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.

[ClAyMoRe*]

Shajirr eredeti hozzászólása:

You did something wrong then, as I also play Witch minion build, and beat this boss 1st try.

a) You should definitely have more than 40 dps with Essence Drain by that point. If not, get new gear.
b) Mind Over Mater can double your effective health, at the expense of some mana problems. But it absolutely will prevent you getting oneshot by big boss skills.
Its better to be alive with no mana than dead after all.
c) Minion Instability and meat shield on warrior skeletons = explosion damage on their death. These skeletons should be from the scepter, so that you can summon arsonists+archers from your own skills
d) cast posion fog from skeletal archers, blow it up with arsonist skill
e) Roll more, and never stand in one place, always cast while moving. Better yet if you have movespeed boots.

Idk how gear will increase essence damage , it is chaos damage and I have seen only 1 gear piece that gives chaos damage but it requires to give up scepter , so you have basically no minions
Just say straight out you bet boss using arsonist build not make up crap.
You can beat act 1 boss with essence drain and contagion, but it is def not easy, even if you spec into chaos damage, chaos build seems to be alright build in mob clearing, not overly strong though, but it really can not compare in boss fights to top build out there , still better then pure minion build though.

[Panthaz89]

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Yeah one fire spell out of 12 and you are the ultimate inferno mage. You know I'm not actually a necromancer despite having an army of undead because I have a single fire spell great logic.

What are you talking about?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3383969314
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3383969074

What necro skills? You want me to Unearth the boss to death at 17 dps? Have you even played this game? https://youtu.be/ga5IDtszdmA

Yes and a lot of my boss dps comes from command gas arrow...something you clearly have access too. One of the main reason to use one flame spell is to summon spirits....

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What are you talking about?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3383969314
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3383969074

What necro skills? You want me to Unearth the boss to death at 17 dps? Have you even played this game? https://youtu.be/ga5IDtszdmA

Yes and a lot of my boss dps comes from command gas arrow...something you clearly have access too.

"you can beat the game with necro"
"you just have to stop being a necro and go inferno"

Yes... that's an inferno build not necro, thanks for joining us today!

[ClAyMoRe*]

Panthaz89 eredeti hozzászólása:

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What are you talking about?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3383969314
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3383969074

What necro skills? You want me to Unearth the boss to death at 17 dps? Have you even played this game? https://youtu.be/ga5IDtszdmA

Yes and a lot of my boss dps comes from command gas arrow...something you clearly have access too.

Idk I tried poison arrow and it looked kinda. bad without using fire spell for explosion.

[Tachyon]

I haven't gone the Flaming Skulls route as yet, but my minions are doing very well. They can take out zone bosses such as The Executioner nicely for me, while I keep mobile and throw in the odd spell now and again. I have 6 Arsonists, 2 Warriors, up to 6 Zombies and up to 8 Unearth pets. (The last two are temporary pets, of course). I don't bother with wands now, and I put my Sceptre in my main hand and use a shield to block damage. It's working well for me atm.

I just wish I could find more gear with Spirit on it. I have 244 Spirit, but would love more!

[craneology]

PoE2 does not allow for character creativity. You either play a meta build, or lose. No ifs or buts.

Minions are garbage.

[Panthaz89]

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Minions is way easier than any self cast/attack character. It allows you to dodge most abilities while still doing passive damage. Day and night in comparison to my 1st playthrough with Mercenary.
At that point at the game (A1) Raging spirits (unlocked after killing King of Mists) and the skeleton snipers are the only viable way and makes the game very easy. Even more in Act 2 when switching to arsonists and getting a sceptre with extra spirit on it.

Early on your minions spend most of their time dead from any boss with an aoe ability so that definitely isn't true early on. You have to do a lot of work on bosses regularly.

[Psycha]

BUFF MINIONS!

Im sick and tired of using flame crap from sorc and infernalist spam.

I want my army of warriors, brutes and reavers with archers! Not this GARBAGE we are forced to use.

