https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAzCMGYDYE4g
Why don’t they have any scaling?
The summoned crab
https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAzCcGYDZiA
Blows it completely out of the water, and its not even close. Crab has much better scaling and attacks way faster.
The difference between them is that the historic minion only scales with character level (+15 health and +3% damage) while the crab scales with character level (+40 health) and stats (4% damage per str/int/att).
But both should scale with minion affixes the same way.
Especially early on, the historic minion should do more damage, since you tend to have very few stat points. But if you stack stats, then crab should become stronger.
Although, neither of them is supposed to be your main DPS. They’re kinda like a nice side bonus that might help you at low level but become meaningless at higher levels. You don’t use those items for the minion. You use them for the other stats.
I understand this. But Ive made a legit minion build with multiple stat inputs…Crabs is getting 4*70-110 = 280 - 440 % increased damage, while the hitory minion receives nothing. Its an extra minion to apply effects, sure, but it would be nice if it had some scaling on it as well. even the bees scale with attunement.
It does get something. For each level, it gets 3% increased damage. So at level 70, it has 210% increased damage.
More importantly, at level 30 it will get 90% increased damage while crab will likely get nothing or very little, since you usually don’t have many stats at that point.
It should also get bonuses from all your minion affixes in gear. If it doesn’t, that’s a bug and should be reported.
I guess thats true, at lvl 100 its getting 300% damage. I didnt look at crab that closely but its not getting that. so yeah, the history thing probably scales better overall.
It probably won’t scale as well in endgame. The historic minion will be capped at level 100 with 300% damage. The crab will get 4% from str/int/att, so it can potentially get way more. It’s not uncommon to have at least one of the stats at 100-ish, so 400%+ should be relatively easy to achieve.
Yeah, just a bit disappointing as for my build i dont think theres anything better. Guess its just icing, I would still use the offhand if the minion didnt exist.