Guild Wars 2

When i last played few years ago. Pet AI and management was horrible. Have thee been any improvements? Is pet focus Necromancer viable in PvE or PvP?

Still nonexistant <3

You can use them as condition sponges and extra toughness in PvP and feel like a zoomaster in PvE- just don’t expect them to attack

Nice link:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/MM-is-broken-why-do-I-hear-about-it-in-PVP

Thanks for link. Shame that they not been able fix them over the years.

The best use of pets is Unholy Martyr and necromantic corruption.
NC will make pets pull your conditions like mad, while UM will transfer them back to you for A TON of life force.
If they happen to casually bug out and stay away from the enemy, awesome!
If i could use a 0 damage invincible minion i’d pick 5 of those. ;D

Pet AI is still problematic, though you can work with it a bit by limiting use of melee minions (which is preferable anyway) and only aggroing them with a clear path to target.

Still broken. Tried MM when the patch hit. Yup minions/pets still lack the proper programming to be considered for even “slightly decent”

Pet AI is still broken.

Still sucks /thread

What’s particularly frustrating is that they fixed minions a couple of years ago so that they rarely got stuck anymore, then regressed them back to their former dysfunctionality in a later patch.

Why?