Theorycraft: 8+ Aura, Low-Life DOMINATRIX

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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Battosai03 wrote:

1. Exactly what auras effect minions?

All of them. Monsters, including minions, do have both mana and armour in general.

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Battosai03 wrote:

2. What support gems affect auras?

Increased area will increase the area of an aura, concentrated effect will reduce it, but since an aura doesn't deal damage, there will be no benefit to do so.
Auras don't deal damage, so cannot benefit from added lightning damage or similar supports.

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Battosai03 wrote:

3. What is the max amount of aruas you can use and which ways can you reduce the reserved mana?

There is no theoretical maximum. Anything that reduces mana reservations (not mana costs - auras don't have those) will reduce them (all "reduced" modifiers apply additively. The Mortal Conviction notable grants less mana reservation, which stacks multiplicatively with the reduced multipliers. The Reduced Mana support gem has a mana multiplier of less than 100%, which reduces the base reservation of the skill before any of those apply. There are no caps on reduced reservation.

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Battosai03 wrote:

4. What support gems effect minions?

Any support that's on a minion gem will have it's stats applied as part of the minion's base stats, effectively supporting all skills used by the minion. So a minion which uses attacks can benefit from faster attacks, and one that casts spells can benefit from faster casting. Almost all supports can apply to at least some minions in this way (Raise Spectre and Dominating Blow accept a much wider range of support gems since they can make any monster your minion, where something like Raise Zombie can only do melee attacks). Any support applying to gem will apply it's mana multiplier to the cost of creating the minion, regardless of whether the minion you're summoning will get any benefit from it - so linking GMP to spectres and then raising things that don't use projectiles is suboptimal.
Minions are separate entities with their own life and mana, and will leech /life gain for themselves, not you.

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Battosai03 wrote:

5. Regarding minions and passive skill tree boosts, from poking around I realized that aside from minion specific nodes minions are NOT affected by passive boosts in the skill tree.

Correct. Minions are not you. They haven't assigned points into the passive tree to get bonuses - you have. If you get a passive skill that increases your fire damage, then your fire damage is increased. Your minion's fire damage is entirely separate and unaffected. No passive skill can apply to minions except those that explicitly sayt hey have an effect on minions.

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Battosai03 wrote:

6. In regards to minion instability, is hp of the minion the only factor that decides the dmg. While I understand that increased fire dmg etc. from your skill tree won't work what if you have support gems on your minion like increased dmg and added fire/lightning dmg? Will those also stack with minion instability?

Any relevant increases to damage that the minion has will increase the damage it deals when it explodes. It's life supplies the base damage, and all it's damage increases apply to that.

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Battosai03 wrote:

7. Lastly what kind of spectres do most people use?

That's not a question I can answer.