Question for anyone who played the PTR

PC General Discussion
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Did this include the mercenaries?

Grow

  • After casting an Ultimate Skill, your Servants, Minions, and Companions are empowered with dark magics. Growing larger in size and dealing X bonus damage. Lasts 15 seconds.
  • At Rank 11: Your Servants, Minions and Companions gain 100% Critical Strike Chance while enlarged.
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Yes, Grow did. It also included Frog and Piranhado. It reminded me of Super Golem from Seasons past. Piranhado is an Ultimate though.

I believe they’ll “fix it” before launch, but we’ll see!

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Ultimates (1 of these only)

  • Piranhado - When an enemy is afflicted by both Hex and an Aura Effect, a Piranhado is summoned, pulling enemies towards it and dealing x physical damage over 12 seconds. May occur once every 20 seconds. At Rank 5 and above: Piranhado moves itself towards nearby enemies.
  • The Cycle - Dealing any damage with your skills has a 15% chance to grow a flower from the ground. When an enemy is near, the flower deals x poison damage to that enemy over 5 seconds. If an ally is near, the flower heals for 6.0% maximum life. The flower withers away after use. A flower may grow once every 2 seconds per enemy. At Rank 5 and above: The damage and healing affects all enemies or allies near the flower.
  • Vengeful Spirit - Every 19 seconds, a Vengeful spirit servant appears for x seconds. While active, all damage taken is instead taken by the spirit. Vengeful Spirit Servant deals 750% damage. At Rank 5 and above: When the Vengeful Spirit’s Life is fully depleted, it rushes towards up to 8 enemies dealing 2000 Shadow damage.
  • Doom Orb - An ominous orb of pure Eldritch energy circles you damaging any enemy it touches for 400% Fire damage. Doom orb may launch itself at distant enemies before returning. At Rank 5 and above: Kills or damage to bosses empower the orb’s damage by 5%. After 100%, the Orb explodes, dealing 5200 damage to nearby enemies before reforming 3 seconds later.
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I hope not. Loved seeing a giant frog in the PTR along with my Bane-looking Rahier and my minion army all roided out. My necro was having a blast with that grow ability.

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Oh I loved Grow as well. But the damage output of Piranhado and Frog were just insane with it.

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as a sorcerer I didn´t see any difference using this power.
Maybe a bug or it doesn´t works with conjuration.
The description is not clear enough to me.

its what I used in the PTR but I am not sure if its the best combination for lighting sorcerers.

Witch Powers

  • Abyssal Resonance
  • Soul Harvester
  • Poison frog servant
  • Hex of whispers
  • Breath of the Coven
  • Doom Orb

Gems

Amulet - Voice of the Stars
Ring 1 - Friend of the Bog
Ring 2 - Dust Stone

Runes

Tam - Ohm
Poc - Wat

Because of lack of playing time I could not further test more combinations.

As a result I could finish PIT 98 with usual gear, tempering and master working.

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Summons, minions, companions.

Sorc conjurations aren’t tagged for any of those. Might change, but they only have Conjuration tag.

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You might missed the PTR dev live where they stated everything you summon, minions, companions, conjurations, ancients and shadow clone, will all get the “summon” tag.

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I did, thanks!

Glad to see Conjurations on that list.

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