Questions Regarding Witch Minions

[can'tdecide]

So I've been playing Witch since I bought the game, thought I'd do another zombie/revived army with corpse explosion as my big dmg dealer.

Through lvl 20~ I put skills into minion dmg/hp and used gear that boosted "allies" which includes minions stats, etc.

Now, I genuinly thought this was a Souls like game, between my dots and minions, bosses would take 10-15min with half a dozen attempts.

I get to the Mammoth and the Wizard and cannot outlast them both for the life of me, so I buy BoneStorm. I proceed to wipe the elephant out within 5 volleys and then chip away at the Wizard with ease. Hardest boss to date, killed in <5min. Since then, I've taken a powercharge spell to boost BoneStorm and realized that minions are entirely useless. Their dmg, their tankiness, everything about them served 0 purpose and all it took was 2 spells and 5 support gems to outdue all I had speced for.

Please tell me buffs or fixes are on the way for minions. Maybe it's me? Was there a stat/skill I missed for making minions viable?

[Acronen]

At that stage in the game, for minion builds Summon Raging Spirits and flame wall is still pretty much carrying minion builds.

Minion builds are also entirely way, way, way too reliant on + to minion skills on gear. With that at any stage in the game minions are powerful (the more you get, the more ridiculous they get.) Without, they are extremely weak.

Edit: Also, if you are trying to use Zombies, they are pretty weak at all stages. They are decent if you use power charges to summon them (through profane ritual spell to get charges, etc.)

[Fluffy Bunny of Despair]

Without Summon Raging Spirits minion builds do not feel good to level with.
But with it, its insane.

In the endgame however its the opposite. SRS is still good but the minions carry you.

[can'tdecide]

Ty you guys, at what level does summon raging spirits become available?

[Fluffy Bunny of Despair]

Originally posted by can'tdecide:

Ty you guys, at what level does summon raging spirits become available?

12 ish?! when you get your first spirit gem (its under elemental iirc)

[Fluffy Bunny of Despair]

You then trigger that with flame wall

[can'tdecide]

Dead* Of course it's something I don't have the gem for, support and skill gems are abundant though -_- alright I'll keep it in mind and nab flamewall, thanks!