ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

The thought-formed archer, when trapped between your character and an enemy, rather than shoot then enemy, bumps into it. I'm sure this is because of its AI.

In general, it doesn't shoot very often. It behaves like a master skeleton archer, always withdrawing.

That's normal enough for archers.

Remember that when you're dealing with enemy ones.

(I hope that doesn't change; It's nice to have some deeper strategy in the game sometimes, like knowing things like this, and it's reasonably logical as a flaw.)

As to Thought-Formed Archer, IIRC its flaky, self-preserving AI is actually meant to be a flaw. That way, L1 isn't extremely powerful(it would probably be, if the Archer wasn't self-preserving.).