01-28-2004, 11:04 PM
Quote:Mood swings perhaps?
Actually, I've seen a few odd AI activities from Meph as well. I have run him maybe 30-40 times with my mf warcry barb, and I've seen strange behavior:
Meph will about 80% of the time focus on the barb, not my barb merc *if* I am in melee range of him.
Sometimes I can't get meph to target me at all, and have to leave(town refresh) before he kills the merc.
The odd behavior is that while he his focusing his melee attacks on my barb, any ranged attacks he does(and he does them rarely when he's in melee) will be targeted at my merc.
I'll be sitting there swinging my staff or yelling at meph, and he'll turn for a sec, launch some charged bolts at my merc, and just as fast turn back to melee with my barb. To me, this looks like he has a different targeting routine with his ranged attacks than he does with his melee attacks.
This may not help you much, but I figured I should mention that I've seen similiar things as well.
BTW The reason I want to keep my merc alive is that he has ~175 mf on, and I let him get the kill.