Guild Wars 2

I’m sorry if this has been discussed recently.

Are the Necro pets viable now for PvE? “Questing, etc…” I read some of the bug reports fixing some of them, but, still feel as if they are fail. Has anyone had success with them?

It’s PvE run whatever makes you happy. But no, minions will stand around and Flesh Golem will go out of his way to aggro mobs (then stand around).

for low levels i would say it doesnt matter what you do, you dont have enough trait pts at that point to make a significant difference

after say level 45 (i dont know when exactly) you will just be annoyed with the minions and most likely switch to something more… elegant / productive / feasible

TLDR : just run minions if you want

Dont run minions if your mad at them

I’m doing well levelling a minion spec currently.

I’ve tried a few different builds out but keep coming back to the minion spec. I originally tried to use the minions to tank/dps while I supported them, but their health was just too low I found and in any sizeable pull I couldn’t keep up with healing them. Actually, I think it’s more that their toughness/defence is too low rather than their health. Plus whenever I left them to tank it always seemed to be the lowest health minions that pulled the aggro first.

I’m having far more success now with me tanking while they dps for me (and soon they’ll be adding a slight bit of extra healing too…I hear it’s not very substantial but I don’t need that much from them). I’m taking advantage of the fact that their stats aren’t effected by our own (rather than letting that be a disadvantage) by using them for the damage while I gear towards survivability.

Their AI can be a problem however, but it’s not such a disaster when they’re not doing anything when you’re specced for survivability as you have time to rouse them out of it (sometimes switching targets and pressing 1 a few times will wake them up, or using one of their skills). I also find the Flesh Golems random aggression to be mostly amusing. Mainly because it reminds me of running dungeons with my ex-flatmates in previous games. The Flesh Golem “AI” almost completely mimics one of them as he would always attack everything that even remotely looked at him also, whether the rest of us were ready or not (and he was a dps not even a tank in our group).