Guild Wars 2

So with the expansion Anet added AOE RESISTANCE to pets and minions in PVE this aoe resistance work by nullifying most of the incoming damage made by any aoe or cleave to the pet as long as the pet/minion is not the primary target. this was added to make them more viable in this aspect of the game since in high end pve, pets and minions would normally die before being of any use because of the constant aoe. but they didn’t add it in Pvp.

before expansion, the aoe and cleave damage that was already going on in pvp was incredibly high, making using pets or any kind of minion already difficult, but now?

every single one of the Elite specs is filled with a whole Kitten of Aoe and cleave, right now is imposible to have any kind of minion alive for longer than a couple of seconds without it dying to aoe.

dragon hunter’s traps and reaper’s shroud, are good examples of this, they don’t even need to pay attention to the ranger’s pet or any minion because they will naturally cleave them to death.

Plz anet i beg you, please add resistance to aoe for pets and minions, it doesn’t have to be as high as it is in pve, but this will open the doors for minion builds to see some light in pvp.

Disclaimer: i used Dragon hunter and Reaper only as examples, this thread is not in anyway asking for any kind of nerfs to either of this two specs or to any spec for that matter this thread sole purpose is to ask for a buff for pets and minions survival in pvp.

Disclaimer II: please forgive my bad English, is not my native language.

Hey just FYI, petitions aren’t allowed in the forums, so you should probably delete this thread before you end up getting an infraction. I wasn’t aware of that either until it happened to me, so I just wanted to give you a heads up. Apparently, their reasoning is that petitions do not promote discussion, which makes sense, I guess.

too exploitable, take for example an AoE skill with a target cap of 5,
a MM with a full bar of minions (6 if you’re using horrors) has a 13% chance to avoid the damage completely, meanwhile the minions will be taking barely any damage (200 damage from a meteor shower crit that would have hit you for 4k)

not to mention that a full bar of traited minions deals pretty darn impressive damage!
unless you plan on taking them out one at a time they’d be pretty much invulnerable to you, the necro could just kite while his minions nuke you down with their aoe immortality.