Guild Wars 2

I’m still new to this, but I don’t remember anyone mentioning how amazing bone minions are. Yeah theyre terrible as minion, but as autlock burst damage theyre incredible. Super short cool down, tons of damage, and you can explode them independently. How come no one brings these up? The fit nicely in most builds

It’s not that Minions themselves are all that bad (except Jagged Horror, PLS ANET, PLS), it’s their AI that is the issue. I don’t ever deal with Minions and probably never will(I think they’re a horrible take on what the GW1 Minions were), but I do believe that the other Minions are better for Minion Master builds where we use them to apply constant pressure and for extra toughness. Bone Minions die a little too easily to rely on.

But that being said, I too have taken to using Bone Minions for their explosion, an extra 4k damage is very welcome.

I’ve never had a problem with minion AI, they even seem to summon next to a monster and i can detonate them immediately, I’d never use them as an actual minion

IronPlushy.4256:

I’ve never had a problem with minion AI, they even seem to summon next to a monster and i can detonate them immediately, I’d never use them as an actual minion

I’m pretty sure most people’s issues are found in PVP. You can see by your statement the keyword “summon” While you are spending the ONE AND A HALF SECOND cast time to summon minions just for a simple 4k damage (think about how much mesmer clones do and how spammable they are), in general versus good opponents you will be 1) interrupted at least twice 2) killed and 3) laughed at for using minions. The CD is not bad for 4k damage I guess, but again: mesmers.

Use them in pvp for 5 minutes and you will see. Also you will have used them 5 more minutes than ArenaNet has.