PoE Minion Skills

PoE Minion Skill Gems

# Skill Gems Description Level Tag
1 Absolution Absolution amages enemies in an area, applying a debuff for a short duration. If a non-unique enemy dies while affected by the debuff, the enemy's corpse will be consumed to summon a Sentinel of Absolution for a longer secondary duration, or to refresh the duration and life of an existing one instead if you have the maximum number of them. 12 Spell, Minion, Duration, AoE, Physical, Lightning
2 Herald of Purity Herald of Purity Grants a buff which lets you deal more physical damage. When you kill an enemy while you have this buff, this skill will summon a Sentinel of Purity, or refresh the duration and life of an existing one instead if you have the maximum number of them. The Sentinels of Purity have a single-target melee attack and an area melee attack. 16 Spell, Herald, Minion, Duration, Physical
3 Animate Guardian Animate Guardian Animates a melee weapon or armour, attaching it to an invisible Guardian that fights by your side. Animating multiple items attaches them to the same Guardian. You cannot animate unidentified items. Cannot be used by Traps or Mines. 28 Spell, Minion, Physical
4 Dominating Blow Dominating Blow Attacks enemies with a melee strike, applying a debuff for a short duration. If a non-unique enemy dies while affected by the debuff, the enemy's corpse will be consumed and a Sentinel of Dominance with the same rarity, prefix and suffix modifiers will be summoned for a longer secondary duration. 28 Attack, Minion, Duration, Melee, Strike
5 Summon Flame Golem Summon Flame Golem Summons a Flame Golem that grants you increased Damage. The Flame Golem can use a fire spray, a wave of fire damage, and an explosive arcing projectile. 34 Fire, Minion, Spell, Golem
6 Summon Stone Golem Summon Stone Golem Summons a Stone Golem that grants you life regeneration. In addition to its melee attack, the Stone Golem uses a rolling charge and a powerful slam that can taunt enemies. 34 Minion, Spell, Golem, Physical
7 Animate Weapon Animate Weapon Animates a Melee Weapon Item or Lingering Blade to fight by your side. You cannot animate unidentified Weapons. Will not animate weapons with 6 sockets unless specifically targeted. Cannot be used by Traps or Mines. 4 Duration, Minion, Spell, Physical
8 Blink Arrow Blink Arrow Fires an arrow at the target destination. When the arrow lands, you are teleported to it and a clone is summoned at your old location. The clone is a minion that uses your bow and quiver. 10 Attack, Minion, Duration, Movement, Travel, Bow
9 Mirror Arrow Mirror Arrow Fires an arrow at the target destination. When the arrow lands, a clone is summoned. The clone is a minion that uses your bow and quiver. 10 Attack, Minion, Duration, Movement, Travel, Bow
10 Herald of Agony Herald of Agony Grants a buff giving more poison damage and a chance to inflict poison. When you poison an enemy while you have this buff, you gain Virulence, and summon an Agony Crawler minion that uses projectile and area attacks. You will lose Virulence over time, at a rate which increases the more Virulence you have. The minion will die when you have no Virulence. 16 Spell, Herald, Minion, Chaos, Physical
11 Summon Ice Golem Summon Ice Golem Summons an Ice Golem that grants you increased Critical Strike Chance and Accuracy. The Ice Golem can use an icy barrage spell and a chilling spinning dash in addition to its melee attack. 34 Critical, Cold, Minion, Spell, Golem
12 Raise Zombie Raise Zombie Raises a zombie minion from a corpse, which will follow you and attack enemies with a melee attack and an area of effect slam which cannot be evaded. 1 Spell, Minion
13 Summon Holy Relic Summon Holy Relic Summon a Holy Relic that stays near you. When you hit an enemy with an attack, the Holy Relic triggers a nova spell, with a very short cooldown, that deals physical damage to enemies and grants life regeneration to allies. This life regeneration is higher when applied to minions. 4 Minion, Spell
14 Summon Raging Spirit Summon Raging Spirit Summons a short-lived flaming skull that rushes at nearby enemies and attacks them rapidly. Enemies will not directly engage these spirits, and can pass through them. 4 Spell, Minion, Duration, Fire
15 Summon Skeletons Summon Skeletons Summon Skeleton Warrior minions at the targeted location. They use a melee attack and die after a duration. If made aggressive, Skeleton Warriors will also dash towards nearby enemies. 10 Spell, Minion, Duration
