How to kill Mektul with a minion build?

[Shajirr]

I have no problem staying alive, all attacks are easily avoidable, but the fight is timed,
and I can't kill him fast enough until until the molten metal fills all available space,
then its game over.

Unearth is useless for this fight since there are no corpses, same for zombies.

Essence Drain isn't doing much. Same for minion command skills.

So far no matter what I tried I don't have the damage.
Skills are upgraded to max what I can equip, lvl 9,
and I have +3 to minion skills so final level is +12

Tried arsonists, snipers, frost mages, nothing worked.
With my spirit I can summon max 4 total minions,
+2 free warrior skeletons from the scepter.

To have enough dps I'd need like 2 times more, at least...

[Shajirr]

Really not a fan of hard DPS checks.....

[BigRockWall]

You may have to come back later. Also, entirely skippable. Reward is garbage.

That said, I had the same issue on my (admittedly bad at the time) minion build. I was able to get it done by going all in on arsonists + firewall + raging spirits. The arsonists throwing through the firewall was able to damage him while he is in the molten metal and I ended up winning with tons of time to spare.

[GetUrAssToMars]

Let's see here...

Despair hex with skill gem that dot's for 30% of your int

Essence drain and contagion combo to get that additional dot

Dark effigy totem that will attack based off chaos afflictions above

Archer poison gas with corrosion armor helps here.

I had infernalist pup that also contributes his ignite dot for 20% of his Max HP I believe

I beat the forge master with roughly 40% of the arena still clear of lava.

Focus on getting your spell damage up through equips will help tremendously as well. Also chaos damage passives if you have been ignoring those.

[All Day I Dream About🪓]

Mektul? Is that the forge guy? Yeah, also had a problem killing him with my warrior. I just came back later after playing cruel for a bit. In cruel you can get stupidly powerful and next time you meet Mektul in cruel you will pretty much destroy him.