They really ought to be able to cast the same skill as their master rather than just using the base skills. It basically makes the those nodes unusable.
I imagine there was some technical issue that prevented this from being done on release of Necromancer so I hope this gets updated soon.
This is the intended behaviour afaik. Because the minions cast the spell, itās their own spell and scales with minion stats.
And it doesnāt make the nodes unusable. Indeed I use sacrifice on wraiths or skeletons frequently on a necro. The big pro is that all this stuff scales of your minion stats that you are already pushing as a necro. Minion damage and minion spelldamage as well as minion crit chance and multiplier all apply to the sacrifice skill of skeleton mages.
If it would use your characters sacrifice, you would have to skill your own spelldamage and that would need you to build a hybrid style necro. Hybrid will always be weaker than going 100% for a certain branch.
This is how itās intended to work, since your minions arenāt you so donāt have access to your skill trees.
I understand the damage scaling would be tied to the minions and such but the other stuff not so much. The fact I canāt have my Death Knights use the same kind of Hungering Souls I could spec into where I can have it scale with the amount of minions I have just seems mean. Not to mention other stuff.
I see all that potential where I can have an army of Death Knights mowing down enemies with flaming skulls and I weep that I canāt do this right now.
Itās a design decision. If they did use your skill tree then their Sacrifice/Hungering Souls/etc would be affected by two skill trees (the minionās as well as yours) which would make them significantly stronger than you would be able to make them if you cast them due to having a bunch more āmoreā modifiers.
If thatās really an issue then they simply could do something like āSacrifice cast by Skeletal Mage deals 50% less damageā or something to that effect.
Weāre aware of this and we have been planning to rename all those pet abilities with similar names to player abilities, to eliminate confusion.
Okay. Thanks for the clarification. Still disappointed that I canāt have my army of Death Knights shoot flaming skulls at my enemies.
Because this tends to be a recurring theme, I wanted to share this tidbit in case people arenāt aware:
The best way to check if a skill has synergy with another skill in the node tree is to press the ALT button while hovering over the node. For something like Volatile Zombieās Sacrifice node, if you hold the ALT button, it brings up the Sacrifice skill including the āDPSā monitor.
Other skills like Bearās Ice Thorns or Skeletal Mageās āSacrificeā does not have anything highlighted when you press the ALT button. That means that even though it has the same name, specializing the skill wonāt work with the minion skill.
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