I know I know I made the first one like half a year ago, and the next ones had been in hiatus for a looooooong time (mostly because of Guild Wars: Factions coming out) but I said I’d do a few more so here it is. Vol. 2 of Guild Worse.

Since henchmen are still as idiotic as ever, this comic is also dedicated to them

I don’t know if other MMO’s have a henchman feature like Guild Wars. These ragtag bunch of NPC’s serve as a testament of why artificial inteligence still has a long way to go. Even in the new update (Factions) they’re still as dumb as a box of shaven pubic hair. Somebody should tell those guys over at NCsoft that it would be a GREAT idea if we could somehow be able to give these henchies simple commands, like STAY, HEAL, ATTACK, and most importantly, FLEE!. There’s nothing more annoying than losing your whole hench party to a mob because they fail to run away when you do, or watching a healer just stand still and heal others while ignoring the fact that he’s being pummelled to death by a fire breathing dragon, leaving your party without a healer or resurrector in a matter of seconds.

It’s also notoriously annoying that whenever you want to lure a small bunch of monsters from a bigger group, these mindless drones go right behind you and attack the whole mob when all you ever wanted to do was just hit a single guy and run like hell so only a small group of monsters follows you. If you’re with henches this is utterly impossible, almost always they end up aggroing the rest of the mob and fucking up the mission. That’s why I cannot stress any more the importance of a crucial STAY command. I’d be happy just with that one.

Even so, this is only a minor annoyance. I’ve seen human players do MUCH worse. Unfortunately there are many disciples of Leroy Jenkins University roaming around.

Tags: Humor, Online Comics, Games, MMO, Guild Wars

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