Guild Wars weekend

[kandrathe]

Very rarely would the monk henchmen die on me, but they would never heal those who needed it until after a fight was over.  Oh, there was also the monk henchman who loved to group heal constantly and would end up healing the critters I was beating on as well.  I fixed that though by using my secondary monk healing skills and never letting my health drop so the monk merc wouldn't cast the AoE heal.  I did take my time while playing and never got involved in large fights (except for once, but I was a warrior and it wasn't a problem at all when I got swarmed by 5 critters at once), but apparently my slow style of play just doesn't work with the monk's AI.  Every time I really needed the monk henchman, (s)he would just let me die and then refuse to resurrect.  They were either out of mana or healing someone else who was barely hurt.
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Yes. Unfortunately, that is how they work. Partly I suspect because they tag along with the slowest person in the group. If you use the ranger or elementalist henchmen then the healer will stay behind them and out of range of the warriors. In one game, Drasca was AFK for a bit and we pressed forward, only to realize our much needed healer was AWOL. We back tracked to find her chatting nonsense to Drasca. After prodding Drasca, we could resume the mission. Again, I would think the healer should try to stay nearest to the leader to heal at the tip or the spear where the most damage should be occuring.