Aldel.8170

Kudos for fixing the issue, jeers for never bothering to respond to this thread. They're your own forums, Anet. It wouldn't hurt you to keep your customers informed.

It would take Anet less than 5 minutes to post a reply here to let people know what's going on.

Sounds like you don't have the same minions slotted for underwater combat. Check your slots and make sure you have your minions slotted, else when you enter the water they'll despawn. Same thing happens (or at least used to happen) with Guardian and signets - if you didn't have the same signets slotted and hit water the signets would be removed.

Why isn't this fixed? The longer this drags on with no word, the more people speculate and start trying out other games. Who know how many won't bother coming back. How hard is it for one of you at Anet to take 3 minutes out of your day to write up a statement letting your customers know what's going on?

Hey guys, thought I'd give you some good news! On another thread, an Anet person chimed in to say thanks for letting us know about Christmas decorations randomly appearing. Oh, they also fixed the Trading Post in record time when people started complaining it was broken. Your minions, though? You can just re-summon them. 😒 FIX THIS! 😡

Doing the Return to Istan yesterday for the Revenge of Archon Iberu event. Anet do you have any idea how aggravating it is to try to run around with a train of people killing bosses when you have to do it all on foot? My other option was mount up and despawn all my minions so they'd all be on cooldown. Great options. FIX THIS! 😡

OK and it looks like there's even less reason to bother with certain content. Return to Istan being one. I did a bounty and got zero credit. This game is getting more and more buggy. What's your QA team doing, Anet? How about devs doing integration and unit tests? All this should be caught by regression E2E test suites or during development before it's even allowed into a release pipeline. Hire me as your QA manager at around $300K a year and I'll quit my current employer and help you get your QA department straightened out. 20+ years of industry experience in testing and automation. 👍

Chiming in on this thread, too. I will not buy a single gem until this is fixed. It's incredibly annoying. Either you run around and avoid mounting so you don't wind up with all your minions on cooldown, or you mount and then have to stand around waiting for the CDs to be up so you can summon them again. Do this a few hundred times and it makes you not even want to play. Necro has become one of my favorites lately and now I get this as a "reward" for trying a new (to me) class.

Anet seems very quick to disable features that either have an exploit or are working in a way that was never intended. Conversely, they seem mighty slow to fix absolutely debilitating bugs that have an extremely negative impact on players. One of the key characteristics of Necro is raising the dead to force minions to do their bidding. Making them despawn when mounting translates to incredibly impeded mobility if you want to avoid all the cooldowns or mounting up and then forced to wait on cooldowns. The CDs for all the minions is way too long for this nonsense, especially the Flesh Golem since its CD is just shy of an entire minute. That almost 1 minute CD adds up when you have short fights as part of a roaming squad. I'm in agreement with the poster above - I'm not buying a single gem until this is fixed, and I am prolific buyer of gems because up until now I've had no qualms supporting this game. They just busted it for me and I am not at all amused. Edit: I just noticed my account has the "joined recently" flag. What the heck? I've been playing for almost 9 years now. What do you mean I joined recently? 🤨

Can you fix this Anet? This is terrible. Not sure how an auto-summon bug could be worse than disabling this. Manually summoning after every mount up is unbelievably annoying, especially if you have to wait for CD.

Yeah, I actually thought of that a bit ago. I was able to get the achievement on a different character and completed Return to Siren's Landing that way. Not optimal, but at least it's a workaround.

I've done all the achievements and the only one I have left is opening a chest in Abaddon's. I've looted two chests yesterday before reset. Today I completed all renown hearts but I am missing the buff for Lyssa. I keep getting a message to go cleanse Lyssa's reliquary. The renown heart is full for Lyssa and the tooltip shows that it's complete. I've tried everything I can think of. Completed numerous events and killed enough creatures that would have easily filled the renown heart. Went to guild hall and back. Logged out to character select and back. Ported out of the zone and back. Logged all the way out to the desktop and logged back in. The renown heart for Lyssa is still full and I still do not have the buff. What the heck can I do to finish this?