Guild Wars 2

So from the recent patch:

Profession Skills
Fixed a bug that prevented minions from quickly targeting your attack target.

I’m pleased that minions are now attacking when I do but… they are also attacking when I don’t. For example: I’m running across the silverwastes trying to quickly reinforce a fort. I do not attack any mobs and I avoid being hit. A minion does get hit, but this (correctly) does not put me in combat. Then the minion starts attacking whatever hit it…. putting me in combat.

That’s new. I used to be able to run across a map with minions out and not get put into combat; now it’s impossible.

It’s back to the old old way I guess

Been running with minions almost exclusively since the fix and the only quirks I’ve noticed thus far is that minions will occasionally aggro enemies on their own. The only one that’s relatively consistent in this behavior is the flesh golem, on more than a few occasions an enemy has aggroed and opted to attack fleshie over other minions closer to them.

That said, I’ve haven’t had minions run off to attack something without my consent, the only times they’ve engaged when I haven’t attacked are when an enemy aggros a minion (in which case the minion that was attacked fights the enemy solo until I intervene) or when an attack intended for me hits a minion instead.

Honestly though, given how incredibly responsive they are in attacking and switching targets now I’ll happily put up with having to fight occasional extra trash enemies when using them.