Guild Wars 2

The other day a group of minion master necros grouped up, 25 to 40 of them I think, and proceeded to run around WvW and simply melt reinforced gates. According to some guild members who were having fun with it, the gates lasted about 30 seconds!

I’m not sure if this is a good thing but it could be a WvW spoiler, or is it OK?

I don’t have a MM necro so I have no idea how they were doing it. How long before WvW is full of necro armies? hehe

Not seen this myself but a quick and easy fix should this start to become a thing would be just to make all minions/pets on all classes do no damage to gates/walls.

Or you could fire an AC 3 times and they’d all be dead.

Don’t nerf what ain’t broken.

I’ve only seen a big group of MM’s once, in a joke video.

You will never see it become a regular thing, because its useless vs any kind of defence.

Yeah, we’ve done this a few times on our server. Its just for fun.

30 Flesh Golems can melt gates. But any actual group defense can wipe ’em.

Get a group of MM necros rolling, and not much is going to stand in the way. 30 of them will melt a reinforced gate faster than 3 omegas will, I commanded a group that was racing the omegas. Full t3 bay, Necros hitting south, omegas wurm. Necros were in the lords room before omegas broke down wurm gate. Gates melt even faster if someone is on a ram giving structural vulnerability, and minions continue to attack when on a ram. But, well placed ACs will slaughter, just remember you will need quite a few, Minions can soak up damage and count towards the aoe cap.

I would imagine the entire lot of them would melt in a single AC barrage (maybe 2 max). While I think it’d be funny having 25 MM necros running around WvW together in a group… I don’t think it provides anymore use than amusement.

DeadlySynz.3471:

I would imagine the entire lot of them would melt in a single AC barrage (maybe 2 max). While I think it’d be funny having 25 MM necros running around WvW together in a group… I don’t think it provides anymore use than amusement.

If you get enough MM necros together (think queue vs queue), you will get crippling skill lag making you unable to use any skills. Meanwhile minions are unaffected by skill lag so they will continue to attack with you unable to do anything.

Also we almost crashed the server this way.

http://www.gunnars-hold.eu/threads/2217-Necro-Raid-D

Short video from a necro night on Gunnar’s Hold. Enemy Viewpoint, this was last week, season 2 final week.

Elementalist fgs does the same thing as flesh golem charge but better.

Johje Holan.4607:

30 Flesh Golems can melt gates. But any actual group defense can wipe ’em.

What is this “group defense” that you speak of? It must be a gold league thing, because I’ve never seen it Silver or Bronze leagues.

Get rid of PvD – or nerf it into the ground esp on reinforced gates so people actually have to put siege down and pour supplies into it.

Offair.2563:

Get rid of PvD – or nerf it into the ground esp on reinforced gates so people actually have to put siege down and pour supplies into it.

Get rid of siege, make players actually fight players instead of doors.

bob.8632:

Offair.2563:

Get rid of PvD – or nerf it into the ground esp on reinforced gates so people actually have to put siege down and pour supplies into it.

Get rid of siege, make players actually fight players instead of doors.

Get rid of players, make npcs actually fight doors!

Necromancers can do around 330 dps to non-upgraded gates just by auto attacking the gate and using minions. This means that 20 necromancers will take down the gate in 1 minute. Therefore, a blob of 60 would take down the gate in 20 seconds with no flame rams. The only problem is arrow carts would wreck the minions. Here’s a video of when my server did a minionmancer train:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMApRwhh1kE

SFShinigami.2015:

bob.8632:

Offair.2563:

Get rid of PvD – or nerf it into the ground esp on reinforced gates so people actually have to put siege down and pour supplies into it.

Get rid of siege, make players actually fight players instead of doors.

Get rid of players, make npcs actually fight doors!

Get rid of WvW… So there will no longer be any complaints…

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Not seen this myself but a quick and easy fix should this start to become a thing would be just to make all minions/pets on all classes do no damage to gates/walls.

Get 25-30 eles together and they melt gates as well should they be nerfed as well?

morrolan.9608:

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Not seen this myself but a quick and easy fix should this start to become a thing would be just to make all minions/pets on all classes do no damage to gates/walls.

Get 25-30 eles together and they melt gates as well should they be nerfed as well?

Yes. Nerf everything!