Minion

This article is about the necromancer Minions. For the Elder Dragon minions, see Elder Dragon#Dragon minions.

Minions are undead servants bound to the will of their master. Fueled by the dark magics of their creator, these amalgamations of corpses defy mortality and make a mockery of life. Made of bones, flesh, and even shadow, minions are forced to obey their master, and will fight by their side until the end of their life in death.

Minions are summoned by practitioners of all branches of necromancy, and those necromancers that specialise in this art are commonly nicknamed minionmancers. Beyond this, there exist powerful undead necromancers known as liches, who specialise in the art of reanimation and can control hordes of undead.

Minion utility skill

Minion training.

Minions are one of the types of utility skills available to necromancers. These skills summon a minion of the same level as the necromancer, they stay alive until destroyed by damage, do not have health decay, and their health regenerates while out of combat. When a minion dies or is sacrificed, that minion utility skill goes on recharge, and the minion can be re-summoned after the recharge. Minions are destroyed if the necromancer dies or if the minion utility skill that summoned it is switched from the skill bar. Minions only inherit the player's Condition Damage, Condition Duration, and Boon Duration attributes. Conditions applied by minions are counted as being applied by the Necromancer, which is important for traits like Parasitic Contagion and Corrupter's Fervor. All other attributes, such as health, are determined by the minion type.

Some minions can be sacrificed to produce a variety of effects, while others can be ordered to perform a special attack. This is done through the sequence skill of that minion utility skill. This also means that the number of summoned minions is limited to the number that each minion utility skill summons, most minion utility skills summon one single minion. The summoning skill starts its cooldown when the minion dies.

Other minions

Beyond the minion utility skills, minions can also be summoned by necromancers through the Death Nova trait, the Summon Madness skill of Lich Form, and by the "Rise!" Reaper shout skill. Minions are also rarely encountered free-roaming in some locations throughout Tyria, the Underworld and the Mists; and summoned by hostile necromancers.

Types

See also: Category:Minions

• Arbiter of the Dead
• Blood Fiend
• Bone Archer
• Bone Fiend
• Bone Minion
• Bone Soldier
• Champion Lord Lykesh
• Dhuum's Enforcer
• Dhuum's Messenger
• Draithor's Fiend
• Draithor's Minion
• Draithor's Wurm
• Elite Flesh Wurm
• Elite Minion
• Flesh Golem
• Flesh Wurm
• Jagged Horror
• Light Thief
• Marjory's Bone Minion
• Minion
• Mummy
• Reanimated Antipathy
• Reanimated Hatred
• Reanimated Malice
• Reanimated Spite
• Shadow Fiend
• Shambling Horror
• Skeleton
• Spirit Horde
• Stinky
• Tormented Dead
• Unstable Horror
• Veteran Blood Fiend
• Veteran Bone Fiend
• Veteran Bone Minion
• Veteran Draithor's Wurm
• Veteran Flesh Golem
• Veteran Flesh Wurm
• Veteran Shepherd of the Dead

List of minion skills

Skill				Description
Necromancer
Summon Blood Fiend		10.5½	16	Minion. Summon a blood fiend that transfers health to you on each attack.
Taste of Death		0.75¾		Sacrifice your blood fiend to heal yourself.
Summon Bone Fiend		10.5½	24	Minion. Summon a bone fiend that attacks foes at range. Delivers a crippling attack once every ten seconds.
Rigor Mortis			50	Immobilize your bone fiend, and it will immobilize foes.
Summon Bone Minions		10.5½	16	Minion. Summon two bone minions.
Putrid Explosion			1	Explode a bone minion.
Summon Flesh Wurm		10.5½	25	Minion. Summon an immobile flesh wurm to attack foes.
Necrotic Traversal				Sacrifice your flesh wurm, teleport to it, and poison foes.
Summon Shadow Fiend		10.5½	24	Minion. Summon a shadow fiend to attack foes.
Haunt			20	Command your shadow fiend to teleport to a foe and attack all nearby foes, inflicting conditions.
Summon Flesh Golem		10.5½	48	Minion. Summon a flesh golem to attack foes with crippling claws.
Charge		0.75¾	40	Command your flesh golem to gain stability and charge a foe, knocking down or launching enemies in its path.
Lich Form
Summon Madness		10.5½	30	Minion. Repeatedly summon minions that explode after a period of time if they are not killed.

List of skills that also summon minions

Skill				Description
Reaper
"Rise!"			32	Shout. Damage foes around you. Summon a shambling horror plus additional horrors near each enemy struck. Deal additional damage and summon a second horror when striking foes within melee range. Shambling horrors absorb damage for their master as long as they are attacking.

