A 1.0.6 Skill Prototype Video

Seriously..a HOMING skill? how you even DARE to call it a skill, its homing, it require's no skill,its auto, just click and watch it go.I am heavily dissapointed, thought that you ain't making more homing skills like arc,thought you're leaning towards being a game where skillfulness actually matters.

If the other minions follow these new guys so you can also use it for direction control it might be good as a combination utility/medium damage type of skill.

I would suggest to show only Level 20 Skills in High End Areas to display the real value of these skills. "level 30 Chara in a Level 4 Area" basicly shows nothing viable, a general problem when showing these Videos. ;)
Besides, the old Summoner problem remains: just no free sockets for new sills. :D For fresh charas of course could this stuff lead to new builds, let's see what else GGG has in hand for Summoners.

Elemental + Bone Spirit from D1?

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BTW, any plan on balancing self-casting? Right now it is pretty much a joke if there is a CoC version of the spell.

In this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9DcAQ9iZzo

You only need watch the first minute. You see a large demon. With a scythe. With large wings. With horns... and hoofed feet. With a large scythe!

You see this massive creature not attack the player...
You see it is a minion... One that is unstoppable, but at a cost.

It was a boss tanking summon. It was a summon for when your army was being decimated, a 'holy shit handle' if you will. He gave you time to get your feet back.

he lasted only about 20 seconds, with a 300+ sec cooldown.

I'll be honest, this was the kind of summon I was hoping for. Like our own 'Kole' for a few minutes for saving grace.

I'm glad others are stoked.

I like this skill I guess. But honestly I expected more. In D2 was my most favorite character druid, because he was using nature magic. In PoE is nothing like that yet. :(
No animal minions, no shapeshifting, and only spirit minions so far are specters. So when you were talking about new minion skill, I was hoping in something more then another necromancer skill. Maybe some non-undead thing? :D

keep them new skills comin´, looking forward to try them out in the new upcoming league(s)! : )

one things certain, there gonna be 2 other microtransactions for it. lightning and ice skulls,

Looks incredible. Up until now I hated the fact that a summoner just runs around like a headless chicken cursing stuff. Once this new gem of a skill hits live I'll start playing again and try my hands on my first summoner. You GGG guys are awesome!

Let me guess, the other 3 skills will be thematically (not necessarily mechanically) similar, each representing cold, lightning and physical/chaos.