Help using Forge Strike

Sentinel
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I am trying to find a way to play a minion build using forge guard and am having very little luck using forge strike in any meaningful way during the early campaign. This skill seems like it requires 10+ points of investment before it becomes even usable. I regularly spawn far more minions using rive than I do with this skill because: it costs a ton of mana to use, it takes time to hit after activating, it does terrible damage, it only spawns minions at a 20% chance on hit, and the minions only last 10 seconds. I get that after significant skill point investment that this skill can be useful, but I’ve never encountered another skill in this game that is this bad without specialization. Am I missing something? Am I supposed to just play through the campaign with rive and wait to use forge strike until after I level it up a bunch? That seems like a lousy way for a mastery’s signature skill to behave.

One last question, does a skill gain tags based on how you specialize it? I thought that taking nodes in a skill that give it fire damage or ignite chance would make it a fire skill (for the purpose of things like the unique helmet calamity) but it doesn’t show the fire tag when you mouse over it. Is this intended behavior?

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Some nodes do change the tags, for example, taking the Temper node adds base fire damage & that gives it the fire tag. As I understand it, anything that changes (or adds to) the base damage (but not added damage from weapons) of a skill should change the tags.

Forge Strike is a bit of an odd skill though since it’s a melee attack as well as a minion skill. For example, I’d expect the “Forged by Fire” node to add the fire tag to the minions (since it adds base damage), but it doesn’t.

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