Is there a way to stop minions from attacking?

So, purely nerding into minmaxing my impale champion and realising my sentinels of purity do not have impale chance I would like to either give them full impale chance OR stop them attacking completely so the intended target (the boss) has full impale stacks on him to maximize the added damage I get from shattering steel.

Any summoners with a solution to this?

One workaround could be "spell totem - convocation" just to keep them away from the boss but I'm not sure how to get around the 3 second cooldown.
It's probably easier using a high level dread banner and linking HoP to impale while also going for increased aura effect but I'd hate to lose the adrenaline buff from war banner, especially since I don't need DB to cap my own impale chance.

Meat Shield Support? It will make 'em defensive but will not likely stop them from attacking at close range.

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It changes the minions' behaviour to be defensive, causing them to stay close to their owner and prioritise attacking enemies close to their owner.

Meatshield wont help.
Nearby enemies will still aggro the minions and they will attack. It just reduces the aggro range, thats all.

However you could link HoP to blind w/o reserving more mana.
So they are doing at least something useful by blinding bosses and reducing their accuracy by 50%, which is a solid defensive layer in itself.

If you can afford it mana-wise, you could also link HoP to maim. So they can slow down enemies and increase phys dmg taken by 10%, which is a 10% more dmg multi overall.


So no, you cant stop them from attacking, but you can make sure they are contributing something useful for your build.

I already have them linked to maim and I just realised that using a convocation totem would be terribly inefficient since I have other totems that contribute much more to my damage than the 1 or 2 impale stacks they might cause to fall off before my cyclone replenishes them =) The blind is an option but not terribly relevant to my dps unless I spec into the damage nodes related to it but those nodes will also make blind support irrelevant since I will be blinding on hit myself.

I will probably end up linking HoP to impale and maim in either helm or boot slots. If I was not using HoP for maim I could run flesh and stone also for a slighly stronger maim or once I go crit later on I can get free maim on crit from "dismembering" node.

Haha, I have it now!
I can simply not use the minons! I should still be able to run the herald without minions if i get the "chains of command" armor =)
It's still inferior to a bodyarmor thats actually good though...
The minons however account for less than 1% of my total damage and I am supremely convinced that having even 1 impale end prematurely because of them means they are actually costing me more dps than they contribute :D