Nexus Clash

So I got the "A Plague Upon Thee" skill for A Hunter because infection and zombies is pretty thematic, but I've noticed some odd inconsistencies with the behavior of the rats. Based on the wiki description, I had assumed that when you summon them, since they're uncontrollable and hostile they'd attack whatever's in their space and then wander away if there's nothing to hit, but that doesn't seem to be the case (most of the time.)

Example 1: - You emote, " screeches and pounces!" (2022-02-16 02:14:00).
- You attack BladeStiletto with your Fangs and hit for 9 points of piercing damage. You started a combination attack! You gain 1 XP. (2022-02-16 02:14:03).
-Combat Spam-
- You attack BladeStiletto with your Fangs and hit for 9 points of piercing damage. You started a combination attack! You gain 1 XP. This was enough to kill them! You gain an additional 1 Experience Points! (2022-02-16 02:14:08).
- You plant the seeds of an infestation into the corpse and use what is left of it as a beacon of the illness that is to spread. You spent 10 Magic Points . (2022-02-16 02:14:11).
- Suddenly as if out of nowhere a mischief of visibly ill and ravenous rats appears! (2022-02-16 02:14:12).
- You beckon to Hashaa to spread illness from the infected corpse. You spent 10 Magic Points . (2022-02-16 02:14:12).
- You emote, " pokes one of the rats, wondering why it isn't spreading the wonderful infection." (2022-02-16 02:14:57).
- You step outside of iNet Industries. (2022-02-16 02:17:41).
- You step inside iNet Industries. (2022-02-16 02:17:45).
- You step outside of iNet Industries. (2022-02-16 02:17:47).
- You step inside iNet Industries. (2022-02-16 02:17:50).
- Your pet Plague Rat attacked Deathpoint and hit for 2 points of piercing damage. Illness and poisoning is transferred to them through the bite. You gain 1 experience points! (2022-02-16 02:17:51).
- Your pet Plague Rat attacked Deathpoint and missed. (2022-02-16 02:17:51).
- (2 times) Your pet Plague Rat attacked Deathpoint and hit for 2 points of piercing damage. You gain 1 experience points! (2022-02-16 02:18:11).
- You emote, " looks around. There were three rats, but now there are two, and there aren't any outside... It is baffled." (2022-02-16 02:18:17).
- (5 times) Your pet Plague Rat attacked Deathpoint and hit for 2 points of piercing damage. You gain 1 experience points! (2022-02-16 02:18:41).
- Plague Rat, belonging to A Hunter, has despawned. (2022-02-16 02:18:41).
- Your pet Plague Rat attacked Deathpoint and hit for 2 points of piercing damage. You gain 1 experience points! (2022-02-16 02:18:41).
- Plague Rat, belonging to A Hunter, has despawned. (2022-02-16 02:18:41).

In this example I killed one of the two people at the location and used the skill, five rats spawned at 2:14:12 as expected. However, the rats didn't seem to be moving or attacking, so I went to the wiki to see if I misunderstood what the rats were actually supposed to do. When I came back at 2:17:40, there were only 3 rats, and stepping outside I didn't see any, so they must have wandered off. At 2:17:51, there were only two rats, and at 2:18:11 they finally started attacking the enemy. (I do have messages of the other three either getting killed or despawning later, so they didn't just vanish.) Maybe I'm misunderstanding how wandering pets work, but from spawning to attacking was ~4 minutes with only one (or two, counting the hunter) target in the location, and some just wandered off without attacking at all, which seems unintended to me.

