Guild Wars 2

I am an avid minion mancer in PvP, and with the up and coming new taunt mechanic in HoT, I thought wouldn’t it be nice to have a taunting minion. It could work like a flesh wurm, where you place it on the ground, and then you can activate it’s ability to taunt.

Would be very nice indeed.

They would either put it on a new elite minion or make any utility minion it’s put on Bone Minions level of squish, just so it couldn’t do its job properly.

Minions and other pets automatically draw aggro. So it would only be PvP relevant.

Sounds like a nice idea regardless. Maybe the better idea would be to change shadow fiends blind to a taunt. Then it would be more useful.

Necromancer, with its very low combat mobility and tank-like design, should have a lot of access to Taunt – more than any other profession. I honestly do not think that will be the case, though.

Ha ha. I like that idea.

The ability to ‘taunt by proxy’. Then I could be busy running away, and they can’t throw heavy things at me.

I used to mention having a “defensive” minion, and taunt would be a perfect way to realize that. Shadow Fiend wouldn’t work well though, he is the second least durable minion in practice (behind Bone Minions) due to having very low armor and being melee.

It would fit better to have a minion more designed to actually take damage, with base durability closer to Flesh Golem, but with weaker DPS than the other utility minions (maybe on the level of Bone Minions, but with something defensive on AA). Slap a taunt onto the active, maybe a stun break (makes it more relevant to non-MMs as well, if it can become a source of self-peel).

If you are gonna make a durable minion it needs to be stronger than flesh golem. If you compare flesh golem to earth/ice elemental it melts like butter.

Applying Taunt on Bone Minion Explosion would be pretty cool.
Taunt has also great synergy with wells. Dropping wells+exploding the minions in a team fight should be great fun

Taunting minions would be great in PvP, allowing they survive long enough to do so. The only thing they seem to have going for them is a target of a zerging warrior and on occasion a stun breaker.