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Bind Demon - Do you keep any minion (or Merc) while searching for a "good bind demon"?

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Hi

Do you keep any minion (or Merc) while searching for a "good

Bind Demon"?

I'm still finishing Hell, I bound a Nightmare

Hephasto the Armorer (with

Fanaticism, but without Cursed

), have an Act 2 Merc and generally have 1

Summon Goatman and 1

Summon Defiler up.

My main goal is finish Hell (so I'm not hunting a new

Bind Demon target), but when a melee Cursed appear, I would like to try to bind it (as I already have

Bind Demon L20+), but just after I perceived that the super is Cursed and Demon, some of my Minions or my Merc already killed it (before I could try to bind it...)

Can be used to make Runewords:

fredkid `1988`

12 hours ago (pre-Resurrected)

Hi

Do you keep any minion (or Merc) while searching for a "good

Bind Demon"?

I'm still finishing Hell, I bound a Nightmare

Hephasto the Armorer (with

Fanaticism, but without Cursed

), have an Act 2 Merc and generally have 1

Summon Goatman and 1

Summon Defiler up.

My main goal is finish Hell (so I'm not hunting a new

Bind Demon target), but when a melee Cursed appear, I would like to try to bind it (as I already have

Bind Demon L20+), but just after I perceived that the super is Cursed and Demon, some of my Minions or my Merc already killed it (before I could try to bind it...)

Time Zone: GMT-3
Non-Ladder | Softcore | Expansion (RotW only)
----
Equivalence for trades:

Ist = 1 =

Token of Absolution = 20

Perfect Gems

Pul=0.25 |

Um=0.5|

Mal=0.75

Gul=1.5|

Vex=2 |

Ohm=3 |

Lo=4 |

Sur=5

Ber=9 |

Jah=12 |

Cham=9 |

Zod = 12

Consume my demon, when i find other one and took weapon of my merc, so he can damage (with me) a little - then easy binding.
(or merc can die - I dont care)

Little bit harder to catch Cursed Hephasto now ...but i have Enigma)

Schnorki `4604`Moderator

11 hours ago (pre-Resurrected)

I generally don't have extra summons on my lock anyways. One gets consumed, the other is bind, no third as the skill points are better used elsewhere. But that's highly build dependent of course.

But yeah, I'm not killing off my merc just to bind something. If I need a new Heph, I know where to find him and he's easy enough to snag before your merc wrecks him.

While still playing through that's a bit of a different story I suppose though at that stage, your merc also tends to not yet 1-shot worthwhile bind-targets.

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mikelessar `284`

11 hours ago (pre-Resurrected)

fredkid wrote: 12 hours ago
Hi

I'm still finishing Hell, I bound a Nightmare
Hephasto the Armorer (with
Fanaticism, but without Cursed ), have an Act 2 Merc and generally have 1
Summon Goatman and 1
Summon Defiler up.

I would always advise to have the

Consume buff up constantly:

Consume a

Goatman for phys damage, a Defiler for magic damage or

Tainted for Fire damage and you also gain massive movement speed and some extra life. It's worth it to drop one living demon minion for this.

fredkid `1988`

11 hours ago (pre-Resurrected)

At the momment I'm usig "pure summoner": I just run around buffing my minions -

Sigil Lethargy,

Death Mark,

Engorge - and they and Emilio - which benefits from Sigil too - do all the killings

Not a top build, but i think its fun and is doing the job. It's way better than a "pure summoner" necromancer (ie. Just summons and curses). The bound Demon hits like a truck, I have some AoE with

Summon Defiler and

Death Mark direct them to where I need most

mikelessar wrote: 11 hours ago

fredkid wrote: 12 hours ago
Hi

I'm still finishing Hell, I bound a Nightmare
Hephasto the Armorer (with
Fanaticism, but without Cursed ), have an Act 2 Merc and generally have 1
Summon Goatman and 1
Summon Defiler up.

I would always advise to have the
Consume buff up constantly:
Consume a
Goatman for phys damage, a Defiler for magic damage or
Tainted for Fire damage and you also gain massive movement speed and some extra life. It's worth it to drop one living demon minion for this.

Time Zone: GMT-3
Non-Ladder | Softcore | Expansion (RotW only)
----
Equivalence for trades:

Ist = 1 =

Token of Absolution = 20

Perfect Gems

Pul=0.25 |

Um=0.5|

Mal=0.75

Gul=1.5|

Vex=2 |

Ohm=3 |

Lo=4 |

Sur=5

Ber=9 |

Jah=12 |

Cham=9 |

Zod = 12

ThisGuyThatGuy `2`

11 hours ago (pre-Resurrected)

fredkid wrote: 11 hours ago
At the momment I'm usig "pure summoner": I just run around buffing my minions -
Sigil Lethargy,
Death Mark,
Engorge - and they and Emilio - which benefits from Sigil too - do all the killings

Good luck finishing up Hell! Cursed really does make a difference - my killing speed overall is way slower without it, especially as I use Heph to tank/distract mobs.

