I think a lot of players have overlooked the changes made to the Xan rune for Season 8. If it actually works as it’s written and won’t be nerfed after the PTR, we’ll have a new meta minion build, as we’ll be building around Overpower damage from our minions for the first time.
I actually played most of this season with an Overpower Minion build. Given the high Maximum Life all the minions have, you can get some seriously high overpower damage numbers. The problem with my build right now is that you can only proc overpower damage at its default rate of 3%.
Another problem with my build is that Mendeln damage can’t overpower.
Next season with the changes made to the Xan rune, you can get guaranteed overpower procs for your minions and from your Mendeln damage. That means minion damage overall will be getting a significant buff.
So yes the new “minion” items are dead on arrival, but the change made to the Xan rune may give us minions players the most significant buff to minions since the game’s release.
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What would be the fastest runeword for it? Nagu is guaranteed every 5 seconds with a nice amount of overflow but possibly too infrequent and could be used somewhere else like with Ohm. Maybe the new Ahu will be good? Igni and Lith are decent choices as well. I was going to test Lance first instead but if this functions as it is read then as the kids say, “we are so back.”
The only good thing about the new “summoner” weapon was the mastery scaling life and damage, as I was thinking the new Xan rune is now pretty much mandatory.
Still doubt the weapon is worth it even if you triple crit the mastery.
Unfortunately it might just be relegated to being a statstick or a placeholder weapon until GF. Obviously will have to be tested first but even if it deals trillions of damage every time you cast AotD its not actually a “minion” weapon and needs a whole new unique affix to be the minion weapon they sold us as.
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indeed, no chance ill use it
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I’m still thinking it’s hard to beat pairing XAN with the NAGU rune especially with additional overflow bonus, but maybe the YUL rune may get you more XAN activations if you use a Golem in your build as it’ll then give you three cooldown skills in constant use in your skill rotation.
I thought about using LITH as well, but it’s not a good fit if you end up using the Blood Begets Blood paragon board.