[Leto]

fire wall with srs, plus e.g. skeleton archer and rain poison arrows, give the guys the passive with several projectiles at once, this also works with the poison arrows

in the endgame everyone uses the bomb thrower

there is no other way to play with the minions at the moment, otherwise they are far too weak

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fire wall with srs, plus e.g. skeleton archer and rain poison arrows, give the guys the passive with several projectiles at once, this also works with the poison arrows

in the endgame everyone uses the bomb thrower

there is no other way to play with the minions at the moment, otherwise they are far too weak

According to half the lads here, they beat the game with minions, so apparently, I’m just too unskilled to command my little undead union properly. Guess I’ll hand them a resignation letter instead of poison arrows.

[Vanessa]

i'll be honestly the minions feel like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for how squishy i end up being leveing up trying to make my minion not die instantly to bosses

[robruckus65]

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PoE2 does not allow for character creativity. You either play a meta build, or lose. No ifs or buts.

Minions are garbage.

Minion witch is one of the strongest builds in the game currently. unfortunately you have to go raging spirits flame wall and use arsonists. The other skeles all kind of suck besides snipers and relying on corpses just doesn't work. They also take quite a few skill points before they are able to actually stay alive and not die instantly.

[RegalKain]

Just to be clear.

Skeleton Arsonist (An Undead Minion) allows you to put a Skill on your Bar that launches an explosive attack.

Skeleton Sniper (An Undead Minion) allows you to put a Skill on your Bar that launches an area of effect gas attack.

If you have both types of Undead Minion summoned using Spirit (Which you should have a minimum of 130, 100 from sceptre and 30 from the optional boss in A1) You can use the Skeleton Sniper's (An Undead Minion) gifted skill of Gas to create a large area of gas on the ground. You then use Skeleton Arsonist's (An Undead Minion) gifted skill to explode it for a greater amount of damage.

Furthermore, if your sceptre has Skeleton Warriors (An Undead Minion skill.) You can socket it with support gems that make them more durable and explode on death.

I assume you aren't trying to stand in place and do literally nothing while your minions do the work for you. So you can toss in your own DPS (No matter how small it somehow is for you.) to beat the boss faster.

Other than the Skill you use to deal damage outside of your minions (Which could still be a bone skill) it seems like all the options I've laid out are in fact, Necromancer-style skills. What with all the undead minions.

[Leto]

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fire wall with srs, plus e.g. skeleton archer and rain poison arrows, give the guys the passive with several projectiles at once, this also works with the poison arrows

in the endgame everyone uses the bomb thrower

there is no other way to play with the minions at the moment, otherwise they are far too weak

According to half the lads here, they beat the game with minions, so apparently, I’m just too unskilled to command my little undead union properly. Guess I’ll hand them a resignation letter instead of poison arrows.

they mean raging spirits, maybe arsonists, but especially the arsonists will soon be annoyed, and then it will be funny, because the same ones who are now making a big fuss are howling :)

but even the arsonists only work because of the dmg buff from the wall of fire

well srs is not a real minion build for me, I don't enjoy it that much

[ClAyMoRe*]

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According to half the lads here, they beat the game with minions, so apparently, I’m just too unskilled to command my little undead union properly. Guess I’ll hand them a resignation letter instead of poison arrows.

they mean raging spirits, maybe arsonists, but especially the arsonists will soon be annoyed, and then it will be funny, because the same ones who are now making a big fuss are howling :)

but even the arsonists only work because of the dmg buff from the wall of fire

well srs is not a real minion build for me, I don't enjoy it that much

Because it is not minion build , it has nothing to do with minions, at best raging spirit count as minion, but first of all they a re from sorc skill, second is cast skill that does damage using fire skills, third idk how anyone with half a brain cell can call it minion spec.
You have this whole army of minions standing there doing no damage dying in seconds and because you use fire skills and you have minions you call it minion build, well ...