[2019] Summoner things that we still could use info on

Okay, here we gooo

Raise Spectre has a base of two spectres max at level 11, three at 21, and four at 31.

Carrion Golem's Leap Slam has a 4 second cooldown, and doesn't repeat with Multistrike unlike some Spectre leap slams. It deals 180% of their base damage. The Bone Cascade has a 4 second cooldown, can multistrike, has 10% less attack speed and deals 65% of base damage, but can hit enemies multiple times with each cascade. The non-cooldown attack deals 135% of their base damage with the first two swings which are wide cones, while the third to sixth swing deals 162% of base damage with 200% more attack speed, but in a smaller rectangle (For bursting down enemies that survive the first two swings). At level 20 of the gem, they do an average of 372 damage per hit, with an attack time of 0.9 seconds. They have 1067 accuracy rating at gem level 20, the same as other minions.

The Delve chest mod can still give +1 to maximum spectres, as do Midnight Bargain and Queen's Escape and Decree.

Feeding Frenzy's reminder text: (Feeding Frenzy grants 10% more Minion Damage, 15% increased Minion Movement Speed and 15% increased Minion Attack and Cast Speed)

Edit: Updated the Carrion Golem hit damage, as I mathed wrong.

Summon Skeleton summons 3 at once at level 11, 4 at once at level 21, 5 at once at level 31.

The maximum number of skeletons is 6 at 6, 7 at 12, 8 at 18, 9 at 24, 10 at 30 and 11 at 36.

The max zombies are 4 at 5, 5 at 10, 6 at 15, 7 at 20, 8 at 25, 9 at 30 and 10 at 35.

Every monster that is inherently a player minion has that higher number. Spectres are the only exception because each monster has its own base accuracy, but that's why the gem gives quite a bit of flat accuracy now.

Correct, Infernal Legion is just the damage stated on the support gem, multiplied by any damage bonuses your minions have that would apply, like Minion Damage from any source, or Burning Damage from supports etc.

The only change I'm aware of is improved accuracy, anything else would be patch noted!

They've got the improved accuracy all minions got, but their slam attacks info:

33% less Attack Speed, 100% more damage.

The no-repeat only applies to the Leap Slam, not their cascade slam, because it was a bit pointless when they jumped on the spot. Stone Golem slams still repeat as usual.

Arakaali's Fang spiders do also have the accuracy buff.

Everything from Multistrike will apply to their leap, but they won't get that second or third repeat damage bonus.

The +2 to all Minion Skill Gems doesn't apply to the Phantasm Support or other minion supports, nor does it apply to minion skills that come directly from items like Soulwrest, as they're not actual gems.

Primordial Might and Feeding Frenzy use the same Aggressive stat/behaviour.

Blink and Mirror Arrow clones also have the accuracy buff.

All supported skills gain the benefits per Inspiration Charge, regardless of if they generated them or not. This could also mean that you could generate Inspiration Charges with one skill, then get the benefit on a completely unrelated skill as long as it is supported by an Insipration Support.

Support Gems are different from Skill Gems, not a subset of them. This is a little bit confusing because of some old discontinued naming conventions!

Spiritual Aid doesn't give you any benefit from Feeding Frenzy, because Feeding Frenzy gives More damage, while Spiritual Aid only applies to increases and reductions. Spiritual Command would give you the increased attack speed from Feeding Frenzy though, that one works!

Yeah, that stat would be increasing all damage dealt by your golems so it'd apply to the minion's Infernal Legion's damage as well.

Technically any minion that only uses spells didn't get the buff, spectres are the only ones that didn't directly get the buff, only indirectly through their skill gem.

If they did their full 6 hit combo, that'd be two multistrike sequences. Visually, it'd just look like they did their normal sequence, but faster, but the damage would be more loaded towards the rapid final attacks.

Carrion Golems have 11384 life at gem level 20.

The mine aura value cap is a hard cap, not modified by aura effect, so the mines would grant 150% increased damage taken even if you had 5000% increased aura effect.

The skeleton's dash ability has a two second cooldown. It takes 0.15 seconds to dash, and also has the same range as the player Dash skill.

Animated Weapon does get the accuracy buffs as well

Its tags are Spell, Duration, Guard, Minion. It's not a gem though, so won't be increased by global modifiers to minion skill gem levels. It will count as casting a spell of those types for any stats that care about that jazz. It has the same stats as a level 20 Steelskin, with the added benefit of also applying to all of your minions.

Blight's Towers can't be directly influenced by auras, but the minions they summon and the damage taken by enemies they hit can.

That's a bit of work for us to get at the moment, and we don't really have that much time! Path of Building is your best bet when that's able to be released, though long term it'd be great to have that in a form we can calculate for you more easily.

Ah, the damage boost Carrion Golems get is from your minions, and the range is 60. Ideally close enough that you don't need to constantly worry about it unless you're using the Meat Shield support on your doods.

From their reminder text:

(Aggressive minions have their targeting range raised to a minimum value)

(Defensive minions have their targeting range lowered to a maximum value. They always target enemies around you)

Standard minion behaviour will always target enemies around your last targeted location, so Defensive is the only one that overrides that. Aggressive will mean they'll always search in a large area around that last target location (Which some minions already did) while Defensive changes the target location and limits the attack range quite a bit.

