Minion Builds
Minion builds in Last Epoch offer a unique and engaging playstyle, allowing players to command an army of allies to fight alongside them. These builds are often characterized by their ability to clear content efficiently while maintaining a safe distance, making them a popular choice for both new and experienced players.
The core of a minion build revolves around summoning and empowering various types of minions, such as zombies, skeletons, or specialized creatures depending on the class. These minions act as your primary damage dealers and often serve as a meat shield, drawing enemy aggro and protecting the player. Success in minion builds hinges on maximizing minion stats and ensuring they can effectively engage and defeat enemies.
Key Classes for Minion Builds:
- Necromancer: The quintessential minion master, the Necromancer excels at summoning and controlling a wide variety of undead minions, including zombies, skeletons, and mages. Their passive trees and skills are heavily geared towards enhancing minion damage, survivability, and utility.
- Beastmaster: While not solely a minion class, the Beastmaster can summon powerful animal companions and has access to skills that can buff them sificantly. Their focus is often on a few powerful, highly-tuned companions rather than a large horde.
- Spellblade (with specific skills): Certain skills, like the 'Summon Frostling' or 'Summon Raging Spirit' (if available through mastery), can allow a Spellblade to incorporate minions into their build, though it's not their primary focus.
Essential Minion Stats to Focus On:
- Minion Damage: Directly increases the damage output of your summoned allies.
- Minion Health: Crucial for keeping your minions alive, especially in challenging content.
- Minion Attack Speed/Cast Speed: Allows your minions to deal damage more frequently.
- Minion Resistances: Helps your minions survive elemental and other damage types.
- Minion Crit Chance/Crit Multiplier: For builds that focus on critical strikes for their minions.
Gear and Crafting for Minions:
Gear plays a vital role in empowering your minions. Look for items with affixes that specifically boost minion stats. Crafting can be used to add powerful minion-focused affixes to your equipment. Unique items can also provide sificant boosts to minion builds, such as items that summon additional unique minions or grant powerful buffs to all your allies.
Playstyle Tips:
- Positioning: Keep your minions between you and the enemies.
- Targeting: While minions often attack automatically, some skills allow you to direct their focus.
- Buffs and Debuffs: Utilize your own skills to buff your minions or debuff enemies to make the fight easier.
- Summoning Limits: Be aware of the maximum number of minions you can have active at any given time and manage your summons accordingly.
Minion builds offer a rewarding experience in Last Epoch, allowing you to overcome challenges through strategic summoning and effective management of your loyal companions.