Guild Wars 2

Thanks for all the help and feedback on the build for my son over the last few weeks. We decided to test it out by doing a 2-man run through Honor of the Waves story mode. The video just shows the last seconds of each of the boss fights (maybe a minute on the first champ, so you can see how they typically went.)

http://youtu.be/qeS8EE_ZIyI

The fights took a while, and we wiped three times (mostly when we got too aggressive). But it was possible to do the whole dungeon as a 2-man. I think the only real conclusion to draw from the video is that the minions do a pretty good job of keeping bosses in place and letting us attack from relative safety.

In no way should this be taken as a claim that minions function great all the time. Sometimes they stand around and don’t help. I’ve tried taking his minion build into WvW, and it’s tough. People kill the blood fiend right away, and thieves seem to slip past the minions as if they aren’t there.

I’m sure that most serious dungeon groups would never want a minion necro since the minions sometimes agro things you don’t want, and the overall dps isn’t fantastic. But for a small family group (including just a 2-man), it’s a pretty nice build.