Guild Wars 2

Necromancer looks very fun to play, but I can’t get over how creepy and – yech – disgusting the minions are.

/cringe

The Shadow fiends aren’t too bad….is it possible to build a necro that summons only Shadow Fiends? And ‘by possible’ I also mean able to play PvP/WvW/PvE competitively without the need for other minions.

Don’t use minions at all, whats the problem?

Minions are not supposed to be cute. They are supposed to be disturbing looking. Like some sort of flesh-less Chimera. The fact that your are so disgusted by them means that their design works.

PS, Minions are not suggested for use in WvW or PvE, so you are very safe not to use them. Unless you are leveling. In which case minions are amazing for leveling.

They aren’t creepy and disgusting. They are wonderful beautiful pieces of flesh-art. Flawless, obedient, and occasionally slightly volatile. Now bunnies, those are down right freaky. The long ears, the teeth, those soulless eyes…

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

They aren’t creepy and disgusting. They are wonderful beautiful pieces of flesh-art. Flawless, obedient, and occasionally slightly volatile. Now bunnies, those are down right freaky. The long ears, the teeth, those soulless eyes…

+1

But yeah, minions are kind of like Build a Bear – Necromancer version. Except instead of walking into a shop with cute stuffing, pretty clothes, and assorted adorable animal things to stuff, our “store” is a battlefield littered with corpses, bones, and assorted bits of death. So we pick out a few pieces of a body, a skull here, a ribcage there, sew them together, stuff them with the various decaying entrails we find around us, and boom. You get wonderful little sacks of ew running around.

Also, you can very easily play your entire game as Necromancer without ever summoning a single minion, after you get a second healing skill.

I had the impression that minions were as important to a necromancer, as a pet was to a ranger, or illusions were to a mesmer.

My ‘build a minion’ will only be consisting of Shadow Fiends. A Shadow Fiend army!

Can’t, you can only put shadow fiend on your bar once. So your army would consist of 1.

Arikyali.5804:

I had the impression that minions were as important to a necromancer, as a pet was to a ranger, or illusions were to a mesmer.

My ‘build a minion’ will only be consisting of Shadow Fiends. A Shadow Fiend army!

Nope. Minions are a fairly key theme of the Necromancer, just like traps are to the ranger or turrets for an engineer, but all can be left completely out of any builds.

ronpierce.2760:

Can’t, you can only put shadow fiend on your bar once. So your army would consist of 1.

Only one? That’s a shame. I wonder if there are any environmental weapons that can summon another shade…

I disagree about removing bone fiends unblockable attack. I think shadow fiend should have a true teleport so at least 1 of your minions are attacking your target in certain situations (2 spamming thieves anyone?). Of course this could get your minion stuck on a place there is no pathing off of….

Plexxing.2978:

I disagree about removing bone fiends unblockable attack. I think shadow fiend should have a true teleport so at least 1 of your minions are attacking your target in certain situations (2 spamming thieves anyone?). Of course this could get your minion stuck on a place there is no pathing off of….

Not really an issue, since if you go too far away, they’ll just teleport to you.