Death Mark is great for this and it keeps the merc slightly out of trouble too.

FYI there's a few enemies that always spawn cursed and so are a reliable source (in case you die and don't want to hunt/farm). I forget exactly which ones, but Ismail in

Travincal (one of the council) for sure is. There's one in Act 1 catacombs too, just in case Trav is too far/too difficult for you just yet.

fredkid `1988`

10 hours ago (pre-Resurrected)

I could bind a Night Clan (

Goatman) with Cursed and Stone Skin (got

Holy Freeze as the

Bind Demon aura)

Time Zone: GMT-3
Non-Ladder | Softcore | Expansion (RotW only)
----
Equivalence for trades:

Ist = 1 =

Token of Absolution = 20

Perfect Gems

Pul=0.25 |

Um=0.5|

Mal=0.75

Gul=1.5|

Vex=2 |

Ohm=3 |

Lo=4 |

Sur=5

Ber=9 |

Jah=12 |

Cham=9 |

Zod = 12

mhlg `2826`

9 hours ago (pre-Resurrected)

fredkid wrote: 10 hours ago
I could bind a Night Clan (
Goatman) with Cursed and Stone Skin (got
Holy Freeze as the
Bind Demon aura)

Have you tried the Town Council yet?

fredkid `1988`

9 hours ago (pre-Resurrected)

Do you mean

Ismail Vilehand (in

Travincal)?
People say that

Council Member AI is bad

(that they keep cast Lightning and

Hydra instead of meele attack...)

mhlg wrote: 9 hours ago

fredkid wrote: 10 hours ago
I could bind a Night Clan (
Goatman) with Cursed and Stone Skin (got
Holy Freeze as the
Bind Demon aura)
Have you tried the Town Council yet?

Time Zone: GMT-3
Non-Ladder | Softcore | Expansion (RotW only)
----
Equivalence for trades:

Ist = 1 =

Token of Absolution = 20

Perfect Gems

Pul=0.25 |

Um=0.5|

Mal=0.75

Gul=1.5|

Vex=2 |

Ohm=3 |

Lo=4 |

Sur=5

Ber=9 |

Jah=12 |

Cham=9 |

Zod = 12

mhlg `2826`

8 hours ago (pre-Resurrected)

fredkid wrote: 9 hours ago
Do you mean
Ismail Vilehand (in
Travincal)?
People say that
Council Member AI is bad (that they keep cast Lightning and
Hydra instead of meele attack...)
mhlg wrote: 9 hours ago

fredkid wrote: 10 hours ago
I could bind a Night Clan (
Goatman) with Cursed and Stone Skin (got
Holy Freeze as the
Bind Demon aura)
Have you tried the Town Council yet?

I haven't a clue, I just thought it would cinch the cool factor?

mikelessar `284`

4 hours ago (pre-Resurrected)

The Necro-Summoner gets help in

Corpse Explosion. Have you tried "

Corpse Explosion" for the Lock, Fred (

Sigil Death)?

fredkid `1988`

2 hours ago (pre-Resurrected)

But...If I use an attack skill, it is not a "pure summoner" build anymore

(specially for Warlock's

Blood Boil variant, where you have max 3 skill...)

For necromancer, I think "pure summoner" is not an "ok build"

; you need to use

Corpse Explosion for it to be an "ok build".

For Warlock, while leveling, before I had

Bind Demon (+

Summon Defiler

), I thought it would be the same vibe (and I was using

Blood Boil regularly)

; but, once I got

Bind Demon, I could play without rely on

Blood Boil anymore

mikelessar wrote: 4 hours ago
The Necro-Summoner gets help in
Corpse Explosion. Have you tried "
Corpse Explosion" for the Lock, Fred (
Sigil Death)?

Time Zone: GMT-3
Non-Ladder | Softcore | Expansion (RotW only)
----
Equivalence for trades:

Ist = 1 =

Token of Absolution = 20

Perfect Gems

Pul=0.25 |

Um=0.5|

Mal=0.75

Gul=1.5|

Vex=2 |

Ohm=3 |

Lo=4 |

Sur=5

Ber=9 |

Jah=12 |

Cham=9 |

Zod = 12

mikelessar `284`

1 hour ago (pre-Resurrected)

Was just an idea to make the Demon build stronger. You can even use

Blood Boil and

Sigil Death together. Of course it's a

Key-intensive piano build.

fredkid `1988`

1 hour ago (pre-Resurrected)

They are different builds (Pure Summoner x

Blood Boil)

And yeah, the

Blood Boil build use

Sigil Death instead of

Sigil Lethargy

- Pure Summoner
https://maxroll.gg/d2/guides/summoner-warlock-guide
-

Blood Boil
https://maxroll.gg/d2/guides/blood-boil-warlock-guide

mikelessar wrote: 1 hour ago
Was just an idea to make the Demon build stronger. You can even use
Blood Boil and
Sigil Death together. Of course it's a
Key-intensive piano build.