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Working for a company that does this kinda stuff all the time (not acknowledging the complaints with our technology and hope that at some point devs manage to fix it before it makes us look bad), I’m not all that surprised that Anet hasn’t responded to the thousands of support tickets, or the many many posts about the Necro’s broken minion AI. I say “not surprised” in a very jaded, cynical sort of way, obviously lol
We know it’ll be hard work, complex, and a multitude of factors to be considered. We’re not dumb, and we’re not children.
What we are (and please read this with a very calm tone lol), though, are customers. Customers who are paying for a product that has a problem, and really we just want some kind of response. Just a “Hi, sorry we haven’t had a chance to talk to you about this, but we know it’s a problem, and it’s on our list of things to do” at the very least.
Even better would be a “Hey, the guys who were supposed to be communicating with our members have been murdered for their complacency, and we’ve gotten this into an upcoming patch…Here’s when you can expect it…”
…and, of course, ideal would be a comforting hug, maybe ask us if we’ve lost weight, and then finish it off with confirmation that a hotfix is going in right this second (I know, I’m such a dreamer)
If I recall correctly, Traherne mentions that necromancer minions were “never alive”.. as constructs made of flesh and bone of dead that have passed away in the nearby area over unknown lengths of time.
The question at the center of this discussion is the FIRST THING that came to mind when I heard Trahearne first say this.
However, I don’t recall him referring to them as actually being any kind of dead remains or anything like that. I might be wrong on that point, though which would make the rest of my post irrelevant but nonetheless…
Since the minions don’t resemble any living animals (save for the Flesh Wurm, which I haven’t studied closely enough to see if there are any differences between them and the regular Wurms you find all over the kitten place), and they definitely don’t resemble any sentient races, I’ve always been hesitant to think that the Necromancer is actually raises corpses.
Rather, I’m more inclined to believe what a few others have stated: minions are some type of animating principle drawn from the Mist and given physical form, rather than a frankenstein construct of dead tissue (because seriously, no matter how much death has occurred in Tyria there’s no way that there are layers upon layers of corpse bits covering every inch of the land). To be honest, I find that far more interesting than the cliche “corpse puppeteer” approach. As a roleplayer, that’s the perspective I take for my Necromancer, and fits better with the lore and the central threat of the undead to think that the Necromancers aren’t actually defiling corpses and souls; I think THAT is what makes Zhaitan evil, just like Shiro from GW1, and Necromancers good.