Have you noticed that when you bind HOLY Bolt to any button and want to use action A when mercenary or player is close then you pally start to do strange things? 
Ive noticed this when I start to play my.foh paly 2 or 3 weeks ago. Didnt played pala.on d2r before. I had to respec to Hammer to ceep calm.
I thought that i respec 78lvl Hammer to foh when 2.4 came out. Nothing change.
I always have my action button A empty. I tried to bind holy bolt to all possible butons, even on alt bar(left triger) but always when mercenary or player or somthing else which can be interacted is rly close like door, chest, items on ground and I want to Pres A my stupid Paly want to use holy bolt or go follow merk.
I repeat that Action button A is empty, holy bolt is binded under diffrent button. Same with second controler. Situation Confirmed by few people on other d2 forum jā¦
everything is OK when I remove holy bolt form binded skills. Paly FoH works good like it should. I had a plan to holy bolt heal mercenary and nuke boss same time but char is unplayable with holy bolt binded. I couldnt pick up potion or go to next dungeon lvl when I had mercenqry or player near.
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Hi there, same Bugs, super annoying, kill the game flow.
iām using Switch pro controller (so itās affecting every controllerā¦) on PC version of the game.
Ill share what i understand about this bug aswell.
Hosting a new game going out of town using āAā bind (with nothing on it) of my controller when close to my mercenary => my Pal use holy bolt on the mercenary.
if i use another spell (like Fist of heaven) my paladin will run to my mercenay then stop if he reach him (which can lead to certain wierd situation ex: my merc want to attack a monster soā¦ my Pal will chase him and could struggle to join him)
Then if the last spell i used is Holy bolt when ill press āAā this will go like A = holy bolt and ill start casting over the mercenary.
have a good day hope this will be fixed asap !
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I was so looking forward to playing FoH pally after 2.4, I tried it last night and it is just awful. Thanks for the tip about un binding holy bolt. Iāll try it out tonight. Hopefully this is fixed soon.
Same bug on PlayStation.
I was also trying out the new FoH build. However, now after I use FoH of holy bolt, the next time I try to pick up an item, or open a chest or a seal in chaos sanctuary, my character will run towards my merc instead.
I am also seeing that sometimes, he struggles to walk past an item, as if it was an actual obstacleā¦
Iām experiencing exactly the same problem and Iām quite disappointed that I canā try Fist of Heavens.
I wouldnāt classify this as a bug tbh. If you have a skill bound to your hotbar that can target friendly players / mercyās / etc, then the game has to ALWAYS target friendlies. It doesnāt know what button youāre going to hit from your hotbar, so it needs to always target them.
You would have the exact opposite problem in combat if they altered the behavior. Say your in the middle of a mob with loot all around and desperately want to heal your ally with holy bolt, but it wonāt target them because itās prioritizing loot. Thatād feel just as bad for a healer.
There definitely should be some looking into prioritization though. If ally at >80% health, donāt autotarget or something. Or if holy bolt on alt-bar and L1 not pressed, donāt autotarget.
Well it is a bug. End of story. The so called character-targetting mechanism is not working either. When iām getting merc highlighted and fire a Holy Bolt, guess what, iām still firing direction my pally is facing nowhere near targetted mercā¦
On ps5 got these scenarios already:
- Stuck near to gold piles unless merc goes away or ill turn auto-pickup off, died numerous times on hell already bacuase of that
- Stuck in endless izual dialog due to merc being nearby, every time i tried to close dialog box and move on, game instantly triggered dialogue again
- Random FoH fires, without pressing bound button (actually im not pressing anything)
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Yep, same issue. I canāt respec either as I dint have a token at the minute. Itās so frustrating having to run off to drag merc away then quickly run back to pick stuff up before he catches up.
Yeah, same on switch. Very annoying bug. Somehow switching the skill on a (smite->pick up for example) fixes it for me until the end of the session. I hope blizz will fix it soon
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