to funnel the mob into a thin bit (of the CP) and walk backwards as he walks forwards...then rain death on them! :tongue:

dk