Animate Guardian
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Make sure you concisely state your character build, level, and other complimenting abilities you have when you talk about a skill - The more we know about your character, the better we can understand your feedback. Balance & Design Last bumped on Jan 23, 2024, 2:57:26 AM
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"Yes there is. Conduit shares charges with party members. The Guardian, like other minions, is an ally in that it's on your side, but it is never a member of your party. | |
"This is being looked at. We're not going to change it as a knee-jerk reaction, but are looking at potential improvements to the skill, including looking at the level requirement. | |
"It does get all the stats of the items you make it from. That's pretty much the entire point of the skill, and what allows for customisation (by using uniques or aiming for certain affixes such as resistance). This is one of the sources of issues with the skill, since it can be very good with carefully chosen items, but people are wanting it to also be good with just whatever they happen to find. We're looking into ways to raise it's effectiveness when used with sub-par gear without making it too powerful when you put effort into it's build. | |
"Actually, the wiki is saying that the value of "% increased maximum life" on the gem is 76 (it's 72 at level 19). Whoever puts that on the wiki could certainly have made it more clear. The base life which is increased by this is shown in Rory's spreadsheet that Vipermagi linked. | |
"The Guardian has the stats of any shield it has equipped, as well as the stats of a shield you have equipped if you have Necromantic Aegis. This allows it the stats of two shields at once. some unique shields can be quite powerful when doubled up this way. | |
"No, you only loose items if it dies. In both the cases you list you can resummon it with all it's current items (after you've re-equipped the gem or logged back in, of course) by targeting the skill on an empty piece of ground. Last edited by Mark_GGG on Sep 1, 2014, 8:27:49 PM
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"Because Animate Guardian is a spell, and the only effect Cast on X support gems can have on spells is to cast them when the trigger occurs. That's fundamentally what happens when you socket a spell with a trigger gem. Socketing Animate Guardian with Cast on Damage taken means that you'll cast Animate Guardian when you take damage. Last edited by Mark_GGG on Sep 9, 2014, 9:23:48 PM
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"Incorrect. The guardian is bound to the character which summoned him, not a specific gem used to do so. If you summon a guardian with high level gear and then swap to a low level gem, it won't be able to summon with that gear. If at least one item is usable by the lower level gem, it will be resummonable, but will fail to use the other gear which is over it's level restriction. However unless you add more gear to replace it, it will still have the high level gear stored and can use it with a higher level gem. | |
"Nothing in the game code kills the Guardian on player death - it's quite possible for it to survive and kill the monster that killed you. If it's dying quickly after the player dies, this may be because the player is running defensive auras that it can no longer benefit from, thus reducing it's tankiness. It will leave the instance when you do, so clicking the resurrect button quickly after death should pull it from the instance quickly, and thus hopefully before it dies. |