I can play for weeks on end with out a problem. Then I attack a mob and mid fight the merc just stops casting.....mobs are not casting silence , im the only one taking damage WTF
Yeah, that happens. People have mentioned that sometimes it's due to weirdness in how the merc's AI reacts to differences in the Z-axis. Did you happen to be fighting on a slope or anything like that when it happened?
It's part of the dev teams intention to make the mercs as real as possible. So they coded them for ninja AFKs and to surf the net from time to time.