Proof of Concept: Minion Instability Autobomber with “Fake Ward” – Cool Idea, but I’m Stuck

I wanted to share a build I’ve been working on for a while. The original idea was to use The Broken Elegy together with a Minion Instability setup to maintain a permanent ward-like buff, mainly for AFK Simulacrum farming or maybe Ultimatum.

At this point though, I’ve kind of hit a wall and don’t really know how to improve it further, so I figured I’d post it here. Maybe someone understands what’s going wrong or can take the idea further, because I still think the concept itself is pretty cool.

In theory, Triggerbots should be insanely strong here because they would basically be free x2 damage, and on top of that there should also be some potential abuse with Stormblast Mine.

The defensive side was supposed to come from The Broken Elegy and recoup. Since it gives you that ward-like buff whenever a minion dies, the idea was to constantly kill your own minions to keep that layer up permanently while Minion Instability handles the damage.

The nice part is that the loop starts automatically through Raise Spectre with Dark Marionettes, so you don’t actually have to do anything once it gets going.

So in theory, the build should have had a pretty crazy combination of survivability, automation, and damage if the whole thing actually worked properly.

The biggest problem is that the loop randomly breaks sometimes, as you can see in the video. I honestly don’t know why. My guess is that sometimes a minion dies in a different way and not from Infernal Legion, which somehow breaks the loop.

I also tried adding Forbidden Rite to force the loop or make it more consistent, but that didn’t work at all. It might also be that I just have too much chaos resistance for it to actually do anything meaningful.

Another issue is mana. The mana costs are already extremely high and it only barely works as it is. I originally wanted to add Stormblast Mine on top of everything else, but I honestly don’t think that would even be possible mana-wise without completely reworking the build.

I also wanted to actually run the build with Triggerbots, but unfortunately it doesn’t work with SRS. The minions spawn on top of the bots, and that just kills you. I tried fixing it with Convocation and cooldown recovery, but that didn’t really help either.

Another problem is minions getting stuck. Sometimes they get stuck in narrow areas or underpasses when you move forward, and then you just die. Similar issue when entering boss rooms: sometimes the minions get stuck at the start of the transition, and as soon as you move, you instantly die. The only workaround I found is unequipping the chest briefly to reset everything, which is obviously not a real solution.

The build is also kind of forced into using Nameless Bloodline just to get 3 rings, otherwise you can’t reach the 5 triggers per second needed to kill the minions fast enough to sustain the loop.

On top of that, the build is just very slow.

At this point, I’d say the build is kind of a failed experiment for me, but I still wanted to share it because I really like the idea behind it. It feels like there’s something here, I just couldn’t get it to a point where it actually feels playable or reliable.

Maybe I’m missing something obvious.
Maybe someone knows why the loop breaks randomly.
Or maybe someone has a better approach to the minion setup, trigger setup, or mana issues.

Or maybe the answer is just: play Wardloop lol.

Short Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23NXEGQG1tA

PoB: https://pobb.in/rUytvyUaM2Ei