Minions Build and End-game survivability

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Well minions are an "accessory"

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Minions can do really well in maps, if you specialize into their survivability. Getting enough damage is easily achivable, the survivability is the problem, espacially elemental resist.

So what you need to do is get AR on shield + Purity to cap their resistances.

Fire and chaos resistance are most important for minions because their AOEs is extremly strong.

Currently I am playing a lv 82 pure physical summoner who uses skelettons as "main attack" spell and support my army with temporal chain and vulnerability.

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No trouble surviving.

Thats actually not true. If you dont use aegis, your minions will die A LOT faster. People understimate the advantage of BLOCK and resist stats on the shield.

Yes, you can use totems to spam minions like a zerker, but a totem is not what you want to use if you also want DPS. self casted minions do more damage and have 1 addition socket slot which allows you to increase the damage even further. You would be surprised how fast minions kill stuff which a full offensive spec(4 socket +2 Helm, added melee, attackspeed, minion damage)

I think my skels have lv 19 now and the can really tank well in maps, even if they die they do so much damage by attacking, that you get shit down.
Yes I also mave MI but I dont like it. I think it will be better to forgo MI if minions are even more tanky because no MI means: 50% MORE EHP for minions
If I find a very good shield + lv 20 skillgem I will consider abandoning MI Because my minions will become ULTRA tanky.