Witch Minions, totally unplayable

I agree witch minions are weak and needs a closer look at it. That being said someone is doing well-

Anyone having troubles should watch youtube videos or Twitch.tv of "P4wnyhof" playing Witch. He is speed running maps. Main choice of damage is snipers gas bombs using "scattershot" support gem to deal 3 instead of one poison bomb then uses a skill or hellhound to ignite the whole map once enough poison blankets the area. His skill tree is focused on spell/minion damage and eventually got to passives that decrease respawn times for minions. His ascendancy path is Infernalist going for high fire damage skills. He can explain it better than I can and updates YT daily I think.

This combo of gas explosions is next to be nerfed.

Lmao, hard disagree. My minions slap into late act 1 and end of act 2. 4 skele warriors, 2 archers, 1 hellhound. Energy shield aura on them, attacks proc burning and poison, go into skill tree that increases damage based on afflictions / ailments = easy everything.

Edit because fuck thorough comments...

Run a mix of curses with your minions (enfeeble + impending doom)

Mages + scattershot for a shitload of fire bombs.

I run 2 warriors from scepter and 3 mages from gem.

0 issues

My summoner witch is level 16. Maybe I'm not high enough yet, but I haven't experienced all these difficulties yet. People have been telling me I won't kill x boss when I get there, but so far this has not turned out to be true.

Sure, it's not as fast as other builds but it does the job regardless. I'm using warriors, skeleton archer, Arsonist, Contagion/Essence Drain, Unearth and Grim Feast so far.

A little patience is all that's needed. This game has been slowed down and is more tactical. It's not a speed fest like og POE. Sounds like skill and support gem issues to me. Adapt or find something else. POE 2 is miles better than og POE.

hey GGG can you hire somebody that actually enjoys and likes to play minion builds. the entire poe2 minion garbage needs complete redoing by somebody that doesnt hate summoner/minion builds.

This thread really confuses me, are you guys playing a different game or something? Minions are way too strong to the point I don't even feel like I'm having to play the game anymore. On my warrior I felt like I had to at least learn what the enemies do. With my witch all the enemies could be replaced with target dummies and I wouldn't even notice. I just melt through the maps and only die on bosses because I haven't learned what attacks can one shot me yet. Honestly, most of these replies make zero sense to me.

Minions are like paper. I made it almost to the end of act 1 and never stopped questioning whether I am doing something wrong. Yeah, SRS helps since they actually do some dmg, but it seems weird to cast fire spell to summon them. I don't actually remember feeling like my minions did anything substantial. Most of the time I am standing there casting spells to do chip damage. What are my minions doing? I don't know. Guess they are just dying.

I feel like yall are playing it wrong, I use bone blast and unearth to pin enemies while my mobs tank and do damage. Having to dodge roll through an enemy or two isn't a big deal. I also do bleed damage and its like I have a physical damage caster.
'unplayable' sounds like a skill issue

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Hayrich#0469 wrote:

GGG took years to fix minion builds on POE1, but here we are again.

It’s almost like they forgot.

Its is, after all, a "Diablo-like" which is extremely fitting based on what you wrote :P