If you go under “Materials & Stats” and view your stats while adding or removing any of the skills I listed above, you’ll see they do nothing.
- Death’s Embrace: doesn’t increase “Damage vs Close” nor adds to “Damage Reduction from Close”
- Death’s Reach: doesn’t increase “Damage vs Distant”
- Stand Alone: doesn’t increase damage reduction. Nothing under “Defensive” increases when you add points into Stand Alone. (And yes, I checked without having minions active)
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Sacrificed Cold Mages: doesn’t increase “Damage vs Vulnerable” (In fact, I haven’t seen this stat anywhere. We have Damage vs Stunned/Bleeding/Burning/Chilled/Poisoned/Trapped/Close/Distant/etc. But I’ve personally never seem the stat “Damage vs Vulnerable” within the game yet.
On top of not working correctly, Stand Alone also breaks Memento Mori. Preventing the Sacrificed Skeletal Warriors stat benefits from applying.