Minions overpowered af

It would seem that since you shifted some of power from gems to items. Certain minion mechanics got power boost as result. Such as Minion instability or infernal legion.

Can't say for sure that is only reason, but currently volatile SrS feels so insanely overpowered compared to anything else. You reach map clear levels of speed basically moment you pick infernal legion and this will maintain till forever. The ST dps is also incomparable.

All that. Not having to aim, not having to do anything just press button map is cleared. Very convenient easy DPS powerful and meat wall safe build.

It's nearly impossible for them not to be, unless they're so weak they become useless. There's not really a middle ground. Minion-heavy builds offer an incomparable survivability benefit: defensive depth. The fact that you have a nearly 1:[targetableMinions+1] chance that enemies are distant and not even targeting you during combat is something you can't nerf unless those minions can get blown away by a baby fart.

For this reason, including minions should be interpreted as an intentional decision to include a game mode that lowers reactive difficulty and (if done correctly, which PoE does better than any other game on the market) raises planning difficulty proportionally. The minions *do* suck if you don't know how to build for them. Of course, if you just follow somebody else's build from the start, this means you're hardly playing the game at all, but it's kind of your fault if you decide to make it a walking simulator and then don't like it.

I've mained necro since D2, and I'm perfectly willing to admit why: I'm a scrub. I panic easily, my reaction time is garbage, I'm not good at reading the screen. But as a necro, because I'm good enough at building to make something half-decent on my own, I have a way to play the game at my own pace. Without that, I'd likely be unable to learn the game well enough to try other builds. That's what minions in ARPGs are for: learning and experiencing the game without much executive skill.

I see you're ssfhc, in early maps+safe mod rolls. Sure.

If we are talking juiced content at higher tier maps. No.

Infernal legion and instability falls off sharply.. Yellow to red border. You dont even have a 6 link so it will happen even faster than that I would assume.

And you can forget using it in single target at all, it wont do jack at higher levels, youll be summoning them so much that you wont have 20 of them cause of legion/instability.

You're 69 chill, not even at hard content yet.

No man, I can no brain essences at last tile in Lake and I run alch/ unidentified maps since my first map char.

The thing that bother me a bit, it's so god damn powerful. Really really hard to compare. And very very easy and cheap to achieve. I can invest almost everything in defense, auras tree all defense etc. and still have one of best ST dps and one of best clear.
If it drop off into red maps, well by that time ima have farmed actual real items so I doubt it gets much weaker.

Again... You are on the equivalent of white-non roll mapped difficulty just wait.

You wont get anywhere with that once you get to.. you know actual difficult content.



And good luck rolling the +2 minion helm btw I hear its hard as hell to roll, same goes for the amulet/ bone rings/ wands.

No idea how youll end up on ssf with all SRS requires on the high end. Needs some extremely silly stuff.

you talking about white maps?
cuz thats not the real picture, mate

Will see if I get there. Last round I drop to stupid fat magic pack with poison Archnemesis 81 lvl 6tier maps.

And I am telling you I was alching maps straight up had 30 alche is enuf. There wasn't any danger, ima just focus on getting 75 chaos res as oppose to 20. I be immortal :P

Still tho guys its way to powerful and fun when you compare it to other stuff, wheres you might need some item at least even if not a build enabler.

a bow build will kill monsters even further away them that
minion explosions isnt good enough i assure you
i already made explosive skellys tanky and dropping 8 skellys at once that exploded in half a second

im telling you its not enough cuz life pool on monsters sky rocket on levels and you would not be able to get much survivability

and investing highly on minions to explode fast make them not tanky so monsters will rush to you if you dont oneshot them

I've been to red maps and if your build is right you can still skate compared to other builds, but it DOES get harder. The game doesn't reward completely incompetent play. Just mostly incompetent.