Tame Beast rare modifiers - what does "empowering" do? Minion modifiers have no effect?

So as I was catching them all, I occasionally got myself some monsters with "Empowering Volatile Crag" (or similar) instead of the regular "Volatile Crag" - and when I or my beast stands inside of the explosion, it then looks cool for a couple seconds... no further effect observed.

Does this actually do anything?

Also no minion modifiers I have tried so far seemed to have any effect. "Empowered Reviving Minions" certainly didn't revive my minions.

Any information welcome.

They sais in interviev that they had someone going thru all monsters and make sure that in spectre mode (probably also tammed beast) those effects and skils of monsters do not harm players - as some did.

My bet is that in that task they forgot to enable its damage against other monsters after capturing.

I have spectred volatile vulture or something that explodes corpses and creates gas cloud.Visual is there , it does explode bodies, but it does not do explosion damage to monsters, does not poison enemies, and dies not explode with ignite as you'd expect from poison cloud.Pure visual.


In essence : alot of not working things, as it happens alot with minions.
All their efforts with minions seem to be making sure they are never strong.
They are fine with things in minions not working, but not being strong.

I can answer my own question now, the empowering affixes give a damage boost when you stand in the explosion. It's either ~350 - 650 or ~10% - 20%, with Volatile Plants giving chaos damage, and Volatile Crag giving fire damage.