Baal minions & auras - binding for Warlock question

Typically, when a mob gets aura enchanted, they then roll a random aura upon spawning.

There are exceptions (e.g. uber meph always has conv) but as a general rule, the above tends to stand.

Similarly, if you have lvl 20+

Bind Demon, any demon bound automatically gains aura enchanted if they don't already have it. If that demon already had aura enchanted, it'll keep the same aura it had before you bound it. If it didn't have an aura before, it will gain a new random aura.

Keep in mind that aura enchanted itself is a limited list and doesn't include every aura in the game as a possibility.

And yes, Lister can be bound.

You don't necessarily need to have lvl 20+

Bind Demon to have a demon with an aura. You merely need lvl 20+

Bind Demon to add an aura to a demon without one.

E.g. if you bind a random demon with say extra strong, Stone skin and cursed but no aura:
- A lvl <20

Bind Demon will let you bind that demon but it will not have an aura
- A lvl 20+

Bind Demon will let you bind that demon and will then give it an aura from the pool of possible auras

If on the other hand you bind a demon that already has an aura himself, such as Hephasto:
- A lvl <20

Bind Demon will let you bind that demon and the demon will keep his aura
- A lvl 20+

Bind Demon will let you bind that demon and the demon will keep his aura, it will not receive a 2nd aura and the current aura will not be randomly replaced by a different one

Essentially, all lvl 20+ does in that regard is give you more options for a viable demon to bind as you don't need to find ones that are already aura enchanted.

The same is true for the other affixes added via

Bind Demon:
Extra strong, extra fast, spectral hit and aura enchanted. For every 5 levels in

Bind Demon, it'll add one more of those (unless the target demon already had it anyways).

The skill tooltip also tells you what it'll add automatically, based on your

Bind Demon lvl.

Trang Oul wrote: 2 hours ago

Thanks @Schnorki for the info.
So... is it optimal to look for a demon without Extra Strong, Extra Fast, Spectral and Aura Enchanted, since these affixes will be added anyway, and look for other useful ones?
The only drawback is that the aura is random, so you may need to repeat the binding once you get the desired one.

Since you get these with bind, it's more useful to look for demons without these attributes (unless you find a good combo with a desired aura, in which case, bind it to keep that aura, Hephasto being good for this).

Good attributes include Cursed and Stone skin/elemental enchants (except fire if you use Flickering Flame/

Summon Tainted).

Teleport has been known to make demons disappear at inconvenient times, so may want to avoid that.

Mana burn also does nothing.

Also to keep in mind for super uniques, is that while they will have 2 fixed properties (Eg. Hephasto always has spectral hit/aura enchanted), they can also have 2 random properties on top in hell difficulty.

Trang Oul wrote: 2 hours ago

Thanks @Schnorki for the info.
I found a compilation of Warlock skills hidden features and bugs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gtM ... WE6fUdVg6Y . It confirms what you've written.

So... is it optimal to look for a demon without Extra Strong, Extra Fast, Spectral and Aura Enchanted, since these affixes will be added anyway, and look for other useful ones?
The only drawback is that the aura is random, so you may need to repeat the binding once you get the desired one.

Theoretically, sure, you'd want your demon to have none of the affixes you get auto-added so that you can maximize the total.

But realistically, most other affixes really aren't worth the search. And if you look at say Heph, as still the top choice in most contexts, he always gets spectral + aura. So you could say "2 are wasted". Or you could say "great, only need lvl 10 bind to guarantee all 4". Or you go 20+ anyways and don't care.

Cursed is fantastic. Stone skin/magic resistant can be quite useful for added tankiness, depending on the demon. The rest really doesn't do too much in my experience or in the case of teleportation can even be counterproductive.

Blubbalutsch wrote: 50 minutes ago

Does anyone know what lvl the auras are lvl 20+

Bind Demon provides? I suspect them being of higher lvl than the average inherent aura, as i had a chance to compare inherent and

Bind Demon

Fanaticism aura with my two warlocks, the latter having a significant larger range

Aura's for monsters are based on the demon's level and the type of aura at the time of binding (whether they already had aura enchanted, or were given it by

Bind Demon).

For calcualtions:

https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Aura_Enchanted

For example, Hephasto is level 88 outside of

Terror zones on hell difficulty, so if he had

Conviction, you'd get a level 11

Conviction aura (monster level divided by 8).

if you got the same from a level 96

Terror zone, it would be level 12

sbn wrote: 1 hour ago

[..] My original problem was I was not at lvl 20, so each Wave 5 minion could have an aura in game, but once bound that aura was lost. [..]

That wasn't their aura.

The various minions do not have their own aura. But when Lister has a friendly aura, such as

Fanaticism, it will affect his minions and they will get the aura animation below them. That doesn't mean they have an aura though, they're merely benefiting from his, which is why it was lost when you bound them.

To see the various affixes of a mob, just hover over it and look at what it says below the health bar. In this particular case, you're looking for aura enchanted which is only shown for the mob actually giving the aura, not the ones merely benefiting from it.

As a rule of thumb, never tame the minions, always tame the unique.