Equiping Merc do it rly works?

first of all sorry for my english xD but i hope you understand what i want to ask/say

Like above i wonder if it rly works. Or maybe i miss something. I know i can see by people if they use doryanis that they get -res. but if i use rigwalds ring it wont proc. blackheart give the merc no chaos dmg. my merc has a lot of lightning dmg but i never see shock on enemys and he crit a lot. so do it only count for few items with uniques modifier? has someone maybe deeper information for me if it rly works. or do i have to check there skill too. its hard to tell if you have no real check window for the dmg of the mercs

They cannot use triggers, unlike a certain someone here would like you to believe. That means no Consecrated Ground from Gifts From Above, no corpses from Corpsewalker, and so on. I expected as much before they were even released, so I didn't plan around any of these items. They can, however, use keystone passives from items, anoints and stuff like Curse on Hit.

but they dont share charges with the conduit gloves. i mean i thankfull to know that i stay away from trigger items. but do you have maybe a idea about the dmg part? the lightning dmg part and no shock

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babyapo#5132 wrote:

but they dont share charges with the conduit gloves.
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Neither does Conduit itself.

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BlueTemplar85#0647 wrote:

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And I guess also [what remains is] to check every instance of "Allied Player" and "Party Member" to see whether indeed all of the first works on mercs, but all of the second does not...
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babyapo#5132 wrote:

but do you have maybe a idea about the dmg part? the lightning dmg part and no shock

What do you mean? My current Merc (sub-optimal) does, in fact, crit and shock, however, it's not (yet) enough to shock something like Shaper. I mean, it's probably due to the fact that the Merc itself does raise the threshold because of the 50% more unique enemy HP, but they can absolutely do that.

This is what my current (Infamous) Spark Merc has equipped:



And, yes, it works. She actually deals some damage now.