Hirelings

[melbach]

I would have swore it was impossible but after update 23, despite their intentions, hirelings are worse than ever. They don't like following at all. Admittedly they teleport instantly when summoned but half of your time is spent summoning every few minutes.

[Faltout]

In which quest?
I've found that my healer hire is always following me and always happy to heal me and always happy to fight. I know the bug about setting one of their abilities to off will cause most of its abilities to not function so I don't use it. Only places the hire does not follow me are places like tomb of the shadow king when I drop off the ramp, the hireling will not teleport to me. Well, you just have to make sure that when you jump someplace or teleport to someplace that the hire is with you and then you're good to go.

[thebeast1985]

i'm sad to admit it but it's quite true, also there are many other posts and posters that are complanning about this... ehm... problem. i have found many problems, if you (as me) duo with a friend, your hireling will most certainly run (wherever he is) to your friend and let you (probably) to die.
when i've read about the customizable bar for hires i was very happy, then i noticed that if you disable his attac icon (at least from my experience) the hire will not heal you at all.
the other thing i was very excited to read was the "they will stop when you step on a trap) haha, that was a good joke from devs to add it in the ptr notes.
really? they will mostly run AT trap, more when you have spotted or found with search. (if they have an enemy (and of course are in defensive, not aggressive, otherwise it would have been my fault) they run, no matter what's in the path between them and the mob.

btw. i still use them and i wait for a fix, we'll see what good news will come from (and i'm more than sure that is not easy to rescript a WORKING ai with all this variables)

so, have faith and carry on