skill tree nodes and minions...

I am still kind of confused regarding some skill tree nodes' effect on my minions. do effects on skill tree apply to my minions or just strictly for me only? Something like: +2 life leech per hit; 5% increase spell damage, 2% physical damage leeched as life, etc etc. If only apply to me then being a summoner is seriously gimped because we mainly rely on minions to do damage. How it works? any exceptions I shall know? ty

none of the passives affect minions, unless they say that specifically

As far as passive tree goes - unless it mentions minions,it won't work,there are few exceptions tho,e/g increased skill effect duration will work for things like summon raging spirit simply because the skill gem has a ''duration'' tag.
e/g life leech,attack speed,life,es,mana leech,power charges,chance to bleed,chance to poison,crit chance and all that does not work for minions.

There are plenty of great articles about minions,what they benefit from,how much and under what circumstances,you'd need a mile long topic for someone to explain that here in detail,just use google for things like this.

Also....minion builds are far...faaaaaar from gimped even tho it might seem so from the passive tree point of view.

Yeah your skill tree only applies to you. However, certain passives do apply to the minions you summon.

Increased minion damage passives and increased minion life passives obviously apply. Increased skill effect duration passives apply to skills like summon raging spirits and summon skeleton making them last longer. Auras affect allies so passives affecting auras you cast indirectly affect you minions.

The things you listed wont apply to your minions. There are some passives that give minions leech etc, but those passives explicitly say so.

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Mokihiki a écrit :

Yeah your skill tree only applies to you. However, certain passives do apply to the minions you summon.

Increased minion damage passives and increased minion life passives obviously apply. Increased skill effect duration passives apply to skills like summon raging spirits and summon skeleton making them last longer. Auras affect allies so passives affecting auras you cast indirectly affect you minions.

The things you listed wont apply to your minions. There are some passives that give minions leech etc, but those passives explicitly say so.

some good infos here ty. so with 10% physical damage leech in tree when I cast SRS even tho they are doing physical damage but I aint getting any % leech from them...

Also does increase skill effect duration apply to my minion with fortify procs? make shrines last longer? ty

it is skill effect duration. it increases the duration of SRS because it is property of your skill, but it does not increase duration of effects your minions create. again, they are separate entities, they dont share your passive tree nor your gear

shrines are not skill effects

This is easy but still confusing:

It needs "minions xxxxxxx" keyword for it to be applied to your minions.
If not, it won't work.

But how about this:
from the raise zombie wiki:
"zombies occasionally use an area of effect slam attack which can be increased with support gems and area of effect passive skills."

This is wrong right, you need "minions have xx% increased area of effect", like on unending hunger jewel or heart bound loop?

correct. Or the increased AoE support gem