Minions DPS

Hi all, im currently playing the " Speaker for the dead " build , as a necro, and i have a question, maybe here i'll have more answers.

How can you calculate minion dps ?

For example on POB : i can have 11 skeletons, each one has a dps of 237 926.

i have Vaal summon with 41 more skells , with same dps.

If you just multiply you have a shaper dps like 12M...but i think it's totaly wrong, because with this kind of dps i'll basicly OS guardians, and it's realy not the case.

SO ? How can you know the dps with minions ?

Its a good question. Ive sort of went my own way with my minion build, favoring speed and fast attacks vs raw damage. I have no way to tell, other than i can see my zombies facerolling higher end content, that my choices are optimal.

I went with zombies as my main 5-6L, skeletons are 4 linked, i still use phantasm, i ignored spectre due to annoying to summon issues...and i use a chaos golem just because. I have a barons with 300 str, the scepter forget its name, and that shield that applies frenzy and power charges on allies when i kill, meaning i can stack charges on my minions. I have no real way to see if this is better than the min/max builds out there

Even the tool tip seems to leave out effects i know are applied to them from other items ect.

It would be nice if there was a DPS training dummy that would spit out an average DPS.

One of the things ive always wanted to know is the DPS effect of one extra minion vs an item that has more minion damage...as well as the effect of added element damages vs physical.

I feel like this round adding faster attacks and minion speed has had great effects on my minions, where in the past ive focused on raw damage.

Also i have an item that reduces the body slam cooldown on zombies so they pretty much spam it...which might be making faster attack much more effective.

It's more a curious question, i've kileld shaper/guardians/uber atziri and it was prety easy, but it seems you can't rely on POb because, like i said before, with 12M dps , Shaper just desapear ^^.

half of the vaal skeletons are ranged which don't do as much damage, and there is a finite number of melee skeletons that can fit around a target to attack it, I usually estimate about 8 so your dps is probably something like 1.5-2mil ish if you get rolling.

Will Vaal summon skeleton increase that? Yes but not by the hard hitters (melee skeletons) because the target is already at its cap for fitting melee attackers nearby.

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Draegnarrr wrote:

half of the vaal skeletons are ranged which don't do as much damage, and there is a finite number of melee skeletons that can fit around a target to attack it, I usually estimate about 8 so your dps is probably something like 1.5-2mil ish if you get rolling.

Will Vaal summon skeleton increase that? Yes but not by the hard hitters (melee skeletons) because the target is already at its cap for fitting melee attackers nearby.

oh i didn't know you had a limit on close range minions, ty for the information