New minion base items.

The current game provides three minion mod bases.

Convoking Wand, Bone shield, and Bone ring.

These item bases are meant to be used for Necromancer originally, I guess.

Of course, there are no limitations to any class, but you never imagine a holy guardian summoner with a necromantic wand and shield. that's a Necromancer, right?

Sometimes meme is everything. I want my character looks like a HOLY guardian.

Just like the Guardian character profile image.

So, I ask for base items that match the Guardian summoner.

New scepter and shield. And ring maybe.

Won't happen. That's what MTX is for.

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TemjinGold wrote:

Won't happen. That's what MTX is for.

Actually minion weapons besides literal (wands) are needed badly, Wands are a ranged weapon and can't use a number of attacks such as melee types.

Sceptres, shields and staffs make sense for the templar and it would not necessarily be for the templar but fill a gap allowing it and most other classes to open up their potential builds a bit.

@OP I play a Guardian Necromancer every league, I too wish for the same stuffs.
Feel free to snoop the account :P

Food for thoughts:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3227236

I don't disagree it could use a scepter. But there are already shields and rings for minions. I doubt they will make new ones of those when all that the OP is after is how they look rather than how they function differently. That literally is the realm of MTX.

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TemjinGold wrote:

I don't disagree it could use a scepter. But there are already shields and rings for minions. I doubt they will make new ones of those when all that the OP is after is how they look rather than how they function differently. That literally is the realm of MTX.

You're right. A scepter is of course necessary for skill diversity, but rings and shields are just for the look.

I think how the character is to be seen matters, but more importantly, what my character is wearing is important too.

I, myself a long-time Paladin mania, It's very weird to equip some Bone-based item when I play a guardian.
under the circumstance, It is mandatory for any minion build because of minion resistance.

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TemjinGold wrote:

Won't happen. That's what MTX is for.

MTX can be used for that matched item base.

The point is, if u think of a Paladin, a holy summoner, you would imagine a person with a scepter and decent kite shield.

Perhaps guardian-like minion-based items should have existed a long time ago when the Convoking wand came up. (3.9 patch)

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SilentSymphony wrote:

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TemjinGold wrote:

Won't happen. That's what MTX is for.

Actually minion weapons besides literal (wands) are needed badly, Wands are a ranged weapon and can't use a number of attacks such as melee types.

Sceptres, shields and staffs make sense for the templar and it would not necessarily be for the templar but fill a gap allowing it and most other classes to open up their potential builds a bit.

@OP I play a Guardian Necromancer every league, I too wish for the same stuffs.
Feel free to snoop the account :P

Food for thoughts:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3227236

I could not agree more.

After the split for caster staff / warstaff, there arent actually all that many world drop caster staff types. But Scepters have TONS of redundant components, that one of those could EASILY be repurposed into a minion basetype.

My vote would be:

Darkwood Scepter / Grinning Fetish / Karui Scepter (though maybe rename the karui base)
and replace the implicit - Minions deal 20% increased damage



and then make a new staff type for minions, with 20% chance to block attack damage.

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Thror2k5 wrote:

After the split for caster staff / warstaff, there arent actually all that many world drop caster staff types. But Scepters have TONS of redundant components, that one of those could EASILY be repurposed into a minion basetype.

My vote would be:

Darkwood Scepter / Grinning Fetish / Karui Scepter (though maybe rename the karui base)
and replace the implicit - Minions deal 20% increased damage



and then make a new staff type for minions, with 20% chance to block attack damage.

That would be great I think.

I miss carrying a huge sword even if my witch never actually swung the thing. It had a cool backstory about a queen that fits quite nicely with minions theme

Make queen decree/escape great again, loved the concept of that sword and im sad its basically unusable atm