Not enjoying poe2, no dmg!

I decided to try out poe2, was going to wait till they had all the classes out...but gave in...went with a witch minion build, and I hate it SO much. I have 10k hours in poe1, so I know what scales what. No matter what I do they all suck, im spending 10mins to down a boss, and its infuriating. Zombies require corpses, which you can't generate anymore. And no matter what minions I go with the spirit keeps me locked down to a laughable amount of minions. The ability that raises scorpions cant be used on a boss because of no corpses...im at a loss for words! I sure hope this isn't how its meant to be! I had to cast frost orb to down a boss myself, if left to the minions it would of taken 30mins easily! And I have ALL minion dmg nodes I could reach by 25! Like what is this mess?!

I have experimented with all available supports, I have 2 pieces of gear with +1 to all minion skill gems.

Do you see the cognitive dissonance displayed in this scenario?:

-->"I know what I'm doing!"

--> Complain about being unable to do a thing that other people have figured out how to do.

You can't play this game like you play poe1.

You'll probably pick it up quickly, but it's a different game. The same tricks and playstyle don't necessarily work.

Before the game even released I read the descriptions for zombies and the scorpion boys and noped right out. I've played Witch with persistent minions in both leagues SSF fine, certainly no boss took 10 minutes. Obviously the game is still being balanced. If a minion type isn't working, try others. There's like 7 different kinds of skele minions alone. Experiment.

"I have every minion damage node at level 25. I know I'm good at the game so it can't be me"

These two things do not go together, my friend.

Yeah you don't know what you're doing.

Ok so what more can I do?!
Im 26 atm

Ive taken all minion dmg nodes I have access too
I have 2 pieces of gear with +2 to all minion levels
Im using the spike buff whatever it is called forget atm
Ive unlocked all supports and experimented with them all
I have also tried experimenting with the different types
I have 3 skeleton warriors and 2 frost mages atm, and I use the scorpion spawn
ability when there is corpses.

The only thing that works is if I deal dmg along side them with something like frost orb or something, which shouldn't be mandatory.

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justinmm1988#6504 เขียน:

Ok so what more can I do?!
Im 26 atm

Ive taken all minion dmg nodes I have access too
I have 2 pieces of gear with +2 to all minion levels
Im using the spike buff whatever it is called forget atm
Ive unlocked all supports and experimented with them all
I have also tried experimenting with the different types
I have 3 skeleton warriors and 2 frost mages atm, and I use the scorpion spawn
ability when there is corpses.

The only thing that works is if I deal dmg along side them with something like frost orb or something, which shouldn't be mandatory.

Are your minions kept up in gem levels? Levels are extremely important for minions. Not just +to minion level gear, but make sure the gem itself is upgraded ASAP. Are you cursing with a relevant curse so minions can do more damage? Most importantly, you can "have all minion dmg nodes" but if your minions are dead their dps is zero. Are they actually alive, or are they dead because you made them pure glass cannons? And yes, at low levels with poor gear you're absolutely meant to deal damage along side them, fire skills with raging spirits is especially useful to use when you can first use it.

+1 your right, i have 3 minion builds, one level 96 and two level 94. They where fine before 0.2 nothing op but fine. With the 0.2 season patch they destroyed the minions between also other builds. Whoever is responsible for this is also responsible to how the game went from having 580.000 active players to 4.000 sometimes. Minions where never op before 0.2 but very descent. Instead of buffing thing that where weak ... well they did this. I had over 700 hours in 0.1, and since 0.2 about 60 hours maybe. This should tell you how i and many people feel. Besides everyone i knew stopped playing with 0.2. Waiting to see what 0.3 does to minions when it releases, just want to keep leveling up my minion builds to level 100. If the minions don't improve i'll just move on to a new game 100% and try again in a distant future. Besides the bug that suddenly started happening in my game where loot becomes invisible, disappears , even without using any loot filter. Also Devines stopped dropping and never found any of the chase uniques. Only reason i still play sometimes is because i have some faith in GGG. But 0.3 will be the last drop of patience and tolerance for me. At the end of the day we all want GGG to do well, POE2 is a really good game but i want to have fun playing games and not feel angry , frustration and disappointed, got enough of that in real life. I play video games because i want to have fun .

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Germany27250#8163 เขียน:

Besides the bug that suddenly started happening in my game where loot becomes invisible, disappears , even without using any loot filter.

Press Z.

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justinmm1988#6504 เขียน:

Ok so what more can I do?!
Im 26 atm

Ive taken all minion dmg nodes I have access too
I have 2 pieces of gear with +2 to all minion levels
Im using the spike buff whatever it is called forget atm
Ive unlocked all supports and experimented with them all
I have also tried experimenting with the different types
I have 3 skeleton warriors and 2 frost mages atm, and I use the scorpion spawn
ability when there is corpses.

The only thing that works is if I deal dmg along side them with something like frost orb or something, which shouldn't be mandatory.

probably not take minion damage nodes to make non-respawning minions work, and instead take the early minion health and minions that revive, minions attached to weapons will be easier to scale early so keep buying the next level sceptre when you can and using those. for non reviving minions from corpses and more damage just run Unearth. to run more minions in general try to find spirit on a sceptre. for supporting spells try chaos dots or things that add flat damage to your minions like flame wall, or curses. I think it is usually contagion for clear, essence drain for single target, flamewall/ despair as supporting skills. bonestorm is not bad as an all-rounder if you run vulnerability and take phys spell nodes instead of the chaos stuff. at like level 40-50 you can probably make arsonist/skeletal sniper do enough base damage to get decent gas cloud explosions if you wanna go that route with more minion damage nodes. but I would recommend just going chaos dot contagion/ed. it is strong single target and clear with just gem levels