Watchers really shouldn't run in front of you while you're fighting

I don't mean to kill them!

 

I have had this issue with a number of them, especially with fire ring on the ground. Nothing I could do to stop it.
(This was in a random encounter with the skeletons)

 

I think its intentional. It forces you to choose to have a religiosity about the Oracle, an animosity towards the whole thing, or just be agnostic and run over some cockroaches without consequence.

If you truly wish to not harm the watchers, then you must kite mobs away from them, and give them a holy spiritual reverence. No combat is permitted near their holiness.

Or target them specifically for extermination. Thats what I do. No one is "watching" me without my consent!

 

You're right. They shouldn't run in front of you or near you or scan you during combat and slow you down, but they do.

And that's why I gleefully kill them whenever I get the chance

 

If you're in combat mode then they don't slow you down.

 

@Black Tortoise

Yea, but I think there's also an issue of silliness when you're in the middle of attacking something and a watcher sees this and comes right up to you anyway. You would think they'd care about self-preservation but who knows how smart they are

 

They used to, haven't tested it lately. I just kill them ASAP