State of minion resists?

MXL2017 brought increased life, and physical resistance to minions and made them significantly tankier than before. They still suffer from a lack of elemental resists. This means you'll end up with reasonably tanky minions until you face any amount of elemental AoE damage that will almost instantly curb your entire army.

Minion resists is a difficult to stat to get. Its a rare roll, its uncommon on uniques and in surprisingly small quantities. I've only ever seen a pure summon build even bother with minion resists due to it functionally giving increasing returns and not very useful without large quantities. Maxing resists essentially requires several magical shrine crafts fully MOd with additional minion resists.

The question for discussion, is should minions be given higher base resistances? Perhaps gain something like +5 resistances per hard skill point?

well, I heard that they already were given higher base resist. You don't need any +minion resist in hatred anymore, 50% in terror and 75% in dest. So 4 items mo'ed with minion resist grants you 80% which is enough. Shrine crafts can add up to 30% (on marrow staffs for example and 20% on other items if I remember correctly) so you really don't need tons of minion resist orbs.

I think minion resist in general isn't THAT important. Ofc, you need some, but in ubers for farming you usually don't.
Look at Toraja. It's mostly physical damage. Fauztinville the same.
TA is completely physical damage too. And Dunc... well, if you lack mobility, ofc your minions will die 1 hit to mechanics that kill youself 1 hit.

So all in all, you don't need minion resist to farm stuff. Only Unformed Land requires huge amounts of res (the enemies pierce like 500%), but it's no use even trying to get that much. Just resummon your minions.

Minion resist is not hard to obtain. Basic armors like gloves, belts, boots can get up to 20% on a magical craft + 20% on a magical bless + 20% if you orb resist.

I have three magical crafts with fascinating bless, and a fascinating crafted circlet which naturally can spawn minion resist as well. It's not hard to cap resist.

@hecht if you're playing a summon build, your minions should have no issue in unformed land. There should really be no need to resume on them with the amount of life they can get.

L H wrote:@hecht if you're playing a summon build, your minions should have no issue in unformed land. There should really be no need to resume on them with the amount of life they can get.

Well, I'm not that far yet

RN I'm busy with farming magical shrines for my shrine crafts. I already got a really nice staff though, and I found laz hat, but other than that I don't have any decent gear yet.

I guess I'll have to see it myself just well unformed land is working with that build.