Guild Wars 2

For some reason, the Minions have gotten insanely stupid of late. They do not attack your target (though they still occasionally attack targets of their choosing, WHEN they feel like attacking). They do not even attack Enemies/Hostiles.

Here I am attacking a Dolyak, and look! The Bone Fiend seems excited!
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Nope, the Bone Fiend was just faking me out. Wait! The Bone Minion is moving in for the attack!
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Wow! Another fake out! It was just moving to sniff Dolyak tracks, I guess. At least the Flesh Golem is shielding me from … the camera.
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Different Dolyak that I had to defeat alone, because ALL of the minions seem to have some fighting-phobia. This time the Shadow Fiend is also oblivious.
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Yet another Dolyak, & again, the Bone Minion & Flesh Golem COMPLETELY Ignore the target … actually, they seem to be ignoring EVERYTHING.
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This as always been the case. They have always been that kitten

Thanks for reminding us how bad our minions AI is.

Wish we were elementalist.

They are the new FotM, so they receive tons of bugs fix, tons of post, and futur balance.

I’m jealous.

Here I am attacking a gate, but this time, at least the Bone Fiend is helping. (Though I do not remember if it was attacking before I forced it to attack.) The other 4 minions are just carousing, doing nothing, as usual. Note: I have already forced the Flesh Golem to attack (Charge!) the gate once – see the cooldown – yet it has no attention span & has already forgotten what it was attacking.

And, lastly, Minions stopping off to sightsee & so losing sight of me – thank God there were no attackers.

Thanks Kardiamond – sad thing is, I became a Necro because I liked the minions. Now I am starting to hate the necro because of the minions.

I was having an awesome time with minions as well, but the bugs were annoying. I ended up changing builds later on, not just because of the AI but it was certainly a contributing factor. Here’s to hoping it gets resolved in the Wintersday patch.

Noble.3647:

Thanks Kardiamond – sad thing is, I became a Necro because I liked the minions. Now I am starting to hate the necro because of the minions.

Yeah I know

I just hope it’s a top priority. It’s breaking one of the main aspect of being a necro.

The sad thing is, not too long ago Anet didn’t even seems to know about it. A dev was surprised that the bone minion from reanimator wasn’t always attacking. Worse, this is the case with every minions we have, except my delicious worm.

The minions have a bone to pick with you since you left the blood fiend out of your little party.