Minions movements

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Mark_GGG wrote:

It looks like this got missed from the patch notes, but we did change minion following behaviour in this patch.

Previously, minion's aggro radius was centred on you, unless you were currently preforming an action, in which case it was centred on your targeted location. While this gave people a way of controlling minions by using skills repeatedly targeting areas, it was sub-par because stopping doing things, moving, or applying a self-buff or similar stopped your targeting, and made the minions give up and rush back to you, getting attacked in the process.

Now, minion's aggro radius is "sticky". While you're doing an action, they'll target your targeted location as before, but now when you stop, they'll remember where you were targeting. Doing another action sets a new target location, and they'll remember that instead. Additionally, movement actions will not reset this unless/until you begin moving to a location that's a noticeable distance from their remembered location. When you do this it "unsticks", meaning they'll continue immediately following where you're walking to without "sticking" to another location until you do some non-movement action.
This allows you to use skills to put your minions where you want them, but still be able to reposition yourself without them immediately running back to you as used to happen.

From your feedback, it sounds like the distance you need to move away from their location to get them to drop it is proving too high for you, we can adjust this number based on feedback, so let us know how this goes as you get used to the new system.

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Odoakar wrote:

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Mark_GGG wrote:

It looks like this got missed from the patch notes, but we did change minion following behaviour in this patch.

Previously, minion's aggro radius was centred on you, unless you were currently preforming an action, in which case it was centred on your targeted location. While this gave people a way of controlling minions by using skills repeatedly targeting areas, it was sub-par because stopping doing things, moving, or applying a self-buff or similar stopped your targeting, and made the minions give up and rush back to you, getting attacked in the process.

Now, minion's aggro radius is "sticky". While you're doing an action, they'll target your targeted location as before, but now when you stop, they'll remember where you were targeting. Doing another action sets a new target location, and they'll remember that instead. Additionally, movement actions will not reset this unless/until you begin moving to a location that's a noticeable distance from their remembered location. When you do this it "unsticks", meaning they'll continue immediately following where you're walking to without "sticking" to another location until you do some non-movement action.
This allows you to use skills to put your minions where you want them, but still be able to reposition yourself without them immediately running back to you as used to happen.

From your feedback, it sounds like the distance you need to move away from their location to get them to drop it is proving too high for you, we can adjust this number based on feedback, so let us know how this goes as you get used to the new system.

You manage to break the minions somehow, made them even worse.



They just stand there, running in circles. no mobs near.

They feel laggy now, not responding to my movements as before. Please fix it.

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Spoker7 wrote:

A solution to this problem should be a switch in the option panel to declare the movement behaviour: pre-patch style or post-patch style.

Bye!