Guild Wars 2

Can this please stop? The only time this interaction exists is PvP and it’s only from engineers and mesmers vs necromancers. It’s bad design and makes it so you can be completely locked out of a PvP match if the mesmer or engineer run their skill that moa morphs.

pro tip: they will ALWAYS run the moa morph if they know a necromancer is on the other team. Moa morph counters every single part of the necromancer (knocks us out of all of our elite transformations, forces us out of death shroud, kills all minions). Not only that, but both of these classes WILL do it out of stealth, so there is no counter play beyond randomly dodging and hoping they don’t simply wait for you to use up both of your dodges.

The worst part, is if the engineer runs the tools trait that makes his toolbelt skill automatically recharge, he can moa you once every 40 seconds (he can do it even more often if he misses, this number is assuming he ONLY does it with the trait off cooldown). That means he’s able to keep your all of your minion utilities on cooldown 66% of the time (or flesh golem on cooldown 100% of the time) and if you somehow manage to dodge the first attempt, he will have a second attempt he can use! This isn’t fun at all.

The best part is that this only happens to minions. Every other class that summons things is completely unaffected and there is NO REASON FOR IT. Minion masters just get the shaft “just because”.

/rant

All non-self transforms kill minions, including PvE transforms, and the reason for the PvE versions is because minions are permanent and quite strong, so they could abuse some of those transform mechanics. That said, yeah its super obvious moa shouldn’t kill minions.

It’s not triggering Death Nova…that’s more annoying.

Sagat.3285:

It’s not triggering Death Nova…that’s more annoying.

Oooh never noticed this lol, don’t use minions often. But that is very annoying a mesmer or engi should be forced consider that before just making the necro a moa.

Ok if I moa him now all his stuff is gonna explode and kill my team… probably not a good idea…