Guild Wars 2

I’m hoping there are more people, but i do not think of minions in the way they were in gw1 (where you focused on keeping them alive / resummoning them) but more as an extension of your own damage output.

I am using a 20/0/20/20/10 build for both pve (non dungeons) and pvp (wvw / spvp)
wvw utilities: well of blood / summon flesh wurm / summon shadow fiend / spectral grasp / summon flesh golem.
spvp utilities: Consume conditions / summon flesh wurm / summon shadow fiend / spectral armor / summon flesh golem
pve: well of blood / summon bone fiend / summon bone minions / summon shadow fiend / summon flesh golem

So far i’ve seen my flesh golem hitting for 700-800 damage per hit, crits 1.2k-1.5k+.
Flesh wurm hits for 1k-1.3k (havent seen crits from it yet)
Bone minions hit for 200-250, dont forget to multiply by 2 as its 2 minions(no idea on crits as of yet)
Shadow fiend hits for 400-500 (no idea on crits as of yet)
Bone fiend hits for about 200 damage, dont forget to multiply by 2 as it shoots 2 shots per time, and 300+ on crit

If my minions hit all at the same time they will add 2.1k+ damage, which is a nice addition to my own damage. Minions could be viable, just need arenanet to fix the bug where they randomly dont attack your target or attack random targets.

@OP as to getting you to like the necro, thats all up to you and nothing we can do about. All we can do is tell you different ways of trying to play a necro and maybe one of those ways you can / will enjoy.

ORR:
- Murdered Dreams Waypoint, south west part of the map (close to the skill challenge if the place is under friendly NPC control)
- Verdance Waypoint (Mid of the map east side, same as above has to be under friendly NPC control)
- Arah Waypoint, closest waypoint to the dungeon. (slightly north of the waypoint)

All these 3 sell exotic armor for 42k karma per piece

WvWvW – Eternal area.
Right at the start there is a vendor selling rare equipment for karma points.
Weapons from 20k-30k
Armor from 10k-20k

roobixrob.5267:

There is an AOE heal you can get fairly as soon as you have 3 skill points free, it does heal minions. But minions are less about dealing huge damage and more about mitigating aggro/damage from yourself. I’m not much of a pet class guy but Im loving leveling my necromancer mostly because iv stayed away from minions and stuck to mainly condition/aoe damage.

If you run around with a lot of minions (about 5) your AoE heal will mis a few of them regularly unless you pop it during a fight where they tend to be grouped up.

Claiming to do an X amount of damage / dps is a bit far fetched as there is no dps meter (ingame or fan created) so people have no idea howmuch or how few dps they are doing.

@OP, unfortionatly there seems to be a bug with minions where they just dont seem to attack your target costing you a lot of damage that you would normally rely on (especially anoying in a pvp fight).
Not to mention the elite flesh golem that occasionaly runs off to a target you didnt attack / target and starts hitting them.

As minions are a big part of some builds i’m surprised there hasnt been any confirmation / acknowledgement that they are looking into this issue.

I also have the feeling minions dont really profit from your necros stat increases but i’ll have to test that part more to be sure about it.

Dabrixmgp.4758:

Noax.3869:

Dabrixmgp.4758:

Necros are pretty low in numbers because they are bugged all to hell and minions are 100% worthless. I actually see more Mezmers than Necros.

Do you even play a necro?

Yes there are bugs with minions (sometimes not attacking your target) but so far i’m having a blast with mine.
Better control over the minions & fixing the not attacking bug would make for a better experience. I would say minions are (because of the chance that they dont attack) 50% worthless.
Rushing your flesh golem over a trail of enemies (10+) knocking them down is always fun in WvW, same for 8v8 spvp (so far max 5 in a row knocked down)

Are you 80?

Yes i am 80.

Dabrixmgp.4758:

Necros are pretty low in numbers because they are bugged all to hell and minions are 100% worthless. I actually see more Mezmers than Necros.

Do you even play a necro?

Yes there are bugs with minions (sometimes not attacking your target) but so far i’m having a blast with mine.
Better control over the minions & fixing the not attacking bug would make for a better experience. I would say minions are (because of the chance that they dont attack) 50% worthless.
Rushing your flesh golem over a trail of enemies (10+) knocking them down is always fun in WvW, same for 8v8 spvp (so far max 5 in a row knocked down)

Feathers.7261:

Well I am talking about Necro pet because thats what I play. Dont know if hunter is the same.

Issue 1 : Sometimes pets dont attack when I attack… They take a lot of time… I mean they should attack when someone attacks me?

Issue 2 : Flesh Golem attacking other mobs without me attcaking them… He just aggros mobs… This is very annoying, he is always dying…

Issue 3 : Will you make a pet bar?

1: Im running into the same problem. This is really anoying in WvW where you partly depend on your minions to hit your enemy and all they do is stand still doing nothing. (which unfortionatly have costed me too many fights that would otherwise have resulted in wins for me…)

2: The random agroing of the flesh golem is really frustrating, pulling a pack of 2-3 knowing you can handle those only to find out your flesh golem has ran off the opposite way and pulled another pack of 2-3 which you then get rampaging in your back.

3: Pet bar would be nice with the options for passive (do nothing) / agresive (attack anything in sight) / guard (attack your target or whatever is attacking you) or just a window displaying all the health bars of the minions (click on a bar to select the minion) would be great too, then we have an indication when to use Putrid Explosion on the bone minion instead of blindly blowing them up seemingly in random order.

4: Minion agro, pets that by all means should be tanky (flesh golem / shadow fiend?) just cant seem to hold agro from other minions cough bone fiend cough

Other then these points im quite enjoying the minions on my necro.