Guild Wars 2

Please add this. I’d like to be able to know when my blood fiend is going to die so I can pop it for the health boost, or bone minions, etc etc.

Yes this, it’s so bothersome to have to continuously look around to see if you still have two bone minions alive or just one, or if they have full health or not to sacrifice them. Diablo 2 had this for the necromancer and it was fairly useful.

But you’re supposed to play the game, not the interface…

Not sure if serious.

Guess i should have included the :P

Yeah, it’s also a kitten when your minions attack everything, which there was an option for them to attack only if you do.

Didn’t you know? You have to look at the mini-map and search for the light green dots and count them and make sure all of your minions are there.

:P

GW1 Had these it was so useful. Don’t see why GW2 don’t.

Might try making a mock-up of how it could look, even if it’s just icons for each of the minions with hollow insides that are different ‘levels’ of blood depending on the pets hp.

If ranger’s pets have health bars, necros should too, not to mention @zogyark point.

Mock up below – forgive my photoshop skills – they aren’t quite the best, but you get the idea. The middle of each icon would be health or blood levels. Clearly anet could produce something that looks cleaner, but the idea is this.

The black/purple smoke behind it was inspiration from the guardian class.

Hey that photoshop is really good!

When I think about it I don’t even know why I play my Necro so much knowing that someday…SOMEDAY he will be a much better beast than he is now. The minions will like attack stuff, you’ll have more control/maintenance ability with them. It will be awesome.

Not really related but this reminds me … one bone minion full hp, other almost dead. I press explode skill … the one with full hp commits suicide, the other dies soon after. Nice.

From over on reddit it was brought to my attention that ranger pets come up as green rather than the blue we see in that shot. Do wonder if that has any relation to the flaky AI.

Edit: never mind, i should have guessed that they showed up blue for the owner and green for everyone else. Never really put much thought about it before now.

@Digiowl – potentially due to rangers being able to name their pets? Not sure why either.

@Daishi – I’ve noticed this too, while at times it will blow up the lower health one instead. There appears to be no rhyme or reason to which one is killed.

@Chrollo – I hope that day is coming soon!

Drakmar.9831:

Mock up below – forgive my photoshop skills – they aren’t quite the best, but you get the idea. The middle of each icon would be health or blood levels. Clearly anet could produce something that looks cleaner, but the idea is this.

The black/purple smoke behind it was inspiration from the guardian class.

Nice idea but maybe it would be better to have the minion icons in the same order of your skill bar (first the healing one, second the shadow, then the 2 bone minions)