I love follower dungeons, but they are locked to normal DF only. Are there plans of expansion? TimeWalking Follower Dungeons? TWW? Will we get Heroic or even Mythic? I’m curious how they’re doing and what the plans for the future are.
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I hope the just make the for old dungeons where the player pulls everything instead of letting the tank lead, so we can have it sooner than later.
I doubt they’ll ever do old dungeons if they have to do the tank lead pathing…especially on the old larger dungeons.
But then, tuning alone could keep them from bothering with it too.
This common core math problem this game has might never be fixed…might not be able to be fixed.
I like this idea. They wouldn’t need to program pathing for the NPCs this way.
If they could add a button that instructed the party to attack the player’s current target (hopefully a much simpler task), then that would solve the problem of a healer or DPS player starting a fight with aggro.
Blizzard could instead focus follower programming on more universal things like moving out of damage puddles on the floor. (If Valve can program Left 4 Dead AI to move out of spitter goo, then surely Blizzard could do the same, right?)
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Thats what Im hoping for. personally. Just dont even bother with the tank lead…now or ever if it means they might not or might take forever.
Just give me the AI group and let me go nuts. I dont even care if its balanced perfectly…I’ll keep trying and dying till I get it, lol. I just want the option to solo old dungeons at level without having to deal with players who annoy the hell out of me,
Given the AI followers, class pets, etc, I dont see any argument against being able to do it.
I can take my hunter and warlock pets into old dungeons now…just give me a few followers and a queue and let me have some fun.
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Make the follower attacks hit for a percentage of mobs health to normalize damage in the dungeons.
Add the pathing to old dungeons and program the mechanics.
Future would be raids probably.
Once the tech is finished enough, we’d probably see some more escort missions with better AI. Maybe expansion of the delves (which seem like scenario + right now to me).
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Removal, if we’re lucky.
For future developments, the one that seems most likely is the combining of the follower system with the warbands system, allowing a player to take a team of their alts into instances.
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I just hope it expand to leveling in old dungeons, and also, they should put a scaling option for max level players also enjoy it if they want.
I know, the classic dungeons are too long, but from burning crusade and beyond, all have 3 to 5 bosses, so i think is possible.
Also, I know it probably would take too much dev time, but they don’t need release all at once. Each main patch they could add the dungeons of an old expansion until complete it all.
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They cant be mythic because AI would die to basic mechanics.
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So like my +2 pug keys lol. If I see one more dps die to aoe in BH I don’t even know…
I hope there are melee followers, the ranged followers attract more trouble. 
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They might bring in caravans so ppl can ride from boss to boss. 
Some of you are whining about pulling when you can control the pull by not allowing the AI to pull instead.
No. It will never be higher than normal
It’s more a case of the AI being borderline brain dead and aggroing mobs while trying to path to you (or wheerever the hell the tank is).
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If you are finding problems with the AI why not give feedback and turn off leading and lead the dungeon yourself.
When I use followers I lead the dungeon myself and had zero issues. Hopefully, come next expansion they improve on the implementation and improve the AI and their pathing for when you want them to lead instead of you leading the way.
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Whether I’m leading or not theres still a train of AI that can pull aggro by clipping a corner wrong and pulling adds from the back.
Which… it’s not going to crash the run usually but It does have a tendency to slow the run down further then it already is (followers are… subpar as DPS).
I think the future of follower dungeons is that more quests/content will point into dungeons because devs no longer have to worry about stubbornly solo players (raises hand sheepishly) being locked out.
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I’ll bet my two dollars that they are improving on followers come next expansion (since there are quest that will bring you into a dungeon). And the followers DPS are geared in a way that is more accurate to the level of difficulty that you’re doing. And so yeah the AI are not wearing mythic plus or raid heroic gear just to speed you through the dungeons.
Shoot, id be happy if they could get the walking speed of escort quests to be either normal jog or RP walk speed, but in 20 years they haven’t been able to manage that tiny feat.
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