Guild Wars 2

Never cared for minions much and I do not intend to play with them even if they improve/fix them.

God no

I have always wanted to play a necromancer, but I ABSOLUTELY hate pet classes and pet play. Most games FORCE this play style on the necro class and I hate it.
Finally I can play a class theme that I enjoy and not even have to use 1 kitten pet!! Even the ranger has to have 1

Thanks ANET!!

I definitely love minions. I’m perfectly fine with us not having complete control on them as they are after all, mindless undead. however their mindlessness is a little much. Once they fix minion AI and a bunch of the trait bugs, I feel like minion master will be a very solid spec.

Also, necros aren’t a “minion master only class”, far from it. However the minion master spec is extremely iconic for necro.

I play minions a lot alone, but I rarely take them with a party. Then it’s wells for me. I absolutely LOVE wells. Have to check out full cond build etc. but for soloing they’re fine, I use them as cannon fodder, not my main source of damage.

And btw, I think the Minions do look butt ugly compared to GW1.

I would be into minion builds if they were actually good / useful / not buggy. The current state of minions is just a hassel and you give up way too much other good stuff to use them and I dont feel like they carry their weight and are also easily countered by stupid things like moa, ae, etc.

Vzur.7123:

I wasn’t using any minions, until the elite skill. Even that, just because none of the other 10 pt elites seem worth using (why is Plague so weak?) and I don’t have the 30 pts to test the next ones, yet.

Plague is probably the most overpowered support elite in the entire game for Dungeon running. You have 30 seconds to spam Blind every second on only a 3 minute cooldown. It makes large mobs of creatures laughable, and takes off a lot of pressure against hard-hitting mobs so group members can regen/heal. Do you really think it’s weak?

As for Minions.. the Elite minion is really good for leveling solo as it’s a meatshield, and it’s active skill can be handy as a clutch skill. I really don’t like the inability to control it beyond that though, and it irritates me to no end when it rushes off to attack something randomly while I’m standing still (alt-tabbed out).

I find Bone Minions synergize very well with our Wells though. Why does everyone assume we need to fill our heal, 3 utilities and Elite with minions all the time? Why not mix it up a little. Try using Bone Minions’ Putrid Explosion on a group of enemies sitting in a Well of Suffering. You’d be surprised how much damage it does (plus it Blinds everything).

Not saying they’re “great”, but they’re definitely not useless.

EDIT: Forgot to mention. Well of Blood is a much better heal for MM if you don’t plan on spending any time underwater. It heals the minions, and the previous example of Bone Minions.. Putrid Explosion is a Blast Finisher. Blast FInisher on Light fields (Well of Blood) = Retaliation for all.

Im still lvling my necro , but i run full minion build and yeah i would love to keep running it.

Necro should have builds for people that want to use or not the minions , otherwise why people think we even have them.

It’s a necromancer, somewhere along those lines the manipulation of the dead comes into play. Of course people will go in specifically for the minions, that’s not to say that commanding the dead alone makes up the practice of necromancy (can involve the manipulation of death energies) but when most people think necromancer, they envision someone controlling armies of the undead.

I dont know why so many people hate minions..i loveeeeeeee my minion master necro and the only issue i have is that i want even more minions , I picked necro solely for the minions, just as i did in gw1 , If i wanted to be a condition damage build that didnt rely on my minions as much as my standalone skill…i would have picked a different class….they can all do condition damage in some way shape or form

Harkin.2160:

Plague is probably the most overpowered support elite in the entire game for Dungeon running..

Yeah, since posting that, I realized I was basically just using it wrong. The damage it does is a bit underwhelming for an elite skill, but it has been pretty useful, once I figured out when I should be using it. I think I even prefer it over Lich Form (course, probably just haven’t figured out how to use Lich Form, yet..)

Guess I’m just desperate for something that does some burst damage, and every time I’ve unlocked a new skill, I’ve hoped it would be it.

I’m OK with not dealing with minions. I think it definitely does need to be fixed so that it is an option, but unless it just so happens that MM builds are the only viable necro builds, I’ll stick to my more useful utilities.

And Vzur, necros don’t really have a significant burst like a warrior does. Lich form is pretty good and isn’t tough to use, just keep 2 and 5 on CD and spam 1. Only ways I can actually burst down a target is either lich form or dropping wells of suffering/corruption, then staff 2 and 4. Can burst a group in no time flat with that, just requires cooldowns.

I’d be more interested in minions if we get a class skill, F2 perhaps, that explode all current minions at the same time. That, and shorten summon minion base refresh by 30%.

Blood Fiend – AoE daze + Water Field
Shadow Fiend – AoE blind + Smoke Field
Bone Minion – AoE damage as before
Bone Fiend – AoE confuse + Light Field
Bone Golem – AoE knockdown, Blast Finisher
Flesh Wurm – AoE weakness + Lightning Field
Jagged Horror – AoE damage similar to a Bone Minion when it dies

That will make me play a MM necro in sPvP.