minions

[gloomy summit]

Unfortunately, there's tech reasons we can't do this.

A Hunt battle formation is only generated once you get to its prepare screen. Until that point, it's unknown what the enemy lineup would be.

To get a Minion warning on the Hunt GoTo, for example, would require generating every single battle, for every single region, for every single difficulty. This would be cause a lot of slow down as it would involve both sending and receiving data to and from the server, then populating the UI.

I ask if there's any possible way it can be done, but I doubt it, as its been mentioned a few times.

[crude depot]

Push notifications for targeted minions?

Like bounties

[gray birch]

would run into the same issue as Lynsey stated. The game has to know if a minion has appeared for that to happen. The only way it knows is if the hunt has been generated.

The bounty runs on a schedule that is updated every week, that is how it knows which roamer will appear at what time.

[crude depot]

Switch the mechanics for minions to run like roamers.

Or make it kind of like in the Rift... where each minion is available on a certain node once per week then it reverts to a normal hunt.

[gray birch]

That would include another schedule and still cause hunts to be generated in the first place which will lead to performance issues. In addition, the time in which minions are available once per week will undoubtedly causes a lot of complaints from the users who will miss those times.