Guild Wars 2

I’ve been a good boy this year, and my single wish is to get minions attacking 100% of the time instead of 50% by this Christmas. Is it really too much to ask to get necro minions functioning properly for the first time since release? There is after all an entire specialization which can be attuned to that play. I’d kinda assume that you’re embarrassed at what a joke they currently are. I mean literally they’re a joke. Only time I bring them out now is when I’m playing with friends and we want to laugh at them running off in combat to look at rocks. I’ll put out the milk and cookies, hot pockets, and hot elves if you bring the programmers.

It strikes me that the game’s AI is overly artificial and insufficiently intelligent. That helps to explain why minions are too dumb to move 2 cm to be in range of attacks, why ranger pets fail to dodge, and why foes are too easy to counter (allowing a meta of all offense to dominate PvE).

To their credit, ANet seems to recognize this and also seems to be gradually making adjustments to change the AI. I can’t promise that means effective minions by Wintersday (I hope it means big changes to AI by HoT’s release).

tl;dr I support your wish and I think it’s part of a fundamental root cause that will take a long time to fully address.