Make Gyros behave more like pets
The ‘fix’ for mesmer clones was to add a trait that gives super speed when you shatter them. The same ‘fix’ would apply to gyros as well. Not only is the pathing pretty awful, but my personal favorite is that stealth gyro can’t keep up with your character even if the pathing was immaculate.
Also as a bonus, I like how stealth gyro interacts with any skill that has ‘bounces’ as enemies can target your gyro and it will bounce to you even though you are in stealth.
Pet AI is still awful, but in HoT they found a work around: give the pets cheap abilities that negate the pathing such as repeatedly shadow stepping to the target (to prevent dodging a single big hit or effect) with Smoke Assault or a 1200 range multi-hit attack that tracks the target (again to prevent dodging a single big hit or stepping out of the way once the attack animation starts up) with Spike Barrage.
In PvE they made pets/summons take massively reduced damage so them standing in damage and getting instantly destroyed wouldn’t be a thing anymore. It’s not because pet AI is ‘better’.
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I still like the idea of them acting with a bit more control.
Maybe their movement could be a bit more ‘scripted’ rather than being a literal object? Like, instead of fudging around trying to find a path, just literally fly in a direct path if it’s not directly obstructed?
The way gyros work just makes no sense to me.
Sneak gyro could just as well be an engineer stealth emitter
Shredder gyro could be, I dunno, a spinning blade you throw on the ground, why an overly complicated gyrocopter?
Blast gryo… just a projectile bomb you could throw directly, the pathing is idiotic.
Medic gyro? Could just be a special effect that floats by your head and shoots a healy beam at wounded targets.
All of it is gimmicky trash that could be done better with something more simple.
If they’re going to make them overly complicated, then I want that complexity to pay off with versatilty, which is where ordering them around and managing them like fighter squads off a carrier comes in.