When even Wowhead complains, you know it’s an issue. I’m sure Blizzard knows about it. Whether it’ll take as long to fix as hunter pet AI did years ago is another matter entirely…
It is an issue but it’s surprising to me that it’s only become an issue now. Because Brann isn’t acting any differently for me than he was in S2. He’s always done this crap, maybe it’s just more common now?
He has always done stupid crap but now he is pulling things and running back to me. I needed to wait a few mins at the start of a delve today only to watch him take off running about 60 feet to shoot something, then run back to me.
He did it again in a different delve and on a different character. Mid delve and I was waiting for a mob to pass by. He ran to the middle of them and pulled them.
With all the mechanics they keep putting in to stop afk, this feels like another one. I don’t want them to ruin that as I play delves since I can get up suddenly and go afk if needed.
He absolutely did all that in S2, but yes he is even worse this season. S1 was probably the best and even then he was extremely annoying. Now he is actually a detriment a lot of the time.
I’d much rather they just made the curios into player buffs and got rid of Brann entirely at this point. His annoyance is intentional however so no chance of that happening.
No other pet npc in the game acts like a complete spaz the way Brann does. Hunter pets don’t do it. Warlock pets don’t do it. When you get a companion for a quest they don’t do it. The npcs in the follower dungeons don’t spaz out like that. Only Brann does.
So yeah, its intentional. Otherwise he would operate the same as every other example we have in game of follower npcs.