Minion Builds in group play
I have a minion build that I’m very much loving for questing, spvp, and general roaming/soloing. My group experience in GW2 however is quite limited. Is there a way to make minion build work in dungeons, or will I need to head back to the drawing board to find a build that will be excepted in parties? The build is based on power… not condition damage. Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks!
Minions are fine in dungeons as long as you don’t mind doing the following:
1) Learn how the AI works. There’s a video in the But of Corpse thread about it. It’s super easy, and helps keep minions from aggroing stuff your group isn’t ready for yet.
2) Be prepared for minions to die….a lot. That’s their job. Every time your Jagged Horror pops up, does zero damage, and gets one-shot by a mob just chuckle inside because that mob wasn’t hitting you or your party members.
3) Be ready to swap specs if a boss does an annoying amount of AoE. There are some bosses that will basically insta-kill your minions with AoE so quickly that there’s little point in having them. The BOC Youtube channel has an all Minionmancer run of AC, and the fight w/ the Spider boss is just painful to watch (to their credit, they killed her). The standard MM build converts very easily into a Wells build for those kinds of fights.
4) Be ready to take a lot of grief. Some people simply will not accept that minions are perfectly fine in most dungeon encounters, and will hassle you about it. Welcome to the internet.