Guild Wars 2

The minion AI is not broken; period. I’ve spent probably 5 hours in the last few days just testing out their AI patterns. Just because you don’t understand how they work doesn’t mean they don’t work as they are supposed to. I’ll try to get a recording together, but in a general overall sense if you want your minions to attack, hit the target you want them to attack with two auto attacks, and if you ever want to change targets hit that target with a single auto attack; AoE won’t change aggro in general.

Flesh Golem sometimes gets stuck on old targets, and often one Bone Minion will stay on an old target while the other goes to the new one. Minion AI is very precise, they only have some issue in certain circumstances, and even that usually goes back to user error.

Bhawb.7408:

The minion AI is not broken; period. I’ve spent probably 5 hours in the last few days just testing out their AI patterns. Just because you don’t understand how they work doesn’t mean they don’t work as they are supposed to. I’ll try to get a recording together, but in a general overall sense if you want your minions to attack, hit the target you want them to attack with two auto attacks, and if you ever want to change targets hit that target with a single auto attack; AoE won’t change aggro in general.

Flesh Golem sometimes gets stuck on old targets, and often one Bone Minion will stay on an old target while the other goes to the new one. Minion AI is very precise, they only have some issue in certain circumstances, and even that usually goes back to user error.

Nice contradiction. They sky is blue, no wait, its a bluish green.

Yeah…. I found a little funny too. “Not broken, Period”, “well sometimes broken”.

Just a little fun prodding mind you, don’t get bent out of shape!

I think what you meant to say is that minion AI is not a serious game-breaking issue. Since broken can be interpreted as a vase that has been shattered into a million pieces, or vase with a hair-line crack, you need to be specific.

Unfortunately if you die to someone in the downed state who had only 100 HP left, you are really missing that/those autoattacks from your melee minions.

Getting stuck 1 out of 20 times isn’t broken, it is more likely that Flesh Golem simply has an aggro-style different than the other minions (which has historically been true, he used to aggro everything in a 2000 radius) which I don’t yet understand. I added the end part because I do realize that 1.5 minions mess up sometimes, and as of yet I don’t know why. Loading up the game right now to see if it is what I think it is.

Honestly I’m not sure why we even bother anymore, Anet clearly doesn’t care what people say on their forums, every patch is mainly stuff no one asks for and nothing people want. Pets/minions/summons in general seem to be of little to no concern, I mean just look at the necro population its one of if not the lowest in the game, along with engineers who (coincidentally?) also have buggy, underwhelming summons. And hey thats fine its their game they can do what they want, I’m just glad its not a subscription game so people who enjoy playing pet classes that work can go do something else and check back in from time to time to see if there’s been any improvements. Its just a shame because the framework for this game is great and I really want it to be something I can stick with long term. I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt and sticking around because the rest of the game is just that good, but I really hope they do something about minions soon, its hard seeing your favored playstyle ignored and marginalized the way it has been so far. =/