This goes for Necro and Druid. The companions/minions just seem to get mowed down even with their respective skills pumped into them.
I’m not very far as my highest level is 48, but it just seems like outside of being distractions they’re almost useless. Is it me? Am I missing something or is there legendaries or set items that make a minion master viable?
I’d say necro minions are viable to a point. You can do WT4 world content with basically anything at some pace or another. There’s videos of minion necros doing NM dungeons, you just won’t get as far as fast as the bone necro hitting for millions.
Druid minions need a lot more help I think, though again you could do WT4 and lower NM dungeons with almost anything I’d expect.
I duno, I made it to the first capstone boss solo at like 32 on a summoning necro alt because of the % based healing combined with the % base damage limiting passive. So that’s level 50s beating on my poor 32 minions.
I gave up on the actual boss though since it was one shotting me.
Also I’ve seen videos of at least low NM dungeons being done by summoning necros and their minions don’t die that often.
Seems to me that they are usable for low content or incredibly slow (and very dangerous) higher content. Minions always seem to fall off. I crave playing with minions, especially for necromancer. The fact that necro always defaults to bone spear or some other solo build defeats the purpose of the class in my opinion.
Necro: Can get there. They’re not going to be the best right now but a Minion Necro can make a good showing at end-game. For what you take tier rankings are worth - minion Necro was like Tier C on Maxroll.gg
Druid: Ehhh… central no. Poison Creeper is used by essentially all Druid builds I can think of right now as it is one of the best Druid skills and arguably one of the best period. You CAN use Wolves to spread rabies if you want to go Poison + Shred route (it is what I am doing) but I doubt it is optimal.
So, for Druid, you can use companions as a means to an end (or general CC in Posion Creeper’s case) but they can’t be central and I honestly doubt will ever be. Necromancer can make minions work and will probably, eventually, get them to be “good” inctead of “okay” as I’d likely rank them now
Minions are viable later on more so when you can get paragon points. I have it to where minions have 150% more hp and take half damage. They are very tanky and can even take on a world boss at WT4 without losing a single one.