Came back after 2 years.

And holy mother of jesus inside the darkest part of vaals abyss they nerfed the living hell out of my Minion Army Necromancer....
What the living death they were doing with the necro and minions in the past 2 years ???

It got so bad that a streamer who posted a lot of minion builds for POE quit POE last year.

Temporary minions like summon raging spirits or blink arrow of bombarding clones are the way to go.

The new spectres this league are fun. They might not be around next league.

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zakalwe55 wrote:

It got so bad that a streamer who posted a lot of minion builds for POE quit POE last year.

Temporary minions like summon raging spirits or blink arrow of bombarding clones are the way to go.

The new spectres this league are fun. They might not be around next league.

i miss kay...she always did really nice minion build guides

It's like if some restaurant made some kind of burger that tasted super good and got really popular and then got mad because people wouldn't try their fancy ahi or braised salmon, so they took the the burger patty out and replaced it with a wad of lettuce and told the customers it needed to be done to keep the rest of the menu interesting, also imagine that many of the customers were mad that the burger was so good because they wanted to eat the salmon and complained to the kitchen manager about it repeatedly. That too.

There are still many really good minion builds.. Blink Arrow/Mirror Arrow Necro, SRS Guardian, Skelly Mages.. focus just shifted. We also had seasons like Crucible with really good Spectres.

GGG likes power to equal difficulty (to a certain extent). Thus the lame pet builds were brought down some although they are still too powerful IMO.

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MrWonderful99 wrote:

GGG likes power to equal difficulty (to a certain extent). Thus the lame pet builds were brought down some although they are still too powerful IMO.

penance brand of dissipation, molten strike, CWS ignite, TR ballista... EDIT: was gonna say shockwave totem, but so far it seems niche for sanctum.

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

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zakalwe55 wrote:

It got so bad that a streamer who posted a lot of minion builds for POE quit POE last year.

Temporary minions like summon raging spirits or blink arrow of bombarding clones are the way to go.

The new spectres this league are fun. They might not be around next league.

i miss kay...she always did really nice minion build guides

I too miss Kay, first build that got me to endgame was one of hers.

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morganbritches wrote:

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MrWonderful99 wrote:

GGG likes power to equal difficulty (to a certain extent). Thus the lame pet builds were brought down some although they are still too powerful IMO.

penance brand of dissipation, molten strike, CWS ignite, TR ballista... EDIT: was gonna say shockwave totem, but so far it seems niche for sanctum.

he said to a certain extend ;) and don't fear penance will be nerfed to oblivion, TR dmg without investment is cute (and totems playstyle urks) and molten strike takes money, enough to build a minionbuild with it that performs well. Same with self ignite etc.

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tsunamikun wrote:

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morganbritches wrote:

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MrWonderful99 wrote:

GGG likes power to equal difficulty (to a certain extent). Thus the lame pet builds were brought down some although they are still too powerful IMO.

penance brand of dissipation, molten strike, CWS ignite, TR ballista... EDIT: was gonna say shockwave totem, but so far it seems niche for sanctum.

he said to a certain extend ;) and don't fear penance will be nerfed to oblivion, TR dmg without investment is cute (and totems playstyle urks) and molten strike takes money, enough to build a minionbuild with it that performs well. Same with self ignite etc.

I don't need penance to get nerfed, it can keep on smashing, could care less. I mentioned those, because minus molten, I've played the rest enough to have an idea of how they feel. I feel like GGG created something with minions that they ended up not liking thematically, whether it was the crowd that embraced it or someone in charge didn't like where it went? I don't even know. I don't feel it is the raw performance driving the nerfs is what I mean, or the lack of simple QoL fixes after this long. I got self-ignite off the ground for pretty cheap and you can slot full MF gear with it and still run juiced T16s easily. Level 100 right now with him. Toss in Vaal breach and a shield with unwavering stance and you get the bosses too. Uber? Naw, but I built a pretty cheap DD that can do those pretty easy as well. Also level 100, 2 button build. I was looking to respec my DD necro into an SRS build and it's a lot more. I think they overstepped with minions too much.