Guild Wars 2

Necro minions are plain boredom while in the game there are dozens of great undead animations. Birds, zombies, golems, you name it. We’ve all seen them in our story or just when exploring the world. So, why does necro get a huge skeletal flying pseudo-fish, a kaboom rats, a scorpion (most boring of all), a blob of bad textures and a something that looks like stolen from Silent Hill except for all the cool image? See the necro section to find out what am I talking about. From all the bugs and design flaws the necro has, minions are one of the bigger ones.
And why, I have to ask. Why, when out there, in the game world, we see much better models, much better beasts?
So I got an idea. How about making necro minions system more ranger-like? Why don’t we let the necro to decide which undead beasts he wants to summon when the models are already in place? Why don’t we get a ritual that would allow us to reanimate a corpse of certain dead being to add it to our collection, pretty much just like the hunter does?
The minions are already devided into “classes”, “families”. We have a ranged healer, a utility, ranged dps, melee dps and heavy hitter. We can leave the flesh golem in its place since it is an elite skill, but what about the rest? Why don’t we get an undead owl or raven, why can’t we reanimate undead inquest asuras for ranged dps, why can’t we reanimate sylvari or cats for melee dps? Why don’t we get an undead chicken instead of that bone minion thing, whatever it was supposed to be?
Most of the models are already in game, and necro minions are broken to the point when they will need serious rework anyway. So, why not to start with something cool that would give the class some love? Most of what you need is already in game, why not use it?

Thank you for constructive criticism, looking forward to your reactions.

I like the way GW1 Flesh Golems looked more than the GW2 ones.

I support his suggestion, seems like a good way to make minion masters more diverse and give each a way to be the MM they thing they are.

Give them festival hats and pink dresses to wear,that would fix the issue of them being boring…No sorry,i dont know how to make them more interesting,i only play one char.I do found them a huge pain in gw1 though,since they were able to block paths etc and being surrounded by about 10 minions,not being able to go anywhere and getting kited in that position..wasnt fun.I have less problems with minions here.

I have to say this is a briliant idea and really wish it would get implemented. I miss the Minion Master days in gw1 where you could actually use your minions to kill things and they could actually stay alive long enough to do just that. even creating minions frome corpses was cool and getting 11minions was great. but here in gw2 it was destroyed there is no minion master, the only useful minion is the flesh golem. The Bone minions are useless…little to no dmg even when they explode. the shadow fiend is cool but it dies so fast as a tank. the bonfiend just doesnt have the range or durability needed and dies nearly instantly when hit. and the main trait MM skill called Reanimator….is absolutely useless. the minion is created with a fast degeneration and rarely has time to even attack anything before it dies…it does close to no dmg and is easily killed if it. and worse of all its a 30 sec respawn. it is useless. It has potential too be a great trait if the minion was either more durable, had no health degen, and could be made up to 5 minions at a time. that way there could be a total of 9-10 possible minnions to control. Also the flesh golem has absolutely no control…how can you be a necromancer and not control the dead you summon…makes no sence. The flesh golem just runs and attacks anything in sight totally random and purely annoying in dungeons and boss fights. there is so much potential and the ability to be able to pick your own minions would be awesome. the undead chickens with and undead bull that has that charge skill and an undead bear or cat….so many cool possibilities in the game and yet we are stuck with…crap to use as minions. flesh golem is the only saving grace. the rats shade and scorpian thing is just not cutting it…..wow im lvl 80 in a lvl 17 area and all 5 of my minions died in seconds agains 3 lvl 17s….leaving me near death as all my skills are mainly minions….lvl 17.. just horrible. i wish i could tweek the nec id make it much more resonable…im mainly a well necromancer as it does decent damage…but the wells take forever to recharge.

I’ll support new minions, not just their sprites.