Guild Wars 2

Does anyone else beside me notice serious holes in the minions’ AI since game release that still exist today?

Sometimes only one or two of my minions auto attack in my defense when I am being hit. The rest just stand there doing nothing, possibly picking their noses.

Flesh Golem is the minion that for me least works correctly. It often doesn’t register combat and even after activating its skill, it still won’t auto attack my target.

Sometimes they don’t follow me well. I keep running away from a mob, as I often do while I do map completion, as they stay behind trying to kill a monster even long after I got very very far away from said monster.

And I wish I had some skill in the F bar like rangers do to call back my minions, instead of being forced to switch to a non-minion skill in my skill bar, which can only be done when out of combat, to avoid unpleasant situations in dungeons. I sincerely don’t understand why we are not given such an option. It really won’t make us too powerful to be able to call back our durpies. But it will be a boon in the sense that, we wouldn’t be so inconvenient then as we are now without such. MM necromancers are feared in dungeons for frequently messing with party strategies because our minions go do their thing and we can’t call them back.

Will ANet ever improve minion AI and allow us actual control of them? I understand that they may have wanted rangers to be the only ones to have control over their pets, but if that is the case, the least they can do for necromancers is fix and improve the minion AI to make up for it.

Not the first thread to wax considerate on the topic ( https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Ever-gonna-fix-minions/page/3#post5347155 ) and it won’t be the last, I’m sure.

AI needs a fix if minions are going to feel like a playable choice.

Why didn’t that thread show up on the search results when I typed in any of the following keywords:
minion
MM
mm
minions
AI
ai
minion ai
?

But thank you for pointing that other thread out. Now I know I can’t trust the search engine of the forums here.

I have a fix for that too.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Searching-the-Forums/first#post4701411

site:forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum and search terms works reasonably well.

Minion AI threads pop up literally every week, if not more frequently.

Rauderi.8706:

I have a fix for that too.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Searching-the-Forums/first#post4701411

site:forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum and search terms works reasonably well.

Thank you for that link. It’s a really big help. Sad that the moderators themselves have to teach us to search outside of the forums to search something inside the forums. lol

Bhawb.7408:

Minion AI threads pop up literally every week, if not more frequently.

It’s been more than two years with these bugs, after all. Which is why I found it so strange that I didn’t get any search results on it.