Hi, with scoundrels, is it normal for them to just keep dying over and over and be nothing useful besides providing the buff? I guess what I'm wondering is do any of you try to gear them in a way so they can survive?
I have a scoundrel I use. What I did is deck him out with the Freeze Bow and Freeze amulet. He can pretty much perma freeze things for my Monk. I use the Windforce and Blind on Hit Amulet I use on him for my WD. I then stacked AS on the rings as well as Vit. I dont care about the damage he does its all about the buff and freeze/knockback he offers me. I think he has around 80k health also. He dies sometimes but not very often.
Hi, with scoundrels, is it normal for them to just keep dying over and over and be nothing useful besides providing the buff? I guess what I'm wondering is do any of you try to gear them in a way so they can survive?
Followers are useless when dead, therefore number one priority stat is vitality. They get a lot more out of vitality, I believe 2.5 times as much, so make sure your rings/amulet/follower token have a huge amount of vit (and maybe even life%).
The Scoundrel is best for being used as a freezing canon: give him a Buriza with high freeze and pierce values, if you have some more money a Star of Azkanoth with freeze as well, and high IAS rings.
When I solo, my enchantress rarely dies and I just use trash I found myself for her.. Just stack vit, all res, life% and mainstat for whichever follower.
Just to add: keep in mind that followers get 2.5 times as much from any main stat, so int might trump pure allres (in particular for the Enchantress int is the win-win stat).
I could have sworn there were blue posts a few months back regarding buffing followers, or at least making them more viable/useful. My enchantress dies pretty much every 30 seconds.
Followers can be quite tanky if you gear them properly. My Scoundrel is far from perfect, but here are the items I gave him:
With decent life regeneration, in combination with Vanish, he stays alive pretty much 90% of an entire run. The only time he actually dies is if Vanish is on cooldown and he's stupid enough to stand in three stacks of Desolate.
I could show my Templar as well, but he basically has a max APS/freeze Azurewrath and a butt-load of vitality, armor, resist and a fat 33% block Stormshield.
For Monk its scoundrel, and i think its for everyone atm since it gives so much damage and the buff lasts through death.Enchantress was ok when people needed to be a bit tankier but seriously u farm MP1 with 1 mil set with your eyes closed so who needs a small amount of armor anymore.
Diablo 2 had such a much better game design when it comes to the followers in my mind, the arura'' was so awesome
i hope they add more into the followers in d3 later in future
They'll never bring back stuff like the freeze aura which was so brutally OP it wasn't funny.
That being said I take a huge dislike to the equipment slots the followers in D3 have. Go back to armor + weapon. Jewelery is already expensive. If you want to kit your followers out for anything but freeze builds, etc. you'll have to invest way more gold in them than you'd ever get back in performance.
Chest, Legs, Boots, Helmet, Gloves, and a Weapon (and Shield). Please! Hell, leave the follower tokens for all I care, just take the damned rings and amulets away. Grrrr....
I have a related question about the enchantress. I know some people give her Maximus, a sword that occasionally summons a demon pet. Is this the best weapon she can equip, or should I just get her a high int staff or something?
As far as I know, the Enchantress can also use 1-handed weapons, but just no off-hand. So she can also wield Azurewrath for high APS and chance to freeze targets. Then again, a Scoundrel with Buriza or Windforce is so much better for crowd control.
You can gear up your followers sadly they will never be as useful as D2 followers. Best you can hope for is a Buff, CC bot that dies every other pack pull...
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Unhallowed Essence Multishot Guide
Season 7 Hardcore Demon Huntard #14 @ GR78
Unhallowed Essence Multishot Guide
Followers are useless when dead, therefore number one priority stat is vitality. They get a lot more out of vitality, I believe 2.5 times as much, so make sure your rings/amulet/follower token have a huge amount of vit (and maybe even life%).
The Scoundrel is best for being used as a freezing canon: give him a Buriza with high freeze and pierce values, if you have some more money a Star of Azkanoth with freeze as well, and high IAS rings.
For more follower's hints check my sig.
I hope Blizz works on this at some point, I really like how pets are so useful in TL2.
Just to add: keep in mind that followers get 2.5 times as much from any main stat, so int might trump pure allres (in particular for the Enchantress int is the win-win stat).
Season 7 Hardcore Demon Huntard #14 @ GR78
Unhallowed Essence Multishot Guide
With decent life regeneration, in combination with Vanish, he stays alive pretty much 90% of an entire run. The only time he actually dies is if Vanish is on cooldown and he's stupid enough to stand in three stacks of Desolate.
I could show my Templar as well, but he basically has a max APS/freeze Azurewrath and a butt-load of vitality, armor, resist and a fat 33% block Stormshield.
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They'll never bring back stuff like the freeze aura which was so brutally OP it wasn't funny.
That being said I take a huge dislike to the equipment slots the followers in D3 have. Go back to armor + weapon. Jewelery is already expensive. If you want to kit your followers out for anything but freeze builds, etc. you'll have to invest way more gold in them than you'd ever get back in performance.
Chest, Legs, Boots, Helmet, Gloves, and a Weapon (and Shield). Please! Hell, leave the follower tokens for all I care, just take the damned rings and amulets away. Grrrr....
As far as I know, the Enchantress can also use 1-handed weapons, but just no off-hand. So she can also wield Azurewrath for high APS and chance to freeze targets. Then again, a Scoundrel with Buriza or Windforce is so much better for crowd control.
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