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Feeding Frenzy in Path of Exile is a support gem primarily used by summoner builds to enhance their minions’ combat effectiveness. It grants a buff called Feeding Frenzy to the player’s minions, providing a combination of increased damage and speed, which makes it a staple in many minion-focused builds.
What Feeding Frenzy Does
When linked to a minion skill, Feeding Frenzy causes the minions to become aggressive, increasing their targeting range so they engage enemies from farther away. This change in AI behavior is especially valuable for minions like zombies or skeletons that otherwise have limited aggression. The buff itself grants:
1. 10% increased minion damage
2. 10% increased minion attack, cast, and movement speed
This combination of damage and speed boosts helps minions clear enemies faster and more efficiently, improving both map clearing and boss fights.
Why Summoners Use Feeding Frenzy
Despite its seemingly modest 10% damage increase—which is lower compared to other support gems that can offer 20-40% or more—Feeding Frenzy is highly valued because the buff applies to all minions, not just those linked to the gem. This means you only need to support one minion skill with Feeding Frenzy, and the damage and speed bonuses will benefit your entire minion army.
Moreover, the aggressive AI change is crucial for minions like zombies, which tend to have poor targeting behavior without it. This makes the minions smarter and more effective in combat, which can feel like a significant upgrade in practical gameplay.
How to Obtain and Use Feeding Frenzy
Feeding Frenzy Support can drop anywhere in the game and can also be crafted or obtained through vendor recipes. Players often link it to minions that serve as meat shields or utility minions, such as animated guardians or golems, so that the buff benefits the main damage-dealing minions like spectres or skeletons. This setup maximizes the overall efficiency of the minion army without sacrificing other support gem slots.
For players who want to apply Feeding Frenzy but do not invest heavily in minion survivability, strategies include using minions that are harder to kill or untargetable, such as those summoned by Arakaali’s Fang or Summon Raging Spirit (SRS), to maintain the buff uptime reliably.
Summary
Feeding Frenzy remains a core gem for minion builds in Path of Exile, valued more for its overall utility and synergy than raw damage numbers alone.
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