As mentioned above this is multiplicative bonus. Best way to get ticks of this quickly is bonestrom with the shadow damage aspect, miasma corpse explosion, and blight. Once you have Shadowblight you can use most powerfull minion buff available to necromancer - Blighted aspect, which is available from dungeon but can roll up to +120% bonus damage to all damage done including minion damage once your blight ticks 10 times (+240% bonus damage on 2H weapon!). It is crucial to take Shadowblight key passive instead of Kalans Edict (which does not work most of the time due to damage taken anyway). Some of them might not show up in your stat sheet but they work. In general you want to stack total damage (int, +damage%) because it affects your minions too, minion damage bonuses, vulnerable damage because it is multiplicative with overall damage and any kind of % damage from legendaries and skills because these are multiplicative too.Įspecially unique peragon node from cult leader, golem board, corpse eater, hellbent commander, passive bonuses to minions from skill tree. Mages - blizzard scales with your damage not with minion damage.

I agree that Warriors hit like wet noodle, at the moment their value is in making corpses (reapers) and taking hits instead of you.

I am not saying minion damage is great, but I deal more damage with minions at lvl 81 (running tier 41 NM dungions at the moment).

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