How do I summon more minions/get more spirit?

My minion skills don't work if I remove the sceptre I got as a drop that is in my offhand. Do some give more than 100 spirit because a single skeletal sniper uses 90. Are we only ever meant to have 100 spirit and just level gems to make the minions cost less spirit?

I have a sceptre or whatever that gives spirit, so you can get it from items, at least.

There's also skill tree nodes that reduce the reservation, I just checked.

Superior versions of scepters give more Spirit and I think I recall seeing in a video that spirit can also be obtained by defeating some of the optional mini-bosses in the areas.

As you gain levels in the skill the spirit requirement goes down

What i have seen so far:

Sceptre has 100 Base (only 1 wieldable)
You can get a x% increased spirit prefix on it

For the skills the reserved spirit drops when they level up.

There is a +30 Spirit reward for killing the Boss at the Tree House,

However iam now level 17 and at the end of Act1 and i only have the 2 Warriors from the Sceptre and 3 Arsonists. The permanent army is increasing painfully slow.

We need witch, which dramatically increased minion damage at start, cause she have it in tree:D

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crab4#7001 wrote:

We need witch, which dramatically increased minion damage at start, cause she have it in tree:D

We really need the minion stop been oneshot by any boss too :(

GGG hate minion's users:D

there are more questrewards that give permanent spirit.

also you can have spirit on amulet and body armor (maybe on other slots too)

If you want to experiment with minions early on and you don't want to use a scepter, you are locked out and don't know why. They at least need to start by making it clear that you need a scepter for minion builds.