Okay, so now that I understand that minions don’t do much damage and are the “delivery system”, even with minion based paragon boards fully decked out I assume, I’ve decided to drop the Hulking Monstrosity and Cult Leader boards. Still keeping the shadow board.
I went with Flesh Eater and Scent of Death, since my build is around Mendeln and Corpses.
Not sure if any of you run this, but I’ll be back with results case it helps anyone…
It’s probably a good idea, i’ve held off redoing anything with my backend minion stuff until i see what’s what with the patch.
If it’s the giant middle finger i think it will be, pushing off most of the minion stuff for a minion build with the ring, will end up being the better bet.
Yup and that’s why the build is focused on the Ring more then the Minions. Cult board is only good for Minion Dmg Reduction to keep them alive long enough to dish out your Dmg, other then that, go for Crit Dmg Boards, Injured, Invul Glyph, and etc. Less focus on Minions and more on you.
Basically think of it as building a Sacrifice Bone Spear build with Crit Chance/Dmg, Lucky Hit, Abilities to Proc Lucky Hit (Bone Storm/Prison, Corpse Explosion, Blight, Tendrils, etc.), Aspect for those abilities like Bone Storm, and others you’re using, while keeping Minions alive, since they are the ones delivering your Dmg.
I think Bone Storm investment will work well with Flesh Eater, if you get the aspects, because it consumes corpses in order to keep the duration, while adding Crit and other aspect buffs. That means you’ll have to invest, I think, 3-4 Aspect around Born Storm, but you yourself is able to survive long too. Sadly, it cost a lot just to try other builds, so I would do some research online about Ring of Mendeln build.
I did the same thing the other day.
Ended up settling for Cult Leader, Scent of Death and Wither boards.
It was a toss up between scent of death and Flesh eater to be honest. Both offer good buffs but I felt all the +healthy and +injured damage from scent of death would work better with my build.
But the survivability of minions goes up a fair bit with Cult leader board.