Castle, explain THIS running mob. Nosferatu is a wuss.

Doesn't apply in this case obviously, but a successful Shadow Maul, the vet version, makes enemies run away every single time.

Got on my Sonic/Traps today. Dear GOD was everything running!

And I mean EVERYTHING.

I know caltrops is supposed to make enemies try to run out of caltrops, but having them book for the horizon (or down a hall and around a couple corners)?

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I'd be more than happy if they got rid of the run AI logic completely. Yes, it's more realistic, but I have never had any mob run away from me and thought, "Gee, see how much more fun it is to chase this mob down instead of it fighting me straight up?"

Sometimes more realistic <> more fun. Especially when it seems to be rather broken, anyway.

Yeah I think Nosferatu is bugged. When Issue 18 went live, he started doing this in the Mender Lazarus SF too.

I usually run one or two of those a week on my Dark/Elec brute and he didn't start running like that until Issue 18 dropped. I have heard that he was doing it in the past and must have been fixed at some point - but it looks like I18 broke him again.

...Zevran, is that you?

Seriously, though. AVs and EBs shouldn't run away, that kinda ruins it. Unless they're scripted to escape at a certain level of health.

I think he's bugged.

I first noticed something was up when I ran (or attempted to...we had no MM) the Barracuda SF, and Shadenfreude, who is really just a renamed Nosferatu, ran like a wussy little Hellion, despite my taunt spamming.

Then I flashbacked the Mender Lazarus arc with my DM/SD. Nosferatu just stood there. I don't think he attacked me at all.

If a critter doesn't have any attacks available to use, it'll run, so if Nosferatu's attacks aren't activating, he'll run. The real question is, why did he not run from my DM/SD? Possibly because he was only an EB and AAO was enough to keep him from running, while Taunt, Evasion, and setting him on fire wasn't enough for the AV version.

I recall a particular Wyvern Boss who you were supposed to prevent from escaping. He was in a funnel-shaped room, at the bottom, with an elevator at the top. I was on my MM, level in the 20s. His first shot was an arrow that had immob, slow, and -fly. He then flew up to the elevator and I failed the mission within 3 seconds of giving the attack command.

I am rather wary of more missions such as that.

Oh yeah. This is my new favorite video.

Based on some of the reactions Leo's video has gotten, I have deduced that Nosferatu was running to the drug store for some Trojans.

Reminds me of Scrapyard and Crimson, actually. Maybe the same AI "personality" settings"

Nos is recently bugged imo. I did him in with my ill/cold before i18 and that toon packs a lot more debuff and damage than an ill/emp and would thus cause the morale meter to plummet much easier. He didn't budge.

Few foes budge due to the taunt of PA, just like few foes budge when someone uses taunt on them.

that isn't to say that mob fleeing works as any logical person would design it in this game, but in this case I'm reasonably sure Nos is bugged outside of that design implementation

First, I've noticed increased running from critters recently.

Now on to the important subject, how ******* awesome is that voice? I get why the chicks dig it. Leandro, do some voice work and use your powers to seduce women. You've got this.

1. Your voice is freaking awesome.

2. I've probably got as much experience fighting Nosferatu as one man can have, and I can say with a great deal of certainty that he's a coward for a variety of things. Any end-drain gets his dander up and -regen can also get him to slope off. Envenomed Daggers on my stalker actually make that fight take longer.

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