I like it when the totems pull aggro. At least the thorn totems. But I tend to use the 5-at-a-time nodes and like getting everything around them so I can wipe out the enemies with less risk.
It would be nice if storm totem didn’t with it’s lengthy cooldown but I assume I just need to learn to place it smarter.
I haven’t paid enough attention to the aggro mechanics, for all I know they’re random. I assumed that mobs went for the first thing that hit them. I know they can be distracted after that because they’ll chase me occasionally when I haven’t hit them at all and my minions are whacking them.
Well I think Totems pull a lot of agro and this is the best way to handle it. Imgain placing a Totem and all enemys say “nay!” and move away from it. Would be fun for sure but right now the enemys kill those. I have skilled the Claw totem node in the swipe tree and those little ones are agro magnets as well. Would be strange if melee range totems simply would be ignored :D.
No offence intended but isn’t this a bit wrong from a balancing point of view? Aren’t the storm totems very potent and should therefor be focused by enemys? Sure if they did indeed had a taunt mechanic build in, so to speak, that’s a fair move but I think it’s a bit difficult to leave the totem at a lower agro after it starts to damage enemys ^^.
This was a consideration when we made the change. It is something that we’re going to test and change still. We are planning several changes to the minion agro systems.
and change that tree summoning unique ring, it’s a low level proc minion for a low level with high aggro draw. The tree model looks awesome though, could we get the tree fleshed out, and added in a skill tree with modifiers to the tree? maybe add a chance to summon a big tree in the spriggan form skill tree?
Thx for the replies :). I was just thinking about it and didn’t want to make a fuzz :). I think so far everything is in a good shape and after some number tweaks things will be fine. Then again I hope there will be some kind of substitute if totems will have less agro. Something like a dummy totem that shouts insults at enemys forcing them to attack it or something like that.
Yes, but don’t forget, there’s only 1 node on the Wolf that makes 1 wolf not count towards the cap!
Hang on, WTF’s that node now? Or was it removed because it would be a bit confusing?
While this is indeed a very old post, I haven’t seen anything since that has indicated a change to this specific statement. Currently Minion classes still suffer from not being able to use any skills if they want multiple types of companions/minions and this is pretty unfair and IMO one reason the beastmaster zookeeper and the necromancer lag behind other classes.
Has anything been in the works? While companions/minions get there own specialization bar different than your main 5 skills so you can summon them and buff them up without sacrificing skills like entangling roots/eterras blessing.
I feel for a much more immersive zookeeper gameplay that the zookeeper should be able to have access to all 5 of its skills and companions should be a separate entity, same with minions in general. Necro runs into the same problem that with 4or 5 types of minions used you no longer have any supporting skills or self use skills like rip blood and a movement skill like transplant and its such a disadvantage.
Id really like to see changes to this area in the future.
