I verified with a golem the minion damage nodes and the cult leader legendary node are in fact increasing minion damage.
It’s pretty clear but is tricky to test because they hit over a large range of damage and you have to use the same mob type for each test. You have to unequip a lot of gear and alot of paragon to test this.
My golem clearly hit for more damage when I enabled a cluster of minion damage nodes for a long period of time. The average shifted up.
They are working (very confident based on thorns damage).
Cult leader is 100% working. It is a lot easier to see the difference from it since it’s a larger number.
Also since these nodes increase thorn damage (yes that’s right) you can easily test they work by equipping thorns. Thorns only do a static amount of damage.
So you can disable and enable them with thorns on to see they do in fact work.
Also, if you wanna do a thorns build, stack minion damage. It even increases YOUR thorns damage.
LUL 
Edit: The legendary cult leader node can also be verified with thorns. Golems who inherit thorns (bone golem) can be used. The node clearly increases their thorns damage. It also increases their attack damage (I’ve verified).
just because it works for you and me doesnt mean i cant be bugged for somebody else
It’s not bugged. It is just hard to test which is why people think it doesn’t work.
It’s the same code for you and me.
Now that we know it works for thorns, it’s trivial to test.
no, its not hard to test if your minions get a 45% multiplicative damage modifier or not
It adds 45%. Or x 1.45. Same thing.
So 100 damage becomes 145.
It’s not 45 times more damage. It can be harder to see than you think. The smaller your hits the harder it is to see.
jesus christ - maybe you wanna learn basic math before you lecture people on game mechanics
why on earth would anybody think a 45% dmg increase would multiply your dmg times 45
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You can’t test the legendary with thorns but it does work (you actually can I’ve found out, keep reading further posts).
Regular minion damage nodes you can test with thorns.
Keep saying everything is bugged though.
I never thought it would mulitply by 45 I thought you did. I was explaining it’s not a huge increase for small minion hits.
You are assuming things like when you assumed they were bugged cause you can’t operate your character.
if your minion hits on average for even just 100 and you active the perk - theyll hit for 145 and that is pretty easy to see - dont you think?
and who knows what actually triggers the bug to appear - you cant just be like “i dont have it, so it doesnt exist”
You can even test this with thorns. It 100% works. If you use a golem who inherits thorns from you there is a COMPLTELY VERIFIABLE increase in their thorns damage when you add the CULT LEADER legendary node.
Completely proved minion nodes are working… 
Anyone can now easily duplicate this.
You are 100% wrong. I am 100% right. Don’t believe me. YOu can easily test it.
i dont have the bug either dude, that doesnt mean … whatever, this is pointless
I proved it without a doubt.
You are just wrong.
They are working.
the only thing you have proven is that you dont understand what a bug is
It’s not a bug. It works. The tooltip is just not updating.
It’s not complicated.
You are obviously not very good at technical things. Just go away.
bugs are complicated, that is exactly the problem
It’s not a bug if it can be verified by multiple people.
I have told people how to verify.
You will see it’s working
Maybe you should go level so you can test these things instead of being ignorant on the forum.
Legendary Aspect Needleflare:
Thorns damage dealt has a 40% chance to deal damage to all enemies around you.
Does this aspect apply to minions as well, or does it strictly only work on the necromancer?
It only applies to your character.
I tested it with the Methods outlined above and could see results where are previously couldnt.
Not super confident that everything is right, because in my previous test it seem like atleast the legendary note dos not work, but atleast it seems to do something.
But if this aspect worked on minions, it would be much more pleasant to play on spiked necro
It’s ok as is, everything tries to attack u anyway.