Falcon damage confusion

[Ben]

Can you guys please help me out, i only found inconsistent information while searching for it.

I get that the falcon is a minion and being that, it will only benefit from minion damage affixes and not from i.e. generic physical damage.

But while having the falcon doing decent damage with it's basic attack is nice, the main damage as a falconeer i do with skills like falconry and dive bomb. And those scale with physical.

So which damage affixes should u search for? Physical damage over minion damage? Increased damage while wielding a bow? Minion melee damage?

While there is some damage calculation info out there, i didn't really find anything for skills involving minions. Share me some insight please, thanks in advance.

[runy.mmorpg]

you can boost falcon with specific affixes but falconer is not like other pet class you can boost your falcon with your stats like "avian arsenal" node on falcon skill
same for your ailments with "rending talons"
"projectile training" from aerial assault...
take a look at builds to inspire at https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/

[Ben]

still, i haven't found any builds or guides that explains this in detail, so apparently no one knows exactly?

[Kotli]

Originally posted by Ben:

still, i haven't found any builds or guides that explains this in detail, so apparently no one knows exactly?

There's gear, mastery passives and falconry all have nodes that give your falcon a %age of your stats.
The other skills also have nodes that transfer your stats,

[Ben]

let me put it simple: does falcon dive bomb benefit from +physical damage from my gear? (even though my minion does the hit) physical is listed in the scaling tag

[CoolKid]

"Avian Arsenal" says "your falcon gains additional melee damage equal to a portion of your melee, throwing, bow, or spell damage depending on the type of ability used to consume a mark".

I use a bow so as the OP said: "So which damage affixes should u search for? Physical damage over minion damage? Increased damage while wielding a bow? Minion melee damage?" all of this works but where it becomes tricky is for additional physical damage or fire damage. The bow skill I use is explosive trap with the node "Blast Rain" so I deal fire damage with my bow. Explosive Trap doesn't do a lot of damage but it reduces falcon's skills CDR.

Are + bow physical damage and fire damage useful or not for my build?

Edit: Same question for melee attack speed. Melee attack speed increase the attack speed of the falcon but does it make falcon strikes faster?