Why minions build feel so bad ?

I don't understand why minions build so bad ....
what is wrong with it ?
Why so slow ?
What is your recommendation to fix minion build ?

My recommendation is to wait for 0.3 for balance changes.

Same here, just waiting for August new season balance. Minions need to be fixed or i won't play in this season again. I played over 700 hours in 0.1 after 0.2 killed my 3 minion builds level 96 94, 94, i hardly felt motivated to play. Hoping 0.3 will bring back some of the 97% players who stopped playing including myself.

I tried my hardest to make a companion focused build. Was unable to get them to clear even the easiest mobs...

Even transferring their damage nodes back into the player was no where near the scaling you can get from just taking a few crit nodes vs the entire companion damage nodes.