Mechanical Questions Thread

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KingOfAllTrades wrote:

Does an Animated Guardian have a mana pool? If so, how big is it? Does it regenerate, and how quickly?

If I put a Dance of the Offered on my Guardian, how long will it keep the Onslaught buff? What about Omeyocan? Can it make use of Cloak of Defiance?

All I can tell you for sure is that minions do have mana, and for certain minions (notably some spectres) mana is a limiting factor in how often they can cast their skills.

I am guessing that the only skill an Animated Guardian uses is Default Attack; if that is the case it will not use any mana unless you do weird things. I don't believe there is any way to restore mana to an ally other than just giving them mana regeneration (including things like the Clarity aura).

With Dance of the Offered or Omeyocan, the Guardian will have Onslaught as long as it is not on low mana. If the Guardian's mana regeneration rate is more than 30-40/sec (resp. 7%/sec), this will be effectively permanent. If it is less than that, it will be some relatively short finite interval after you enter a map and then no more.

Cloak of Defiance should work; both the keystone and the separate damage redirection.

Once again, most of the above is an educated guess: if you experiment with this more and find out something new or contradicting something I wrote, please let me know!

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Alysius wrote:

As of 3.4, Secondary Damage can be blocked/evaded. Does this includes sources of secondary damage taken (Scold/EoI/Loop)?

Secondary damage not dealt by an attack or spell skill cannot be blocked.

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tchiseen wrote:

If you have the "Spiritual Aid" keystone which grants you 'increases to minion damage affect you', would a mod on an Abyss jewel that says "20% increased minion damage if you've used a minion skill recently" increase your damage?

Yes (of course assuming you have actually used a minion skill recently).

I am not sure about the Sentinel question, sorry. We will have to see.

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dEus__ wrote:

With the release of 3.4 secondary damage can be blocked, dodged and evaded. So how does monster evasion interact with the explosions of Explosive Arrow after this change? Do I need accuracy now to make sure the explosions hit? If yes, does the Resolute Technique keystone work with it?

Yes to both questions.

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Paradoxi4l wrote:

How will Spiritual Aid and Spiritual Command interact with the Necromancer passive Commander of Darkness? Will the Necromancer gain double the buffs since she inherits the buffs to the minions as well?

Commander of Darkness gives bonuses to Allies, not to Minions. It will not be affected by the new passives.

Yes, Minions are Allies and do benefit from CoD bonuses; but Spiritual Aid/Command specifically only transfer modifiers that are "increased/reduced minion damage" or "increased/reduced minion attack speed".