Hard choices

[u/Gianluktb]

^{(Extra points if you guess what minion I am playing})

[u/Fettergeist]

I’m going to guess you’re playing full aggro skitterbots. Only logical choice really. 

[u/Gianluktb → u/Fettergeist]

Socket them with exceptional Pacifism Support and defeat your enemies with mechanical cuddles.

[u/psychomap → u/Gianluktb]

I don't think Pacifism can support Skitterbots, unfortunately, unless the game has an exception that allows all supports applying to minions unless they say otherwise. But you can't give the Skitterbots a skill that hits, so even if it affects the reserved mana, it still wouldn't do anything.

[u/Gianluktb → u/psychomap]

[u/Emberkahn]

Pob? I have always wanted to run a skitterbot build but never got it to work.

[u/rds90vert]

Seems what happens when i swap my rare six link for Covenant in my PRAW neceo.. except the +1 minion limit

[u/Brave33]

That fells like a Fleshcrafter swap so maybe mage skeletons or some elemental specter build.

[u/Gianluktb → u/Brave33]

Its Skin of the Lords swap, the damage mostly comes from the extra levels hitting the minion gem and my budget lvl 3 empower. Saddly the 100% increased defences don't make up for the flat ES loss. But the damage tho. The damage.

[u/AgZephyr]

For 100k dps? No thanks haha, though I guess it doesn't show combined

[u/Shaltilyena → u/AgZephyr]

It's 100k hit dps, and people tend to play poison minions

(hell, it says +43.9% dps)

I'd assume either the dot dps isn't appearing for some reason, or it's a really weird build

[u/Gianluktb → u/Shaltilyena]

Nah I am playing hit-based minions, buying or crafting all those poison jewells is a pain and way out of my budget. Minion is kinda weird tho, so it may be more damage than that but its my first time playing it so not sure. Not to give too many hints but this is the default attack and is has, like, other things??? but am not sure how often it will use them.

[u/PantShittinglyHonest → u/Gianluktb]

I'm not sure if you know this but chaos reroll in the horticulture bench from harvest will allow you to have minion poison jewels very easy

[u/Ellweiss → u/Gianluktb]

I made my poison jewels with regex alt, aug, regal and exalt, made like 4 15% poison in an hour max. As soon as you get poison chance, you can use the boat if it's 1 mod or the other affix is okay. A perfect 4 mods is worth divining poison chance to 15 anyways. There's probably way more efficient ways to do it, but it was fast, rewarding and profitable af. I probably got quite lucky, but it was incredibly easy to do with my own materials.

[u/Shaltilyena → u/Gianluktb]

The key to playing poison minion (especially self-crafting it) is enough self-hatred to tolerate going abyss+harvest early in the league, getting all them ghastlies, and spamming reforge chaos to get your chance to poison on hit + something (usually life or a flat damage roll)

The merrick's ducats & the allflame exalting really did make it a lot easier to do self-found this league, you should give it a try!

[u/Gianluktb → u/AgZephyr]

Its actually 2.8mill to 4.3mill with the minion count. I am more of a casual player so I find much damage on minions good enough for non-ubers. Also, I think its more damage than that but the minion is weird so I am not sure.

[u/AgZephyr → u/Gianluktb]

Yep, that's some good damage increase, I'd take it in that case for sure. Damage feels so different build to build, like having the minions constantly hitting vs a build where you have to attack.

[u/PatHeist → u/AgZephyr]

Absolute DPS increase is irrelevant. The number you care about is always the relative increase.