The AI follower dungeons at regular difficulty are a fantastic edition to the game and will let people do lower difficulty dungeons in a stress free relaxing environment. Problem is, this doesn’t prepare them for more difficult content in a realistic manner. For that we need AI followers who provide a more realistic challenge, and here they are, your heroic dungeon followers:
Awesumdeeps - Night Elf Hunter. Talks a lot. Energetic. Always hitting his spacebar. Pulls random trash packs and runs screaming to the healer. If he dies while you’re healing he will whisper you for a battle rez every five seconds whether you have one or not.
Greenbrodude - Orc Fury/Protection Warrior. If you are tanking don’t worry about pace, because you’ll never be fast enough for him. Regardless of your role, he will give you advice constantly because you don’t pull fast enough, wear the wrong gear, don’t have the correct gems and enchants, and were probably adopted. Your politics, that you haven’t mentioned, are all wrong, and he lets you know through a series of buzzwords and catchphrases.
Emogrl927 - Human Destruction Warlock. Often has a voidwalker summoned. Never talks. Even after dying, just releases and returns without a word.
Noobosity - Balance Druid. Just got WoW for Christmas and hasn’t learned anything about their class, or group dynamics. Spends much of the time using a staff to melee mobs. Switches forms randomly, and at least once during a dungeon will pop Tranquility when it’s not needed and exclaim “Cool!” Needs on everything.
Ethereanna - Blood Elf Holy Priest. RPs the entire length of the dungeon, stopping after every trash pack and boss is downed to lament something or other. Only refers to themselves in the third person.
So there you have it. Your heroic dungeon followers. Hopefully they will prepare newcomers for playing with non-AI players.
Ohvergeard - gnome blood DK who’s just going to pull every trash mob between the entrance and the boss and give everyone 0 chance to even enter the boss room or survive through the 38 casts going off, but solo’s it anyway
k… balance is pretty straight forward lol if you don’t know how your class works AT ALL why should that person be doing heroic AI dungeons? They should be doing AI normal dungeons.
I’d agree with you if you said this many years ago but as of now I cannot.
I’m not being sarcastic but exactly what difficult content does a heroic dungeon, in this day and age, prepare anyone for? There is nothing challenging about a heroic dungeon. They are designed to be faceroll without any possible failure.
Awesome stereotypes, and we can clearly see the people that didn’t read past the intro paragraph/title.
Contributing:
Skippers - NE/BE DH - Tries to get people into using all shortcuts that exist in the dungeon, even the ones that only they can access, abuses swapblaster, dungeon geometry, mount jump skips etc. and nags a lot if people do not follow his path or die trying.
Dreadthumbs - Undead Rogue. All he does is rant about how his class and spec does no damage whenever he is second on the damage meters. Whenever he is first, after a pull/boss kill, he trashes his team for doing no damage at all and asks them how is it even possible that he is top dps.
I got a good giggle from your list but it did make me think how cool it would be if one of the dps butt pulled and the healer popped a big, obvious group cd with lots of telegraphing and npc chat to let players know that popping cds on big trash pulls is a good use of cds.
Maybe make the players big boy pants cd show up mid screen like an extra action button to say “nows your chance to go big or go home”
You shouldn’t actually be under threat of dying, more just a scripted event every now and then to encourage cd usage.
Idk, maybe the players doing these dungeons don’t want that though. I’m probably just inserting my play style where it doesn’t belong
I actually love the idea of comedic follower NPCs for dungeons. It’d be neat if it was just like one of these random ones from a list in like 50% of your follower dungeons, it would give a more pseudo-realistic experience. Reminds me of Dumass, Johnny Awesome, and that one orc DK who’s name I cannot remember right now from HIllsbrad except expanded upon.
I’m not sure whether to chuckle at this or be a little scared that if they wanted to they could do this.
I’m reminded of that Illidan questline in Legion, when we see the Black Temple raid from his perspective, I seem to recall a little gnome rogue down there going “if his glaives drop can I have 'em?”
Howtoreadmap - this guy gets lost in a linear dungeon. 2 minutes into the dungeon you can hear his battle cry echo theough the halls. “Heeeeeeey you guys, where did you go?” Dont bother trying to give directions because he’ll just do the opposite anyway, and pull the rest of the dungeon. You know those annoying escort quests where the npc stops every 5 feet? Seems they programmed those based on this guy because as soon as he touches the keyboard he’s lost. Might as well pull everything because if you havent already, this guy will.
