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Gisborne Dec 17, 2024 @ 10:44am
Is minion witch worth it? seems weak?
It seems like most minions are trash, with only arsonist for aoe/st or reavers ins ome cases for bosses, everything else up to now is useless and weak, i have to often stand back and wait for minions to kill as they can be very unpredictable so is not as fast as ranger or merc who can keep moving and killing without much stopping, anbd when minions die as they often do im without any dps for almsot 6-8 seconds till they respawn.
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Psycha Dec 17, 2024 @ 10:50am 
SRS + Arsonists is the only minion option you'll keep seeing on guides.

Arsonist btw is getting a quantity nerf soon. Meaning we cant summon as many anymore and for people without spirit gear this hurts.
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Funpire Dec 17, 2024 @ 10:58am 
Originally posted by PsychaChi:
SRS + Arsonists is the only minion option you'll keep seeing on guides.

Arsonist btw is getting a quantity nerf soon. Meaning we cant summon as many anymore and for people without spirit gear this hurts.

Yep. Using arsonist, rs, detdead with pain offering to good effect.
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5ean5ean Dec 17, 2024 @ 11:00am 
Its fine...just needs more spirit investment. The biggest nerf was to Vine arrow.
Last edited by 5ean5ean; Dec 17, 2024 @ 11:00am
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SkaldedDawg Dec 17, 2024 @ 11:00am 
I didn't even know arsonist minions were good. I just ran them because explosions.
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alan0n Dec 17, 2024 @ 11:01am 
Is it the best build in the game? No. Is it workable? Sure.
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Gisborne Dec 17, 2024 @ 11:37am 
Arsonists with the triple bomb support gem is insane. I've yet to get bonkboys or the priest at 51, im 46 now. I just wish there was an easier way to swap minions without having to reslot, regem etc them between fights...
Last edited by Gisborne; Dec 17, 2024 @ 11:37am
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thawn4444 Dec 17, 2024 @ 11:39am 
Originally posted by Gisborne:
Arsonists with the triple bomb support gem is insane. I've yet to get bonkboys or the priest at 51, im 46 now. I just wish there was an easier way to swap minions without having to reslot, regem etc them between fights...
you can just weapon swap. . .
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Gisborne Dec 17, 2024 @ 11:43am 
Originally posted by thawn4444:
Originally posted by Gisborne:
Arsonists with the triple bomb support gem is insane. I've yet to get bonkboys or the priest at 51, im 46 now. I just wish there was an easier way to swap minions without having to reslot, regem etc them between fights...
you can just weapon swap. . .
can;t really, so here the problems i had when testing, Weps and scepter not the same, diff stats etc, spirit amoutns and so on, I could have 8 arsonists, but only 6 mages, if i swapped to 2nd with 6 mages it would work, i swapp back to arsonists 8, it summoned 12 and said i did not have enough spirit when i did, i remove then add 1 arsonists and have 8 back. so this is clearly a big issue or bug as when spirit changes between weps even with mroe than enough on wep one it uses the spirit amount of wep 2 when swapping to set 1 minions.

gems can only be put in 1 skill at a time, so we severely lack gems for anything thats the same type, and if it all works perfectly, we're still limited to only swapping between two anyway.
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Kozzy Dec 17, 2024 @ 11:44am 
It is worth it 100%. BUT... you have to keep playing. The minion build won't be super amazing right off the bat to start the game. Get half way into Act 2 though and it becomes amazing. I have a Minions build as a Infernalist Witch and I am LOVING it. The first little bit I didn't think my build was all that great, but later on it became AMAZING.
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Sawblade Shieldslave Dec 17, 2024 @ 11:45am 
waystone 2 rn with BLOOD MAGE minion only witch (and the 2 debuff curses) and im doing fine
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H5N1 Dec 17, 2024 @ 11:46am 
Originally posted by alan0n:
Is it the best build in the game? No. Is it workable? Sure.

once they nerf all the other stuff it will be then they'll nerf that too :steamsad:
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/dev/random Dec 17, 2024 @ 11:49am 
Originally posted by Sawblade Shieldslave:
waystone 2 rn with BLOOD MAGE minion only witch (and the 2 debuff curses) and im doing fine
Oh noice, that's what I'm aiming for. Good to know it doesn't suck.
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Sawblade Shieldslave Dec 17, 2024 @ 12:00pm 
Originally posted by /dev/random:
Originally posted by Sawblade Shieldslave:
waystone 2 rn with BLOOD MAGE minion only witch (and the 2 debuff curses) and im doing fine
Oh noice, that's what I'm aiming for. Good to know it doesn't suck.
oh no it sucks, just go infernalist, far better for minions because of the extra spirit u gain
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Verders Dec 17, 2024 @ 12:02pm 
The witch on the peta has two milestones in the early game
when you get raging spirits
and when you become an infernalist with a dog.

Yeah, she kills significantly slower than the top builds.
but she does it by lazily clicking the one mouse button that has the fire wall assigned to it.

on bosses you have to press a little more buttons, but it's still easy enough.

and then you have to hit max health and take a node of hp=spirit.

Last edited by Verders; Dec 17, 2024 @ 12:02pm
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Machin Shin Dec 17, 2024 @ 12:02pm 
the fun for me started in cruel get better and better, alsos since my minions got many many HP und res support skills. never uses arsonists
archers and Brute are better imo
Last edited by Machin Shin; Dec 17, 2024 @ 12:04pm
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