Minions skill tree help

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Saltychipmunk wrote:

Rule of thumb if it doesn’t explicitly say minions then it doesn’t effect minions

that is the extent of what you will get in terms of direct methods from the tree. There are some exceptions to this where an underlying base stat is used .. for example increased skill effect duration does not say minions in it . but but the act of summoning a minion is a skill (even if the minion you summon is a separate entity) thus their duration is effected by that node but the duration of any skills they cast is not effected by that same node because again the act of summoning them is separate .

After that point you need to get creative and look for indirect methods


minions are considered entities specifically allies (note they are NOT party members)
Which means things that explicitly say "allies" means it can effect minions .


thus auras (which affect allies) affect your minions


also things that target enemies monsters can indirectly help your minions.

ie curses .


But then you can work around the fact that minions are not you. a good example of this is elemental equilibirum.

EE makes it so whenever you specifically attack something with an attack of a given element .. the target gains 25% resistance to that element and lose 50% to the other two. To someone who attacks with say fire .. that is worthless.


But to a summoner that has a minion that does say cold or lightning damage.. using a fire spell to proc EE means the target monster is less vulnerable to you (the fire source) but a shitload more vulnerable to your minions (the cold / lightning damage source)

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if this confuses you then perhaps it might be better to consider minions two concepts
1 the act of summoning the minion (the spell part)
2 the minion itself ( the entity or minion part)

for example

Notice how it says Spell and minion.

you would argue from those names that spell damage should effect minions .. it technically does, but only for that first part.

you are casting a spell , summon zombie , the spell itself does zero damage .. you are just turning a corpse into a zombie. thus while you could get spell damage.. it would be pointless because the spell you are casting does no damage.

if you were to get cast speed .. then you would be able to summon the zombie faster because of the spell tag is effected by cast speed.

However the zombie you summon is not your spell. it is an entity created by it. so your cast speed cant effect it because technically your spell was already cast . its done.

that is where the minion tag comes in. the minion tag specifically targets those entities you summon.