Guild Wars 2

Hello Folks,

I play on Isle of Janthir server and have a L79 Necromancer.

I did couple of searches for Necro minion problems and found nothing.

He is currently running with a Shadow Fiend, a Bone Fiend and a Flesh Golem.

Of these three minions, only the Bone Fiend will reliably attack whatever the character attacks/is being attacked by.

The Shadow Fiend will usually (eventually) wake up and attack. But, it’s pretty slow at starting.

The Flesh Golem will often stand around while a monster/player is killed and not do anything at all. In addition, the Flesh Golem has a somewhat annoying habit of deciding to attack random creatures for no apparent reason. This will include yellow text beasts which are not supposed to aggro unless attacked first.

Several questions:

Has this or something similar, say with range pets, been reported before?

I expect better of a 10 point skill like “Summon Flesh Golem” He looks really mean and his charge/stun can be very useful both against bosses and in PvP, but having an uncontrollable minion which randomly attacks things isn’t worth 10 skill points. Just my opinion.
The Shadow Fiend’s AI is really slow. If you get something down to 50-60% health before the minion moves that’s not good.

BTW, while playing GW2, I usually have no other processes running on the computer other than the security stuff. There are a few stubs from Yahoo!, nVidia, Logitech, HP and my ISP but I doubt these are going to impact the game much, if at all.

Hello Folks,

BLTC seems to have been in maintenance. Also you should check that your mailbox is not full.

Hope this helps

Hello Folks,

Today, I tried to join a Ascalonian Catacombs Explore Mode group. While my character was in Lion’s Arch, I was unable to use the “join” or “invite” buttons as these returned an “unable to contact the login server” error.

On travelling to zone “Black Citadel” and “Plains of Ashford” I was getting the same effect.

Only after teleporting to the instance entrance and waiting around for a couple of minutes was it possible for me to accept the group invite.

I’ve had this before and would like to try to avoid it in future if possible. I find the frequent “black screen” outages to be annoying, but these usually only affect me. Being unable to issue/accept invitations is going to impact other gamers.

I considered activating a support account for this, but having to use a second user name/password combination for a game seemed to be asking a bit much.

Technical Stuff:

Processor: Intel i7 2.67 GHz
Memory: 6GB RAM.
GPU: nVidia GTX 285
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit version
Display: 1680 × 1050

All drivers are the most up-to-date. GPU driver is the current nVidia beta version.

ISP is BT Infinity.