Related traits

• Flesh of the Master (Death Magic) — Minions have increased health. Gain carapace for each minion you control. Your minions are destroyed when this trait is reassigned.
• Necromantic Corruption (Death Magic) — Minions deal more damage and take conditions from you. When a minion attacks, it transfers conditions to its target. There is a 10 second cooldown per minion.
• Death Nova (Death Magic) — When you or one of your minions is downed, create a Poison Nova. Summon a jagged horror when you kill a foe.
• Vampiric (Blood Magic) — Siphon health whenever you hit a foe. Minions siphon health and transfer it to you.

Minion attributes

• The level 80 minions have the following attributes:

Minion	Armor	Health
Blood Fiend	2000	13000
Bone Fiend	2600	7000
Bone Minion	2125	5000
Flesh Golem	2600	13000
Flesh Wurm	2470	9000
Jagged Horror	2125	8700
Shambling Horror	?	?
Shadow Fiend	2125	10700
Unstable Horror	?	?

• In PvE, all necromancer minions have approximately 71% more health than the amounts listed above.

Player Chatter

• When summoning a minion, the character will occasionally shout out one of the following lines, depending on race and gender.

Race	Gender
	Male	Female
Asura	Each more hideous than the last! I've made life! Of a sort. Arise, my brainless, arise! Up on your... uh, feet!	This one's kind'a cute! Never waste a corpse! Look! Life after death! You live by my whim! Go forth, my undead minion!
Charr	Go forth, my minion! Live my puppet, live! Attention, my creation! Present arms! Life! ...Let my creation live.	Look! Life after death! Go forth, my undead minion! Never waste a corpse. Go forth, you disposable soldier. Forward, you dispensable soldier! Ah, fresh fodder.
Human	Go forth. my minion! Live, my puppet! Live! Grenth... your power flows through me! Arise, my creation! Life! Give my creation life!	Grenth! I call upon your power! Arise my creation. Servant of mine, walk this land.
Norn	Live... now! Live again! Kill, my servant, kill! Arise, minion! My creature!	Not dead after all... My minion! It has a life! Go, fodder, go! Come forth.
Sylvari	Your duty lies at my side now. Come to me, minion... and do my bidding. No rest for you yet, sweet soul; kneel. I command you to rise again! Death cannot hold you, minion.	Arise and do my bidding! I summon you, minion. Rise! Come forth from death, my beauty! Your time has come again, lost soul. Join me, creation; I give you purpose.

• When a minion dies, the character will occasionally shout out one of the following lines, depending on race and gender.

Race	Gender
	Male	Female
Asura	I'll remember you always, you nameless thing. These things should come with a warranty! Neutralized already? I need to work on making those last longer.	I'll summon another! I didn't think it would pop like that. Good thing I didn't name that one! I can always summon more! I should have given that one a brain!
Charr	Oops, there goes another one. My minion! They're so disposable. Rest useless.	No! Not my minion! That's ok. They're easy to make. It was only fodder. It served well.
Human	Now I'll have to make another one! It's my own fault for making them so disposable. It had a good life. Short, but good. My minion! Praise Grenth, for it served me well.	No! I hand-raised that minion! It started out as a corpse, and now it's a corpse again. Now I'll have to make another one! It's my own fault for making them so disposable. It had a good life. Short, but good.
Norn	My minion! I'll remember that one. So fragile. They die like flies. Dead again, dead again.	My servant! It served me well. There goes another! That's never pretty...
Sylvari	Oh, no; I'll miss it. You killed my minion! Rest well, my loyal friend. Back to dust, my minion. Another minion down... I'll have to make more.	Killing my minions? I'll make more! Life is fragile; rest now. Return to dust, my friend. That minion was so loyal. I loved that little fellow.

Notes

• They are called "necrominions" by the Tyrian Explorers Society.
• Necromancer minion kills count as hammer kills for Weapon Master.
• Their approximate DPS numbers(unbuffed) are as follows: Bone fiend 160, Bone minions(together) 115, Blood fiend 100, Flesh golem 670, Flesh wurm 260, Shadow fiend 380.
• Player-owned minions take 95% reduced damage and condition duration from nonplayer attacks that do not specifically target them. When the attack specifically targets the minion, then it deal full damage and condition duration.

Trivia

The Guild Wars Wiki has an article on Minion.

• Conceptually, as seen in the Original Guild Wars, necromancer minions spring forth from a corpse. Due to corpses not being 'exploitable' in Guild Wars 2, most minions are instead summoned from the ground.
• Trahearne explains at one point in the story step Reconnaissance that his summoned minions were never alive, unlike the Risen. It can be assumed, though, that minions are formed from dead body parts, based on their appearance.

References

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Summons

Spirit Weapons • Legendary Renegades • Banners • Turrets • Spirits •
Fellow thieves • Elementals • Conjured Weapons • Illusions • Minions

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Skill types and profession mechanics