Example 2: - You step inside Student Union Bookstore. (2022-02-16 19:14:25).
- You plant the seeds of an infestation into the corpse and use what is left of it as a beacon of the illness that is to spread. You spent 10 Magic Points . (2022-02-16 19:14:28).
- Suddenly as if out of nowhere a mischief of visibly ill and ravenous rats appears! (2022-02-16 19:14:30).
- You beckon to Hashaa to spread illness from the infected corpse. You spent 10 Magic Points . (2022-02-16 19:14:30).
- You plant the seeds of an infestation into the corpse and use what is left of it as a beacon of the illness that is to spread. You spent 10 Magic Points . (2022-02-16 19:14:31).
- Suddenly as if out of nowhere a mischief of visibly ill and ravenous rats appears! (2022-02-16 19:14:32).
- You beckon to Hashaa to spread illness from the infected corpse. You spent 10 Magic Points . (2022-02-16 19:14:32).
- You emote, " screeches, summoning its useless rat friends!" (2022-02-16 19:14:49).
- (2 times) You attack with your Fangs and miss. (2022-02-16 19:15:10).
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- You attack with your Fangs and hit for 10 points of piercing damage. You dealt 4 more damage from a combination attack! You gain 1 XP. (2022-02-16 19:15:49).
- Your pet Plague Rat attacked and hit for 2 points of piercing damage. Illness and poisoning is transferred to them through the bite. You gain 1 experience points! (2022-02-16 19:16:32).
- (2 times) Your pet Plague Rat attacked and hit for 2 points of piercing damage. You gain 1 experience points! (2022-02-16 19:16:33).
- You step outside of Student Union Bookstore. (2022-02-16 19:16:37).
- (8 times) The sunlight burns your skin for 2 points of damage. (2022-02-16 19:16:58).
- You step inside Student Union Bookstore. (2022-02-16 19:16:59).
- You step outside of Student Union Bookstore. (2022-02-16 19:17:11).
- The sunlight burns your skin for 2 points of damage. (2022-02-16 19:17:11).
- You step inside Student Union Bookstore. (2022-02-16 19:17:15).
- (2 times) Your pet Plague Rat attacked and missed. (2022-02-16 19:17:23).
- From the corpse of rises a shambling zombie! (2022-02-16 19:17:33).
- Plague Rat, belonging to A Hunter, attacked , killing them! (2022-02-16 19:17:33).
- Your pet Plague Rat attacked and hit for 2 points of piercing damage. You gain 1 experience points! This was enough to kill them! You gain an additional 1 experience points! (2022-02-16 19:17:33).
- (2 times) You attempt to hide. There is no place you can find to hide in. (2022-02-16 19:17:53).
- You attempt to hide. You think you are hidden. (2022-02-16 19:17:54).
- Your pet Plague Rat attacked CHUNGORAMA and hit for 2 points of piercing damage. You gain 1 experience points! (2022-02-16 19:18:53).
- You feel the effects of Combination 3 fade. (2022-02-16 19:21:01).
- Your pet Plague Rat attacked CHUNGORAMA and hit for 2 points of piercing damage. Illness and poisoning is transferred to them through the bite. You gain 1 experience points! (2022-02-16 19:22:43).
- Your pet Plague Rat attacked CHUNGORAMA and hit for 2 points of piercing damage. You gain 1 experience points! (2022-02-16 19:22:53).
- Your pet Plague Rat attacked CHUNGORAMA and missed. (2022-02-16 19:23:02).
- Plague Rat, belonging to A Hunter, has despawned. (2022-02-16 19:23:02).
- You attack CHUNGORAMA with your Fangs and miss. (2022-02-16 19:25:28).
- You attack CHUNGORAMA with your Fangs and hit for 6 points of piercing damage. You started a combination attack! You gain 1 XP. (2022-02-16 19:25:29).
- You attack CHUNGORAMA with your Fangs and hit for 8 points of piercing damage. You dealt 2 more damage from a combination attack! You gain 1 XP. This was enough to kill them! You gain an additional 1 Experience Points! (2022-02-16 19:25:31).

This is a weird one, I summon 10 rats at 19:14:32, end up with 7 of them walking outside and the remaining 3 don't attack until 19:16:32. However, after that attack, they don't attack again until 19:17:23. They then attack CHUNGORAMA at 19:18:53, and not again until 19:22:53, though they do attack again at 19:23:02.

