Minion Instability

Minion Instability

Keystone

Minions Explode when reduced to Low Life, dealing 33% of their Life as Fire Damage to surrounding Enemies [1]

Even in death, they have their uses. They just need a little encouragement.

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.

Modifiers

Passives that increase your minion's damage and/or health can increase the damage of the explosion.

The following support gems can increase the damage of the explosion:

• Combustion SupportCombustion SupportFire, Support
  Icon: i
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 8Supports any skill that hits enemies.Supported Skills deal (10-19)% more Fire Damage
  Supported Skills have 25% chance to Ignite
  Enemies Ignited by Supported Skills have -10% to Fire Resistance
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Fire DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
• Concentrated Effect SupportConcentrated Effect SupportSupport, AoE
  Icon: o
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 140%Requires Level 18Supports any skill with an area of effect, regardless of whether that skill deals damage.Supported Skills deal (25-39)% more Area Damage
  Supported Skills have 30% less Area of Effect
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Area DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
• Elemental Focus SupportElemental Focus SupportSupport
  Icon: F
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 18Supports any skill that hits or burns enemies, or inflicts elemental ailments.Supported Skills deal (20-34)% more Elemental Damage
  Supported Skills cannot inflict Elemental Ailments
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Elemental DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
• Elemental Proliferation SupportElemental Proliferation SupportCold, Fire, Lightning, Support, AoE
  Icon: S
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 110%Supports any skill that hits enemies, or could otherwise apply elemental ailments.(0-19)% increased Duration of Elemental Ailments on Enemies
  Elemental Ailments inflicted by Supported Skills spread to other enemies within (1.2-1.5) metres
  Supported Skills have 20% chance to Freeze, Shock and Ignite
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  (0.5-10)% increased Duration of Elemental Ailments on EnemiesThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
• Fire Penetration SupportFire Penetration SupportFire, Support
  Icon: V
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 31Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy fire resistance.Supported Skills Penetrate (20-34)% Fire Resistance
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Fire DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
• Increased Area of Effect SupportIncreased Area of Effect SupportSupport, AoE
  Icon: E
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 38Supports any skill with an area of effect.Supported Skills have (30-49)% increased Area of Effect
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Area DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
• Minion Damage SupportMinion Damage SupportSupport, Minion
  Icon: d
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 140%Requires Level 8Supports skills which create Minions.Minions from Supported Skills deal (25-39)% more Damage
  Minions from Supported Skills have 25% less Maximum Life
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Minions from Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
• Minion Life SupportMinion Life SupportSupport, Minion
  Icon: n
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Requires Level 18Supports skills which create Minions.Supported Skills have (30-49)% more Minion maximum Life
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Supported Skills have (1-20)% increased Minion maximum LifeThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.

Note: Minions never benefit from your passives or equipment unless specifically stated.

Mechanics and Interactions

Minions must be alive with low life for the explosion to work. Anything that causes a minion to die without ever having low life will not cause an explosion.

Example - Minions can die from 1 hit taking all their life or die from running out of duration. Neither of these deaths will cause the minions to explode.

You can trigger Minion Instability the following ways:

• letting them loose enough health during normal gameplay to get to under 50% life
• linking Infernal Legion SupportInfernal Legion SupportFire, AoE, Support, Minion
  Icon: O
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Requires Level 8Supports skills which create Minions.Minions from Supported Skills take 40% of their Maximum Life as Fire Damage per second
  Minions from Supported Skills deal (15.4-2092.6) Fire Damage per second to Enemies near them
  Minions from Supported Skills have +(0-0.5) metres to Radius of their Burning Effect
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Minions from Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. to the Minion skill
• using Ancient Skull and letting them attack with a Critical Strike
• using Tavukai (only with Summon Raging Spirit)
• using a self-damaging Flask (listed below) while you have either Mother's Embrace or Umbilicus Immortalis (Specters & Zombies only) equipped

- Coruscating Elixir

- Doedre's Elixir

- Forbidden Taste

• using Earendel's Embrace (Skeletons only)
• using Replica Earendel's Embrace (Zombies only)
• using Chains of Command and giving your Animate Guardian Oni-Goroshi
• giving your Minions Qotra's Regulator with Necromantic Aegis and letting them attack with Critical Strikes
• Mirror Arrow Minions will explode immediately if you are Low Life when summoning them.
• With enough added Quality, reduced Chaos Resistance or increased damage taken, PhantasmalRaise ZombieRaise ZombieSpell, Minion
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (9-28) Mana
  Cast Time: 0.85 secRaises a zombie minion from a corpse, which will follow you and attack enemies with a melee strike.Maximum (3-6) Raised Zombies
  Minions have (0-38)% more Maximum Life
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  +(0.05-1) to Maximum Raised ZombiesPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. damage themselves enough to get to Low Life and explode.
• using Dark Pact on summoned skeletons until they get to Low Life.

Location

Minion Instability is located at the top left of the skill tree, next to the Cluster Jewel socket cluster.

Class	Distance from start
Templar	9
Witch	9
Scion	13
Marauder	16
Shadow	18
Duelist	23
Ranger	23

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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.