Yep, every minion.

That looks correct, because Ice Golems skills have lower damage multipliers by comparison. It's more a artifact of how we tweaked the balance on the minion, and the fact the Carrion Golem gets up to 80% more damage if you have 10 non-golem minions near them.

We're working on a fix for this that we hope to deploy shortly after release. After the fix, changing the gem level of any minion will re-summon the minion with the new monster level. Until then you'll need to change areas to update the minion level.

Aggressive and Defensive cancel out, so skeletons can't dash if you're using both supports.

Moving far enough from where you currently are counts as changing target location, so small steps won't stop them doing what they're doing. Aggressive's minimum range is 80, while Defensive's maximum range is 35, if those numbers mean anything to you!

We've looked into it and it seems like it will apply wither on hit with spells, the stat description is accurate, with the only limit being what it can support.

Shock effect does work on the Necromancer's shocking corpses notable.

Infernal Legion's aura doesn't stack, each enemy is just damaged by the highest power aura on them.

Carrion Golems have no basic attack, just their comboish non-cooldown attack.

The Leap is only used if the target is more than a certain distance away. It'll have different chances for different abilities based on positioning of all enemies in range, it's not a guaranteed order.

Yes, Dark Pact counts as a minion skill gem so will benefit from the stat.

1) I don't believe you can use any supports to increase the effect of the Necromancer's shock/chill corpses. I can't test this right now though, sorry. 2) The Mine/Trap damage from Skitterbots isn't an aura, it's a constant buff like the Golem buff, so Generosity won't apply to the Mine/Trap damage of Skitterbots.

Chaos Golem's sandstorm deals about 1600 chaos damage per second at gem level 20.

At a glance I don't see monsters having maximum inspiration charges set so probably not, but you'll have to confirm this in game later if you have a minion that spends mana.

The Bone Cascade is usually used in the next few hits every time it's active, unless the melee combo is in the part of the sequence that does high damage and the enemy it was targeting is still alive. Chance still plays a part, they're not fully reliable in their use.

A quick test shows that Bone Cascade hits 1-5 times based on position and chance, but larger monsters will be hit by more spikes, similar to Glacial Cascade.

The Carrion Golem's combo attack is much more likely to complete once it gets going, unless the chosen target dies. If the primary target dies it'll likely switch to the cascade if it's available.

Mine auras last a short time after they've been activated, so if the detonation cascade is fast enough, all can be affected by all auras.

Mine auras last a short time after they've been activated, so if the detonation cascade is fast enough, all can be affected by all auras.

Every monster has it's own ranges for picking up targets, but generally minions that don't follow the player are naturally very close to Aggressive ranges, either slightly higher or lower.

The Chaos Golem's sandstorm has the "modifiers to spell damage affect this skill's damage over time" stat, not the golem itself, so Controlled Destruction's spell damage bonus wouldn't apply to Infernal Legion's burning area.

The Chaos Sandstorm still has a limited duration. It lasts 5 seconds by default, and has an 8 second cooldown, so with Increased Duration it will be able to re-cast it every time it runs out.

The Crusade Slam has a 6 second cooldown, and a radius of 21 units.

There have been changes to HP and Damage of some minions, but it's a manual process to get that info so I'm afraid I can't get it just now!

I've tested this quickly, and it looks like at the moment that Dominating Blow on killing a rare monster's bros won't give your sentinel the extra bro mods.

Looks like the corpse shock and chill from Corpse Pact is about 60 units radius around the corpse.

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If you want to know on a case by case basis if a skill costs mana, putting Blood Magic on it is one way, maybe Arcane Surge? Not sure about Arcane Surge off the top of my head sorry.

Technically the mine lasts a little longer if you have a longer cast time, but it's a fairly minor difference. Nothing else extends the length of the aura that I can easily see.

After being detonated, yeah.

Mine Auras have a base radius of 35 units.

Mines explode immediately on initial detonation, the only delay comes from when they're in a detonation sequence. If you hit Detonate on a mine flying through the air, it immediately explodes and drops to the ground.

At a quick glance, I don't see any obvious changes to Vaal Summon Skeletons other than the Accuracy adjustment.

Minimum targeting range means they can't have their monster target range ever be lower than 80 units. Monsters that can target further away than 80 units won't have their targeting range reduced to 80 units.

Something like Path of Building does this pretty well, using the info available in the game files. Each minion has its quirks through code or design or just how we tweaked the balance numbers. It's doable to work it out, but prone to human error and the formula you use might change based on how we change values. It's similar to showing the values in game. Long term we'd like to show each skill on each minion you have, but that's UI and implementation that would take someone important away from making new content!

Inspiration Charges have no inbuilt stats on them or monsters, everything currently just comes from the Support Gem stats.

Slower buff expiry won't make the auras last longer, just like it wouldn't make your own auras from an ally last longer if you were cursed with Temporal Chains.

Minion Instability isn't a skill so doesn't have tags/types in the traditional sense. It just has something that makes it count as Area damage for any area damage modifiers your minions might acquire.

I've tested this on our local servers, and it definitely seems to be working! It's probably just something that tooltips can't calculate, I'll see if this is something we can improve in the long run.