Guild Wars 2

Hello folks.
I’m a human necromancer and I recently started to use Hounds of Balthazar elite and I just realised that they have a lot better AI than my own minions. They always attack whatever I’m attacking and if I change the target they inmediately change too.
I’ve never seen this happening to the minions, in the best case, they stuck for a second when I change target.

I’m guessing now why all kind of AI controlled pets (ranger’s ones, mesmer’s illusions, our own minions…) don’t have the same AI, or at least it seems it’s not the same. What do you think about this?

Please remember that this is my personal opinion and I want a constructive thread about the topic for helping ArenaNet’s devs to find out the problem we have with minions and finally solve them.

havent used minions in a long time since they usually just attack everything in sight but the minions summoned by lich form are not bad.they change target with me as soon as i target and attack another mob and they die after a while so no fear of them attacking random mobs

Appart from the not attacking bug the main problem I’m noticing is the Flesh Golem’s AI. It doesn’t use the same AI as the minions or even as most other summons I’ve noticed. The golem has a rather large aggro radius and will attack targets of it’s own accord. I don’t believe any other summoned creature does this.

Really all they need to do is fix the not attacking bug and give the flesh golem the same AI as the rest of the minions and the MM necro will be in a pretty good place (traits aside).

A hunter’s pet will follow me in PvP for 50 yards, chomping me in the butt the whole time, but my minions won’t attack something 5 feet away sometimes. Ah well, grumble grumble and all that.