# 4,171,769,472 - Animate Guardian not persisting

My Guardian doesnt want to persist after a weapon switch. My AG gem is not being switched as it's in my boots.

This stage I think Im down 2 sets of ~5div replacement cost equip.

Recently upgraded my AG gem to 20 23%. Upgrade went well. Played. Everything seemed fine, logged off.

Logged in this session, there was a series of disconnects. Eventually noticed my AG is missing. Think maybe tried recasting on a mask, not much seemed to happen. Gathered new equip to recast. Went to map Flooded Mine T1, dropped the equip, cast on all of it, think switched weapons back to my main hand... no AG.

Thanks for any clarification or help that can be offered.

attributes missing for gems in boots after switching weapons?

If AG de-spawn normally- it will not lose equipment.

Is there a trick to making him re-spawn that I'm missing?

Yeah, that was my understanding too, that the gear was associated with the character, not the gem, however, my testing on a mask didn't cause him to re-spawn with the rest of the equipment either, so I figured maybe I'd screwed up and he'd been nuked without my noticing then I logged off.

I don't remember him being nuked by a mob so it was a surprise to see him missing, but that could be my inattention.
If it was an okay despawn thing then I'd have expected it to come back with having him pick up new gear. The gear left, but no guardian rocking around.
A full set of gear I should see walking around. The gear left the floor, there's no AG wandering around, and I hadn't entered combat.

Had some sleep, now actually able to read.

Neither arm is providing attributes. Attrs are all coming from gloves, rings, and jewels, so that shouldn't be the cause.

He is probably just getting insta killed by fleshcrafter and it just seems like the weapon swap is part of it.

Take off your fleshcrafter and see if the issue still persists.

Hey, thanks for the suggestion. Took off Fleshcrafter, had the AM pick up a mask. It works. Looks like I've lost the gear though.

What's frustrating is I don't understand why it would have popped him, especially when he's loaded with tried and tested build-guide standard gear.

The way the text on Fleshcrafter reads it shouldn't be causing "damage" to minions, unless "convert"ing 2% of max life to ES per 1% chaos resist is somehow enough to deplete a whole pool? What lead you to suspect Fleshcrafter?

If your minions have 50% or more chaos resist it converts all of their life to es therefore killing them because they have 0 life and a bunch of es.

Yeah, that'd do it. I'll have a look. I didn't think I was juicing their chaos res any. Thanks for the help!