Do minions benefit from charges, auras and equipment?

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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Ariana wrote:

Charges work on Minions, particularly with Warlord's Mark, but Conduit does not. Auras and Totems also work with Minions.

To add on to this question, however, I'd like to ask whether Minions benefit from the Passive Skill Tree or not. Ie, if I take Arcing Blows and my Minions have the Wrath Aura up, will they take Arcing Blows into account, or will I be the only one to benefit from that?

No. Your minions don't have your passive skills, you do. If you have a passive increasing your fire damage, then your fire damage is increased. Your minions do not have that passive (or any passives), and thus their fire damage is not increased.

The only passives that can affect minions are the ones which give you a bonus that explicitly modifies your minions.


Totems are not minions, and work completely differently. A totem does not have skills of it's own, but uses your skills. Since your skills are affected by your passives, they still are when they are cast by your totems. However, the totem does not itself have your stats, so does not benefit from your defensive passives - only the spells cast by the totem get your stats, because they're your spells, just cast via the totem. The totem itself uses it's own stats to defend with.

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Whoaness wrote:

Just to get clarification, minion instability damage also increases from +minion damage % passives?

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wizard_6 wrote:

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Whoaness wrote:

Just to get clarification, minion instability damage also increases from +minion damage % passives?

As far as I know currently it does not due to engine limitations. Iirc from older posts MI works like this currently - minion explodes and insted of doing damage that can be affected by all sorts of bonuses (like minion damage passives/support gem) it just substracts a set number (in this case minion hp) from monsters hp. Tho I'm not sure if it even counts as fire damage atm thus it might be bypassing monster resists.