Raise Zombie

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Bjarmfark wrote:

The pure builds are the most suceptible to poor game design because they take the full hit when the devs try to set things straight. Thats why combinations of builds are more resiliant to change.


@topic I can just say that its a shame that blunders like this reduces build diversity. From a constructive standpoint I have some ideas apart from just playing with the numbers that might solve the issue about zombies dying fast.

What seems to kill zombies and most other totems and summons are heavy elemental damages amd multiprojectile monsters. Give zombies more base all resist to combat the sickness of crying infant zombies.

But why is multiple projectiles just melting my ONE zombie so fast? Its like the zombie is hit with all tjree projectiles which is just stupid. Or perhaps its a bug because it seems that multi proj monsters in general suffers NO penalty to damage like players do! So either make it so the summons is hit by ONE projectile or/and give multiproj a damage penalty like a player has.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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magpye wrote:

It seems difficult to understand that there is no figure for minion damage, armour and resistances, when those figures should be used to work out whether they, or what they are fighting, should survive.
Surely the game code uses some numbers for these, even if they don't have armour or resistances, they definitely do SOME damage.

"The Game Code" is not some nebulous whole with no restrictions. A Zombie in the world is an object with stats, such as resistance and damage values, that it uses when taking or dealing damage.

The raise zombie skill on your character doesn't and can't have those stats. It (implicitly) knows which type of monster to summon, and has a stat saying what level to summon it at, allowing it, when used, to issue a command to the game world saying to spawn a Raised Zombie of level X. The process of creating that monster populates it's object with the correct stats, but at no stage are the zombie's stats in any way part of your stats or the skill's stats.

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DRT wrote:

This may have been explained before, however, using the search feature has not yielded any conclusive posts.

I have been looking into buffing my zombie melee elemental damage and one option I was looking into was Weapon Elemental Damage. However, in the path of exile wiki it is stated that weapon elemental damage does not work with zombies. Why is this the case? Are zombie attacks considered unarmed? And why if this is the case does the w icon appear in the raise zombie skill? Is that a bug? Or am I missing something?