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[SpiritWarrior]

Well I have all three chapters installed. But the only thing I noticed in Prophecies is I can now put a green flag on the ground for the henchmen to go to, but the idiots never ever stay there. If I want to flee I have to repeatedly place the flag as I run. The healer is usually the first into the battle alone with her gimpy wand. Then she may decide to run into 8 mobs and start rezzing someone which is always fun. And so she dies over and over when all the while I am screaming "Run!".

I saw the new directional functionality in Nightfall briefly but I don't think it crossed over to Prophecies, or did it? I can't find it anyways. I would kill for the "Passive" command.

[Garnet FalconDance]

Originally posted by Target: The whole thing shut down. That's why I wondered if it was the power supply. I have something called hardwear doctor (I think) and it was telling me my -5v (I think will double check tonight) was setting it's alarm off. The last time I had GW running I also had this web page opened and the hardwear docoter beeped and returned me to the desktop, GW was still running so I clicked on it and carried on. Does that make sense?

Likely related to over-heating. As stated, GW uses a lot of resources, and it is extremely not-nice-to-your-pc to run a web page at the same time (even though I do it on occasion but only if I'm camped in an outpost and merely checking wiki for something).

[PurpleXVI]

Originally posted by SpiritWarrior: Well I have all three chapters installed. But the only thing I noticed in Prophecies is I can now put a green flag on the ground for the henchmen to go to, but the idiots never ever stay there. If I want to flee I have to repeatedly place the flag as I run. The healer is usually the first into the battle alone with her gimpy wand. Then she may decide to run into 8 mobs and start rezzing someone which is always fun. And so she dies over and over when all the while I am screaming "Run!". I saw the new directional functionality in Nightfall briefly but I don't think it crossed over to Prophecies, or did it? I can't find it anyways. I would kill for the "Passive" command.

See, the whole "passive, aggressive, defensive" thing ONLY applies to heroes, even in Nightfall. And additionally, if you get attacked, or attack, too close to the flag, they WILL move out to assist you, you have to place it a decent distance away so they'll actually go there. I imagine it's to avoid a group of, say, melee/short range, heroes just standing there, looking dumb, while a bunch of Elementalist and Ranger monsters pummel them into a bloody pulp.

They still have a certain radius, about an aggro radius and a half, or so, within which they'll react to things happening.

[Garnet FalconDance]

Umm, Spirit, if you're talking about setting your monk hero to passive, it's easily done. But trust me, if you use Dunkoro, "passive" means he stands three aggro bubblbes back and scratches his nether regions while the party takes heavy casualties.

Otherwise, remember that Alesia failed her studies at the Healer Academy after she was turned away from Warrior school. I suspect that Sister Tai (from Factions) attended the same Academy and they were roommates.

Devourers: nope, you still have a LOT more of them! They inhabit all of Tyria in various annoying forms. Wait 'til Nightfall - you get the even-more-annoying mandragors popping out of the ground and slithering about!

[PurpleXVI]

Not entirely true, one or two areas are free of Devourers in Tyria. True, they don't last very long, but it's only about every second area that has 'em.

Ascalon, the dry areas of the Maguuma and the Crystal Desert have them. The Shiverpeaks, Kryta and the Ring of Fire are free.

[SpiritWarrior]

Originally posted by Garnet FalconDance: Umm, Spirit, if you're talking about setting your monk hero to passive, it's easily done. But trust me, if you use Dunkoro, "passive" means he stands three aggro bubblbes back and scratches his nether regions while the party takes heavy casualties.

Okay but um...how?

[PurpleXVI]

You click the little number next to his name and a menu pops up where you can select his stance, tell him to stop using a skill or force him to use a certain skill next.

[SpiritWarrior]

In prophecies? I am looking in the party window for a number and on my char and I can't find it : /. But this only applies to heroes anyway? So there is no option to set a henchman to passive ever?

[PurpleXVI]

No, there isn't. It only applies to heroes, Dunkoro is one of the many you can recruit.

[SpiritWarrior]

Ah yes now I recall this. I could do it with the guy in the Nightfall tutorial..Korvias or something? I thought this applied to henchmen too. Awe well.