Charmed/dominated creatures will attack themselves

[Smilge]

Charmed or dominated creatures will attack themselves, sometimes using special abilities like knockdown, or on hit effects like poison.

 

1) Create a cipher or druid (or other character that has a charm/domination type spell)

2) Cast Puppet master/charm animal or any other charm/domination effect on a lone enemy

3) Enemy will attack itself

 

A dominated creature will attack the party in self-defense, so it doesn't seem right that they would attack themselves. It especially doesn't follow that an enemy can knock itself down, or that a spider can poison itself.

[Chilloutman]

yep, laughet relly hard when that happend to me

[NCarver]

Hello,

 

Thank you for your postings. This is a known issue with Charm/Dominate. The new AI we have implemented should help to resolve many of these discrepancies. Though, it is possible that it may cause a few in its wake and so we'll be looking to everyone to see how the changes play out.

 

Thank you for your support during the beta! 

[Lord Vicious]

Actually it's a very fun take on the Charm/Dominate mechanic. I think it deserves to be kept, maybe in a special Dominate Monster kind of spell that will actually make the monster attempt to kill itself. That would be awesome and hilarious at the same time.