POE: Minion Madness (Witch)

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Pros:
Solid meat wall
Engage mobs from off the screen
AI controlled spells seek out and swarm above targets for you.

Cons:
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AI controlled spells make it tough to target priorities, and makes Vorici's quests virtually impossible.
Only so numerous rage spirits can attack 1 mob at a time.

The idea of this build is usually to capitalize over the synergy between your minions and your auras. The additional minions you are able to field the a lot more DPS you'll get out of your damage adding auras and vice versa.

Passive Tree
First priority is everything that adds minions or buff minions. You'll find jewels that do this likewise so don't neglect that option. Next you'll would like to take buffs to auras and skill duration. The latter will help with both the duration of your spell totems and how long your rage spirits stay out attacking mobs. Avoid any passives that say "Increased spell damage" or something similar. I do not believe these apply to your summons. Don't take ancestral bond till you're ready for it. At earlier levels you'll do fine using the buff from wrath to boost your lightning spells that you fling around the battlefield.

So why use Ancestral Bond?
Minions do all the damage for you, so not currently being able to deal damage on your own isn't an issue.
You're perfectly capable of keeping max skeletons up manually but owning a spell totem cast them frees you up to do other things. Just fall one along having a rage spirit totem at the edge of the screen when you're about to engage and let them do the work for you although you curse, flesh offering, and spam rage spirits into the fray. After your max number of skeletons are up you are able to switch out to double rage spirit summoning spell totems to really flood the screen with them! Against big mobs that happen to be regularly killing most of your minions it's very best to go with double skeleton totems to preserve them busy and chip them down with your minion instability passive.

Variations:
A 1h/shield combo with necromantic aegis opens up some interesting options. bloodmagic or eldritch battery may allow you to squeeze in a lot more auras. You are able to fall an aura in favor of increased area of effect. Often your minions will engage targets off screen and one aura is better than none. Should you had to hold just 1 I'd go with hatred.