Minion

A Persistent skill is toggled in the Skills Panel and remains active until disabled or until its reservation or other requirement can no longer be met. Persistent Buffs, Meta skills, and Reviving Minions often reserve Spirit.

Spirit is a reservable resource used to activate and maintain skills with permanent effects, including persistent buffs, permanent minions, and trigger Meta skills.

Reservation commits part of a resource to an active effect. Most persistent Skills reserve Spirit, but some effects reserve Life or Mana. The reserved amount remains part of the resource's maximum and cannot be spent, recovered, or used as defence while it is reserved.

Duration is the length of time a skill component, Buff, Debuff, Ailment, Curse, Mark, Minion, Totem, Flask effect, Charm effect, Hazard, or delayed event remains active. Each duration modifier applies only to the effect type it names.

Companions are powerful Reviving Minions with a separate global limit. By default, you can have only one Companion summoned at a time, regardless of its type or the number of creatures represented by its skill.

Command Skills let the player order a permanent Minion to perform a specific action. The player issues the command, but the corresponding Minion performs the commanded Skill.

A Buff is a beneficial effect applied to a player, Minion, monster, or other target for a duration or while a condition remains true. Buff Magnitude comes from the creator, while Buff Effect usually comes from the affected target.

An Attack is a skill with the Attack tag. It normally takes its base damage, attack speed, and base Critical Hit Chance from an equipped Martial Weapon, unless the skill states a different rule.

A Spell is a skill with the Spell tag. Any base damage, Cast Time, and base Critical Hit Chance it lists come from the skill rather than the inherent damage, Attack Speed, or base Critical Hit Chance on a weapon.

Sacrifice some of a damageable Minion's life to deal Physical damage in an area around it.

Capture the spirit of a defeated monster, transforming this gem to instead allow you to summon the monster's ghost as a Reviving Minion.

Impale a Skeleton on a bone spike to shield your Minions while the spike remains, reducing the amount of damage taken from Hits. Taking a Hit that deals damage above a certain threshold will cause that Minion's shield to absorb all damage from that Hit, then explode. The bone spike is itself a Minion, and shields itself. If it dies, shields on your other Minions disappear.

While active, gains Energy when one of your Persistent Minions is Killed, and triggers socketed Spells upon reaching maximum Energy. Very underlevelled Minions will incur an Energy generation penalty. Cannot socket Spells which create Minions.

Sacrifice the life of a Minion to deal Chaos damage in an area around it. If you have no Minions, your own life is sacrificed instead.

While active, your Reviving Minions store a percentage of their maximum Life in a collectible Grim Remnant on death. Using Grim Resurrection Consumes the Life you've collected to Revive up to that much total Life of dead Minions.

Skewer a Skeleton on a bone spike to send nearby Minions into a frenzy as long as the spike remains, making their skills faster and harder hitting. The bone spike is itself a Minion. If it dies, the effect ends immediately.

While active, Fire Spells you use yourself will also summon Raging Spirits, which are short-lived flaming skulls that rush at nearby enemies and rapidly Attack them, ignoring commands. Enemies will not directly engage these Minions, and can pass through them.

Consume a Corpse or Power Charge to create a short-lived Zombie. Zombies created from Power Charges are Empowered and also create two additional non-empowered Zombies.

Harnesses a Companion Rhoa you can mount while you're wielding a Bow or Spear. While mounted you can use Bow, thrown Spear, and Mark Skills, and are much less slowed while using Skills, but being Hit will cause Heavy Stun buildup. While you aren't mounted, the Rhoa will attack your enemies alongside you with its beak, but can be damaged.

While active, your undead Reviving Minions can be used in place of Corpses by your skills, but your Minions Revive more slowly.

Activate to summon bomb-throwing, Reviving Skeletal Arsonists that can detonate other Minions on Command.

Activate to summon hard-hitting, Reviving Skeletal Brutes that can Stun Primed enemies and Warcry on Command. This Warcry Intimidates nearby enemies and Consumes Freeze on enemies and allies to deal damage in an Area around them.

Activate to summon Reviving Skeletal Clerics that heal other minions and revive fallen Skeletons.

Activate to summon Reviving Skeletal Frost Mages that can envelop your Minions in an icy shield on Command.

Activate to summon aggressive, Reviving Skeletal Reavers that can enrage on Command. Skeletal Reavers do more Attack Damage and gain increased Attack speed based on their Rage

Activate to summon long-ranged, Reviving Skeletal Snipers that can fire a gas arrow on Command.

Activate to summon Reviving Skeletal Storm Mages that can call down a lightning strike on dead Skeletons on Command.

Activate to summon Reviving Skeletal Warriors.

Skewer a Skeleton on a bone spike, granting you a powerful Spell damage Buff as long as the spike remains. Does not affect your Minions. The bone spike is itself a Minion. If it dies, the effect ends immediately.