Mirror/Blink Arrow Dps scailing

Just started a mirror/blink arrow build, and after doing some research I was under the impression that as they are minions, they would only scale off passives and item modifiers that affected minions and of course off the power of your bow and quiver. As I was playing however I noticed that putting on rings that added flat elemental damage to attacks increased and showed up as increased dps for both skills.For what its worth this seemed to be correct since shots by the minions applied occasional status effects such as ignites.Both skills also increased in damage after putting on a karui ward. So my question is can anyone explain what exactly affects mirror/blink dps, and if the tooltip dps increases are correct?

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DocPepper wrote:

As I was playing however I noticed that putting on rings that added flat elemental damage to attacks increased and showed up as increased dps for both skills.

That's because they also deal damage besides summoning a minion, that tiny white circle under the spot you shoot at is the AoE. So, adding damage and scaling your attacks will affect the damage you do when summoning it but won't affect the minion.