Guild Wars 2

The BaM patch notes reads:
“All player-controlled minions, excluding mesmer phantasms and clones because they were already increased in a previous patch, now have 71.43% more hit points in PvE maps.”

I’m wondering if this includes Elementalist Summons? I realise the wiki page lists Minions are Necro minions – but the fact that the notes explicitly excludes Mesmer phantasms and clones sort of seems to suggest that there is the possibility that this applies to Ele summons??

Yes. The elementalist summons got a health boost.

Ahh that’s awesome. Thanks for the response

Yeah the Rock Elemental is a freaking tank now (well it technicaly already was), and the Ice Elemental is a bit more viable because it now heals himself before it dies.

The change seems also to have affected racial summoning skills, my Warband Support dies way slower than usual.

My asura defensive golem tanked the mossman in fotm 70+ like a boss yesterday

If the summoned eles had a MUCH longer uptime and if the ice elemental were a backup healer instead of rushing into battle as soon as you summon it, these summons would be useful. As they are now, they aren’t really useful for anything – they do too little damage, they die too fast and their uptime is laughably short.