Guild Wars 2

It’s been a whole freaking year for this problem to be solved. (Mesmer poly-morph causes all Minions to go on full cooldown) If this isn’t a bug, then that’s a horrible punishment to one meta. No wonder players hardly touch pure MM as to the condi metas. As for what the moderators (Josh Davis) has said…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Moa-Morph-inconsistently-effects-Minions/first#post2664582

This is it. Nice follow up anet.

since you are no longer a necromancer you have no control over your mindless undead minions, they simply lose your grip of control and die again. where as engineer turrets are built, elementalists and guardians use magic and rangers use nature rituals. magic, machines and rituals dont need mental control over them to function as a bound undead does

If you want to go the “minions need constant mind control”. You can’t talk to your pet while a MOA… You can’t push buttons on your turrets. Then all those things should become passive. But they don’t. Besides what your stating is a lame justification. If I, the necromancer, are bonded to my pets then they should do my bidding no matter what form I am (DS, plague, Lich). So right their your theory is flawed.

MINDLESS UNDEAD minions need constant control, pets are trained to attack his or her foe(s), turrets require no button pushing as they are built with friend or foe identification processors, conjured magical beings from elementalists and guardians are bound to the laws of magical ownership and will only obey commands from their conjurer and mesmer phantasms and clones are figments implanted the minds of the mesmer’s foes to attack them

Sounds like a lot of fun for your minions!

Khezekiah Bellamy.5016:

MINDLESS UNDEAD minions need constant control, pets are trained to attack his or her foe(s), turrets require no button pushing as they are built with friend or foe identification processors, conjured magical beings from elementalists and guardians are bound to the laws of magical ownership and will only obey commands from their conjurer and mesmer phantasms and clones are figments implanted the minds of the mesmer’s foes to attack them

mindless undead… need control? We have no control. We summon them and they mindlessly attack. Hell we can’t even control them when we’re NOT moa’d, why in the world would we need to control them when we are?