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I'm looking at the 3 'Area of Effect Radius' nodes in the middle of the passive tree. Will getting those give me a 12% boost to minion instability?

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'Minion Instability' is one of our skills.

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obsstar wrote:

Our other skills, like 'Blast Radius' and the three you mentioned, 'Area of Effect Radius', all specifically say
'Increases Radius of Area Skills'.

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obsstar wrote:

It literally says that it should work.

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Minion Instability is one of your passive skills, yes. Note that the word 'skills' by itself is usually used only to refer to active skills, but that's not entirely important here.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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It literally says that it should work.

No, it doesn't.

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Yea, I thought about it a little bit more and some things occurred to me before I saw the reply, mainly, this one:

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Minion Instability is one of your passive skills, yes. Note that the word 'skills' by itself is usually used only to refer to active skills, but that's not entirely important here.

It did dawn on me that the skill tree skills might be referencing abilities gained from gems, which are also called 'skills'. Good to see it confirmed, thank you sir!

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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It literally says that it should work.

No, it doesn't.

Yea, sorry about that, it was just some slight confusion from the dual use of the word 'skills' in the skill tree. Skills gained from gems, maybe called 'abilities'?, and 'passive' skills gained from the skill tree.
Again, thank you sir for clearing that up!

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I'm not sure you understood Mark's post. As he said, the distinction between passive and active skills isn't really important here. What is important is that Minion Instability is not an Area of Effect skill. It is a passive skill that *adds a new ability to your minions*. Not to you - to your minions. Just like your minions don't benefit from, say, your +% hp passives, or your +% melee damage passives, they do not benefit from your +% fire passives.
Imagine there were a passive that turned your Skeletons into Skeleton Archers. Would you expect your own projectile damage nodes to work, or would you expect their damage to still be based on minion damage nodes? If your answer is the former case, then you're just confused about how minions work in this game :)
TL;DR: No, Minion Instability is a skill, that's not the issue. Minion Instability does not make you deal AoE fire damage when your minions die. It makes your MINIONS deal the damage.

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Neither passive skills nor stats from your other equipment affect minions unless they specifically say 'Minions _____'.

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Thanks :) btw I use my zombies with remote mine aswell;
from wiki : Totems, Traps and Remote Mines are not counted as minions, they are Remote Skills.
So do remote skills get increased by fire dmg? Or this doesn't make any diffrence at all?

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Thanks :) btw I use my zombies with remote mine aswell;
from wiki : Totems, Traps and Remote Mines are not counted as minions, they are Remote Skills.
So do remote skills get increased by fire dmg? Or this doesn't make any diffrence at all?

Remote skills are treated as if you had cast the spell or attacked. Remote skills which do damage will be increased by relevant damage increasing passives and items. And everything else which effects your attacks / spells.
So a mine which casts 'Raise Zombie' will act as if you had cast 'Raise Zombie' but with the extra gem specific modifiers. The zombies will get benefits from your passives such as 'Minion Damage' and 'Minion Life' nodes like if you had normally cast the spell.