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Minion Instability is a Keystone that causes minions to explode when reduced to low life, dealing 33% of their maximum life as fire damage to nearby enemies.

The base explosion radius is 22 units.^[1]

Modifiers

Damage can be increased by:

passive skills
- Minion Damage
- Minion Damage and Life Leech
- Minion Life
- Minion Life and Chaos Resistance
- Minion Life and Life Regeneration
- Lord of the Dead
- Gravepact
- Puppet Master
- Necromantic Aegis – any +damage, +life, +fire damage and other modifiers will apply to the explosion.
support gems
- Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Minion Damage Support"
- Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Minion Life Support"
- Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Fire Penetration Support"
- Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Concentrated Effect Support"
- Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Chance to Ignite Support" (indirectly)
- Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Increased Area of Effect Support" (indirectly)
- Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Elemental Proliferation Support" (indirectly)
- Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Increased Burning Damage Support" (indirectly)

Previously the damage dealt by exploding minions was not affected by a minion's own⁽¹⁾ fire damage or burning damage increases, such as those provided by the Module Error: No skills found with q_where = skill.active_skill_name="Increased Burning Damage Support" support gem or through Necromantic Aegis. This bug has since been fixed.^[2]

⁽¹⁾ Minions never benefit from your passives or equipment unless specifically stated.

Location

Minion Instability is a standalone keystone located on the northwest edge of the skill tree, beside the Whispers of Doom cluster.

Class	Distance from start
Templar	10
Witch	10
Scion	14
Marauder	17
Shadow	17
Duelist	24
Ranger	24

Version history

Version	Changes
0.11.4	Fixed an instance server crash related to Minion Instability.
0.11.0	Fixed a rare crash related to minion instability and area transitions of minions on low life.
0.9.13c	Fixed a server crash that could occur with Minion Instability when leaving town.
0.9.13	Minion Instability is now scaled correctly by stats such as minion damage. This large functional change required its explosion to be reduced to 33% of the minion's life rather than 100%.
0.9.6	Reduced the Minion Instability keystone passive to deal 100% of the minion's life rather than 200%.
0.9.4b	Fixed a server crash with the Minion Instability passive skill.
0.9.4	Introduced to the game. Minions explode when reduced to low life, dealing 200% of their maximum life as fire damage to surrounding enemies.

References

↑ Mark_GGG (July 19, 2016). "Mechanical Questions Thread". Official Path of Exile Forums. Retrieved July 19, 2016.
↑ Mark_GGG (November 5, 2012). "Minion Instability and fire/burning damage". Path of Exile Forums. Retrieved June 24, 2013.

[MechanicalQs-1] Mark_GGG (July 19, 2016). "Mechanical Questions Thread". Official Path of Exile Forums. Retrieved July 19, 2016.

[Bug-2] Mark_GGG (November 5, 2012). "Minion Instability and fire/burning damage". Path of Exile Forums. Retrieved June 24, 2013.

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