Shattered Kingdoms

Is there any chance that NPCs can be changed to wield an appropriate weapon as soon as it's in their inventory? It's really annoying when you engage a group of unarmed NPCs only to have them all wield weapons one round into the fight and kick the holy hell out of you.

They seem like they're in a harsh panic, some replace their weapons, with a thrown weapon. It's pretty funny sometimes. They do weird stuff now.

Choice of what attack action to use each round is semi-random. Changing their weapon is an attack action, which means the round they do that, they can't do anything like bash or cast a spell. They aren't going to wield a weapon when you give it to them, because that would result in a lot of twinking. They'll only use it in combat and if they decide it's better.

How would it increase twinking to have a NPC equip a weapon handed to them, if the NPC decides it's better than what they're using?

EDIT: Are you thinking about that increasing the NPC's "parryability", maybe?

Peace,
Bux

There are all kinds of things that can be done, probably more than I have thought of myself.

like giving them iron weapons so you can freely level off them with ironguard maybe?

They'd be smart enough to remove that iron weapon, right?

Peace,
Bux

Yeah, if you have ironguard up, they'll remove their iron based weapon. I've already witnessed that on my warlock.