Avatar AI problems that need to be addressed

[Tarage]

1. Wait until your avatar catches up to you before hitting Assault? It is not that hard.

Except that avatar pathing is pretty bad in some cases. Those few seconds of waiting for your Avatar to meander to you can cost you in some fights.

2. This is not a problem, this is a shining example as to why SMNs are so great at what they do. Having the avatar attack a mob that has aggression towards you is the pinnacle of kiting. Otherwise we would be endangering ourselves to have to hit assault each time we resummon an avatar.

You misunderstood me. I am not saying 'Get rid of avatars attacking things that attack us'. I'm saying 'If I tell my Avatar not to attack, I want it not to attack.' Make it a separate command if you want. There are times when I am using an Avatar for favor to support mages and I don't want it running away from me.

3. Ok, you got one problem right. 1/3 "problems" isn't that bad, but isn't that great either.

Only 1 thing needs to be fixed, you probably have not been a SMN that long by the looks of it. Besides, what slept mob would have hate on you anyway?

I've been a SMN since before CoP. I did the solo fork fights all by myself. Trust me on this, I know what I'm talking about. Even if a mob is slept, if I cure the person who slept the mob, my avatar WILL attack the slept mob. The avatar AI is only smart enough to perceive hate, not judge if there is an actual threat from a slept mob. The second I get high enough on that hate list, BOOM, it attacks.

I'm just offering three small fixes here. Trying to get Bahamut or what have you is a lot less realistic.

[Korpg]

Except that avatar pathing is pretty bad in some cases. Those few seconds of waiting for your Avatar to meander to you can cost you in some fights.

Pathing is a problem, but costing fights, never really happened to me before. Costing claims, yeah.

You misunderstood me. I am not saying 'Get rid of avatars attacking things that attack us'. I'm saying 'If I tell my Avatar not to attack, I want it not to attack.' Make it a separate command if you want. There are times when I am using an Avatar for favor to support mages and I don't want it running away from me.

So, basically, you are asking for a "Stay" command, or really, just "Follow."

That is ok I guess. Not really needed, but still ok.

I've been a SMN since before CoP. I did the solo fork fights all by myself. Trust me on this, I know what I'm talking about. Even if a mob is slept, if I cure the person who slept the mob, my avatar WILL attack the slept mob. The avatar AI is only smart enough to perceive hate, not judge if there is an actual threat from a slept mob. The second I get high enough on that hate list, BOOM, it attacks.

I'm just offering three small fixes here. Trying to get Bahamut or what have you is a lot less realistic.

I'm guessing you are telling the truth about being a SMN before CoP even though I thought it came out when CoP came out, but I could be wrong (I'm an XBOX beta tester, I came with ToAU).

But still, don't cure the person who slept the mob. They can cure themselves. You shouldn't be on the hate list at all for all the slept mobs, nor should you be back-seat curing people who can cure themselves (BLMs have no excuse, they can Drain mobs being fought at the very least).