I read somewhere that using follower is as if your playing a 2 player game increasing monster health and damage, is there any truth to that? When I look at the leaderboards of the top players it seems they don’t use them. Also side note do you really get 20% of the stats your follower has? As in if my follower has 3000 strength do I get 600?
No truth to all of that.
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follower doesnt incr diff (like sturedman said). As to the second question there are some stats that you get a small portion of for your main character but main stat isnt one of them i think its mostly just gold find and +%xp. if you want to be certain just look at your stat and dismiss your follower if a stat changes your follower gives a bonus to that stat
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Correct… well… they give MF as well, but it’s useless and only appears on some legacy items and some craftable sets iirc.
Aside from that, followers do not increase the difficulty scaling as others have mentioned.
Mobs will have the same health and damage values wether your follower is with you or not.
True but followers are classified as NPC; Non-player character. They’re not players to begin with, so they don’t affect monster health or damage.
Because some players prefer to not lose aggro on themselves and being fit for the challenge they can manage without partial support offered by followers. Also some prefer to play in parties only, I hope you checked the solo leaderboards.
Area damage attacks being the best proven way of clearing mobs faster, a follower pulling aggro to tank it actually makes things progress slower in GRs potentially causing some mobs to position out of your effective range.
Hence why some of the top solo clears don’t use followers or prefer to not allocate their active skills but activate their passive buffs only.
Only applies to utility benefits like gold/magic find% and experience bonuses. Followers have 2.5x or so main stat multiplier from items, getting any benefit from that would be absurd.
Check your stat sheet after bringing different followers to your party with high int, dex and str values. Apparently no. Mutual benefit only applies for utility affixes.
According to that link it supports my statement about getting 20% of the stats your follower has from the gear you put on thus me asking the community. When I hire my follower it doesn’t show my stats going up really on paper but that google link says it does
Did you read the link yourself and what others said in this thread?
Not any offensive stats, only utility stats. And it’s so minor you shouldn’t even care about it.
the link doesnt say ALL stats its specifically mentions adventuring stats
magic find, gold find +%xp and +xp per kill