Path of Exile 1 Gameplay Help and Discussion - Minion, Ignite, Fire/Ignite chance, Resistances, Burning damage - Forum

So I've figured out (from searching this forum) that Minion Instability is not effected by +fire/elemental damage nodes. And my understanding that it is effected by +firepentration/miniondamage gems but only by miniondamage nodes? However I am unsure on how say +ignitechance gems work with it. Say I link zombies+firepenetration+ignitechance, is the MI effected by the penetration and also the ingite chance AND is the burning-damage then effected by the penetration as well? Second question is if MI/Minions burning damage is effected by +burning damage nodes. Third question is if %+ to ignite works on minions attacks (Anger aura) and on MI. And if so, effected by +burning damage nodes. Fourth question is if minions benefit from my "penetrate resistance" nodes/items I take it that totems/minions function the same here EDIT: Seems not, since totems copy your own stats and thusly are effected by +elemental/fire damage Thanks! Last edited by Krehlmar#0669 on Jul 18, 2015, 6:55:28 AM	Posted by Krehlmar#0669 on Jul 18, 2015, 6:45:11 AM Quote this Post
Bonuses that apply to you don't also apply to your minions unless stated otherwise, so nothing from your passive tree that doesn't explicitly say 'to minions' will affect anything your minions do. Linked support gems affect skills directly, and all their bonuses linked tho the minion gem are transferred to the summoned minion and will affect all its skills whereever it makes sense to apply. And minion instability counts as a minion skill. So, minion instability, being a fire elemental AoE hit that does secondary damage will be affected by anything that affects that damage form. So, you can use stuff like minion damage (generic damage bonus), concentrated effect, chance to ignite, increased burning, increased AoE or fire penetration. Of course, penetration won't also affect burning from ignite because it doesn't work on damage over time, and bonuses like minion damage or conc effect, which aren't limited to hits or DoT will affect both the direct hit and burning. Wish the armchair developers would go back to developing armchairs. ◄[www.moddb.com/mods/balancedux]► ◄[www.moddb.com/mods/one-vision1]►	Posted by raics#7540 on Jul 18, 2015, 7:10:17 AM Quote this Post
" raics wrote: Bonuses that apply to you don't also apply to your minions unless stated otherwise, so nothing from your passive tree that doesn't explicitly say 'to minions' will affect anything your minions do. Linked support gems affect skills directly, and all their bonuses linked tho the minion gem are transferred to the summoned minion and will affect all its skills whereever it makes sense to apply. And minion instability counts as a minion skill. So, minion instability, being a fire elemental AoE hit that does secondary damage will be affected by anything that affects that damage form. So, you can use stuff like minion damage (generic damage bonus), concentrated effect, chance to ignite, increased burning, increased AoE or fire penetration. Of course, penetration won't also affect burning from ignite because it doesn't work on damage over time, and bonuses like minion damage or conc effect, which aren't limited to hits or DoT will affect both the direct hit and burning. So +to ignite (gem) works on the Anger aura from minions? Thanks a lot for the help! Last edited by Krehlmar#0669 on Jul 18, 2015, 7:32:34 AM	Posted by Krehlmar#0669 on Jul 18, 2015, 7:20:41 AM Quote this Post
Yes, if a minion does at least a bit of fire damage, chance to ignite will do something. Anger aura gives their attacks and spells additional base fire damage. Wish the armchair developers would go back to developing armchairs. ◄[www.moddb.com/mods/balancedux]► ◄[www.moddb.com/mods/one-vision1]►	Posted by raics#7540 on Jul 18, 2015, 7:57:30 AM Quote this Post