What does "consume" in the reaper gem mean?

The gem information implies that the minions are "consumed",
so my question would be,
do you think this might work with Minion Instability,
or is it just one of this cases where they think that might be too overpowered,
and have their corpses vanish.

My plans would be otherwise,
having my reaper use the infernal legion gem, so he is forced to heal(consume),
my minions (golems or zombies), and use the liege of primordial node to auto-sustain his fodder xD

Just kidding, probably wont league start with this, just wanted to know your opinions.

I honestly don't see the long-term usefulness of a single melee minion in a game with packs of monsters everywhere. Clear speed will suffer and you become a large target.

Unless you constantly resummon minions as meat shields so your character isn't targeted as often.

I don't know, it doesn't feel like it fits in modern POE. You need AOE and a lot of it, and minion builds get that through having many minions.

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IceKingLP wrote:

do you think this might work with Minion Instability,

No, Instability only triggers when a minions at low HP, not death to prevent resummoning them procing explosions. So if consume totally destroys a minion, it won't trigger. It would have to only lower their HP

Means that reaper is hungry af. OPEN UP HEHE

Will see ofc.

But expect reaper will be useful on lvls 30-50 only. On higher ones you'll likely will be hugely overwhelmed by hordes of monsters, not to speak even about juiced red maps.

Averall looks like lvling skill, not more.

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DarkJen wrote:

Will see ofc.

But expect reaper will be useful on lvls 30-50 only. On higher ones you'll likely will be hugely overwhelmed by hordes of monsters, not to speak even about juiced red maps.

Averall looks like lvling skill, not more.

Exactly. It might be useful for bosses but will probably get you killed everywhere else. That's what I said earlier too, and what I first thought when I saw it on the stream.

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MrSparkle001 wrote:

Exactly. It might be useful for bosses but will probably get you killed everywhere else. That's what I said earlier too, and what I first thought when I saw it on the stream.

Cheers, exile! xD

Can't wait to see the Sirius A8 reaper build. You're only tempting fate for thinking their won't be one. You do realize many other types of minions can be used to fuel the reaper right that are not hard summons such as SRS, Skellies Dominating Blow Minions or now, Absolution?

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Necrotekk wrote:

Can't wait to see the Sirius A8 reaper build. You're only tempting fate for thinking their won't be one. You do realize many other types of minions can be used to fuel the reaper right that are not hard summons such as SRS, Skellies Dominating Blow Minions or now, Absolution?

Yeah I've been thinking the best way to use the reaper will probably not be in a build that uses necromancer and normally relies on minions like zombies, skelly mages or spectres.

I'm also looking forward to testing it with a summon skeletons totem. I haven't used one of those in like seven years. I'm also not expecting it to perform as well as a spectre build. It can't the way the game is currently designed.

Using a popcorn SRS/Skellies build I realized exactly this. You can esentially fuel the reaper using monions that are summoned offhand. My question is how well the reaper scales. Reaper could also end up being a more support minion anyways. I strongly doubt we will see a reaper only build as I doubt the aoe is enough, but I do not doubt we will see a reaper build using some type of minion army.

I personally want to do a Absolution+ Herald of purity build, possibly with golems.