Path of Exile

You only need 2 greens for phantasms, GMP and Faster proj. They cast spells still, it's like a shitty EK, so you want echo/controlled destruction/minion damage and maybe added fire or some other shit I don't know. So it won't be hard to roll the right sockets, and they don't have to be linked so that's nice. I think a staff is perfectly playable as a summoner at least, you do lose the shield slot with necro aegis but you can do without, just the 45-66phys damage on minions is pretty big for damage output to compensate, you still have block chance. You could do skeles too, typical necro build, and use hatred with generosity and grip of the council for some massive added cold scaling. The main concern as usual is having to use leap slam instead of WB/shield charge, but it's not THAT bad I guess, sucks the weapon didn't come with 26% cast/attackspeed instead though.

Also one interesting thing to note about minions is that in the herald of purity teaser, they mentionned there will be new minion passives in the tree. That's possibly a pretty big deal, especially if some of them are like accuracy(great for SRS/AW builds mostly, they're also adding unique gloves to help but it's only 1k accuracy, having more would be nice), and if there's a keystone with fancy new tech.

Overall the shift from Guardian to a team based or minion based attacking build and all the new minions centric gear, skills and passives might end up shaking stuff up for minion builds. Which for someone like me who played minion builds 90% of my entire time in PoE, is a pretty nice change.

And I guess it can be played in non minion builds too, but I'm not sure it'll be worth it then. I guess some weird detonate/cremation/volatile hybrid thing, but you won't scale the minions for shit most likely, so I question how good that is, unless Guardian has some "your spell damage adds minions damage" stuff, or they have this as a notable on the tree or something.