Why you hate minions so much, GGG?

So in 0.1 I had a minion build. Not following any guides, first time ever, ever since I started playing PoE(1), I was able to make a viable, working minion build, myself, playing only 2-3 hours a day. Grind was rewarding, every upgrade felt impactful and meaningful. Sekelton archers+Reavers+Mages+Cleriks+Hound. Almost Vaal Summon Skeletons army. My gear costs around 2 mirrors, I was able to do all the content, highest difficulty, t16 deli maps... And no, I wasnt one shooting pincale bosses, but at least I felt like my build is worth the investment.

In 0.2 I log in to find out that my minions cant even clear WHITE t15 map! like LITERALLY IT TAKES A SOLID MINUTE TO CLEAR A WHITE MOB! Open DPS screen - went from ~8000 Reaver (before buffs) dps to 2500. I have 12 of them. Went from ~5000 Sniper(4) dps to ~900. Mages(6)? They cant even shock or freeze anything. Hound - useless now absolutley. My top tier gear? - absolutely useless with +10 to minion skills. Rares and blues all ignore minions, push them out of the way and procced to F me, like my minions don't even exist.

Bro... who thought it was a good idea to gut minions like that?? First - you removed Necro ascendancy - you said - "oh, we don't want minions to be locked into a single ascendancy" - EVEN THOUGH THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF THE ARCHETYPE... But in the end, 0.1 allowed people to experiment and make many different, great end game minion builds - guess what's common in them? - THEY ALL USE THE SAME ASCENDANCY.

With one move you killed minions, their build diversity, room to experiment.
GJ GGG! wayt to go, great balancing. Maybe you should start playing your game yourself every now and then.

Wow, I only recently came back to check on the forums but it's wild to hear it seems things overall are somehow worse than EA launch, and minions already weren't exactly perfect.

Minions are ment to be just cosmetics for necromancer cosplayers.

After this patch - we are almost there, they just need a slight nerf on the damage - as there is still mild risk of minions hurting some innocent monster.

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Morghus#4174 a écrit :

Wow, I only recently came back to check on the forums but it's wild to hear it seems things overall are somehow worse than EA launch, and minions already weren't exactly perfect.

they nerfed all minions with like insane numbers. Someone estimated Reavers got nerfed by 90%. So 2 out of 3 melee minions are unplayable. Havent checked Brutes, but Id imagine they are useless too.

+to minion skills prefix is now also useless. Theres no point in trying to aquire top tier scepters, helmets or amulets with minion affixes.

and specters are absolutley useless and cost insane amounts of spirit

New Ascendancy = Lich

Finally Spectres in the Game

Gamers: Hell yeah lets play Minions.

GGG: We killed all fun playing minions, because we hate them and we hate our game...

I´m playing PoE for 12 years now, and that what comes to mind.

To OP: see latest EA Patch Notes.

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Mr_Freud#5220 a écrit :

and specters are absolutley useless and cost insane amounts of spirit

Not really. For example act 1 projectile crabs cost 40 spirit (which is less than skeletons) and they carried me throughout almost all act 2 with projectile speed + splitting projectile gems. Changed back to frost mages though just because i got used to the extra cc.

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chobo999#2010 a écrit :

To OP: see latest EA Patch Notes.

still nowhere near the original numbers. went from ~2.5-3k to ~6.5k. thats with +11 to minion skills compared to original +9 on in my build.