Dumb Thalantyr (minor spoiler)

[Intimadater]

I have a level 4 illusionist and wanted to test him out so I decided to fight him against Thalantyr just to see what would happen and reload after the fight. So I hit him with a bullet to turn him hostile. He summoned some taslois then he decided to cast a lightning bolt. Instead of the lightning bolt hitting me it went right by me, bounced off the wall, and killed Thalantyr himself. I tried the same thing with level 5 Xan and he did the same thing except with Xan I went up to him with the moonblade and took 20 hit points out of Thalantyr and he didn't even turn hostile until I cast a Larloch's Minor Drain that took 1 hit point of damage from him. The lighting bolt hit Xan this time but didn't kill him, so I just moved him out of the path and let it kill Thalantyr. Must be the AI acting up or something.

[ 05-02-2004, 07:40 PM: Message edited by: Intimadater ]

[SixOfSpades]

Yep, the AI doesn't take into account the fact that Lightning Bolt is an incredibly lethal spell in close quarters. Humans can take the precaution of always standing a great distance away from the target of a LB spell, and thus ensure that they won't get hit by the rebound, but the AI simply isn't complex enough to know that casting LB indoors contains a very high random chance of instant death.