My experience is that if you are in melee range or engaged in fighting the npc they always attack you. You can command the bots to attack an npc from a distance and the npc(s) will aggro the bots, but as soon as you start meleeing the same mobs aggro switches to you. I even command bots to attack one target while I attack another and that works pretty well in certain situations. It never bothered me about bot aggro since they seem to be coded the same way as pets on live and the hate list rules work almost exactly the same way. I HAVE seen my cleric take aggro for healing briefly if multiple npcs are clumped together in a fight with my bot group, but the hate list rules always seem to weigh heavily toward the pc. I have not tried to change this behavior since I always figured it was hard coded and not tied to any rule_value. That could be an incorrect assumption though.
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