Guild Wars 2

Personally I think the pets the necro has (the ones I saw so far anyway) are… well ugly.

I’m wondering if its possible to play a necro more or less without pets, or if I would cripple the class too much doing that?

We do not have pets, we have abilities to summon cheerleaders for the Risen.

The pets are not necessary.

Popular Necro builds like the Condition and Power builds do not use pets, at all.

Sometimes we use Fleshie the flesh golem. He has a horrible habit to attack everything in site though.

I suppose that’s the big, walking pile of meat with the horn? I saw those around sometimes.

Anyway, thanks for the answers.

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Sometimes we use Fleshie the flesh golem. He has a horrible habit to attack everything in site though.

True, he’s the only one worth using outside of using Bone Minions for exploding. At least he attacks things and doesn’t stand around as much as the other minions, even if he does aggro everything in site.

The bone minions are one of the least worth while to bring due to how they stand next to you for ages making the explosion worthless.

as for the OP, Minions are not required to be a good necromancer. In fact, the most popular build atm is conditions.

There are a lot of different ways you can run a necromancer wells/life siphon/mark focused/minions/conditions/spectral/death shroud ect, and most don’t use minions. So don’t feel forced to use them.

as swadow said,we do not have pets.we only have cheerleaders that occasionally attacks our enemies

I like the worm though. A teleport and a 10% life force gain out of combat. Also a stunbreaker if you plan ahead.

The cast time for it sucks though. 1 1/2 seconds for a stunbreaker/teleport that you gotta precast.

And ya the flesh golem is good, charge does a lot of damage and he regens health.

consume conditions is an awesome heal. The spectral skills are great, as is epidemic and so on. You don’t need pets.

New need for them. Just wish their AI was fixed and weren’t worthless in Pvp and underwater, and al healed,out of combat like they should.

Pet AI is so bad that if their was a good build with them you would never know it, they just stand there and watch you die, I only found the elite pet useful for the knockdown, then he just watches you die and the worm is ok just as a cheap stun break, other than that standing on top of a rock will render all your minions useless. I main a ranger and my pet ai is bad buy necro takes the cake. Also on the capricorn map you play with a handicap, whenever you jump in the water your minions all die. So you are effectively blocked from defending the underwater point. Mesmer is the only class with worthwhile pets, which is sad considering theirs are all insta cast spells some of which happen on basic auto attacks…. something is just not right about that.

Only used the Flesh Golem briefly (lich far far better), otherwise ignored pets entirely. If we had a pet ui for them like rangers do with their pets, MAYBE worth using in PVE, otherwise the AI on it’s own causes too many headaches.

Our summoned minions raise our morals.

Whenever i see my Flesh Golem just standing there when i fight monsters. My adrenaline raise and i feel like killing something/someone. It’s almost 100% up time once you reach areas when you are in combat almost all the time.

I use the Fleshy with a condition build, he is good for pulling mobs for me. If he sees a red out in the distance he goes over to say hello.

I hope that our undead army AL will be fixed in The next big update that should be applied in mid of November.
I’m a MM after all , I’m the last man standing in dungeons and events.

PETS?

What pets? You mean minions? Oh……whell since Anet had the kitteningmegaawesome idea to redesign Necromancer, (to something i would NEVER call Necromancer) they are basically non existant besides flesh golem. Since its not in the picture.

not all pets are useless just 2 of em i would say

boneminion gives you 2 blast finishers and a lill burst
flesh wurm is stunbreaker and last ace
flesh golem good charge

pet spec is doable its just a lill hard and unforgiving in pvp.

They are incredibly important.

Because they are walking reminders of how bugged our class is.

Well it’s a waste of a utility choice. Not slot because nobody slots these useless broken things, but choice because I would rather have another entire family of utility skills than this garbage.

Pets? We have pets? Pets suggest we can actually train them. We have dumb minions.