Minions are dead, crafting is nerfed yet again, Divine apocalypse, but the worst part is...

GGG removed Hyrri's Demise and Dex Stacking Ballista was on the list of builds I want to play. ._.

Most Fated uniques will be deleted in 3.19. Which ones you gonna miss the most?

Minions are dead LOL
softcore QQing once again

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shadowthedead wrote:

Minions are dead LOL
softcore QQing once again

Minions are dead. I can not think of any that is alive in non-machine sense, maybe the harbinger of time?

So OP is mostly right again. Rest in peace zombos, skelekeks, golums...


I know that the "undead" argument is tempting but i'll remind you that your lawn mover is not alive, neither is your computer(yet) and it does things anyway.

They're not dead, they're just not OP as they were
Players will need to use their brain for once and tinker to make it strong

Aint phantasms, SRS and golems actually buffed?

yeap, herald of purity should also be fine.

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shadowthedead wrote:

They're not dead, they're just not OP as they were
Players will need to use their brain for once and tinker to make it strong

b-but the whole point of minions is that you did not have to do any of that in exchange for: more boring gameplay, less powerful much slower endgame, stupid AI(easily the worst part of minion builds), having to babysit and buff them.

Minions also were already very expensive, I understand that if you just run white maps with your skeletons you would not notice how much endgame items actually used to cost.

Helm with element dmg, +3 to minions, supported by minion dmg, hypothermia
was already mirror-tier untill end of the league where they drop to headhunter price because someone eventually makes min-maxed one selling for mirror+50ex fee
Wands with agressive, minion gems, spell gems, minion damage+minion c damage or aura on influenced =mirror again
The difference is that now even the middle-ground gear is going to be expensive.

Because I can not quite imagine someone enjoying the minion gameplay without the early-game benefits I think people will switch to less clunky builds (you know, builds where you do not have to recall your minions every 2 seconds just because they have bad pathing or stay in degen pool which will kill them)

It was something bearable purely because of the "wear tabula rasa and you are golden" attitude. I'm truly curious to see the usage statistics at poeninja this league. I'd not be surprised to see 50% usage drop.


I personally still plan to play minions, as my starter, but I'm sucker for pain.

So the worst part is not losing if you have invested in exalts. Not the part were we do not know exactly if we could craft rerolls with harvest, or the fact that meta moding is harder now, the worst part is that you cannot play a build that has been the go to for 2 leagues now ?

Strange.

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Clownkrieger wrote:

Aint phantasms, SRS and golems actually buffed?

Yup. Stone Golems are real good now.

Skeletons and Spectres will still do all Uber bosses on bot mode player inputs.

Why stone golems are gucci now? Didn't see anything on the manifesto or w\e its called

*Edit - Okay,
Golems deal 96-120 to 132-160 Added Attack Physical Damage.

Does this go for "all golems" or golems summoned by clay?