Leveling MinionMaster Build Please :(
As your traits will change every level, I’ll just try to give you some tips.
To get your minions to attack, you need to auto-attack twice, which the axe dose each auto-attack. It also stacks vul on the targets helping your minions attack.
Minions don’t benefit from what gear you use.
So going pow/tuf/vit will let you be tanky. Axe & PvE in general works best with power. So pow/pre/tuf gear will let you do a little extra damage on top.
You will find that blood fiend can be a pain as he die’s whenever going get’s tough, when you need heals the most. So I can highly recommend ‘Consume Conditions’ as your default 6 heal. Well of Blood can also be very nice, as it heals your minions, and if doing stuff like events in with other players, them too. Problem with it, it’s 40sec CD if you don’t trait it.
Trait wise:
20 Points in Spite, will give you power & longer vul time so nice with axe, the Master let’s you pick 30% more minion damage.
10 Points into Death Magic, get’s 20% recharge on minions, not just there skills but the how long till you can summon them again. Your going to want this as they do die.
20 Points Blood Magic, Vampiric Master, gets your pets attacks to heal you. Not affected by heal power, but quite nice constant heals when your pet’s aren’t dead. The 10 Points, will get you 50% stronger Vamp Master. Or the other I can highly recommend is ‘Transfusion’, which makes your Death Shroud 4, do a nice big heal to pets and people around you, while doing a nice AoE.
Death Magic tree, is heavy in other minion based stuff, 15 points says +20 toughness per minion out, but that’s at 80, so it scales down at lower levels.
Other thing is, Staff is very nice. Staff 2, will get Regen on your pets when they have monsters bashing on them. Auto attack is about our only combo finisher, tho your pets will trigger them quite nicely. Marks also allow for some AoE, your minons and axe only really attack 1 target at a time.
The base is 20/0/30/20/0. Changes to 20/0/20/30/0 for pvp. There is very little room for variation if you actually plan on using minions.
20 in spite to get 30% dmg. toss in focus skill from spite.
cd reduction + 50% hp in death is mandatory same as 30% dmg in spite.
in blood… siphon and leech on hit. Siphon can be swaped for transfusion if you like that one more but leech on hit is mandatory again.
The 10 point variation from 30 in death and 20 blood to 30 blood 20 death is swapping from death nova for pve to the uhh… whats it called minions eating conditions for pvp.
Axe+focus in general best option because vulnerability provides dual benefit your damage is increased and your minion damage increases. Focus lets you stick on 10+ stacks of vulnerability if you are personally closest ally to your target and there are no other targets it bounces back and forth applying effect multiple times. Minions can waste it so do other targets but w/e. And staff for general purpose. It will be your sole way to remove conditions. And combined with bone minion explosion+death nova lets you stack a long last weakness+poison.
When using staff, pop Mark of Blood (#2) on top the mob, yourself, and your minions for regen. Staff 4, Putrid Mark, can remove conditions from the minions you hit as long as you tag an enemy, too. You can also use Transfusion from Blood Magic when channeling DS4 to heal your minions even more and Minion Master under Death Magic to shorten their cool down time when they die.
Once you level high enough, Spite has the powerful Training of the Master and Death Magic has Flesh of the Master. These traits form the core of a minionmaster build. You can use some, or all, of them balanced with other traits and utilities. You do not need to devote everything to MM but it does take a lot of your points. There are some additional traits you can choose at the grandmaster levels of DM and BM.