Sightlucky

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If minions are both Aggressive and Defensive, those effects cancel out, returning the minions to their original behaviour. All other bonuses from the support gems still apply.

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Well ye make them aggressive always and only keep meat shield to make them defensive

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Switching minion AI in the middle of the fight is a retarded play style. You can always have the classic summoner play style by hitting targets with arc lightning to proc elemental equilibrium and direct your minions if your bitching about switching AI in the middle of the fight.

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Well ye make them aggressive always and only keep meat shield to make them defensive

Why this would work, people would complain that use minions defensive. Because those would then be on the other end of the scale.

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Switching minion AI in the middle of the fight is a retarded play style. You can always have the classic summoner play style by hitting targets with arc lightning to proc elemental equilibrium and direct your minions if your bitching about switching AI in the middle of the fight.

Well we already have Blood and Sand Stances, they could simply also affect minions. And I agree that if you do something (it would still be a socket) minions could also gain some benefits. Zombies could get a Leap in Agressive Mode and a Boneshield in Defensive as one example.
However the current Feeding Frenzy is way too aggressive to be the standard. My Minions mostly run offscreen and its most notably with Kitava Heralds, that just fire a few screens away and are also able to leapslam for considerable distances. It isn't too unusual that my Carrion Golem is the only one on the screen because all other minions have feeding frenzy, which is nice for blights because I just stay at the pump and the minions run out in all directions to kill the approaching enemies.

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It's annoying that all of our minions that we want to do damage have that gem as an absolute must and it should just be programmed in.
We could do away with the aggressive modifier on the golem gem, the feeding frenzy gem altogether, and just make them all attack the way that minions are supposed to attack, furiously and all the time.
Just code it in please.

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It's annoying that all of our minions that we want to do damage have that gem as an absolute must and it should just be programmed in.
We could do away with the aggressive modifier on the golem gem, the feeding frenzy gem altogether, and just make them all attack the way that minions are supposed to attack, furiously and all the time.
Just code it in please.

I get what you're saying, but isn't that kind of like asking for Melee Physical Damage Support to always be part of all melee skills?
Some supports are just so insanely good that they become mandatory, but making them free circumvents the opportunity cost that is the entire concept behind support gems in the first place.