Minion Pathfinding

convocation would be nice, but I see it as more of a band-aid than a real solution. GGG need to address the root issue, which is the bad minion pathing.

NGL, as a spray chaos aids everywhere but also skeleton snipers go boom shotgun gas detonation build, most of my deaths in maps are due to "minions got stuck between a rock and a monster, then despawned, and now everything is chasing me instead".

I see no particular reason why minions **need** to die on distance, for the first time in any ARPG since Diablo 2. Reason everybody including POE1 moved away from that was because it was and still is frustrating and awful to play around.

There needs to be a complete rework of the mninion pathfindig and the complete removal of the minion automatic dying/reviving mechanic when they're a couple of meters too far from you.

Apart from being stuck, they will very frequently flat out refuse to do their active ability, but the mana cost will be deducted from you regardless, what the actual frick.

I hope that they take their time in this early access state to overhaul them, as it is atrocious, this is my number one cause of death in maps, I can dodge and avoid attacks, but minions dying just because the game says so or them not attacking at all are beyond frustrating.

While I understand that this is early access, the whole minion side is woefully early-alpha stage, and this isn't an issue just in PoE, 99% of most modern ARPGs are completely unable to do minions right and satisfying to use.

I can only agree with the sentiments stated above.
I failed the Mire map as the last boss to be killed was on a platform that I couldn't reach without the minions despawning. On reaching the platform, I was body-blocked and killed whilst attempting to wait for the minions to respawn.

Minions just remind me of the Braveheart quote: "The trouble with Scotland is that it's full of Scots". Well, the trouble with minion builds is that it's full of minions.

They will get stuck with even 2 of them in doorways, because someone thought it was a good idea to make them collide with each other? They will stand in place and shake due to pathfinding flip flopping. They will need to revive if they get off screen. The clerics will lead the charge into battle and never move to a ranged spot. They're only useful to die and they can't even do that right.

Absolutely this! Minion pathfinding in maps like Augury, Mire, Lost Tower, and any other map with narrow passageway is atrocious at bet and makes playing nearly impossible at worst. Please fix all minions so that they can get past these roadblocks, or better yet, just correct maps to not have such frustratingly narrow passages in the first place. Thanks!

I think that if the devs decreased the minion "path box" to half (or less) would help a lot, just like they did reduce player character to 0 when dodging.

Something has to be done about minion pathing/despawning/body blocking and overall just how clumsy it feels to play with them right now.

Melee minions can do insane damage but are hindered by the current pathing/AI and feel miserable to use. Ranged minions only feel slightly better.

I'm not a fan of convocation spam being the fix. I think minion's should be able to stack up but still body block enemies. Or at least have a much smaller hitbox so they can almost stack up. And minions that are too far away should teleport/revive instantly instead of starting the timer.

It feels like GGG doesn't like minion builds. It's as if they purposely designed the bottlenecks so minions would get stuck and not be able to do anything which is just terrible for any builds where minions are your main damage. The enemies have no issues going thru those same bottlenecks so I can only assume the minion pathing is intentional.

I enjoy the game itself but have decided to stop playing until the minion pathing issue is fixed. It's not fun trying to run thru maps that are filled with doors and narrow passages and run into a group of mobs while all of your dps is sitting stuck in a doorway doing nothing.

minion thread necro'd. How meta.