All Minions auto unsummoned when I changed sub-ascendency specialization

Lvl 83 Guardian playing a minion build. Changed sub-ascendency from to warden of the maji to wildwood primalist while in the wildwood. It appeared the first kill quest was already completed because I was able to right away grab the next two slots. Immediately after grabbing the new sub-ascendancy and assigning all the slots, I left the menus and noticed all my minions were gone! Zombies, spectres, animated guardian, carrion golem. Oddly, the holy relic remained. The animated guardian, when resummoned, still had all his gear. The spectres though! Just one of them cost me 3 divine. I feel like I'm going to throw up. That was expensive bug.