Why make minions that suck?

I will never understand why devs make skills that are just useless, and by useless I mean suboptimal to the point that its a personal challenge to do anything meaningful with them that doesn't feel like a waste of time instead of using different skills that work better in every regard.

Especially with the added spectre gem.

Like - why make objectively worse skills? I don't get it.

EA

It was OP on 0.1 (minions)

So when they introduce specters, minions (overall) was tuned low (because 0,1)

So... this league they are at bottom

Next league they will be buffed, but at steps, so they arent op as 0.1

It takes time to find the right tune (and the right tune isnt fixed, it change with time)

So... that's what we got atm.

Sometime will get better, but not this league.

minions were never op.

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Apostiles_R#4194 schrieb:

minions were never op.

There were full AFK builds that destroyed T4 pinacles in like 5 seconds while rocking 20k+ ES...

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DwaneDibbley#4615 schrieb:

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Apostiles_R#4194 schrieb:

minions were never op.

There were full AFK builds that destroyed T4 pinacles in like 5 seconds while rocking 20k+ ES...

Minions have more buttons than your meta builds. At the very least 2 more buttons. Also 20k ES is not a minion exclusive thing, its a talent tree + grim feast (now nerfed, thank god) issue.

Minions literally were never op. Hence you never saw the non-minion specific streamers use them. Thank you and have a nice day.

Why? To live out the Kung-Pow fantasy:

We have purposefully trained him wrong, as a joke.

Balance~

Minions (the normal ones) still can be used for certain things.
Now even more so as they got more stuff they can do and buffs.

So are they worthless now ? I havent even seen anything about how they now dont need accuracy, are getting more gems, auto revive faster. Im gonna try and theory craft an actual Zombie Minion Master build but just need a few more days... I think Minions are now in a very good place ...

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Hellzwraith#0237 schrieb:

I think Minions are now in a very good place ...

In the trash can.
They are clumsy, constantly get stuck, run behind you, have low damage and hp, are hard to scale. Storm mages had their clearspeed cut in half, it was the only usable minion (still much worse than meta builds).
When playing minions you have to press extra buttons and invest in more things (minion survivability for example), while their normal damage is constantly cut and GGG offer to use active command skills. This makes no sense, you can also press skills on a caster or bow and have many times more damage, clearspeed, survivability and sustain via life/es lich.