Example 3: - You step inside Axis Mundi. (2022-02-18 06:20:39).
- You plant the seeds of an infestation into the corpse and use what is left of it as a beacon of the illness that is to spread. You spent 10 Magic Points . (2022-02-18 06:20:48).
- Suddenly as if out of nowhere a mischief of visibly ill and ravenous rats appears! (2022-02-18 06:20:49).
- You beckon to Hashaa to spread illness from the infected corpse. You spent 10 Magic Points . (2022-02-18 06:20:49).
- You plant the seeds of an infestation into the corpse and use what is left of it as a beacon of the illness that is to spread. You spent 10 Magic Points . (2022-02-18 06:20:50).
- Suddenly as if out of nowhere a mischief of visibly ill and ravenous rats appears! (2022-02-18 06:20:51).
- You beckon to Hashaa to spread illness from the infected corpse. You spent 10 Magic Points . (2022-02-18 06:20:51).
- You emote, " screeches and pounces!" (2022-02-18 06:20:56).
- You attack Skeleton with your Fangs and hit for 9 points of piercing damage. You started a combination attack! You gain 4 XP. (2022-02-18 06:20:58).
- Skeleton, belonging to Vilve Yatchke, attacked you and missed! (2022-02-18 06:20:58).
-Combat Spam-
- You attack Vilve Yatchke with your Fangs and hit for 12 points of piercing damage. You dealt 6 more damage from a combination attack! Her armor soaked 3 points of damage. You gain 12 XP. (2022-02-18 06:21:10).
- Your pet Plague Rat attacked Vilve Yatchke and missed. (2022-02-18 06:21:12).
- You attack Vilve Yatchke with your Fangs and hit for 6 points of piercing damage. You started a combination attack! Her armor soaked 3 points of damage. You gain 6 XP. (2022-02-18 06:21:12).
- Your pet Plague Rat attacked Vilve Yatchke and hit for 1 points of piercing damage. You gain 1 experience points! Her armor soaked 1 points of damage. (2022-02-18 06:21:22).
- Your pet Plague Rat attacked Vilve Yatchke and hit for 1 points of piercing damage. Illness and poisoning is transferred to them through the bite. You gain 1 experience points! Her armor soaked 1 points of damage. (2022-02-18 06:21:22).
- You attack Vilve Yatchke with your Fangs and hit for 8 points of piercing damage. You dealt 2 more damage from a combination attack! Her armor soaked 3 points of damage. You gain 8 XP. (2022-02-18 06:21:28).
- From the corpse of Vilve Yatchke rises a shambling zombie! (2022-02-18 06:21:30).
- You attack Vilve Yatchke with your Fangs and hit for 10 points of piercing damage. You dealt 4 more damage from a combination attack! Her armor soaked 3 points of damage. You gain 10 XP. This was enough to kill them! You gain an additional 25 Experience Points! (2022-02-18 06:21:30).
- You step outside of Axis Mundi. (2022-02-18 06:21:37).

On this one, I believe I was in the big 4-tile purgatorio building, killed an ES, and used that corpse and another to summon ten rats. There was a lich in the same building, but on another tile, so I went and bit the skeleton, after which two rats wandered in and started biting as well. I summoned them at 6:20:51, they moved the next tick, and started biting at 6:21:22, contrary to the last two examples where they waited multiple minutes before attacking a character at their location.

I don't know the actual programming behind the behavior of plague rats, so I can't really be sure if it's intended or not that they sometimes attack instantly, sometimes wait a few minutes to attack, and sometimes simply wander off. Also, is it intended that you can't put more than one infestation on a tile even if there's more than one corpse? This may be more of a balance thing, but it feels pretty underwhelming to spend 20 mp on 25 60% 1-2 damage attacks that may poison and if they do poison may cause the special plague effect, even assuming they actually attack at all.

Just noticed a potential bonus bug: Vilve Yatchke has Death mastery, so they shouldn't have left a zombie behind, though I'm not sure if they had it at the time of this log.