Guild Wars 2

When i look at others players invocations, thieves, elementals ,mesmers, rangers….all of them do well in pvp, well at least they attack whole of the time despite of their major or minor efectiveness, why my minions then wont attack in the major of the situations and they just sit and watch how i fight for my life??

i have no idea of programming and im truly confused why should be different programming some invocations A.Is than others..if most of them work well why necros dont????

Minions are kitten. Yes Minions are kitten…censoring…wtf…

Seriously though, this is the biggest complaint about the game for me right now. Necromancers should get a medal for being so broken (in a bad way) right now as they lose tons of DPS and damage mitigation because their minions are too busy checking their Facebook.

There are two ways one can reuse code when programming.

one can either lay out the code using various techniques that allow different parts to call upon each other as needed.

another is to copy code used one place, and paste it some other place.

with the first way it makes for easier changes. Change it once and it applies everywhere that calls upon that set of code. But it can at times be quite a bit of back and forth to grasp what the code is actually doing.

the second way can result in what we are seeing with the AI. Different behavior because fixes that was done one place was not done another place.

I don’t play a mesmer, but I think the Mesmer clones have the same AI issues, because I’ve seen the clones just standing still or moving awkwardly and do nothing, which have confused me into thinking it was the player many times.

However, I’ve never seen this problem with my Ranger’s pet. The conjured elementals of the Elementalist never seem to have this problem either.

As far as how the A.I. is implemented… obviously, only the programmers at Anet would possibly know.

@ digiowl other words devs lazy to add it to the other?