Minion skills + Spell Totem "less damage" interaction

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raics wrote:

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KG31459 wrote:

No. Your minions aren't a trap, totem, or mine, even if created by one.

They probably are, their damage most likely gets 'trap', 'totem', and 'mine' tags,

They do not. Why would they? Only what the trap/totem/mine does gets the corresponding tag. In this case, what they do is summon a minion. If the actual summoning of the minion did damage in some way (say, if Raging Spirit had some small fire aoe affect on summoning as an example), then THAT damage would have the tags, and be affected by trap/totem/mine passives you had.
But still, the damage that the minion does later is minion damage, and minions are not traps/totems/mines.

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raics wrote:

no way to test currently, but it's irrelevant anyway, the real problem is - passives that apply on you can't apply on your minions, no ifs or buts. If we had a shield that had a '% increased trap/totem/mine damage' and we used it with necro aegis, indirectly spawned minions would most likely get their damage boosted by it.

No, they would not, unless your minions were creating traps/totems/mines. If you had some Aristocrats from SoG throwing lightning traps down, and had an increased trap damage mod on your equipped shield, AND had NA, then those traps would get that bonus.
But their melee damage would certainly not.

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777isHARDCORE wrote:

They do not. Why would they? Only what the trap/totem/mine does gets the corresponding tag.

Who knows, just idle and completely unimportant speculation, we have no way to take advantage of that combo even if it worked. But yeah, spell effect that summons the minion would get 'trap' tag and it does no damage, whether it transfers to the minion too... maybe not, and then again, I've seen stranger things here.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

I'm going to be re-wording this at some point so it's less confusing in the case of minions summoned by the totem.

You should be able to tell from the 50% less damage description on the minion skill when linked, but it seems that's not working either. hooray.

Hello. Has re-wording of this skill been done?

I tried linking Spell Totem Support to minion spells like SRS, Zombies, Skeletons - and it says nothing about reduced damage in the skill tooltip. However, it does say about reduced cast speed: http://prntscr.com/i4u6ss

Why is reduced damage not mentioned? Is it applied to minions or not?

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Pendulu wrote:

So to forward this topic to remote mines, do mine passives affect the casted minions? does the 10% elemental pierce bonus from the high explosive passive apply to a minion casted with a remote mine? thanks for answering!

They used to, it was OP so they don't now.