Unable to beat act 1 boss because my build (minion only witch) can't really do anything.

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What exactly is the purpose of having so many skills, effects, weapons when I'm basically being guided into a pre build of what the devs want me to. All of the bosses and enemies are easy, but still my minions are still going down like they are paid to.

Because the boss doesn't spawn enemies on the second fight I'm just left trying to take it down with 40dps, and that's boring.

This isn't a skill issue it's just I don't feel like building out a build that I don't really find fun, wanted to do the old Diablo II Necro. Even most of the things that I would like to try and do is forcing me into a chaos witch. I don't see what marks this different than any other cookie cutter ARPG other than it leans towards a darksouls vibe.

[ominumi]

I don't think people realize minions should only do about 50% of the player's DPS. Spamming Left click should put in the other 50%.

[robruckus65]

ominumi a écrit :

I don't think people realize minions should only do about 50% of the player's DPS. Spamming Left click should put in the other 50%.

No it shouldnt if you invest fully in minions like all of your damage comes from minions. It's also like the best build for witch with what is available in the game. For spelldamage you are better off making a sorc you do more damage with none of the witch downsides of blood mage or demon form.

[Lyote]

robruckus65 a écrit :

ominumi a écrit :

I don't think people realize minions should only do about 50% of the player's DPS. Spamming Left click should put in the other 50%.

No it shouldnt if you invest fully in minions like all of your damage comes from minions. It's also like the best build for witch with what is available in the game. For spelldamage you are better off making a sorc you do more damage with none of the witch downsides of blood mage or demon form.

The heck you on about?
if you took every single Minion damage node across the entire tree, You'd still have points to put into Spell Damage.
I presently have +100% Spell Damage and +160% Minion damage.

I'm only level 48, So i have way more nodes to pick up and way better gear to acquire.
Average damage per hit per minion is between 100~150 depending on type.
Even if you gave them the biggest benefit of the doubt and say theyre doing 1500 dps... Bone Blast alone pushes 1800 dps AND breaks armour.
Not even considering that i have Frost Bomb active all the time and throw Unleash Comets every time they stack between Bone Blasts.

If your minions are half of your damage, You are doing something very very wrong with them.
They are excellent utility tools, They serve a purpose. Theyre not meant to play the game for you.

[sirius_black9999]

your problem is "minion only"
why are you deliberately handicapping your build by actively refusing to use any "active" skill, and then complaining that you're struggling to deal enough damage?

like, i also have a minion-focused build, but i'm supplementing it with skills like chaos bolt and unearth, because i have a mana pool, may as well use it to deal more damage...

oh, and if you're running *only* unearth, which is the only minion spell that needs corpses to work, then you're doing minions wrong...

[Machin Shin]

took me 3 trys with Minion Witch and im tired of explaining how

[Machin Shin]

sirius_black9999 a écrit :

your problem is "minion only"
why are you deliberately handicapping your build by actively refusing to use any "active" skill, and then complaining that you're struggling to deal enough damage?

like, i also have a minion-focused build, but i'm supplementing it with skills like chaos bolt and unearth, because i have a mana pool, may as well use it to deal more damage...

Minions have active skill and of them kills all bosses , many player ae just lazy or whatever

[sirius_black9999]

Machin Shin a écrit :

sirius_black9999 a écrit :

your problem is "minion only"
why are you deliberately handicapping your build by actively refusing to use any "active" skill, and then complaining that you're struggling to deal enough damage?

like, i also have a minion-focused build, but i'm supplementing it with skills like chaos bolt and unearth, because i have a mana pool, may as well use it to deal more damage...

Minions have active skill and of them kills all bosses , many player ae just lazy or whatever

i don't really like the active skills, in part because at this point i can have
1 archer that reserves 65% spirit and can do a gas arrow that i can't do anything with since i can't also summon an exploder, and that does like half the damage of chaos bolt?
1 exploder that reserves 50% spirit which can commit suicide to do about the same damage as 2 chaos bolts.
or
4 skeletal warriors that don't have a pointless skill and lets me just spam chaos bolt instead?

i guess the gas arrow is somewhat useful for crowds, but i haven't really felt a need to use it...

[Machin Shin]

the gas grenade can kill you every boss ( 95%) in the whole campaign in fact i did this... and even without that you explode it when you upgrade the archers with double stack posion gem it "melts" most bosses you only need to surive and look that he boss is in posion

the reaver frenzy skill helped me with act 2 end boss and another boss poison did not much.

