I have to agree with this. I am very tempted by the quaggan minis currently in the gem store (I LOVE quaggans!), but I feel like they would be a waste of money to buy with the way minis auto-hide themselves all the time. So I’m not buying them. If I buy a cute lil’ pirate quaggan, I want it to be visible without constant micromanaging, darn it!
disappearing mini's
Arenanet hides mini’s when there is a big gathering of people. at a boss for expample.
I think, Anet should turn them back on. I am constantly turning it back on after a boss fight or gathering of people.What’s the point of having mini’s if they are constantly turned off. I thought that was a selling point at the gems store, or black lion trading market.
There’s been a longstanding bug that ANet has yet to completely address. It started a long time ago, when they first began ‘culling’ minis due to high player population. Eventually, they fixed it so that minis would reappear afterward (or, at least, if you changed maps).
Then HOT came out and the issue returned, more often due to gliding: minis would not return after you landed. There was an attempt to fix it (moderate success, but the root cause remained or a new issue arose) and we’ve heard nothing since.
I presume that means that the bug is more difficult to track down and/or they haven’t found the right sort of wooden stake/silver bullet to kill it for good.
My hope is that they change the mechanics for culling minis: add a second flag to the game that hides/unhides due to game mechanics and leave the player option alone — that way, whenever the character reloads, the game will at first and at minimum load the minis correctly.
In the meantime, I’ve just stopped using (or acquiring) minis.
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