Diablo 4’s Minions gained massive buffs in Season 7. These changes help players who main as summoner Necromancers. If you haven’t tried out the Necromancer class, Season 7 may be the time to do so. Here’s a complete guide to the Diablo 4 Season 7 Minions.
Minion Changes
Here’s a list of all the general changes.
- Minions can now Lucky Hit. Mage and Warriors have a 12% Chance, and Golems have a 20% Chance
- All summons count as player damage and will benefit effects that rely on player damage.
- Minions, Companions, Conjurations, Ancients, and the like will scale with the Summon tag.
- Minions Inherit 100% of your Stats and 100% of your Lucky Hit Chance.
Minion Skill Damage
Minions gained changes to their Skill Damage as well. Here are all the new Skill Damages.
Skeletal Warrior
- Skirmisher: 18%
- Defender: 18%
- Reaper: 18%
Skeletal Mage
- Shadow: 52%
- Cold: 52%
- Bone: 78%
Golem
- Bone: 77% (Passive: 123%)
- Blood: 77% (Active: 140%)
- Iron: 77% (Active: 200%)
Necromancer Skills Changes
Necromancer Skills received changes to help improve the use of Minions. Here are all the skills that were updated.
- Reaper’s Pursuit: For each Darkness Skill on your Skill Bar, gain 2% increased Movement Speed and 2% more damage.
- Amplify Damage: You deal 4% increased damage to Cursed and Feared enemies. These bonuses can stack.
- Hellbent Commander: While you control at least 7 Minions, gain 10% Summoning Damage.
- Coalesced Blood: You deal 6% increased damage while Healthy.
- Spiked Armor: Gain 40/80/120 Thorns, 5/10/15% Armor, and 10% Block Chance.
- Aspect of Redirected Force: Gain increased Critical Strike Damage equal to 30-70% of your Block Chance. Blocking doubles this bonus for 10 seconds.
- Unyielding Commander’s Aspect: While Army of the Dead is active, gain 70-110% Summoning Damage, and your Minions take 90% reduced damage.
- Aspect of the Great Feast: Gain 30-45% Summoning damage, but each active Minion drains 1 Essence from you per second. If you have no active Minions, you gain 30-45% increased damage instead and lose 7 Essence per second.
Seasonal Powers
Necromancers also have access to seasonal powers that affect their minions. Here are the Seasonal powers to use and how they work.
- Soul Harvest: Feed upon the life force of nearby enemies whenever you use a skill with a cooldown, increasing your primary stat by 3% per monster for X seconds. When you reach Rank 9, Soul Harvest does not lose duration as long as enemies are nearby.
- Grow: After casting an Ultimate Skill, your Servants, Minions, and Companions are empowered with dark magics. Growing more significant in size and dealing X bonus damage. It will last 15 seconds. When you reach Rank 11, Servers, minions, and Companions gain 100% of the Critical Hit Chance while enlarged.
- Breath of the Coven: Dealing damage or applying a Crowd Control effect with any of your Witchcraft Effects increases your Attack Speed by X for 10 Seconds, stacking once per unique Witchcraft Effect. When you reach Rank 9, you gain a 40% chance of getting a Lucky Hit while bonuses from Eldritch, Psyche, Growth & Decay are active at once.
- Hex Specialization: Increase the potency of your Hex Effects by X. When you reach Rank 10, it increases the Critical Strike Chance by 10% against enemies afflicted by your Hex Effects.
Seasonal Occult Gems
Seasonal Occult Gems provide players with 160 Armor and 8% Resist All. Here are the Occult Gems to use for your Necromancer class and Minions.
- Killing Wind: While you have three or more Eldritch Witch Powers slotted, gain 25% Movement Speed and 15% Critical Strike Chance.
- Spiral Coin: While you have three or more Psyche Witch Powers slotted, gain 30% Control Duration and 20% Lucky Hit Chance.
- Cornucopia: While you have three or more Growth/Decay Witch Powers slotted, you generate 30% more Barrier, gain 30% more Fortify, and have 30% more Thorns.
- Vulture Talon: While an Aura is active, you deal Damage Over Time 50% faster.
- Pointed Finger: Your Summons deal 15% more direct damage to Hexed Elites.
- Vile Phylactery: While you have a Witch Power with the Summon tag slotted, if you would take fatal damage, instead prevent that damage. Then gain a Barrier equal to 100% of your Maximum Life and disable your Witchcraft Powers with the Summon tag for 6 seconds. The effect can only occur once every 75 seconds.
- Friend of the Bog: While you have three or more Growth & Decay Witch Powers slotted, you gain 10% primary stat and 10% Maximum Life and are always Unhindered.
- Moonlight Ward: For each rank in your slotted Unique Witchcraft Power, you gain 3% Damage Reduction and 0.5% Maximum Resistance to All Elements.
- Dust Stone: For each of your Auras and Hexes an enemy is afflicted by, they take 2.5% increased damage from you.
If any new changes to minions and Necromancer skills catch your attention, it’s time to play the Necromancer class. The new buffs will help Necromancers play more efficiently and help those in the Endgame stage or Hardcore Mode.
