AoE damage and summoner's farm

When i roam PoE's tiny world summons are a steamroller, trashing everything with speed that i liturally no need to stand still and wait while they fight. But when it comes to bosses, Dominus especially, minnions vaporise in seconds.

Barely could kill merciless Piety, but still can't do shit to cruel Dominus. Lvl 66.

Only way i see - overlevel, max lvl minion gems and Mon'tregul's Grasp.

But with curret changes boss runs are the main sourse of loot, and for summoner its almost imposible to call boss runs "farming"

So... where do you guys "farm" as summoners?

I could not kill the first form Dominus in Cruel with over leveled character, gems and with 6L in HC.
I wonder how other people are handling the Dominus in Cruel.


Merciless Piety is not that difficult if you use Freeze mine.

Minion instability is your friend against bosses. Even better when you have a infinite supply of skeletons summoned by spell totem. And being a pure summoner is also a bad thing with no way of dpsing yourself, choose a element you like, take a couple perks and do some dmg yourself too.

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maxkardinal wrote:

When i roam PoE's tiny world summons are a steamroller, trashing everything with speed that i liturally no need to stand still and wait while they fight. But when it comes to bosses, Dominus especially, minnions vaporise in seconds.

Barely could kill merciless Piety, but still can't do shit to cruel Dominus. Lvl 66.

Only way i see - overlevel, max lvl minion gems and Mon'tregul's Grasp.

But with curret changes boss runs are the main sourse of loot, and for summoner its almost imposible to call boss runs "farming"

So... where do you guys "farm" as summoners?

+1 totly agree


I specc now to aegis and give my minions shield stats... Hope it helps me out

Btw iam lvl 78.

if you want to play easily through the act's on all difficulties the best build's are:
AOE, Summoner, Tank....

playing a class focused on single target damage is horrendous atm since you deal slightly more damage to a single target than they do as aoe, and since they don't focus on crits they can take the talent so they can ignore crit, crit multiply, and accuracy and thereby just gain even more damage, but what supremely win's is aoe + minion's.... i hope it change's and aoe damage + minion/trap/totem's receive a decent nerf so that they are still better on massive crowd's but not as good as they currently are. it would also be nice to see evasion getting a better scaling since currently you are better of going for str/int than dext. perhap's let evasion have a better chance at evading aoe attack's, otherwise pvp will end up being dominated by fire and lighting spammed everywhere making the field a living hell for a non-tank melee

GGG sould reduce aoe dmg on minions.. Or give them more resists per gem lvl .

Btw minion dmg isnt that high as you think.. All my party members, all 2h or spectral throwers out dps me hard... Its insane how melees scale with gear and 6-7 auras..

the trick is necromatic aegis, coupled with saffels frame to give minions spellblock.

This dude got it right: http://www.twitch.tv/sampudrinker/c/3216032

watch the piety kill in the end, and notice the minion's HP almost not dropping at all.