Biggest Minion Shadow nerf in PoE2

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DistributedAutomaton#5739 написал:

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Innuendos#5095 написал:

ghazzy already made a video explaining WHY.

I haven't seen his video, but I've seen the spectre wiki spreadsheet which tested all the changed spectres, and found at least two were endgame-viable, with a few more that needed testing once 0.4 went live.

Edit: I'm not far along enough to test myself, but for anyone curious: Cultist Archer and Vaal Guard both appear buffed for 0.4. If Ghazzy said otherwise, he might be wrong. But I doubt he said they were worse than in 0.3.

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Innuendos#5095 написал:

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DistributedAutomaton#5739 написал:

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FPS_MrJamble#9092 написал:

i am surprised no1 cares xD rip minions i suppose

I think Truditoru commented on that when reviewing the patch notes. Multiple spectres were buffed, so the total power at endgame is still unclear. I'm running a spectre build this league, so I'll be able to test sooner or later. You might need fewer minions to have the same effect. And the cocaine ants were melting everything anyway, so there was room for a nerf.

dont need to get to endgame to know the buffed spectres are all trash.

ghazzy already made a video explaining WHY.

and anyone who knows anything about minions in poe2 already knew the """""buffs"""""" were trash.

minions feel worse than .3 and they felt pretty aweful in .3. and they sure as shit feel worse than .1 and .2.

this op is correct about the huge nerf in his op post. and im sure there were MANY MORE.

we have posted since .1 on how to fix minions. they dont give a shit apparently.

minions, spectres in particular... will continue to suck ass, until at minimum, spectres are made at least to 'fast' movement speed as a baseline default every spectre is made to that speed on cast.... so they are not wisping across the screen every 2-3 seconds to catch up to you.

skeletons are all baseline terrible until you have 100+ divines worth of gear.
and even then are still not omg op top tier must play.

or until bone rings are put in. which would take literally, 5 minutes for a high school coder to put into this game. with the correct minion stat boosts on them.

or until the passive tree is made non trash for minions.

or 100 other things that have been suggested since .1 that this company doesnt give a shit about.

and all of this means dogshit... cuz the whole archtype is based off on +gem levels. that where ever you see it on any gear type/jewel/etc... means it is at minimum 1-3 divine for even the worst possible rolls on anything including the + level because it is basically the highest weighted stat in the game.

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Exxi#2323 написал:

Check changes to Prism Guard and pls tell me if summoner can still use it? If not thats a 125+ spirit loss on top...
Seems GGG doesn't want us to play summoner of minions any longer.