(Witch) Minions are dying all the time

[Cerveyio]

Make minions great again!
Think they should get a great overhaul.
Btw: The spirit system needs love too.. minions cost far too much spirit, so you are not able to build an army...

[GetUrAssToMars]

Make them blow up when they die

[Sombrero]

Game is poorly tuned at the moment but spirit minions are sort of meant to die quickly since they also respawn quickly and you can invest in their defenses through gear and the passive skill tree.

Also in lategame you can summon a cleric that heals your minions and as your skill gems level up minions cost less and less spirit allowing you to grow a significantly bigger army.

With all that being said, it's still really poorly tuned base monsters do way too much damage in the campaign which also impact minions obviously but imagine playing as a Warrior or a Monk instead and getting nuked by trash mobs.

[Tranquil-Dragon]

SRS with Minion instability Flame wall, with the Circle option ( Sorry can't remember name for it.) I also use the ranged bombers for clearing ( 2 ) and the standard two Warriors, with meat shield. Not having many issues yet. finishing ACT 2 now and it's been pretty smooth sailing so far.

[Dailao]

Originally posted by Sombrero:

Game is poorly tuned at the moment but spirit minions are sort of meant to die quickly since they also respawn quickly and you can invest in their defenses through gear and the passive skill tree.

"quickly" is an extremely long time if a pack of enemies is hunting you down and trying to surround you. Not that the minions taunt anyway, but at least they stand in the way and body-block or otherwise distract some of the enemies.

[Cerveyio]

With some additional spirit on the sceptre I am able to summon 2 rangers, 1 bomber and 1 frost mage in addition to the 2 warriors.

It's not that much of an army in my opinion.

And making them die quickly as a design choice is meh...
I think that's not fun at all.
When you play a summoner class it's not fun to re-summon your minions on every trash group.

[SunEarthMewsic]

They made minions as squishy as every other char. It's not that minions are useless but every class is super gimped compared to the monsters.

[Zorop]

Originally posted by Sombrero:

Game is poorly tuned at the moment but spirit minions are sort of meant to die quickly since they also respawn quickly and you can invest in their defenses through gear and the passive skill tree.

Also in lategame you can summon a cleric that heals your minions and as your skill gems level up minions cost less and less spirit allowing you to grow a significantly bigger army.

With all that being said, it's still really poorly tuned base monsters do way too much damage in the campaign which also impact minions obviously but imagine playing as a Warrior or a Monk instead and getting nuked by trash mobs.

The fact that you are limited in the amount of skill gems you can use and the supports gems cannot be duplicated means that you are stuck using the same minions multiple time. There aint no reason to use a cold mage with an arsonist and some sniper.
Minions makes no sense right now, they are always dead, they dont do damage and they are useless beside warriors being free meat shield if you use a scepter.

[Tantrumus]

i gave up on the witch cant beat any bosses since minions are dead in first 5 seconds of any boss encounter. If the witch is meant to be the necro of this game its kinda pointless as it stands. Generally any necro type character will suck when the minions are gone and the same thing holds true here. Shifted to my Ranger never looked back.

[Lumberjack]

Look for weps with + minion life, support sockets add life, etc etc etc etc etc.

[KillJoy]

My brutes have over 30,000 health. They rarely die, and if they do it's because of poor AI pathing.

Explore your passive tree, do a search for minion and you will see a whole bunch of nodes flash that enhance your minion skills.