Have i missed something here - Witch minion class absolutely gutted / unplayable....???

[God Loves You]

After 400 hours playing Poe2, About 300 of them as a witch minion infernalist, why have GGG absolutely murdered the class... it wasn't even very good super end game? u still had to learn and beat boss mechanics and could still die to 1 shots and Some super buffed elites

Minion damage nerfed into ground late game
5 of the main chase items for the build specifically nerfed into the ground
Gems removed
hell hound all but uselsess now
+4 scepter instead of +5
Energy shield decimated - NO grim feast
Fireball decimated because it causes screen stutter and they cant resolve it
Raging spirits useless now
firewall damage halved

What is even left of the build?

[Kalas Hydra]

specters will have to save us all . also maybe the rare beast capture gem but they are REALLY expensive in spirit cost . like 41% of total spirit for a beast with 2 enchants . IF i can get rare beast with haste aura for like 30% spirit i would still prob use it
also yea i will go lich , was thinking about infernal but they made it bad to force us lich . so ill go the unholi might talent for dmg and ♥♥♥♥ around withcurses or something

[Duodecimus]

The base reason why popular builds got nerfed is to make people play new stuff.
Other minions got a little stomped to ensure people would do spectres.

[God Loves You]

I planned to start a fresh and go solo self found anyway ( the trading system is this game using outside websites is a total joke for a game in 2025...

But killing the infernalist class, just to force us to play lich with curses is the dumbest ♥♥♥♥ ever seen. i have 0 Interest in playing that or the huntress....

[Chaos Guard]

There were almost no rituals in this game, it was hard to get to the boss. It was very long and tedious to get to the arbiter, to look for monoliths. In general, the game is trash

[侍Kage]

Originally posted by God Loves You:

I planned to start a fresh and go solo self found anyway ( the trading system is this game using outside websites is a total joke for a game in 2025...

But killing the infernalist class, just to force us to play lich with curses is the dumbest ♥♥♥♥ ever seen. i have 0 Interest in playing that or the huntress....

Curses have 1.5 seconds delay now (it was 1 second) i don't want to play curse build with that delay. I'll be goin different class.

[CriTical]

dont waste your time with the new league.
player counts will go up to 150k and back on 20k after 3 days

[DirtyMick]

100 new support gems, 100 new uniques. Yes, you missed a lot.

[Hugemoron]

im bummed about the scepter +spirit gem quality *fix*

[Thr4shmetal]

my INF build is doing 4mil damage a sec, and im immortal. I can see why they want to nerf it, lol

[UltraBrutalTechies]

What's even point of infernalist ascendancy? Hellhound is just cosmetic pet now, any other class have better minion specific skills lol

[akmrmoto]

Minons are for weak people