Miniature Varesh Shows Fighting Spirit

I din't post this in screen shot topic, because I haven't seen this before. And I don't think it's her attacks stance either. So anyways me and a guildie were doing an UW duo run, when I pulled out my varesh out for laughs Then she did something I haven't seen before in town



It's a gif so you can see the sequence a bit .Am I the only one who was kept in the dark? This also leads to wonder if more mini's have special things like this. Again this is not an attack stance but something different.

She'd not attacking - so it must be damage effect around her.

Just looks like minitatures trigger damage animaations to me.
Probably don't have HP so can't die....

Interesting observation none the less .....

Blackest Rose, Grasping Darknesses are Warrior profession. They are clearly attacking the tank.

I wonder if Mini Bone Dragon does that?

Guess it depends on the skill then since even warriors can attack mutiple targets when targetting one with AOE skills especially axe ones.

I think we're agreeing here - damage aminmations are being triggered because she is being hit by AOE skills.

I've had the animation at the grasps too. It tends to trigger at 3+ groups. It could be an necro skill of my guildie but it's a mini. How can a mini be effected by anything ?

The Darknesses have Distracting Blow, an AoE interrupt. That could be hitting Varesh and triggering that animation.

Grasping Darknesses have one aoe skill--Distracting Blow. That is not the animation for Distracting Blow.

There are necro enemies in that area (Dying Nightmares), but the only skill they cast on foes is Rend Enchantments. It will not cast this on an enemy that has no enchantments, but will instead use Blood Is Power on allies.

It does look like your allies necro skill is spilling over onto Varesh somehow.

Grasping Darkness' actually have 2 aoe skills - the second (fear me) is apparent from the .gif in the OP post. I don't know if that could be causing the halo around mini varesh.

Doh. I knew that.

Well, if you look closely, I think the warrior has the same green aura around him that Varesh has, but I just tested "Fear Me", and it doesn't cause a green aura around foes. I can't imagine that distracting blow would either

I don't think mini pets will ever fight anything other than looking cool!

Desecrate Enchantments?

ok wtf.... must try this with all my pets..... but that means i have to stand there for 19 pets lol ill post result when i get them

It's the animation for creatures affected by Spiteful Spirit. If you look closely, you can see the same small green ring around the tentacles of the Graspings. I noticed this same thing over my Asura's head a few weeks ago during a 55/SS run.

so minis are enemies ???? ok that explains it and makes me wonder even more.....

The green ring around the tentacle looks more like Price of Failure, creatures affected by Spiteful Spirit light up at their feet.

I'm curious as to what the Varesh is doing too.

Could it be a shadow being cast from the aura being emited from the floating grasping darkness above it?

I think it could be one of the darkness casting something and Varesh is simply in the path so the reaction were shown on the screen.

I've seen my mini Titan do that as well.