Yriel's Fostering Exquisite Leather Minion question.

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1453R wrote:

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kompaniet wrote:

hmm you could maybe use yriel's fostering together with the scourge (unique claw) as a melee build and scale your damage from minion modifiers. that way you'd get a much stronger minion too.

you'd have to use a melee projectile attack like frost blades/molten strike or spectral throw or something to take full advantage of the chest's two projectile modifiers.

That'd probably be better to do on a Witch start, rather than a Ranger. Dun gemme wrong, dual Scourge Spectral Throw w/Fostering could be badass, but all the minion damage on the tree is between/around Witch and Templar, literally as far away as it can possibly get from Ranger. There's also a whole lot less of it than people think without Necromancer minor passives, especially compared to stacking projectile/physical/bow bonuses around Ranger for more traditional Rangery builds. I've tried configuring hybridy builds like that; if you can get a hundred percent increased minion damage in the tree (before Scourges) on a non-Necromancer class you're going really well.

Compare more typical weapon builds able to pick up +500% Increased basically for free with a reasonably efficient tree and...yeah. Considering all those Scourge minion bonuses can't double-dip anymore and the build would only have the one minion for those minion bonuses to affect, I'm not sure how awesome that'd be.

I mean, unless you have some Rigwald's Crests handy and start summoning big packs of spectral wolves to benefit from your stacked-up minion damage bonuses. At which point yeah, that sounds astonishingly badass. Get your Wyld Hunt on, bruh.