Jack or Stoney hesitate alot in melee now


Brakner

 

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I haven't really played my Ice/Emp for a few years so I thought I would dust her off and switch her to villain for a MU pet and I noticed that Jack is having brain farts in melee. He gets focused on one attack and one attack only, if its the 4 second Ice Sword thats fine , but if its the 10 second Greater Ice Sword or the 20 second hold it really really sucks. He just stands there doing absolutely nothing waiting for that one attack to cycle.....Whats up with that?


 

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Maybe they don't believe in what they're fighting in for...
Or maybe they just had their hearts broken. By each other.


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I haven't really played my Ice/Emp for a few years so I thought I would dust her off and switch her to villain for a MU pet and I noticed that Jack is having brain farts in melee. He gets focused on one attack and one attack only, if its the 4 second Ice Sword thats fine , but if its the 10 second Greater Ice Sword or the 20 second hold it really really sucks. He just stands there doing absolutely nothing waiting for that one attack to cycle.....Whats up with that?
I haven't checked my Ice/Storm or any of my Earth Characters since GR hit. A few issues ago, the Pet Recharge nerf was added specifically because pets were failing to cycle their attacks -- they would often get stuck with one attack, sometimes the ranged one. The excuse given for the nerf was that the Recharge seemed to be affecting the AI to cycle attacks, so they eliminated the ability to give Recharge to pets. After that, the pets seemed to be cycling their attacks.


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I haven't checked my Ice/Storm or any of my Earth Characters since GR hit. A few issues ago, the Pet Recharge nerf was added specifically because pets were failing to cycle their attacks -- they would often get stuck with one attack, sometimes the ranged one. The excuse given for the nerf was that the Recharge seemed to be affecting the AI to cycle attacks, so they eliminated the ability to give Recharge to pets. After that, the pets seemed to be cycling their attacks.
Not anymore it seems


 

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Not anymore it seems
First of all, love your sig.

Second of all, CoH pets have always behaved pretty badly. My partners Bots still to this day run into melee and brawl, even though that was meant to be fixed ages ago, and on several occasions. So I'm truly not surprised but I am saddened, hopefully it is something they can fix.


 

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I dunno. I've been taking my Earth/Storm and my Ice/Storm out to play a lot recently, at least solo. I haven't noticed anything wonky. I've also been working on getting my Earth/Energy Dominator over to hero side.

Animate Stone is definitely fine as far as I can tell. Dude is chucking rocks, getting in and doing melee, throwing more rocks, doing more melee, etc. I havent been watching him closely but he has been jacking stuff up when I've been busy doing my thing. That is for both the controller and the dominator.

For the Ice/Storm, I only played a few missions, but my kill rate seemed fine. I didnt look at Jack Frost too close though, as I was kinda daydreaming about a respec and firing off my own controls and attacks.

But Stoney is definitely working just fine so far as I've noticed.

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I dunno. I've been taking my Earth/Storm and my Ice/Storm out to play a lot recently, at least solo. I haven't noticed anything wonky. I've also been working on getting my Earth/Energy Dominator over to hero side.

Animate Stone is definitely fine as far as I can tell. Dude is chucking rocks, getting in and doing melee, throwing more rocks, doing more melee, etc. I havent been watching him closely but he has been jacking stuff up when I've been busy doing my thing. That is for both the controller and the dominator.

For the Ice/Storm, I only played a few missions, but my kill rate seemed fine. I didnt look at Jack Frost too close though, as I was kinda daydreaming about a respec and firing off my own controls and attacks.

But Stoney is definitely working just fine so far as I've noticed.

Lewis
I have focused more on Jack than Stony so maybe most of the issues are just Ice. If you get a chance take him out for a spin and let him do all the attacking. Maybe the base Jack is fine and its all the buffs I am giving him that are screwing up his timing, who knows.

I am going to take him through one news paper mission tonight and let him solo. I want to make sure it is a bug before I submit it.


 

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I have noticed my imps dont attack as fast. What am I basing that on? Nothing. It seems like to me they are taking their time attacking something. I've watched 2 of them standing in front of a minion just waiting. The minion is able to kill them where before it seemed like they would kill the minion first.

I am having to summon them a lot more now.


 

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On an unrelated note, man the Mu pet is super fun! Best decision ever for me to switch to villain and do the patron arc. He has a full set of Expedient Reinforcements and with Hasten and global I managed to get him down to 80 seconds down time. ( 320 rch, 240 dur .) Hits for 120 ish ( quite fast too ) and likes to stay at range. I heard it also heals but haven’t noticed yet.

Great addition for an xxx/emp who like to solo occasionally