How to be a minion powerhouse

Its all about stacking minion skill levels along with having as many different types of minions, with muster, as you can. You need spirit, minion levels, all the minion damage nodes plus allies in your presence gain increased damage.

My disciple of varashta has a minion army that obliterates basically everything and they only really exist to boost the damage of my djinn

https://youtu.be/oAP0FRjO4Kg?si=ZVHP7kqMClvXcvMf

Its mainly just skill levels, and the last ascendancy like you said. Infernalists last ascendancy gives you a dummy amount of spirit, which is fantastic

Skill levels you get from a bunch of places, and add up quickly

Sceptre: 4-5 Amulet: 3-4 Helmet: 2-3 Focus/trenchtimber: 2 Body armor (if atziris, so ill add this to the higher end): 1

So that would be 11-15 skill gem levels, which is huge especially for minions

And then you have stuff like increased ally damage, ally attack/cast speed, etc which also adds some damage.

I personally enjoyed infernal legion gargantuan wasps, you scale more minion hp and watch them burn everything to the ground

Just commenting for visibility because I also could use some help. I’m level 72 and feel like I’ve hit a wall

Two words Gargantuan Wasps...they scale off the enemies HP and roast them to ash in seconds.....great build.

My powered lightning zealots are level 34 i believe and they shredd,

Added that one skill gem that make it so for each type of minions active, they gain 7% increased damage and in total i have 7 singular minions from 7 typs of minions and 8 powered zealots. My entire skill tree is just minion nodes, 5 jewel slots and a ton ES, Sitting at 13k~14k es and just watching my minions screen clear.

There are other valuable skill gems i am using, just can’t piece out the name (i got bad memory lol) And no Rakiata flow is not one of them, even tho i have 3, it just seems to lower my minions DPS whenever i slot it in…

Note: The set up and gear i am using is quite expensive, but you can run something similar for way less.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/itzNOVACAiNE-7405/character/GeniePlantation

This my character on poe ninja. It's also a Varashta Sorceress. But mine is end game max min. Having a variety of command skills with a bunch of minions buffs muster AND At Your Command Notable Passives. My djin minions do unbuffed damage of 600k dps. With gaining various different buffs inbetween using commands and flamewall with blackflame covenant