There is almost no exciting crafting or meaningful progression for the weapon slot for minion builds.
I found a Reach of the Grave wand at level 12, and since then I haven’t had a single viable weapon upgrade for my fire minion Necromancer (Archers + Pyromancer Mages + Flame Wraiths + Pyre Golem).
At level 63 I’m still using the same wand from early game, while every other slot has seen multiple upgrades.
Please devs, make the weapon slot at least a bit more interesting for minion builds. Right now it dose not competes with this one unique item, and the crafting potential feels extremely limited compared to any other build.
Crafting is one of the biggest parts of Last Epoch, and the weapon slot has a huge impact on literally every build in the game — except minion builds.
in addition:
The minion attack button, feels more like a suggestion. if possible make it feel more lika a skill, the minions needs to react instantly and feel like it has some weight, right now it feels weightless.
Also, if more of the action skills would synergise more with minions, that would be great, give more build varaity.
Some skills look like they should be good synergis with minions, but you need to invest in minion damage, and active skills dont scale with the same tags, so you end up with skills that directly buff your minions, or gives the greatest debuffs for enemies, and that narrows the playing field, alot in the end game.
There are alot of weapons for minions, I feel. Almost every damage type has at least one weapon for minions, except lightning?
I agree. I love minions that arent always up when summoned. Like wWraiths and bees. Bees in particular. But I don’t want to just buff their damage and be done, I want them to synergize more with my skills.
Can they stack Storm Bolt stacks? No.
Can they fire Smite when attacking? No.
Does their death by my Aura of Decay count as minion death? No.
I want something to make minions an extension of yourself. Like for example an item that makes your minions attack count as yours.
Then I can do my Smite bees, my storm bolt stacking bees, my death bees (maybe not, but you get my point).
