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snowbird wrote:My pally has Familiar Relic and receives all three bonuses without base levels. Indeed a good relic for all non sorc casters.
And Skeletal Flayer's orange Text works for merc with Khazra plate equipped. If u play a caster without any bonuses for minion survivality and ur summoned flayers get instadeleted, u can just put it in any gears of ur merc with khazra plate and the merc demon blood aura will provide u and ur allies 15% more elem dmg.
abwhorent wrote:snowbird wrote:My pally has Familiar Relic and receives all three bonuses without base levels. Indeed a good relic for all non sorc casters.
And Skeletal Flayer's orange Text works for merc with Khazra plate equipped. If u play a caster without any bonuses for minion survivality and ur summoned flayers get instadeleted, u can just put it in any gears of ur merc with khazra plate and the merc demon blood aura will provide u and ur allies 15% more elem dmg.
Thanks for your input, grats on getting Familiar Relic. If you have any screenshots of Familiar Relic effect (skill level/energy/cast speed) with and without it casted + D2Stats picture, that would be awesome to stick into the Appendix (evidence folder).
Also interesting to hear that Skeletal Flayer's relic mod applies to Demon Blood Aura from Khazra. I assume the merc has to have the relic equipped in their slot to have an effect, since it functions like an affix. This seems like a credible logical extension of known D2 functions. I'll make sure to mention this in the guide and credit you.
Penguincha wrote:Let me preface the fact that this is a VERY good guide/pokedex.
There was one thing I wanted to mention:
Since minions are snapshotted on cast, Investing into Iron Golem/Veil King means that these minions will be, for the most part, able to tank without having to ever recast them. This means that you can have two sets of equipment. One would be summoner gear, and the other would be your "primary spec" gear, which would be pretty much any build that would anywhere from no points to a small amount of points, whether that would be xbow, oskill, or melee (the latter being the least ideal, as going melee slightly defeats the purpose of having a tank). Heck, you can even have minion damage gear for trophy hunting/farming and minion life gear for ubers/higher lab. The cons are more time being taken for summoning (can be kind of a problem for lockdowns) and having less inventory space. This is, for me, one of my favorite "builds".