Minions take way too much damage, I am level 91 doing empowered monoliths and 1-2 seconds from the Lagon beam swipe they are all dead from full hp (Skeleton mages/Golem survives). This is not isolated to Lagon they just take insane damage from bosses and even some rares.
My Skeletal Mages have:
396% Minion life
3 Armor per my base level with the Necromancer passive tree
400 Armor from being close to golem
10% Increased Armor
100% Crit avoidance
60 Ward per second
100% Crit chance with 20% of Crits Damage Leeched as Life
0.5% Damage Leech as Life
What is the issue here? is it the level difference of empowered monoliths being level 100 and me 91 ?
Not sure if it really is worth the investment, since I never played minions into empowered, yet.
Minion resistances:
necro passive tree - Cling to Life up to 16% for 8 points
Greater Blession from Reign of the Dragon Timeline - up to 25%
Immortal Regalia body armour - up to 13%
This should give your minions up to +54% to all resistances.
Pushing one or two T6 or T7 minion health might also help, so you end up with 700 to 1000% minion life. And get more minion leech.
Use “a” to actively move your minions out of large, telegraphed attacks (lagon’s beam for example)
I have the non empowered minion res also but spending 9 points total for 16% seems like alot. My guess its they take insane damage because the level difference somehow; or like path of exile they need to have some base resistances or more less damage taken(they already have 50% less damage taken)
Problem of minion builds is nodes. There is lot of nodes and spells for minion build giving you option to insta revive one minion after he die. But most of minion builds use minion like kamikaze implict of dmg / volatile zombies etc. For example im necro with wraith build and my big guy Wraith can survive almost everything and when he die i will just respawn him with one button on place where i want.
