Minion Increase Area Of Effect skill point - does work with Basic Attacks or just Active command ?

Hello All,

What minions have default area of attack basic action ?

Arsonists do correct (fire bomb) ? Which other ?

Will putting points in Minion Increase Area Of Effect also affect default Fire Bomb attack or JUST the active command corpse explosion skill of Arsonists ? (this i can see increasing in tab)

What minions benefit from increase area of effect ?
Thank you so much, if anyone knows.

Also is arsonist basic attack fire bomb influenced by attack speed or cast speed ?

In my experience with an arsonist heavy blood mage build, the increased AOE for minions makes quite a large difference to them actually. Just watching their bombs without flame wall is visually noticable that they have increased aoe.

I could be wrong because I don't have numbers to prove it, but it seems to work globally for minions.

Attk spd, etc. is applied to minions when it says it is, yours does not unless you take skills that specifically say it applies some stat of yours to them - ie. Your amulets, resistances, etc.

Specifically, attk speed influences their bombs, martial tempo is a bread and butter supp for them.

Check out the detailed tooltips on minions and you can see which use attacks, which use spells, and whether they're AOE or not - though the AOE part you may have to do some playtesting to figure out in each case - can't remember if that's actually indicated via the wording, out of game atm.

IIRC, Frost and Lightning Mages are the only ones who are casters, besides Clerics - all other minions scale via attacks. As far as the attacks and spells themselves being AOE or ST - most are AOE outside of Sniper's basic attack, and Lightning Mage's Arc. Unsure on Skeleton Warriors, but Brutes have AOE, Frosties have AOE projectiles, Arsonists have AOE proj.

Scaling AOE will likely increase ST a bit due to shot-gunning, and may increase clear speed for maps as well - but in my experience it isn't really needed, probably the last thing to scale once you're min-maxing and can afford to. Minion ST damage is ridiculous already, so I could only really see the motivation if you want some faster clear on some specific builds, mainly non-Sniper.

Arsonist basic attack is impacted by attack speed. You can also impact it's blast radius with increased minion area of effect skill nodes on both it's command attack and regular bombs.