How do Minion Builds work?

At lower levels find / buy / craft yourself a +1 minion gem blue item, this will make a lot of difference in their survivability and offense.

You have to wonder why they haven't fixed the scaling of minions yet. Do they think 30 life at lvl 1 is good or something?

"

Rathik2 wrote:

"

AnimateMe wrote:

All,

I made a witch and I know I am only level 5 but man ... zombies die so fast. I just got my Minion Master or whatever passive, and I am constantly re-casting them. I hate having to do lots of re-casts, and I have never cleared the tidal flats and mud flats slower on a character.

So I am sure I just need to pump my minion passives, but it just makes me wonder. Are summoners constantly re-casting minions? Or do they ever become hardy?

And can you build for minions + wands? I kinda dont want to cast spells other than summons, curses, and then direct target wand action. But I am open to other options.

But I guess I am just feeling uncertain based on my struggle so far.

Thanks!

I am a summoner, check out my build

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMAAW8HYxCXEVAR2xSwFVAV1xbzGmwc3B3ZJjwnqSj6KpgquiymLL8vnTQKN2Y3gzgbOVI6MDvhPI5DVEQERZ1GcUjnTblObU-_VmNXK1fJWAdakWKVaqxr220Zc1N6qn0Yfll_xoLHhEiFYIauiECLeo9GkDORz5I4kyeVIJrgm6Gdrp97oqOmrKbrpwinK6h9qsSsmLJwtAy4k7vWvDe_l8BUwcXB88NtyT3MvNDQ0_vXhtkL2t3i9-QR5oHquuvu7BjsivIe99f6gA==


Full magic find


You can check my gear here


http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/217933

That is almost the build I am planning to run. I take it I will need these +30 dex/str nodes. I want 2x body and soul/mind and matter in templar tree instead of some of the nodes you have though.

Early on you need to rely on your own damage output. Ice Nova the earliest levels and then Freezing Puls/Fireball etc.

Like others have stated in this thread, minions (mainly your zombies) don't get any good until later levels. I would take all the minion nodes as early as possible as the more you have the better you survive.

Try to link your zombie gems to gems like these early on for survivability and then add to them later.

I'm level 75 now and this is my current passive tree :



and this is my current gear : (I play solo and self find only so my gear isn't all that good)



I use Burned Miscreations from Lunaris 2/3 as spectres and they do insane damage. I'm testing this zombie setup, my zombies have now 12k hp but had with minion life gem 15k+.

I solo maps easy, but I warn you, very few will want to group with you since having 28 minions runnning around really hurts FPS for many ;)