Hephasto as binded demon question

fredkid wrote: 2 hours ago

You said you use

Summon Defiler

Defiler in practice gives everybody in your party an AoE damage

My guess is that what you think is a hidden pulse aura is just the Defiler effect

Defiler distribute the damage between the "linked" monster so you Hephasto (or your Merc or You) hit 1 monster and 4 others are killed too by the link damage.
just after that, Defiler start to link more monster, and maybe on the next kill 4 more are killed by the link damage.

Is not uncommon for me my Bound Demon and Defiler engage in combat with a numerous mob and everybody is dead after a couple Demon strikes.

Semirotta wrote: 3 hours ago

Thorwalg wrote: 3 hours ago

Could you make a scrreenshot in town?
and show us exactly what mods he has?

Thats the problem, it never shows the fire aura / electric aura beneath there. But what else would it be? what else could it be to kill the trash around me? I have no aura on the warlock. The only two auras on merc are Might (default aura) and Insight gives the mana aura. Neither of these deal dmg to enemies around us.

The only two things left are Hephasto with

Conviction (bound with 29 lvl skill) and Defiler which does no dmg at all nor has any auras.

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But funny thing was that once I got this hephasto; it didnt kill anything around it until now. The previous one did kill trash around it without touching them from the beginning. So this either is very buggy or I just dont understand what is going on :'D

P.S
I finally figured out how to upload larger images. Just save them first into .jpeg instead of trying to upload what I screenshotted with the crop tool.

fredkid wrote: 2 hours ago

You said you use

Summon Defiler

Defiler in practice gives everybody in your party an AoE damage

My guess is that what you think is a hidde

Schnorki wrote: 2 hours ago

Is there a green glowy swirly thing above the dying trash?

If so, that's your defiler linking them to other mobs. If any of those other mobs gets hit (may well be on the other side of the screen), they share part of that damage, causing them to die without ever actively getting hit.

Unsummon your defiler and see if things still die unexpectedly. If not, that's what it was. If yes, there might be more to it.

Semirotta wrote: 2 hours ago

Schnorki wrote: 2 hours ago

Is there a green glowy swirly thing above the dying trash?

If so, that's your defiler linking them to other mobs. If any of those other mobs gets hit (may well be on the other side of the screen), they share part of that damage, causing them to die without ever actively getting hit.

Unsummon your defiler and see if things still die unexpectedly. If not, that's what it was. If yes, there might be more to it.

Thats the thing, there is no swirly thing. Sometimes the enemy has been completely without any kind of debuffs or anything at all. I need to try to play a little without using the defiler tomorrow and see how things function, but im pretty certain about this being the Defilers work behind the scenes.

Semirotta wrote: 1 day ago

Do you think its better to have the

Lower Resist aura on Hephasto with Cursed OR have fanatism aura without Cursed?

Which do YOU think is better?

I havent had any luck finding cursed hephasto and now finally found one with the wrong aura. Should I keep looking for fanatism without cursed? I will not find one with both. This has been proven.

Currently my hephasto got Fire aura + Resist lowering aura (thanks to high enough lvl binding skill) so that combo does work together nicely. And it can remove Physical immunities.
Hephasto without curse cant take away physical immunities and the sigil alone wont do it always either.

Just trying to weight some options here, not sure if its worth to waste time trying to find cursed + fana as it seems to be so darn rare. Got it once or twice before and never seen it again since.