Healing Minions=more Degen?

I searched for this but couldnt find anything. I've heard some people say healing your minions causes them to die faster. I believe this is pure crap but I wanted to see what you guys thought.

You are correct - it's pure garbage.

Probably started because someone had minions that had been up for a while so had some degen happening, and then used monk skills to heal them. Of course over time the degen increases, which they incorrectly attributed to the monk healing rather than the true reason (increasing degen over time)

The fact that holy damage deals extra damage to undead probably doesn't help things either, with the false assumption being that since holy damage does extra damage to undead, then holy healing must also do damage in the form of increasing degen.

Minions start out with 1 pip degen, and 1 more pip added every 20 seconds. When you heal your minions you can coutner this to a certain degree but eventually degen will become too much and minions die. That's all there is to minion health. Perhaps it was a bit of miscomuniacation and they meant that the longer you keep them alive the faster they start getting degen.

There already is a thread about this somewhere in the Necromancer Forum and it's bullshit.

yea someone had once told me that if u use heal area on your minions they will start to degen faster.....didn't know how that would happen so i didn't believe it