Squadron AI "Improvements"

[SannaR]

the rog/ninja will randomly use death blossom.

[Hasrat]

Small bump, but, holy hell, are healers worse since this change or something? Ran Copperbell hard as a NIN, with a marauder, cnj, arcanist. Several wipes due to healer failing to keep me alive. Healing seems slower, didn't notice near as much cooldown usage, and just generally waits too long to heal. Might be fine if you're running as tank where you have a little more wiggle room. But running DPS, where it's all too easy to rip aggro (another point of concern, tanks still are terrible at holding hate), I'm getting squished a little too easily. I'll take the heal spam back, tyvm.

[KisaiTenshi]

Small bump, but, holy hell, are healers worse since this change or something? Ran Copperbell hard as a NIN, with a marauder, cnj, arcanist. Several wipes due to healer failing to keep me alive. Healing seems slower, didn't notice near as much cooldown usage, and just generally waits too long to heal. Might be fine if you're running as tank where you have a little more wiggle room. But running DPS, where it's all too easy to rip aggro (another point of concern, tanks still are terrible at holding hate), I'm getting squished a little too easily. I'll take the heal spam back, tyvm.

I was able to do it the easiest with Scholar, but it was pretty much brute force. As it is, I'd like to see the statistics on Squadron completion is.

[Reimmi]

squadrons would be amazing if they could take the gambit system from ff12 and allow us to customize ai that way

[Antonio_Xul]

I haven't had any issues with squadron myself. I've been running with them as a Machinist, Bard & Summoner and I've been OK. I'm spamming Copperbell Mines Hard Mode for Bard and have died a few times, but nothing that has kept me from beating it.

[SannaR]

My au ra lady must like me because she seems to only once in awhile hate my dps and plays the how low can I go game with my health. Their AI could get tweaked a little bit more though. It's sad when the npc AI for solo instances via the msq seem to get better while the squadron AI is all spammy of their GCDs because we can and then act odd at times. That and the different tactics they can learn seem to only change their stats and not really how they behave in a fight. I also wouldn't mind having more choices in people who can join. As of right now there is only one female thm and that's the hyur. While other classes or rolls can have at least two choices in either gender.

[Antonio_Xul]

Sanna, you can change their classes by using those books they sell at your GC or earn doing squad missions. Anyone one of them can be a thaumaterge or however you spell it. Just obtain the proper book and use it on them.

[WilhelmWhite]

I tanked my first squad command mission, and realized that I never wanted to do that again, lmao. Healing is a thousand times easier, imo. While healing, I can stand back and comfortably manage the squad while they deal with the trash/boss. The only problem I've had while healing, (specifically in dungeons like Brayflox's Longstop and Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak) is that my squad is perfectly fine with standing in poison puddles and not moving out of them. Similar situation in Halatali, where they seem to just stand in the burn circle.