auradin queries

ShadowHeart wrote: 1 day ago

Bertram The Cursed wrote: 1 day ago

It says that

Conviction and

Lower Resist does not effect

Static Field.

Yes, that part is not correct. It's an old "truth" but it was debunked years ago by people at Amazon Basin.

Conviction &

Lower Resist by themselves (without -ELR%) cannot increase damage of

Static Field to be more than 25% of the monster's current HP. But if the monster starts with positive resistance (which reduces

Static Field's damage to less than 25% of monster HP), they will increase the damage, just not more than equivalent of the monster having 0% resistance, even if they drop the resistance below 0%. That's... until you factor in -ELR%. That's when shit gets really complicated.

EDIT: I guess I should update the

Static Field page, but it will take a some effort to make it clear & understandable...

So all of this is super nice. One more reason to farm for the missing

Ber to make offline Infinity. I ve always wished for a good melee build with a lightning aoe damage component. Static makes it possible.

But one more question please. Does minus enemy res from gear or sunder counts for my merc (when i wear them) or for me too, when my merc wears them. For example

Crescent Moon on my Act 2 merc + Lightning Sunder in my inventory. Or how does it add up. I mean for sure the enemies are sundered for my merc too, but do i get his -35 light res on my static procs with

Schaefer's Hammer too?

Bertram The Cursed wrote: 13 hours ago

Does minus enemy res from gear or sunder counts for my merc (when i wear them) or for me too, when my merc wears them.

No, -ELR% only counts for the character wearing it, you or the merc. If it's on your gear, it only helps you, not the merc. And vice versa. IIRC the only stats that the merc inherit from the player are magic find and

Gold find, and it's one way (you don't benefit from MF/GF on the merc's gear when you make the kill), and only when the merc gets the kill.

There are some summon/minion skills that inherit the -res% / +dmg% stats (snapshot at time of cast), but not all minion skills.

Guys, can't stop theorizing the "Black hand" pally build (hello C&C fans here), need (professional) help..
double Dragon + Hand of Justice is clear. then I"m obsessed with adding an

Iron Golem (

Metalgrid also helps with defence) and a fitting merc
since the

Holy Fire on-attack dmg only applies to the pally himself, we kinda need an elemental dmg merc to take advantage of our lvl ~30 (~175 res)

Conviction (or convection oven)
that leaves us with
Faith rogue.. fine but generic and we don't really need that much more attack speed if we run

Phase Blade and double horazon's
Phoenix rogue.. maybe?
Ice rogue.. also maybe but generic?
electro iron wolf.. also a bit generic and static kinda overlaps with the aura pulses?
fire iron wolf with 2x Phoenix and Flickering Flame.. that fits the theme and would be my preference as it fits the theme. although

Enchant would add only like ~100 dmg? and would

Fireball at least reach 2k per hit?

Resist Fire aura is a welcome addition

then the difficult part, the

Iron Golem. how to make it somewhat useful and either survivable or not insanely expensive? i understand that he'll have flat 100 attack rating (haha).. although

Conviction will help still a problem

here is my short list

Schaefer's Hammer - nice addition to attack rating, solid dmg, solid attack speed, lightning res, solid elemental dmg, and the

Static Field

Stormlash - downgraded schaefer, without attack rating. crushing blow could be useful
Lawbringer - aura, elemental dmg

Azurewrath -

Sanctuary Aura, some elemental dmg, solid attack speed

Tiamat's Rebuke - solid defence additions, some elemental dmg & procs

Steel Carapace - solid defence (especially the missing cold res) and

Iron Maiden could help

Djinn Slayer - solid attack rating vs demons and fire dmg. could add 2 jewels

Medusa's Gaze - well not really, don't really need the extra -res, life leech won't bring anything. cold res is good though and somewhat survivable

Dragonscale - some survivability and some fire dmg
Voice of Reason - some cold dmg and attack rating
Rift - some elemental dmg & procs
Insight - could always use the aura
Duress - some survivability, some elemental dmg, crushing blow
Exile - the aura,

Life Tap. if made in a good paladin shield would be survivable enough to justify the cost?
Delirium - will it even work??

Stormspire

Todesfaelle Flamme

Cranebeak