Summon skeletons not working properly

Anyone having a issue with summon skeletons? I have 2 tree passives that give plus 1 to skeletons, plus a From Dust jewel that gives plus 2, so I should have 9 skeletons total. if I put the spell on a spell totem the counter at top of the screen says I'm getting 8, though it seems like it is counting the spell totem as 1 of the 8...this is harder to see exactly what is going on because you can not get the skeletons to cast via totem unless there are enemies by. If I take it off the spell totem I only get 7.. which is also part of the reason it seems like the counter counts the spell totem as a skeleton.

If I go to my hideout and remove the spell totem I only get 7 skeletons both with and with the From Dust jewel? unless I am missing something I should have to extra from the 2 passives, 2 extra from the jewel, and the standard up to 5 from the skill

Anyone else having an issue like this?

thanks

The totem is counted on the icon. I think years ago Mark or somebody else explained why. But it's working as intended.

edit: sorry misread

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Abdiel_Kavash wrote:

I don't have the jewel myself to test, but I believe that the "Summon 2 additional Skeleton Warriors with Summon Skeleton" modifier affects how many skeletons you summon with one cast of the skill (so 3 total with the jewel). It is not the same as the "+X to maximum number of Skeletons" modifier (and does not actually raise your maximum number of skeletons).

Is this what you're observing?

This exactly.

If you want more Skellies, get more passive nodes. The jewel only summons 3 instead of 1 per cast.