Compilation of Minion related shit in Awakening =)

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POE Beta DB
Awakening Unique
Minion Stat Values Sheet
Full Screen shot of tree
Minion damage and added damage interaction
Mob stats - good info for spectre

Reddit Discussions related to minions
Related to zombies + Fortify

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Obviously a change that is in progress but just from this sentence we can speculate that minions will probably gain some innate damage reduction against unique type mobs.

Also the possible AI changes on minions means our character will be targeted more often which if your running a more tanky summoner this shouldn't matter.

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Rallying Cry - Link


Thoughts: Probably not going to replace flesh offering as that skill is more of a consistent damage boost but this does seem like a worthy enough to warrant a slot you have have one. Not much else to say but a straight up damage boost to your minions and granting yourself some mana regen.

As the numbers are now at level 20 with maybe 20ish mobs that u can land this skill on you can gain about a 50% damage boost. For all your minions and teammates. Honestly not a bad skill as you move from pack to pack. Base duration is 6s which is kinda sweet once tack on some duration stats

Abyssmal Cry - Link


Thoughts: This is interesting. I wonder if you could grab chaos damage stat and boost the damage since your casting the skill. If you combine this with the Grasp you can deal 28% of the mobs life as an AOE explosion. That is pretty good. The slow utility is also helpful.

This is one of those skills where it needs testing before you can tell if its good.

Summon Chaos Golem - Link


Thoughts: Buff wise it seems like the only

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Fortify - Link


Fortify buff grants 25% damage reduction from all sources.

Thoughts: This could be huge for melee minion survivability when it comes to bosses. A flat 25% reduction that works on anything physical , elemental, degen. Could really give our zombies a boost when facing high damage aoe elemental damage bosses.
Keeping this gem in your inv may be a good idea to switch to before a hard boss fight.

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The Whispering Ice - Link


Thoughts: A spell that can compliment minions nicely. As far as I know it leaves a chill ground that slows enemies by 30% which can stack with temporal chains resulting in a very nice utility. Staff also functions as a double 6L so you can 6L your Icestorm skill with a spell based spectre. It also scales with Int and summoner builds generally have a lot of travel nodes invested in int.

Sire of Shards - Link


Thoughts: This staff alone creates a lot more variety when it comes to spectre choices. It will be a 7L that grants projectile based spectre/or golems the ability to deal AOE around them.

Definitely a lot of potential here when combined with some kind of movement skill + convocation in to a pack.

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Passive build changing Jewels


Thoughts: So many possibilities it deserves its own section: Tree Interactions/Changes

Other Jewels

Thoughts: Meh. I think in most situations your skeles are gonna die,timeout before you reach your maximum count. Could be an interesting support build to literally flood the place with minions.

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3 points to dual curse

Saves us a pt
Or the other path: seems to be one more curse effectiveness node
Also new location for minion instability, wonder if there is going to be any changes to this node its still a shit node in its current form.

Holy fucking shit



I think the radius is large enough to take blast radius =D


Huge investment of pts but you can potentially grant minions dodge


Reverse EE. So wtf does that mean? It means your minions will be able to stack -50% of an element for you. Very good for elemental builds that grabbed a golem for support.


Good for party support oriented builds. You can share charges to your party members generated by minions. not 100% sure if this means charges for minions but I doubt it.


Good amount of regen 2.2% for your minions. Probably a bad investment for 4 pts.


Berzerking for your minions.
Vaal Pact for your minions. Negates regen stat completely but you might be able to tank bosses now with life leach and enough max life to survive 2-3 or so hits.

Leap



Huge investment but you might be able to take spell dodge without taking Acrobatics


If you think the 3 pt investment is worth you can gain Infused Shield. Great for Hybrid builds and Blood magic builds

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Pretty hard to gather info here until some summoner in beta makes some vids with a tabula rasa or something

Dried Lake > Tornado Shot Archers
RS + GMP + Faster Attack + Physical Projectile Damage + Pierce + Added Fire Dmg

Mines Level 2 > Chaos Sentinel
Looks like these leave a corspe.

Unsure how to link properly until I can test it myself.

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Has it been confirmed anywhere that minions will grant golem's buffs?

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Deathtiny2266 wrote:

one new specter-option in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYrRY5pOMa0&feature=youtu.be