NPC and returning storm

[Archaven]

I'm in Gullet and a group of thugs approach me. We are starting a fight and those random NPCs dont even runaway and walk into my AoE. Seriously? And that caused me to kill them. So we have smart NPCs who light to walk into the middle of a fight and get themselves punched. What the heck?

 

On a separate note on returning storm, spell and abilities effects. Compared to the sound and effects in first PoE, i don't heard the sound of a storm and also even any sound of thunder strike? What the heck? It doesn't sounds like thunder at all. Just what happened here? It's really disappointing as i'm big fan of returning storm.