Guild Wars 2

From the video description: “The infamous “Pet” Necromancer or Minion Master has always been looked down upon by many players in Guild Wars 2 but has constantly remained a widely used build in PvP. With the decline of the Lich Skill as an overpowered damage source for necromancers, this build seeks to fill that widening gap with a DPS build that is sure to burst the unsuspecting opponent. Combining trait bonuses to damage, rune and sigil sources to increase your burst, and a surprising amount of survivability, “Minion Madness” indeed journeys far past the realm of sanity…”

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You already lost a lot of credibility when you start with “Minion Master has always required little skill” which is just flat out false and shows you haven’t played the build much, or at the very least not well.

And yeah, the build shown is pretty awful. MM doesn’t run blood fiend, nor would you ever run SoU, and there are some other questionable choices. Don’t mean to crap on your hard work, but yeah.

I like that screen where you say “I don’t own Guild Wars 2”.

Shows, brah.

Hey Rym, for official purposes, the disclaimer works for me. I already had this brought up to me though, so I’ll change that disclaimer next video to something… less hypocritical?

I’ll be posting up a gameplay video soon showcasing “Minion Madness” in action. Bhamb, I did try switching Blood Fiend for Consume Conditions and SoU for Flesh Wurm, and I’ve actually been very satisfied with the results so far. Thanks for bringing that up to me! The video will include me using both sets of utilities, so it will be nice to compare.

Hey everyone, I’ve uploaded a video montage showcasing the Minion Madness build. During my recording session, I tried out a couple different skill/specialization changes, and found them to be very effective (you’ll see ‘em at the later parts of the video). I’ll definitely be keeping this in mind if I ever post an update to this build!
Check out the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBd10QAejJA

Bhawb.7408:

You already lost a lot of credibility when you start with “Minion Master has always required little skill” which is just flat out false and shows you haven’t played the build much, or at the very least not well.

And yeah, the build shown is pretty awful. MM doesn’t run blood fiend, nor would you ever run SoU, and there are some other questionable choices. Don’t mean to crap on your hard work, but yeah.

Try a 1v3 scenario keeping yourself alive and keeping your minions alive
while holding a point long enough to recieve support from your team..
then tell me there is no skill involved with playing a MM

and plenty of MM’s Run Blood Fiend.. specially if they commit to running a MM build and are willing to sacrifice the easy quick heals for something more risky with a better payoff

Teratus.2859:

Bhawb.7408:

You already lost a lot of credibility when you start with “Minion Master has always required little skill” which is just flat out false and shows you haven’t played the build much, or at the very least not well.

And yeah, the build shown is pretty awful. MM doesn’t run blood fiend, nor would you ever run SoU, and there are some other questionable choices. Don’t mean to crap on your hard work, but yeah.

Try a 1v3 scenario keeping yourself alive and keeping your minions alive
while holding a point long enough to recieve support from your team..
then tell me there is no skill involved with playing a MM

and plenty of MM’s Run Blood Fiend.. specially if they commit to running a MM build and are willing to sacrifice the easy quick heals for something more risky with a better payoff

As I said before, my original joke in the video description didn’t give the right message so I changed it. However, I believe that Minion Master is the Necromancer build with a low skill floor, but certainly not a low skill ceiling: Basically, MM is easy to learn, hard to master. Also, as I said before in my video, Blood Fiend “is actually not a bad heal skill”, which is true as you pointed out. Honestly, it’s up to personal preference, as I’ve tested both Blood Fiend and Consume Conditions.

Blood Fiend isn’t a good heal. Math-wise it strictly loses out to SoV passive healing in every single way, its synergy with minion traits is negligible, 20 toughness and an extra Death Nova/condition removed every 10s don’t make a big difference, and the condition pulling will only kill it faster. It doesn’t scale with Healing Power despite that being a very important MM stat, and it is the most susceptible to being outplayed by opponents due to a single missed attack negating 3 full seconds of passive healing, plus anyone smart will just kill it.

It makes your build weaker to everything MM is already weak to without any benefit. There is no special payoff, it will heal you for less than SoV while bringing no meaningful extra DPS or utility. It isn’t a good heal, the only time it had a tiny niche is when it was better than SoV as an over-time heal, and that is long gone.

Minion Master requires more skill than any other type of Necromancer. It’s because minion AI is so bad, it requires like three brains to figure out what the heck they are doing and why they aren’t doing what they are supposed to be. All at the same time running around, avoiding enemy player attacks, and being irritated because your minions aren’t helping you at all, they are standing idly in a random corner rocking themselves to sleep.

For PvE I run Bone Minions and The Flesh Golem. monster AI is just as stupid as minion AI, so I don’t have to worry as much about their built in kittenation.

for WvW I use the Devourer and The Flesh Golem.
The Devourer uses ranged attacks and compared to the Melee minions which fail to attack the target about 40% of the time, ranged minions only fail to attack 30% of the time.

I always Prefer Flesh Golem because of the knockdown/Interrupt ability. Along with low cool down. The drawback is that the AI is seriously flawed and half the time it will refuse to attack or somehow get lost and disappear.

For a Heal I use a well of blood, then also the well that turns boons into conditions. In WvW this is deadly, players usually cruise around with five or six boobs which instantly drops them to half life or less.

Finally I use locust signet for run speed boost and life steal.
Staff+Scepter/Dagger are my Mainstay. I run a full berserkers, and use life steal food and sharpening stones.
For back row support, you have the best of everything at your disposal. Also it’s very survivable. I have taken out 4 players by myself before with this build.

Hey man, if you want to show the build you might want to edit it less and show more than just some down targets.

FrownyClown.8402:

Hey man, if you want to show the build you might want to edit it less and show more than just some down targets.

Unfortunately, I had to choose between a whole laggy fight or a few selections from those fights (especially doing what the build does best, swarming and focusing down targets). I opted for the latter. Also, the reason why there is a lot of footage of down states is simply because of the insane number of “Darkkshadows is On A Rampage” texts that would appear after I stomped or cleaved a down enemy. If you couldn’t tell already, that was the main theme of the video.