Warlock best bind demon

Can't say I have. One of the best things about proper demons like Heph imo is the suicidal charging in for exceptional tanking (getting there faster than your merc -> keeping him safe, too) and such.

Sacrificing that for some broken-AI ranged mob that won't shoot half the time because the crappy ranged AI has them busy just running in circles like any A1 merc..not worth it imo, even if the theoretical dmg might be higher for some constellations.

If you are too afraid of accidentally Unsummon or

Consume Demon your minion, you can use

Enchant (from a weapon with charges, like

Demon Limb or from a magic/rare weapon with "of Enchantment") to see the minion status
(you can buy a

Wand with that suffix from vendors )

human_being wrote: 14 hours ago

Thanks to both of you! That's super useful. I'm going to check right-- Oh no. Oh nonono.

fredkid wrote: 14 hours ago

For the modifiers you can assign Unsummon or

Consume () to a mouse button and hover over your demon (please... don't click!!! )

For the aura level, if you know/remember the level of the Monster when you bind it, there is a formula (depending in the aura)
https://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/m ... onus.shtml

Might (at monlvl/6),

Holy Fire (at monlvl/6),

Blessed Aim (at monlvl/5),

Holy Freeze (at monlvl/7),

Holy Shock (at monlvl/8),

Conviction (at monlvl/8), and finally

Fanaticism (at monlvl/8)

All Auras have minimum level 1

human_being wrote: 14 hours ago

I mean, I don't know and I'm not going to min-max this, but this is pretty cool.

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I assume there is no way to check the stats of your demon? Like the level of the aura or what modifiers it has?

Kidding.

yeah the ranged attack monsters behavior, may be a (big) issue

I thought about using

Death Mark to direct them, but on second thought, most of the ranged attack monster will use another (bad) attack at close range (without benefiting from the

Multiple Shot...), or will waste time moving away from close range

Schnorki wrote: 1 hour ago

Can't say I have. One of the best things about proper demons like Heph imo is the suicidal charging in for exceptional tanking (getting there faster than your merc -> keeping him safe, too) and such.

Sacrificing that for some broken-AI ranged mob that won't shoot half the time because the crappy ranged AI has them busy just running in circles like any A1 merc..not worth it imo, even if the theoretical dmg might be higher for some constellations.

Schnorki wrote: 1 hour ago

Can't say I have. One of the best things about proper demons like Heph imo is the suicidal charging in for exceptional tanking (getting there faster than your merc -> keeping him safe, too) and such.

Sacrificing that for some broken-AI ranged mob that won't shoot half the time because the crappy ranged AI has them busy just running in circles like any A1 merc..not worth it imo, even if the theoretical dmg might be higher for some constellations.

We had a discussion for best, now we should do worst.

Ranged chars suck because they keep running away from enemies. Teleporting gremlins suck. Shamans suck too. It's

Death Mark to apply

Amplify Damage and no tank. If you want extra friendlies grab a

Vile Mother from act 4.
I also dislike council members (grab the cursed and try to swap ASAP for a better AI demon). They keep prancing and frolicking around you without any regard for their binder's safety. The steamrolling tank charging into fray is the best.

Goatman, Lancers, Blunderbores, Hephasto, Smith, even pit lords with their useless flame jets. All of those work well.

As far as I have tested:

Good:

Blunderbore,

Corrupt Rogue Spearwoman,

Corrupt Rogue,

Vile Mother,

Hephasto the Armorer

->speed and melee is good.

Okayish:

Goatman,

Megademon,

Overseer,

Fetish,

Lister the Tormentor

Bad:

Stygian Fury,

Fallen,

Fallen Shaman,

Demon Imp,

Regurgitator

-> all ranged/slow/elemental monsters are not useful.

Queegon wrote: 50 minutes ago

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I also dislike council members (grab the cursed and try to swap ASAP for a better AI demon). They keep prancing and frolicking around you without any regard for their binder's safety. The steamrolling tank charging into fray is the best.

Goatman, Lancers, Hephasto, Smith, even pit lords with their useless flame jets. All of those work well.

Yeah, council members blow. That's why I say "sadly, there is no always-cursed super unique demon" because a demon that bad isn't worth even considering.

Pit lord types do also kinda suck though.
They spend too much time spraying no-dmg fire at stuff, rather than doing anything useful. And on top of that, they're big enough to get tele-locked as well. F those things.

I've seen some people recommending an elemental aura (

Holy Shock,

Holy Freeze or

Holy Fire) and Cursed, so that

Amplify Damage is triggered almost instantly
But losing

Conviction or

Fanaticism seems like a bad trade

Wouldn't Lightning Enchanted work as a way to trigger

Amplify Damage faster instead?
(if you need that...)