I read that Mutilation Guard and Esoteric Alteration work on followers, and are the only two L gems that do, can anyone ‘confirm’? (the magic and physical damage reduce L gems)
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I plan on leveling both of these gems and testing, but was hoping for some additional data from other players who may have experimented with it already.
Both of them and they do benefit from Enforcer if you have it equipped. While the damage multiplier is rather useless, the 90% damage reduction works and allows builds that use this gem to make their Follower survives without immortality token in higher Greater Rifts.
That’s what I was hoping, thank you!
That is new info for me and it sounds amazing.
Be mindful that enforcer only works as dmg mitigation if you equip it, it DOESN’T work if follower equips enforcer. Hence enforcer has very limited application in terms of follower mitigation.
That severely limits its overall usefulness. Unless one is playing an actual pet build which requires Enforcer, is it really worth sacrificing potentially a large amount of DPS for some mitigation for the follower? Using it might be more of a detriment rather than a benefit.
New player here. Is there anything in game that tells you if a given effect does not work on followers? I just finished Season 28 Chapter 4 (so I have the full 6 piece set) and my follower now has a couple legendary gems slotted. I don’t recall seeing any messages indicating they wouldn’t work.
Check this web site for lots of info:
(https://maxroll.gg/d3/resources/follower-mechanics)
Just use immortality token
Problem solved.
Yes, esoteric and mutilation guard works for the follower, and they count as pets for enforcer so if you have enforcer equipped they get the defense buff (enforcer doesn’t emanate, so equipping it on follower doesnt help).
It’s a buff for pet builds that equip enforcer, as it allows for playing the all-skills token on your enchantress. With esoteric and mutilation guard at max, aim for at least 200M toughness for your enchantress (and stack attack speed and life on hit), and she’ll be fine even in 150s. Mostly ancients with maybe a couple augments should be more than enough to hit 200M. Or just craft guardian set for her, and she’ll get more than enough.
In fact, with guardian you can run all-skills token even without enforcer, but you need to get her good ancients in all slots, with guardian set, and str/dex augments everywhere. That should bring you well above 1B toughness, and is enough to live through 150s as long as you clear decently fast, and it doesn’t get too hot with giant pulls. Or if you run lower GRs at higher speed, she’ll be able to survive fine.
With demon hunter marauder, enforcer gem and good items for enchantress, I’ve never seen her life going down one bit at GRs 140+
With other non-pet builds I prefer the immortality token.
I’ve been playing this game for ages and my follower has died exactly 0 times
I really hope you have another account…
488 paragons on non-season and a wizard lvl11 on season.
For sure, according to your profile.
They auto rez to full health in 30 or 45 seconds. If you’re in a large mob and they don’t have the immortality token they will die and rez and you won’t notice that happened. While they are dead, you lose all their abilities like the 2nd life, cd reduction, healing, etc… and sometimes that’s enough to tip things against you.
If they have Gloves of Worship, you also lose all your shrines when they die.