How to Determine Whether a Minion Skill is an Attack or Spell (or Both)

How do you determine whether a minion is using an attack skill or spell skill when active?

I am making use of Absolution which summons a Sentinel of Absolution and the skill gem has the 'Spell' and 'Physical' tags, so does this inherently mean that the summoned minion has a physical attack skill as well as a spell skill to make use of when attacking?

When checking the ability (Absolution) within Path of Building there are two minion skills listed - Default Attack and Absolution. Is there a way to tell if Absolution is a spell, rather than an attack?

For absolution they just use the spell I think, and the empowered version of it. Unsure exactly why they have the attack or if they use it. Might be something to do with the minion they are created from or some sort of cooldown resource thing, i'm not sure.

"Skills: Sentinels have a melee attack, which cannot normally be used, and two spells: AbsolutionMinion, which has no cooldown, and AbsolutionMinionEmpowered ('Empowered Lightning Blast'), which has a 6 second cooldown, and two areas of effect that can both hit the same enemy.[2]"

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Absolution

In general, what you are doing with POB and checking wiki, forum etc. is the only way I know. It certainly can be confusing.

Thanks for the response - nothing good comes easy hey!

Looks like you were planning on scaling attack on you and the minions? The thing with absolution is because the damage is split between the minions and the player, your probably looking to scale spell damage on both, kind of the opposite to the holy smite. I don't know if there is a way to force them to use the attack or what it's purpose is exactly. What you're doing currently would be scaling player/minion, attack/spell. I assume you are wanting to more specifically buff minion/player attacks now?

Looks like you've got an interesting set up working though. How's it going?

Yep, and was also tying to determine whether lowering enemy physical damage reduction or elemental resistances was the right thing to do. I'm making use of 'Spiritual Aid' to have the increases and reductions to minion damage affect me.

How does Absolution split the damage between the minions and player, on the initial cast of the skill?

Wanting to buff the minions as much as possible, am running about 3-4 auras now to do that too!