Minions? Are they all this useless...?

[dragoRin]

So I've spent the past 2 and half hours looking through all the Patch Notes and every forum post I could about the minions and can't really find what I'm looking for.

My minion is the Melee minion and he doesn't do anything. He just dies. I can level him, he's level 22 right now, and has about 16k health, but when he gets hit, his health glitches to say that he's got 1k or less worth of health or enemies that can't do 16k worth of damage TKO him instantlly. He also does a thing where he just bounces back and forth between the same 3 pixels and stays half the screen length away from me. Doesn't do anything, he just dies. Sometimes I can start the game and he'll walk around like normal in the town, looking for enemies. But once I start walking or I go into a portal, he starts the pixel bouncing and does nothing.

Is it because I haven't gotten the DLC yet or that maybe my game just has corrupted files still?

I've gone and reinstalled the game, and I've reinstalled the latest update (as of 3 hours ago when Steam told me it was available). I got the minion yesterday after spending 9 hours grinding for coins to trade in for the little blue gems, so I could get the 1k worth to buy a minion. So far, the minion hasn't done anything and this glitching is really annoying.

Just wanted to see if it was only me. The minion isn't the end of the world, I'll still be playing the game.

Also, sorry if this posting is in the wrong place, like I said, I spent 2 hours searching and couldn't find anything helpful.

[TechTerror]

My melee minion has always been super useful to me tbh. He will just gather us a ton of enemies that are attacking him, not me and I can just go ham on everything while they focus on him.

[dragoRin]

Originally posted by ƬechƬerrσr 乁( ◔ ౪◔)ㄏ:

My melee minion has always been super useful to me tbh. He will just gather us a ton of enemies that are attacking him, not me and I can just go ham on everything while they focus on him.

That's what I was hoping for. My best character I play right now is a Samurai and I really don't need help with agro, but my minion does the opposite! He pulls them all over to him and then he dies with the weird gltich and I try to go over to the enemies, but of course he respawns when I stand next to his grave and it does the same thing again. I can't get any attacks in because I'm spending half the time chasing him and then enemies around the screen.

[Alcyreues]

I find my melee minion useful. It usually draws in a lot of enemies for me and acts like a sort of wall. While it does that I take care of other enemies that aren't being held back by minion and come back to the minion to help out if it hadn't died yet. If it died I just revive it and it's back to pretty much being a wall. Just keep it around to level it up and it'll eventually become high enough of a level to be somewhat useful.

[dragoRin]

Originally posted by Alcyreues:

I find my melee minion useful. It usually draws in a lot of enemies for me and acts like a sort of wall. While it does that I take care of other enemies that aren't being held back by minion and come back to the minion to help out if it hadn't died yet. If it died I just revive it and it's back to pretty much being a wall. Just keep it around to level it up and it'll eventually become high enough of a level to be somewhat useful.

Right, which is what I was expecting it do to, just be a wall or at least do something to help out.

But honestly, I think there's something wrong with my minion or my game, because on my level 87 Samurai, he just glitches and literally does nothing at all, he levels, but doesn't do anything, ever, he just glitches out.

If I start a new charcter, the minion is alright. But on my two highest characters, he just glitches. I know that the minion starts from level 1 on each character, I have to level them individually, but it's still irritating that I can level him, but he does nothing.

I really would hate to start a new character to get use out of the minion.

For now I've just turned the minion off in the 2 characters I play frequently.

[dave]

I used to ignore my minions, too. They die way to easily. But then, I noticed something in town. My ranged minion is around level 140ish, and when his homing missile procs, it apparently hits for 535k. http://puu.sh/iPTRS/4a4c0b676e.jpg

Could be a bug with training dummies, but if not, he's kind of a monster when he stays alive.

[Divineoverseer]

Sometimes ranged minion kills dummies, lol. Or it was so few patches ago. I thought it was his missile so I suppose it's kinda a downgrade, lol. Also Zombie dude that spawns from relic can OHKO dummies too.

[dragoRin]

It's not the problem here at all, I don't mind grinding and getting to level my minion.

The whole point of this post was to see if I was the only one with a glitched minion, because it's messing up my game, and it's really annoying since I spent about 10 hours grinding to get a minion, thinking it would help.

I assume it's just like a pet in any game, it's going to target the wrong things sometimes and that it's going to take work to level it.

But my minion is literally glitched, making monsters and other items and things in the game glitched and it's really frustrating, because I've done everything I can and it only happens on my two highest leveled characters. Any other characters or a new character, the minion will be fine.

I mean, maybe it's silly to be frustrated or to have even made this forum post, but I don't know, it was just a big disappointment.

[Welley]

My Ranged Minion goes from 12k Hleath to 1.9k health as soon as it gets hit. Then just dies.

[Lys0gen]

My minion always got such a low health value when it levels up, I'm pretty sure that its a bug that assigned the health values from a previous version, where minions had less health. Whenever I went to town or revived it, it had the higher health value again though.

[dragoRin]

Originally posted by Welley:

My Ranged Minion goes from 12k Hleath to 1.9k health as soon as it gets hit. Then just dies.

Same thing happens to me. Sometimes it gets better, but mostly is the same. It's even worse when I'm playing in the multiplater games, I can't even have him turned on, or the minions just glitch the enemies out of screen.

Originally posted by Lys0gen:

My minion always got such a low health value when it levels up, I'm pretty sure that its a bug that assigned the health values from a previous version, where minions had less health. Whenever I went to town or revived it, it had the higher health value again though.

Something like that, but it should automatically adjust itself when it levels. I've had it to where I was in a Act or dungeon and it leveled and it wasn't changed. But sometimes it would change and stay high. Or it would glitch out from like 110k to about 5k health and it would still take damage well, just had an odd display number, which is a bit frustrating to me. It's hard to tell how well one minion does than the other with the odd health number displays.

But alas, to both, I have had no actual response and neither has my boyfriend (who bought the game so we could play together and has the same issue) where I just assumed it was my slightly out of date computer.