Witch Doctor Fix - Cast your vote!

Even with 2 WD's I'm still having trouble as the first ones dies so darn quick the second one goes to the same spot and dies again. The constant switching of groups is maddening as well, I want him to hang back, protect my large group of gunners while the juggs and brutes pull the fire...it ain't rocket science Midoki as it worked with the old WD just fine.

Also if you wanted the WD to protect your juggs and brutes with the old WD you could launch him just after the jugg and brute deployment....what am I missing here. We lost a big choice with this new AI bs.

 

Near future I hope.

 

Thanks for the reply. What was wrong with old WD AI where we got to choose who the WD followed by deploying him right after said troop or group? We had a nice choice, now there is no choice as the WD goes where he wants.

I see that this new AI sure helps your style but there are many of us that it doesn't. My entire guild HATES the new WD, yes HATES it!! That's 50 people all with different styles of attacking and not one likes it. Then you read the forums and there are multiple post about the same thing where the entire guild thinks its wrong.

I please urge you to tweak the AI to better suit these other play styles or at least tweak it back to the way it was.

 

I can't stop thinking about how much I want to watch you in action. Can you please post us an attack video you are truly proud of? This could put an end to this whole argument. Let your video sway all the nay Sayers.

 

Could we get some dev run youtube battles to watch highlighting different troops?

This would help educate people, as well as be good publicity for the game!

 

^^ I'm guessing this is against their policy or we would have seen them by now.

But agree that seeing them would be very beneficial.

 

@Lynsey [Midoki] what is your strategy with the WD? What are we all doing wrong when he is deployed and 'moonwalks' all over the island and gravitates towards the red zone of a GP? Please help us all understand.

 

If the WD AI is changed, I think it should choose to protect gunners, HG, and skellwags over any other troops. Brutes and juggs are ment to take damage so the protection they need is lower than other units. Bombers are just to fast and crazy for the the WD to follow. Finally who uses the priestess everytime so the WD going to protect her wouldn't be wise. I also understand though, that if the WD only protects the gunner, HG and skellwags it may be hard for a base to defend if the attacker has maxed troops.

 

You are likely to hear that they use multiple wds. I've always only used 1 cause of the cost and 1 worked just fine under the old ai. The more I play around with troop deployments in the new era, I'm drawing the conclusion that 2 wds may be the minimum for them to be truly effective. So, a downside is that your grog haul will have to be very high. A challenge if you rank up at all. And using 2 won't stop the problem of the first running to the juggs to die so that the second then leaves the secondary troops to go die at the spot of the first's death.

 

I'm in the same boat er ship in using only one WD with the old AI. Now a minimum of two is needed and even then its still a crap shoot whether or not you get them to do what you want. The devs with their simulations most likely don't have a need for grog or gold and just keep playing till their fingers get tired. Though with us players we do care about how much these troops cost because its not easy making headway some times.

 

Chris, I think what hurts most is the fact that so many people here were asking for many changes to the ai before the last update. Everyone noticed a Small problem with the WD doing weird ONE OFF Things such as the wd walking off to random corners. These were one offs. However, many many ppl complained about the bomber and heavy gunner not performing to expectation. These complaints drowned out all other complaints after the gunner ai was fixed a couple months ago. Now with this very long anticipated content release we were all so happy to see things change. Unfortunately, this new update had a dramatic change to the most important 1 pirate u use in battle and the heavy gunner and bomber are still Far from adequate. We did not need a third unpredictable pirate added to the tavern. Please please fix this. No one in my top 20 guild is happy about this. Please fix.

 

I think not to listening to your consumers (payers and players) is a huge error in judgement, despite whatever studies, theories and expertise you have employed. For any aussie players, think the Glad Wrap debacle, lol

 

"Tanks around the damage units" strategy worked bad when bases were overpowered (it was update 1.4.0 right before Ching Shih). Mortars took out any heaps of units protected by WDs. The only way to take max bases was distraction mortars by tanks from the main attack(s) under WD with careful timing. And it was fun to play. If current max army is enough to be simply Thrown-in-a-pile (thats the name of this "strategy") at right place than we are back to that Ching Shih "fire-and-forget" times when any base may be easily taken by any player and as for me its the worst that might happen with the game.
I belive you make your 100s not due to WD AI but despite of it - just like I do now with new perks...

 

The new witch doctor may work for some, but this change made me stop recruiting them. His shield is pointless as he follows a brute or jug and does'nt protect the troops I place him next too. Whoever came up with the idea of following the most hp was only thinking of their attack strategy; it's not a useful change.

 

Glad the lone gunner issue was resolved.

 

I can almost already see a bug or exploit with a different toggle for each WD although I do like the idea of one toggle and it carry through to each WD being deployed.

 

My little vote just wants the WD to go back to the way it was before the latest update. *curtsy*

 

There seems to have been a switch to the MO of the WD. I don't know what it was but I just like how it used to be. why would the WD protect 0 range units with lots of hp and commonly used to draw out fire. He just ends up dying quickly. He needs to be hanging back away from the front lines... He's no use dead.

 

I barely use the witch doctor anymore. Disappointed.