Dark Effigy not working with many gems

Dark Effigy is TOTEM and a SPELL.

It is said in the Totem tooltip that Totems are not minions

1.Elemental Discharge

-The game enables Elemental Discharge to support Dark Effigy.

-Elemental discharge can't support minions skills, so would be ok since Dark Effigy is a TOTEM.

-We could say it don't work because the totem have no INT stats, but Dark Effigy still benefits from all Chaos DMG and Spell DMG from my tree, so won't make sense.

-Even if the statement above happens to be true, Elemental Discharge should even proc, that would cause the projectiles to CONSUME freeze, shock, ignite on hit, which is not happening.

2.Mana Flare

-The game enables Mana Flare to support Dark Effigy.

-Mana Flare can't support minions skills, so would be ok since Dark Effigy is a TOTEM.

-We could say it don't work because the totem have no MANA, but Dark Effigy still benefits from all Chaos DMG and Spell DMG from passive tree, so won't make sense.

3.Bursting Plage

-Using Envenom with Dark Effigy enables it to poison.

-Adding Bursting Plage don't do nothing to the poison caused by Dark Effigy.