Summoner oddity, anyone else seen this?

[Indalecia]

I honestly believe the retreat bug was designed that way. An avatar will always attack if you have more that than it. However, there has to be a certain amount of hate before it will retreat. Prolly because actually USING retreat causes just enough hate to muddy the waters.

[Mikayla]

Yeah, the retreat thing isn't a bug, it's just poor programming on the part of Avatar AI.

[Arkanna]

Thanks for the input guys. :/ I can tell I've gotten out of touch with SMN over the last 3 years my BLM has been 75. This is the first time I've seen it ><

[Pninja]

I've been having a problem with "Retreat". Avatars won't hang back if this JA is used. They move to attack aggressive targets regardless of the command.

As an aside to this (if you already know this, I'm sorry for stating the obvious), but if you have mutiple mobs aggro'd then using Retreat will automatically engage your avatar on the other mob that has hate on you. It will never fully "retreat" as long as there is more than 1 mob.

I actually use this tactic when I aggro more than 1 thing because it takes less time and generates less hate than if you had to use real retreat plus assault, or sometimes I can't target the new mob quick enough to just issue an assault.