Guild Wars 2

I just recently started up a Necromancer and I’ve noticed my melee minions (Shadow Fiend + Flesh Golem) becoming less and less responsive as I level up. 90% of the time they will not attack anything unless I manually activate their abilities. At best one might attack if I’m being attacked directly, but rarely ever both. Is this a common issue or is it a new bug from the recent patches?

altrought i do sometime (not all the time) suffer from this silly bug i dont realy make a fuss about it because they still are uber usefull 99% of the time. either way solid way to correct this problem is to go close range. the Reason why minion dont see to attack the moment you do is because their agro box is way smaller and as such they may ignore a threat even if its somewhat in the range of a shortbow… try getting close theil agro naturaly.

Minions will actually attack threats up to around 2000 range before they break agro. But yes, right now, minions are bugging out pretty badly. The only one that works 100% of the time is the worm, guaranteed to attack whatever the necro is attacking as long as they are in range and los

Sometimes, they do like to sit and watch but it is not as bad as you think. They used to aggro with everything, bringing the mobs back with with them, only to die shortly thereafter. Your experience with minion-kitten ing is part of the Necro play-style.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/Necromancer-Minion-AI-bugged-again/first#post3766037

At least ya’ll have a choice not to use ’em.

signed,
Rangers

Ah, this discussion brings back such fond, horrid memories…

Just a few days ago, I was on the circuit for champs in Frostgorge and decided to use some Ember powder. That flaming trouble-maker kept charging off to attack anything it saw, dragging me down into combat speed. Then, I would get too far away and it would pop up beside me, again, and aggro the closest anything. I had to laugh because it reminded me of how the minions used to behave before they got put on a very short leash.

Exploring Orr with minions a month after release was really frustrating because they were so interested in exploring the area and returning with an undead in tow before dying, themselves. It was remarkably fun to have the few minions still alive after a fight go and charge off after more undead while my heal was on CD.