As far as I understand, this shouldn’t even revive minions since the description says specifically as it follows:
“Walking near a corpse automatically activates a Corpse Skill every second[…]”
Raise Skeleton skill does not have “Corpse” tag on it, but is instead a “Summoning” skill. They should either fix it for not reviving minions at all or fix the heart description.
I had problems against Butcher on lvl 30 with this effect bacause I couldn’t use any corpse explosions on the corpses I generated from passives because it kept using them to auto raise any minion that died (and they die quickly for butcher in this level).
Anyway, I wouldn’t care if they keep the effect of reviving minions without activating priests, but what really bothers me on this is that when it activate Corpse Tendrils it actually CONSUMES the corpse to do it, when the skill specifically says it shouldn’t.
the skill that targets a corpse to summon it is considered a “corpse” skill
if anything, the “raise skeleton” skill is the one that needs to have “corpse” added to its tags
its problably bad coding
bc instead of using some simple left to the right on the skill bar priority rule
they decided to just make “raise skeleton” have priority over everything else if there is room to summon more minons, so they had to create another rule to stop once minions are maxed bc if not the heart would priority spam “skeletal priests” over everything else but “raise skeleton”
so, in order to make use of priests with the heart, instead of:
I don’t think it should be summoning minions at all based on the tags and if it does it should be spamming the Priest too. I definitely prefer my Tendrils on demand for strategic pulls/vulns and not whenever it just triggers a random corpse.
Far more likely it’s two separate skills in the coding and one is marked corpse while the other is not. The corpse skill speed might interact this way too.
i hope they fix this, if i wanted to spam my skill to summon the priest i wouldnt be using this heart. in my build there are no other corpse skills and i use a core skill with no basic attack, and to work i have to spam the priest to get essence
What is there to fix? If you don’t want minions to be summoned and only corpse explosion to be used, sacrifice the minions. If you say you need to “spam the priest to get essence”, ie use up corpses, you either use un-buffed skeletons that die fast and get automatically raised which gives you back essence if you have the passive, or just use corpse explosion instead of skeletons. CE eats corpses very fast and gives free extra damage.
I use reaper skellies to create extra corpses while fighting bosses, and I can literally just stand just outside boss melee range and fling 5-7 Bone spears into it before I run dry because of how fast CE is eating corpses and giving me back essence.
I think this is intended. There seems to be a priority system. I like that it summons minions but I would not want it spamming the priest buff. Spamming priest buff doesn’t do anything as the buff needs to actually complete before the heal finishes. So, I at least am glad it does not do this.