Soul Twisting and Minions

Or maybe i should start playing SY! warrior for example and run a hero set up like this?
I just kinda like the ST idea <3 Tbh, SY!+a ST rit is overkill..

Depends how you look at things. If you want shelter to be a backup when other defenses fail (e.g. SY drops a few seconds), then minions are a bad idea. On the other hand if you want to keep your minions alive longer so mobs are less likely to come after you, then even the handful of shelter procs can be very valuable. My favorite bar in this style is 4-5 offensive spirits and a shelter on soul twisting bar, you just spend most of your soul twists respamming shelter.

As for union/displacement, these are going down nearly as fast whether you have minions or not, barring party blocking like aegis. These depend on the number of foes attacking, not how many targets they have or how weak they are. The important exception being monsters with AoE attacks hitting clumped minions, albeit H/H tend to clump about as bad. This. Whether defensive spirits + minions is a great move or a really dumb one depends on whether you're relying on the spirits for vital mitigation or efficient mitigation.

Do you think a hero can run the ST build with heal area in place of Summon Spirits? I would rather put those points to Spawning Power instead of Healing Payer and put signet of creation on the bar. The hero will summon those defensive spirits whenever they are down, energy can be a problem though, when the team is taking heavy damage.

Well, I don't see the problem here, I run the protection build with the 3 spirits and Armor of Unfeling and 5 Discord with minions and one SS Curse necro (yes, me and a friend with heroes and he is a necro too, but with offensive spirits) in areas with many AoE foes, we run the mission Against the Char in HM and the spirits be quite well, the only problem is that my energy runs down more quicly than I spect but, Boom of Creation manage it reasonably. Until your BoC gets stripped in areas with enchant removals.

ST+defensive spirits work counter to minion bombers who need their minions to explode. That just doesn't seem optimal to me.

Until your BoC gets stripped in areas with enchant removals.

ST+defensive spirits work counter to minion bombers who need their minions to explode. That just doesn't seem optimal to me. Well could be antagonistic build but the minions will explode anyway or be hit of the foes or by your degen, so, better death minions than death heroes or me. One time that the minions that I use are lvl 10-11 and die fast, the protection inside they are quite irrelevant they have few HP, but, keeping my hero/human team alive is essencial and the minions always help being a flesh barrier, doing melee damage (even low), being a distraction to foes or exploding and spreading poison.
The protection build of the Rt is excelent, I would take a risk to say that could be better than Imbagon in protection, maybe not so fun, but have future XD.

Well could be antagonistic build but the minions will explode anyway or be hit of the foes or by your degen, so, better death minions than death heroes or me. One time that the minions that I use are lvl 10-11 and die fast, the protection inside they are quite irrelevant they have few HP, but, keeping my hero/human team alive is essencial and the minions always help being a flesh barrier, doing melee damage (even low), being a distraction to foes or exploding and spreading poison.
The protection build of the Rt is excelent, I would take a risk to say that could be better than Imbagon in protection, maybe not so fun, but have future XD. Yes they explode anyway, it just takes longer for them to explode because of spirit protection which happens at the expense of the spirit's hp. You want to conserve the spirit's hp to protect team members, not spend them on minions which are suppose to explode anyway.

With SoS and other spirits helping to tank, is a firm minion wall really that necessary as to sacrifice spirit's hp for it?

If I bring a minion bomber, I rather spend the hero slot on an ER protect than a ST defensive rit, for targeted protection and SoH for my melee.

Defensive spirits are a waste. Hmmm, I don't think so. It is true however that minions and an ST rit in the same team is not the best option. If you have an ST rit, you don't need minions to soak up damage. Whether you pick an MM or a defensive rit: your choice, both work well.

Hmmm, I don't think so. It is true however that minions and an ST rit in the same team is not the best option. If you have an ST rit, you don't need minions to soak up damage. Whether you pick an MM or a defensive rit: your choice, both work well. I think so. Defensive spirits promote a degenerate playstyle full of leeroying and other bad junk. Most of the time, if your defensive spirits go down for whatever reason, you'll proceed to wipe because you didn't take the time to pull properly. On the other hand, Minions takes care of annoying hexes and a large amount of the AoE that would have fallen to the party. They also keep enemy melee from screwing up your casters by providing a meatshield. Minions can also actually do damage through Death Nova and random 10s, while ST is a purely defensive build.