16 Vaal Summon Skeletons Vaal Summon Skeletons Summons an army of skeletal warriors, archers and mages, led by a powerful general. 10 Vaal, Spell, Minion, Duration
17 Bone Offering Bone Offering Consumes a corpse, granting all of your minions the power to block both attacks and spells. The skill consumes other nearby corpses, increasing the duration for each corpse consumed. 12 Minion, Spell, Duration
18 Flesh Offering Flesh Offering Consumes a corpse, which temporarily empowers your minions with swiftness. The skill consumes other nearby corpses, increasing the duration for each corpse consumed. 12 Minion, Spell, Duration
19 Spirit Offering Spirit Offering Consumes a corpse, granting extra chaos damage, elemental resistances and chaos resistance to your minions. The skill consumes other nearby corpses, increasing the duration for each corpse consumed. 12 Minion, Spell, Duration, Chaos
20 Summon Skitterbots Summon Skitterbots Summon a Chilling Skitterbot and a Shocking Skitterbot, which will trigger your traps and detonate your mines. Mines detonated by Skitterbots will re-arm and can then be detonated again. The Skitterbots grant you more trap and mine damage, and cannot be targeted or damaged. 16 Trap, Mine, Spell, Minion, Cold, Lightning, AoE, Aura
21 Convocation Convocation Recalls all minions that are following you to your location, and grants them a temporary life regeneration effect. 24 Minion, Spell, Duration
22 Raise Spectre Raise Spectre Raises a spectral version of a defeated foe as a minion to fight for you in battle. 28 Spell, Minion
23 Dark Pact Dark Pact This spell removes some life from one of your Skeleton minions near you or the targeted location to deal chaos damage in an area around it. This effect will chain to your other nearby skeletons. If you have no skeletons near you or the targeted location, it will sacrifice your own life to deal damage instead. 28 Minion, Spell, AoE, Chaining, Chaos, Nova
24 Summon Reaper Summon Reaper Summons a powerful Reaper which uses a variety of slashing area attacks. The Reaper's presence weakens your other minions, and it will consume them to temporarily empower and heal itself. Using this skill while the Reaper is already summoned causes it to dash to the targeted location and perform a powerful attack. 28 Physical, Minion, Spell
25 Summon Chaos Golem Summon Chaos Golem Summons a Chaos Golem that grants you Physical Damage Reduction. The Chaos Golem can use a damage over time Chaos aura and a cascade of Chaos spikes in addition to its melee attack. 34 Chaos, Minion, Spell, Golem
26 Summon Lightning Golem Summon Lightning Golem Summons a Lightning Golem that grants you increased Attack and Cast speed. The Lightning Golem fires a projectile spell, creates orbs of Lightning that zap nearby enemies, and casts a temporary aura that grants added Lightning Damage to spells and attacks used by the Golem and its nearby allies. 34 Lightning, Minion, Spell, Golem
27 Summon Carrion Golem Summon Carrion Golem Summons a Carrion Golem that grants added physical damage for your non-golem minions. The Carrion Golem attacks with a series of slashes that increase in speed and damage, as well as a cascade of bone spikes, and deals more damage for each of your non-golem minions near it. 34 Physical, Minion, Spell, Golem
28 Summon Phantasm Support Summon Phantasm Support Supports skills that can hit enemies, or create minions. When those skills or minions kill enemies, or hit rare or unique enemies they will have a chance to summon a Phantasm minion, which uses a piercing projectile spell that deals physical damage. 4 Support, Minion
29 Minion Damage Support Minion Damage Support Supports skills which create Minions. 8 Support, Minion
30 Infernal Legion Support Infernal Legion Support Supports skills which create Minions. 8 Fire, AoE, Support, Minion
31 Predator Support Predator Support Supports skills which create Minions. 18 Support, Minion, Spell, Duration
32 Minion Life Support Minion Life Support Supports skills which create Minions. 18 Support, Minion
33 Minion Speed Support Minion Speed Support Supports skills which create Minions. 18 Movement, Support, Minion
34 Feeding Frenzy Support Feeding Frenzy Support Supports skills which create Minions. 31 Support, Minion, Duration
35 Meat Shield Support Meat Shield Support Supports skills which create Minions. 31 Support, Minion
36 Elemental Army Support Elemental Army Support Supports skills which create Minions. 31 Support, Minion
37 Awakened Minion Damage Support Awakened Minion Damage Support Supports skills which create Minions. 72 Support, Minion

