NPCs - why are they so kitten useless?

NPCs - why are they so kitten useless?

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Posted by: Calixtus.8617

Calixtus.8617

So I’m in the maze centre and get downed on my first go through smack in the middle of all the NPC’s are they totally ignore my continued plea for a help out of my downed state. Frelling useless NPC’s

Similar, when you rescue them in the maze, if you don’t speak to them straight away they stand there do nothing whilst a fight is going on. Just so unrealistic.

NPCs - why are they so kitten useless?

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Posted by: Loki.8793

Loki.8793

I found the last boss annoying as well. The beginning of the fight was swell, but he eventually back up into a corner with his back facing the wall. Because I’m a thief, I’m all “Awesome, let’s go backstab him”, so I proceed to melee him while Brahm was tanking like a boss. However, to stay outside the insects AoE, I had to backup right against the wall, to which my camera freaked out, said nope, and decided it knew better than me.

While I’m having a good ol’ time doing all kinds of damage in melee, suddenly I just get instant downed without any animation from the boss. Noticing the NPCs don’t give a flying kitten that I’m down, I shadow step away to actually see what is going on, and I notice some marks on the ground, which then proceed to blow me up and kill me.

Oh…alright…cool, there’s marks I have to avoid or I die. Gotcha.

So I res, walk all the way back, enter the fight…and immediately go down again because I just so happened to enter right over the marks as they exploded. Awesome.

When I res the next time, the NPCs killed the boss before I could get back in the middle, and I wasn’t able to interact with the vines to get back in…and nothing was happening. So I had to redo the entire instance over again. Just…ugh.

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