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Skaijuice wrote: 5 days ago

human_being wrote: 4 weeks ago

Flavor justifications are easy. For example, you're likely using some kind of weapon infused with magic. Let's say that projecting echoes from it creates a burst of magical power that results in physical deterioration. Or the weapon's magic is tied to the physical state of the weapon and the echoes slowly drain the former, resulting in the latter's degradation.

The part that matters is the mechanical side. It doesn't seem like the warlock, damage-wise, needs to use ethereal weapons better than all other classes.

Skaijuice wrote: 1 month ago

i'm 100% on this as well.

Having durability loss doesn't make sense to me ...for a skill named "echoing" strike which literally is a Spell.

U take your weapon's damage and project sound outwards and it bounces back to you, similiar to

War Cry and..might i add -

Shock Wave.

There never is any physical interaction between the weapon (that is FLOATING) ever touching whatever is targeted, only the echoes branch out and return.

@Necrarch

The gods have spoken and decided. Now who has that ghosty

Thunder Maul again? HMU.

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You can justify anything, it's made up magic. It doesn't make sense to me that you can throw a

Spear and it turns into lightning, but that's just how the game works.

Leisurefarmer wrote: 2 hours ago

So, in the end - are 20 hard points in

Bind Demon necessary to keep an already bound demon, or could be 5 hard + 15 from gear? This is very confusing.

Soft points:
5 - Extra Strong
10 - Extra Fast
15 - Spectral Hit
20 - Aura Enchanted

Hard points:
10 – Champion
15 – Unique
20 – Super Unique

Leisurefarmer wrote: 2 hours ago

So, in the end - are 20 hard points in

Bind Demon necessary to keep an already bound demon, or could be 5 hard + 15 from gear? This is very confusing.

The "5" kinda makes me believe you're confusing

Bind Demon and

Demonic Mastery.

If you only want a bound demon and don't use

Consume or anything, you don't need any extra points in

Demonic Mastery.
If you want 2 total (bound +

Consume or bound + one other), you will need 5 hard points in

Demonic Mastery.
And if you want 3 total, you will need 10 hard points in

Demonic Mastery.
Soft points won't do to improve the demon count.

Bind Demon doesn't affect the available count but does affect the type of demon you can bind.
If you're fine binding some random trash mob, you don't need to spend hard points. Soft will do. And if you can push past 20 with soft points alone, you'll still get all of the affixes on that trash mob, including the aura, making it still a very solid pick.
If however you want to bind a champion, unique or super unique, you will need actual hard points in

Bind Demon as atari already pointed out above.

I was refering to the scenario where you already have a bound super unique like Hephasto and just want to keep it, not to bind a new demon after the patch. But I guess I got my answer, so thanks.