Minion

Minions

Tooltip

Minions are summoned Allies which will accompany and fight alongside you. Persistent Minions will reserve a portion of Spirit while active.

Minions are allies summoned or raised by the player's skills, effects, or buffs. Minions do not benefit from modifiers to stats that affect the player character's offences or defences; only modifiers that specify or affect minions or allies will apply.

Minion categories

Minions are categorized as permanent or temporary minions.

Permanent minions

Permanent minions are minions that require typically require reservation of spirit.

The types and number of permanent minions to be summoned are selected in the skill menu, after which they are summoned automatically as long as the requirements and reservation amounts are met. They cannot be summoned manually using the skill. Permanent minions will revive themselves automatically if no other allied reviving minions have died within 7.5 seconds. Whenever a reviving minion dies during this period, the timer increases, but each subsequent death will increase the timer by less.

Companions

Companions are a special type of permanent minions. Only one companion minion can be summoned at a time by default. Players can have up to two companions via the Trusted Kinship keystone or Yriel's Fostering.

Temporary minions

Temporary minions are minions with an upfront cost, usually mana. Temporary minions will not revive themselves on death. Some minions may persist for a specified duration, while others will persist until they are killed or overwritten.

Some temporary minions require a corpse to be raised from.

Mechanics

Controlling minions

Minions have different AI which affects their aggression range and skill use logic. Some minions may have options in the skill menu that allow minion aggression to be modified directly.

Minions can also be commanded manually to move to a location, target enemies, or open chests. Some minions may also have Command skills which are only used when activated by the player.

Mounts

Certain minions can be mounted, allowing the player to ride them. Riding a mount negates the movement speed penalty for moving while using a ranged bow or spear attacks.

However, taking heavy damage while mounted will cause the player to become heavy stunned.

Despawning

Reviving minions automatically die/despawn if they are too far away from the player, but will immediately revive without the usual timer.

Gems

A list of gems with the Minion gem tag:

Skill gems

Gem	Tier
Skeletal Sniper	1
Unearth	1
Skeletal Arsonist	3
Pain Offering	5
Raise Zombie	5
Skeletal Frost Mage	5
Bind Spectre	7
Tame Beast	9
Skeletal Reaver	9
Bone Offering	11
Skeletal Storm Mage	11
Skeletal Brute	13
Skeletal Cleric	13
Soul Offering	13

Spirit gems

Gem	Tier
Raging Spirits	4
Cast on Minion Death	8
Rhoa Mount	14
Sacrifice	14

Support gems

Gem	Tier
Elemental Army	1
Essence Harvest	1
Last Gasp	1
Minion Instability	1
Minion Pact	1
Sacrificial Lamb	1
Meat Shield	1
Bidding	2
Commandment	2
File:Crazed Minions inventory icon.pngCrazed Minions	2
File:Deathmarch inventory icon.pngDeathmarch	2
Feeding Frenzy	2
File:Loyalty inventory icon.pngLoyalty	2
File:Muster inventory icon.pngMuster	2
Infernal Legion	2
Enormity	3
Minion Mastery	3

Related unique items

Item	Base item	Item class		Stats
The Dark Defiler	Rattling Sceptre	Sceptre	1	Grants Skill: Level (1-20) Skeletal Warrior Minion+(20-30) to maximum Mana +(5-10) to Intelligance (10-30)% increased Mana Regeneration Rate Gain 5% of Damage as Chaos Damage per Undead Minion
Bones of Ullr	Lattice Sandals	Boots	16	(40-60)% increased Energy Shield +(20-40) to maximum Life +(20-40) to maximum Mana Undead Minions have 20% reduced Reservation
Carrion Call	Engraved Focus	Focus	16	+(30-40) to maximum Energy Shield Minions have (20-30)% increased Maximum Life (20-30)% increased Mana Regeneration Rate Minions deal (20-30)% increased Damage Minion's Resistances are equal to yours
Necromantle	Bone Raiment	Body Armour	16	+(40-60) to maximum Life +(30-50) to maximum Mana Minions have +(17-23)% to Chaos Resistance Minions gain (20-30)% of their Maximum Life as Extra Maximum Energy Shield Minions Revive 50% faster
Trenchtimbre	Spiked Club	One Hand Mace	16	Adds (13–15) to (22–25) Physical Damage (20–30)% increased Attack Speed +(1–2) to Level of all Minion Skills Increases and Reductions to Minion Attack Speed also affect you
Heartbound Loop	Pearl Ring	Ring	32	(7-10)% increased Cast SpeedMinions have (10-15)% increased maximum Life (10-15) Life Regeneration per second (20-40)% increased Mana Regeneration Rate 300 Physical Damage taken on Minion Death Minions Revive (10-15)% faster
Chober Chaber	Leaden Greathammer	Two Hand Mace	33	+100 Intelligence Requirement Adds (58-65) to (102-110) Physical Damage +(80–100) to maximum Mana +50 to Spirit Increases and Reductions to Minion Damage also affect you
Starkonja's Head	Leatherbound Hood	Helmet	51	(100–200)% increased Evasion Rating (15–25)% increased Critical Hit Chance +(30–40) to Dexterity 150% increased Global Evasion Rating when on Low Life 15% of Damage from Hits is taken from your Companion's Life before you
Yriel's Fostering	Strider Vest	Body Armour	52	(100–150)% increased Evasion Rating +(80–120) to maximum Life +(10–30) to Spirit (40–60)% reduced Bleeding Duration on you (40–60)% reduced Poison Duration on you You can have two Companions of different types
Vis Mortis	Plated Raiment	Body Armour	58	(70–100)% increased Energy Shield +(70–100) to maximum Mana Minions have 50% reduced maximum Life Minions have Unholy Might

Version history

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Version	Changes
0.2.0e	We have changed the way that minion revive timers work. When your first minion dies, it sets the revive timer to 7.5 seconds as before, but each successive minion that dies increases it by less and less (still capped to a max of 7.5 seconds). This should heavily mitigate the situation where most of your minions are dead, but the revive timer keeps resetting to 7.5 seconds over and over.
0.2.0c	Minions have approximately 15% more Life through the early Campaign, tapering down to be unchanged by Gem Level 30 (or so). Gem Level 10 Minions now have 41% More Damage. Gem Level 15 Minions now have 50% More Damage. Gem Level 20 Minions now have 60% More Damage. Gem Level 30 Minions now have 79% More Damage.
0.2.0	Improved the performance of summoning and reviving minions. Revivable Minions now spawn with their skills on cooldown. This only applies to newly summoned minions, not Minions that have just revived. Persistent minions granted by ascendancy passive skills will now automatically be summoned when you allocate the passive for the first time.
0.1.1c	Minions can now briefly squeeze through smaller gaps if they've failed to move for a short period.
0.1.1	Reviving Minions that died from being out-of-range of you now instead immediately revive near you. Fixed a bug where minion objects could stretch into unwalkable terrain.
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.