Skeletal Reaver minion unplayable?

With the recent patch GGG added some dmg and hp to minions. For example, Storm Mages and Frost Mages are okay (though they still underperform).
I tried testing reaver but it still seems very weak. Does anyone else feel the same?

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lutkeeper#6234 wrote:

With the recent patch GGG added some dmg and hp to minions. For example, Storm Mages and Frost Mages are okay (though they still underperform).
I tried testing reaver but it still seems very weak. Does anyone else feel the same?

You're not alone.

IMO, Reavers are designed for the bosses in PoE 2. Or maybe because of lack of some supports like "splash damage, cleave damage for melee minions" they underperform.

I played pure minion builds in 0.1 patch. Almost tried all minion types. Just didn't like Brutes. Also I found Reavers weak like you. With the new nerfs, bossing is mediocre too. Some of the support gems were nerfed and it affected Reavers' single target damage (indeed it's the only damage they have). We lost some jewel sockets in passive tree too.

If you wanna play physical minion build, I suggest "Pure Physical Skeletal Snipers" with Fork support which is mandatory I believe. It's better than reavers imo. Actually it's better than most of the minion builds. Also Lich is performing better than Infernalist. You may have less 3-4 minions but you can compensate it with %30 damage node. And the jewel node which gives x2 effect is pretty good. With that node at least we can get our 2 jewel nodes back.