Living Lightning Minions not affected by certain damage modifiers

I was trying out the Living Lightning II support and I noticed that the damage from the minions does not seem to scale from other supports based on trying out the skill with and without those supports under the same conditions. I tried Elemental Focus and Elemental Armament II and neither seem to scale the damage at all. I also have a feeling that the Living Lightning minions are either extremely low base damage or bugged in some way for the following reasons:


1. Level 36 Lightning Rod linked to Living Lightning = level 36 Minions

2. Minions gain 10% Phys as Extra Lightning(rune), 20% of Elemental Damage as Chaos(Forbidden Path on Oracle Tree), and Minions gain 10% of Phys as Extra Chaos(Entropic Incarnation on Tree)

3. 208% Increased Minion Damage

4. Gigantic Following on the tree for 20% More damage

5. Elemental Armament II - 25% More Damage, Proj Acceleration III - unsure if the minions have a projectile or Melee attack, and if this would matter at all anyway because the player's projectile speed shouldn't affect minions.

6. Doryani's Prototype and -190% lightning resistance = 2.9x Damage


Based on watching the boss DPS counter in maps, I calculated that I have about ~100,000 total DPS. Lightning Rod accounts for about half of that, as it has a tooltip DPS of ~5,000 and I have 10 rods in the ground at all times that are exploding as soon as they are able to since my minions chain to them constantly. I also have a Mirage Archer using Lightning Arrow that accounts for about ~10% of my DPS when it is up. That leaves about ~40,000 DPS from 12 Living Lightning Minions (4 extra from the tree), which is ~3,333 DPS per minion. Comparing this to any other minion, the damage is incredibly abysmal.

In conclusion, I believe that the Living Lightning Support gem is either bugged and is not scaling properly or it is extremely undertuned. A level 36 minion's base damage should be relatively high, and with all the modifiers above combined I expected a lot more damage from them. I suppose it is a support gem after all, but I was really trying to make it a main damage skill.

they only scale with dex for AS and strenght for damage, probably the only thing affecting them in your test is doryani prototype...
They are very good at providing status effect like maim and blind and some more damage can be achieved making them extracting impales, i always use them in herald of thunder and they costantly apply debuffs.
I think it's not a bug (might be wrong), just a free minion for non int builds.

This is going to sound a little dumb here, but is it not possible your Living Lightning minions are chaining to your Lightning Rods and simply not hitting the boss then?