3.7 In-Depth Ice Golems Guide - Snowybois - On Hiatus for 3.8

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Bex has summoned me, and I am here to grant you your one wish. Here are some minion points, and I'll try answer any other questions that come up:

Zombies, Skeletons, Raging Spirits, Herald of Purity and Dominating Blow minions, Animated Weapons, Animated Armour, Golems, Arakaali's Fang minions, Spectral Wolves, Dancing Dervish, the bestial minions from Yriel's Fostering, Spectral Spirits from the essence, Rampage minions and glove enchantment minions now have melee damage patterns that match their swings. This can mean they've got larger or smaller hit areas than player attacks. Sadly spectres need to be set up individually for each attack, so we've started on this for some monsters throughout the game, but there are many more to go.
Because of the above changes, Melee Splash will work with all of the above attacks.
There were a few technical reasons that Rage couldn't work with minions right away, and the restriction to weapons is only there because of Facebreakers. We'll try get round this in future.
Minions don't currently have a weapon specified in the same way players do, but this would be nice to fix at some point. This would open up the ability to let weapon restricted effects apply to minions, though there may be other technical hurdles.
Ask your questions and I'll answer them when I can, though there is still a lot to do for the patch!

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KinGGaiA wrote:

holy shit. so melee splash does indeed work with ice golems now. i am beyond HYPED

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Utopian238 wrote:

A few points from Rory answering questions about minions this league.


https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/bxci5q/ggg_minions_in_37/eq84h2i/?context=3

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Bex has summoned me, and I am here to grant you your one wish. Here are some minion points, and I'll try answer any other questions that come up:

Zombies, Skeletons, Raging Spirits, Herald of Purity and Dominating Blow minions, Animated Weapons, Animated Armour, Golems, Arakaali's Fang minions, Spectral Wolves, Dancing Dervish, the bestial minions from Yriel's Fostering, Spectral Spirits from the essence, Rampage minions and glove enchantment minions now have melee damage patterns that match their swings. This can mean they've got larger or smaller hit areas than player attacks. Sadly spectres need to be set up individually for each attack, so we've started on this for some monsters throughout the game, but there are many more to go.
Because of the above changes, Melee Splash will work with all of the above attacks.
There were a few technical reasons that Rage couldn't work with minions right away, and the restriction to weapons is only there because of Facebreakers. We'll try get round this in future.
Minions don't currently have a weapon specified in the same way players do, but this would be nice to fix at some point. This would open up the ability to let weapon restricted effects apply to minions, though there may be other technical hurdles.
Ask your questions and I'll answer them when I can, though there is still a lot to do for the patch!

The big takeaway here is that golem basic attacks will splash and can be supported by melee splash

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WGD118 wrote:

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Utopian238 wrote:

A few points from Rory answering questions about minions this league.


https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/bxci5q/ggg_minions_in_37/eq84h2i/?context=3

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Bex has summoned me, and I am here to grant you your one wish. Here are some minion points, and I'll try answer any other questions that come up:

Zombies, Skeletons, Raging Spirits, Herald of Purity and Dominating Blow minions, Animated Weapons, Animated Armour, Golems, Arakaali's Fang minions, Spectral Wolves, Dancing Dervish, the bestial minions from Yriel's Fostering, Spectral Spirits from the essence, Rampage minions and glove enchantment minions now have melee damage patterns that match their swings. This can mean they've got larger or smaller hit areas than player attacks. Sadly spectres need to be set up individually for each attack, so we've started on this for some monsters throughout the game, but there are many more to go.
Because of the above changes, Melee Splash will work with all of the above attacks.
There were a few technical reasons that Rage couldn't work with minions right away, and the restriction to weapons is only there because of Facebreakers. We'll try get round this in future.
Minions don't currently have a weapon specified in the same way players do, but this would be nice to fix at some point. This would open up the ability to let weapon restricted effects apply to minions, though there may be other technical hurdles.
Ask your questions and I'll answer them when I can, though there is still a lot to do for the patch!

The big takeaway here is that golem basic attacks will splash and can be supported by melee splash

Actually I don't take that away from this message.

The golems basic ability will have the new melee splash mechanics they added this league, that all melee skills got, but the cyclone attack will not receive that splash damage at least according to another comment from him about zombies.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/bxci5q/ggg_minions_in_37/eq88axu/?context=10

Also Golems can't be supported by the melee splash skill gem.

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tavi2530 wrote:

Back when I was chaining T15-T16 with this build last league, I felt that I was always JUST A TINY bit away from the perfect comfort zone running around with 6k HP.

What's your thought on going far right side for Phase Acrobatic instead? Sure, you lose out on 14% mana reserve, but do you really need that much mana reservation? Victario gives you 30%, Enlighten level 4 another 12%, Charisma node is another 12%. All that combined is already enough for 3 50% mana reserve aura, and you still have 22% more mana for stuff. And if that's not enough, you can take the Leadership node, and now you have enough mana reserve for 4 50% auras.