[DarkFenix]

robruckus65 a écrit :

ominumi a écrit :

I don't think people realize minions should only do about 50% of the player's DPS. Spamming Left click should put in the other 50%.

No it shouldnt if you invest fully in minions like all of your damage comes from minions. It's also like the best build for witch with what is available in the game. For spelldamage you are better off making a sorc you do more damage with none of the witch downsides of blood mage or demon form.

Saying you invest "fully in minions" is a bad excuse, there are more than enough points to invest elsewhere too.

Also, even if you were to spend your every skill point in minions, that doesn't change the fact that you have more skill gem slots than there are minions, you're still carrying a weapon. Choosing not to use the tools at your disposal is handicapping yourself, complaining about being disadvantaged by going "minion only" is like complaining that the game is hard blindfolded.

[Lyote]

sirius_black9999 a écrit :

Machin Shin a écrit :

Minions have active skill and of them kills all bosses , many player ae just lazy or whatever

i don't really like the active skills, in part because at this point i can have
1 archer that reserves 65% spirit and can do a gas arrow that i can't do anything with since i can't also summon an exploder, and that does like half the damage of chaos bolt?
1 exploder that reserves 50% spirit which can commit suicide to do about the same damage as 2 chaos bolts.
or
4 skeletal warriors that don't have a pointless skill and lets me just spam chaos bolt instead?

i guess the gas arrow is somewhat useful for crowds, but i haven't really felt a need to use it...

Upgrading the Level of the Skeleton in question reduces the Spirit cost.
Its rough early on when all you have is 30 from the quest and 100 from Sceptre.

However, You can roll +Spirit on your body and neck (That ive seen so far)

I usually get about 8 Skeletons active depending on what i need at any given moment. Plus 2 from Sceptre skill.

Ill be honest, I never really use those command abilities except the Reavers Enrage (Free 20% damage, why not eh) and when i remember to, Lightning Mage Death Storm since its quite visible and hits pretty hard.

Better off spending that action almost any other spell than most of the Commands.
Hopefully they buff those eventually. Or at least let us choose to allow auto casting. Having to spam the command 6 times to get my Frost Squad to all fire off their bombs is just annoying.

[EyeXombie]

Contagion and poison arrows are your friend. When he does the circle fog thing and the wolves come. Fire poison arrows in the middle and cast contagion on them. Keep repeating and you'll get through that section with ease. Also in passives you want to search for revive in the search bar. Go for the clusters of revives. It makes your minions respawn faster. I've gotten two clusters and it's like my Minions never die because they spawn so fast. Hope that helps. keep trying.

[{SD} killer124n]

for people stuck on this boss. raise your ice defense with those gem sockets. I did that and he barely damages me

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{SD} killer124n a écrit :

for people stuck on this boss. raise your ice defense with those gem sockets. I did that and he barely damages me

https://youtu.be/ga5IDtszdmA

[JCD]

ClAyMoRe* a écrit :

JCD a écrit :

Yeah they may die since not much HP early on but still they do lots of passive damage (speccing early revive speed for more consistency). You would actually know if playing it. Nice try though and well earned award by OP;)

Lot of passive damage? You must be joking, you can do way more damage with auto attack once then minions .
You really live in different world
Have you actually played the game , like try to sent minions to attack and do nothing, see how it goes.

Was ez pz with my 3 snipers and 2 base skellies i got from my wand in bad leveling gear. Beat the mad wolf (A1 end boss) on second try. Not sure what you did wrong but boss is very doable with a totem or minion build.

I'm endgame now since like one week and enjoying it with my minions. Maybe you will catch up in a month. Take your time no rush needed;)

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JCD a écrit :

ClAyMoRe* a écrit :

Lot of passive damage? You must be joking, you can do way more damage with auto attack once then minions .
You really live in different world
Have you actually played the game , like try to sent minions to attack and do nothing, see how it goes.

Was ez pz with my 3 snipers and 2 base skellies i got from my wand in bad leveling gear. Beat the mad wolf (A1 end boss) on second try. Not sure what you did wrong but boss is very doable with a totem or minion build.

I'm endgame now since like one week and enjoying it with my minions. Maybe you will catch up in a month. Take your time no rush needed;)

Mate, I don't think you should be bragging about not having a job or a life.