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There are a few cases which are not straight forward such as all minion skills. They say they are spells but are not affected by spell damage. Why aren't minions affected by spell damage when they have the spell tag?

Minions do not "have the spell tag". Minion spell gems have the spell tag, because they are spells. They deal no damage.

There is a fundamental difference between your Raise Zombie spell, which is a spell cast by you that creates a minion and no damage (but would be affected by spell damage modifiers if it did), and the Zombie's Melee attack (which is an attack, not a spell, not used by you, that deals attack damage because it's an attack).

The damage of the Zombie's melee attack is not the damage of the Raise Zombie spell, and is pretty much entirely unrelated to it.

If I have Minion Instability and my Animated Guardian reaches low life, do his exploding item's stats add to the damage of the explosion? For example: if Animated Guardian is wearing "Starkonja's Head" does "50% reduced Damage when on Low Life" apply to the damage of the Minion Instability explosion?

Currently no because this is bugged - the stats are not able to update before the explosion happens. This has been fixed locally for a future patch.


Minions cannot currently benefit from Triggered Skills via gear equipped to them by Necromantic Aegis. (E.g. Shattershard's Shield Shatter on block). Is this by design or technical limitation?

This is a technical limitation that we hope to change in future. Monsters cannot gain skills from equipment in the way that players do.

If the Mantra of Flames Jewel's Spell Damage increase per Buff is applied to 3 items (Law of the Wilds, Arakaali's Fang and The Black Cane) is it applied as 1 stack per minion?

Each of those items involves you receiving one buff per minion, yes.

What level are totems/minions/etc? I know it's based on gem level, but is there a table or something to consult? Like gem level 21 = level 75 totem, or something like that?

In general, they have a level matching the level requirement of the skill or support effect that creates them.

Was the lack of a curse tag for Bane and its interaction with Vixen's Entrapment intentional?

Bane is fundamentally not a curse (and never has been). Previously, it was still considered a curse skill (had the tag) because tags are used to indicate what mechanics a skill interacts with, not just what they are. This is also why Dark Pact or the Offerings are Minion skills, despite not creating minions. This caused it to have an unintended interaction with Vixen's Entrapment, which affects socketed curse skills because it was intended to interact with actual curses, but the same tag was used for both cases. This conflicting meaning of skills having the curse tag also caused other issues with designing content, and thus is something we wanted to fix when we had a good solution. When curses were reworked, we had to distinguish between hexes and marks, which meant we now had more tags to work with and could be more specific about what each one meant - limiting the curse tag only to the skills that actually are curses, rather than just interacting with them, and applying the hex/mark tags for skills that interact with hex curses or mark curses as a mechanic. It's quite possible something similar will have to eventually happen with the minion tag to separate skills tagged as creating minions from those tagged as interacting with minions in some form.

How does the Maw of Mischief Helmet skill "Death Wish" prioritize the minions that will be chosen first to explode? Making it choose minions based on proximity of the location of the mouse would make sense, but it seems to be almost random.

The only prioritisation it has is that it cannot affect immortal minions or minions already affected by the skill. Beyond that it is random.

How does Reaper minion decide which of your other minions it will eat when it decides that it's hungry? Is it random or is there a priority of some kind?

The Reaper does not separately decide that it's hungry and then chose a minion. Each time it picks an action, it evaluates all possible actions and picks one. For each of your other minions it can see, there are two possible actions involving eating that minion which will be weighed against other possible actions (similarly for each enemy, there are actions that could attack that enemy, and there are several more possible actions for attacking which are limited only to its current aggro target if it has one).
Eating a minion to heal has a high weighting, but is ignored if the reaper has higher than 75% life or already has the buff from eating a minion.
Eating a minion just for the buff has a lower weighting, but is ignored if the reaper already has the buff or there are no enemies around that minion (so it won't move away from the enemies to eat a far-away minion).
There are no variations in weighting based on minion type, etc, but the Reaper cannot eat "immortal" minions which can't be damaged, such as skitterbots, as they're invalid targets for the eating action, and cannot.eat untargetable minions like raging spirits because they can't be targeted.

Can it eat phantasm minions?

Yes.

Also, are phantasm from summon phantasm support affected by other support gems?

Yes.

Why does skill effect duration increase the duration of some minion skills such as offerings and not other minion skills like skeletons?

This is incorrect. The duration of Skeletons is affected by modifiers to skill effect duration.

Does the modifier given by "Master Toxicist" and Darkscorn "poisons created by you have a x% chance to do x% more damage" apply to poisons applied by skills used by minions, totems and mirages?

The actual modifiers in question are "Poisons you inflict during any Flask Effect have 20% chance to deal 100% more Damage" and "20% chance for Poisons inflicted with this Weapon to deal 300% more Damage". Your minions inflict their own poisons with their own skills (and weapons), so cannot benefit from these.
Totems, Mirages, Traps, and Mines all use your skills, which are affected by your stats, and for attacks, use your weapons as the base. These will be affected.

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