[1.0.1b] Summoner Guide / Minion Guide

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xprimalfuryx wrote:

Why dont anybody using remote mine with spectres? U get 50% MORE dmg multiplier from it and only downside is u just have to aim the mine precisely on the body u want so ressurect.

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Flame Sentinel (+ GMP + Life Leech + Faster Projectiles + Minion Life/Damage)
Carrion Queen (+ GMP + Life Leech + Faster Projectiles + Minion Life/Damage)
Undying Incinerator (+ GMP + Life Leech + Faster Projectiles + Minion Life/Damage)

GOOD TIER:
Tentacle Miscreation (+ GMP + Life Leech + Chain + Minion Life/Damage)
Voidbearers (+ GMP + Life Leech + Faster Projectiles + Added Chaos Damage)
Merveil's Attendants or similar (+ GMP + Life Leech + Faster Projectiles + Minion Life/Damage)

"I'VE RUN OUT OF SPECTRES IN A MAP AND THESE ARE WHAT I HAVE TO WORK WITH" TIER:
Burned Miscreations (+ Culling Strike + Increased Area of Effect + Minion Life)
Cinder Elementals (I honestly don't know.)
Undying Alchemists (+ GMP + Life Leech + Faster Projectiles + Minion Life/Damage)
Chamber of Sins LA Skellies (+ GMP + Life Leech + Chain + Minion Life/Damage)
Blackguard Mages/Sparking Bones (+ GMP + Life Leech + Fork + Minion Life/Damage)


DON'T EVEN BOTHER TIER:
Pretty much everything else. If you have to, pick whatever has the most life and the longest range projectiles, and if it interacts nicely with GMP, Chain, or other assorted skill gems you have.

Flame Sentinels are probably the best minion overall - they maneuver well through tight areas, have a ton of life and ES, do solid, wide-stretching damage, and quite possibly the nicest thing about them: their AI is cowardly. If they take a hit, they will commonly run back and regroup, often leaving a row of skeletons and zombies between them and whatever hit them. This makes them live quite a while in maps. Shame they're such a pain to gather.

Carrion Queens are incredibly strong, high-damage minions with some of the highest life totals of any mobs in the game. Their fireballs with GMP have incredible coverage. They move very slowly though, and so are not well-suited to certain indoor maps - if their size and movement was more akin to the Flame Sentinels, they would be the best minion by far. As is, they are still really amazing, and generally quite easy to gather in Marketplace. Faster Projectiles is, in fact, mandatory with these guys. Seriously. Get your chest to GGBBR.

Undying Incinerators are very frail in comparison to Flame Sentinels and Carrion Queens. They have decent but not spectacular movement, their range is solid, but what makes them stand out as one of the best minions is that they simply have, far and away, the highest DPS. There is no other mob with that much damage output. They are kinda fragile, so be careful you don't lose them while mapping, but in general, they just hit incredibly hard. If you want to farm, bring these with a single burned miscreation and watch everything catch fire.

Tentacle Miscreations have great damage, incredible spread, and they'll often offscreen mobs while shotgunning ones you can see. Great on maps like Dried Lake and Cemetery. However, their AI will often move them closer to the enemies than you'd like them to be, and they are very fragile. Additionally, they are liable to explode themselves on lightning thorns.

Voidbearers with GMP and added chaos do obscene damage, much of it bypassing energy shields and armor. Not quite as much as Incinerators, but if you stack them on top of each other it looks like some sort of CGI anime giant laser beam. That's a plus. What's a minus is that they will often rush into melee range, which simultaneously does pathetic damage and opens them up to getting bopped - they don't have a ton of health, either. Also, they will one-shot themselves on lightning thorns. Don't rely entirely on them in maps.

Merveil's Attendants (the ones that do temp chains on hit) are definitely the best of the merveil's daughters, but they're all quite solid mobs. Sure, they're slow, but they're reasonably tanky and we all know how good GMP freezing pulse is by now. The damage is considerably worse than with any of the mobs above, but they are still quite decent.

Burned Miscreations get a special mention because running one of them in your party, especially for things like docks or fellshrine runs, is demonstrably hilarious, and they provide lovely burning aura support for your more effective mobs. Don't rely on them in maps.

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Budget_player_cadet wrote:

Voidbearers are overrated. In my guide I put in a few words:

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Flame Sentinel (+ GMP + Life Leech + Faster Projectiles + Minion Life/Damage)
Carrion Queen (+ GMP + Life Leech + Faster Projectiles + Minion Life/Damage)
Undying Incinerator (+ GMP + Life Leech + Faster Projectiles + Minion Life/Damage)