Bind Demon 20+ Can I keep unbinding and re-binding until get a specific aura?

fredkid wrote: 5 months ago

Depending on Attack Ratting of the minions and/or defense from the enemies the -% defense have a huge impact...
With Necromancer, I did some calculations once on maxroll, and the -% defense from Infinity's Conviction added more to my total overall damage than Pride's Concentration or Beast's Fanaticism

BigD wrote: 5 months ago

Semirotta wrote: 5 months ago

Yes, I keep forgetting the Conviction aura name as I never have it in runeword, too expensive.
Im running Echoing Strike though, I understand that the fire would especially gain from Conviction but wouldnt of have thought it to be this useful even on the Echoing Strike build.
For example there are sometimes immune to physical enemies which wont break their immunity with the curse alone; but adding the Conviction and surprise surprise, its gone.

Strange, because supposedly Conviction doesnt touch enemy damage resist, only fire+lightning+cold res & defense rating. You sure its not Amp Dmg curse + Sigil Lethargy combined perhaps? Sigil Lethargy has about -28-30% enemy damage resist (similar to decrep with its slowing effect too) .

BigD wrote: 5 months ago

Semirotta wrote: 5 months ago

BigD wrote: 5 months ago

You mean Conviction Aura I'm assuming. If I were running a fire warlock thats what I'd go for. Conviction + Lightning Enchanted ideally.

Yes, I keep forgetting the Conviction aura name as I never have it in runeword, too expensive.
Im running Echoing Strike though, I understand that the fire would especially gain from Conviction but wouldnt of have thought it to be this useful even on the Echoing Strike build.
For example there are sometimes immune to physical enemies which wont break their immunity with the curse alone; but adding the Conviction and surprise surprise, its gone.

Strange, because supposedly Conviction doesnt touch enemy damage resist, only fire+lightning+cold res & defense rating. You sure its not Amp Dmg curse + Sigil Lethargy combined perhaps? Sigil Lethargy has about -28-30% enemy damage resist (similar to decrep with its slowing effect too) .

Semirotta wrote:

Perhaps its the reduce of def? I dont really know why it does that. A bug perhaps? I mean it shouldnt affect much of anything but the resists and def but im happy it removes immunity from time to time :'d
It could be the sigil and amp curse, I really dont know for sure. Usually its exactly been when I have already the sigil there, its got the curse on but its still immune to physical. It happen rarely, but does happen from time to time.

RealityKingz wrote: 5 months ago

Schnorki wrote: 5 months ago

RealityKingz wrote: 5 months ago

I just want to throw in a suggestion in case you are interested.

Try finding one with Holy Fire, freeze or lightning along with cursed instead. For sure you'll lose a little bit of numbers on your stat page but it pales in comparison to how strong aoe amp proc is. Each time the aura ticks, it'll curse every enemy it hits, this effectively means you will be doing double damage to everything on top of deadly strikes and what not.

Fana only really benefits your demon and merc and also required your demon to physically hit things to proc amp damage in a small area. The aoe aura is a big upgrade to this.

A fana Heph already reliably insta-curses the entire screen. So the only real difference with Holy Fire/shock is that you're giving up a rather noticeable damage boost for him, your merc, and yourself (depending on your build) for an unnoticeably weak dmg aura and no real other benefit. Holy Freeze, yes, that has its uses, depending on your build and preference.

Afaik Fana Heph still has to bonk things but I can't recall exactly if it was screen wide. I may have not saw it properly then.

From my couple of testings with Fana vs holy auras, while Fana is definitely beneficial via dmg%, I ended up concluding holy aura edging a bit on top soley due to auto proccing amp while I'm teleing around. This eliminated the need to wait for it to hit things, albeit it's fast due to innate modifiers, maybe I'll have to run it again to triple check.

Edit: Oh ya, also wanted to point out and confirm that demons binded from +skills for the higher Bind Demon levels are screenshotted and persists. I'm also like 98% certain this also screenshots Blood Oath. Meaning you maintain the % dmg mitigation of whatever the level was at the time of binding.