Will item triggered skills work when equiped to a mercenary?

Anyone seen if items like Death's Oath or Corpsewalker will work when equipped on a merc? I know the skills don't work on AGs but since mercs are different I wonder if they'll work on them. Having corpse walk boots on a merc could be quite handy.

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why wouldn't they? The merc is essentially a second player, with full gear and everything, even a skillset and build.

Animate guardian can curse on hit and do other effects, but this is way more involved and detailed than that. And there is ALWAYS power creep associated with a new league.

It wouldn't be OP in the least...there would be hardly any scaling. At most, it would add additional utility.

^i see nothing on that list particularly damaging, especially not anything that isn't similar in damage to previous league mechanic powers

Half of those are on-kill effects anyway, and how much is your merc really going to be KILLING things...i highly doubt it'll be often. You are making a broad assumption that mercs will be similar in power and speed and aoe as we are. I very much doubt that will be the case.

And obviously the mercs likely won't be able to use SKILLS granted by items like Balefire. That would require AI.


And any minions that are granted like Dervish and Arakaali will be awful. Just straight up clutter for no benefit. No amount of aurabotting is going to change that lol.

^that is like.....all wrong.

They literally can't use Balefire skill because it requires it to be physically used. All the others are TRIGGERS. If you don't even see the difference there, then there's no point discussing this further as you have no idea.

Aurabot: You can slap every aura and every source of added effect all you want to your merc's triggered minion.....without a skill tree it will do absolutely nothing. It will tickle the monsters in the endgame. GLHF

I'm not having this conversation, I remember you and your history: you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about and its just going to get worse.


I see no reason why triggered skills on items shouldn't be usable with the mercenaries.

The other limiter on triggers is going to be mana: if any trigger costs mana, it likely won't work because mercs probably don't HAVE mana.

99.9% sure that such as Death's Oath and Corpsewalkers work since they work on AG too.

Items that give and ability like "Grants level 21 Aura" that comes to skill bars are more like the question mark since they need to be activated.
But so are skill gems that they have equipped but those might be coded in sequence of priority actions and such like form items might not be included (but could be).

I'm sure items that have triggers on them we ma be able to use but being that we can't change their skill gems or any of that I doubt there will be crazy cws or cwdt play with triggering

Put Corpsewalkers on my Merc yesterday. No corpses, no joy.