All Tests are perfomed on white mobs over the course of 2hours at level 94 using the ‘Wilds’ glyph after the June 27th Patch and with the Storm Companions unique Pants which make them deal lightning damage and gain the ‘Storm’ and ‘Nature Magic’ Tags.
The Tempest Roar Unique making Base Storm Skills also Werewolf Skills.
The Alpha Aspect Turning them into Werewolves gaining 100% damage increase and the ability the deal rabies.
The Natures Savagery Aspect making Werewolf Skills function as Storm skills and Werebear Skills function as Earth skills.
The Symbiotic Aspect Making the Natures Fury key passive reduce the cooldowns of the opposite type by up to 8 seconds when it is triggered.
The Runeworkers Conduit Aspect which makes critical strikes with storm skills periodically produce lightning bolts in the area around you.
The Mighty Storm aspect which makes Storm Skills also able to proc the ‘Earthen Might’
Key Passive.
The Natural Balance aspect giving ‘Earth’ skills crit damage after the use of a ‘Storm’ skill
and ‘Storm’ skills crit chance after the use of a ‘Earth’ skill.
The Wildrage aspect giving companions the benefits of ‘Beastial Ramapge’ key passive.
Having all these Uniques/Aspects on, the wolves cannot/dont:
Proc the ‘Natures Fury’ passive even though they inherit ‘Storm’ as a tag.
Proc ‘Earthen Might’ key passive even though they inherit ‘Storm’ as a tag.
Proc Runeworkers Conduit Aspect even though they inherit ‘Storm’ and ‘Nature’ as a tag and do lightning damage.
Dont count as werewolves for any proc purposes with Natures Fury/Lupines Feroicity even while using the ‘Alpha’ Aspect which turns them into werewolves (note it does not give them the ‘werewolf’ tag).
Dont gain increased crit chance from the ‘Natural Balance’ Aspect.
Gain anything from the ‘Tempest Roar’ unique helm.
They Do:
Proc the ‘Natural Balance’ Aspect.
Recieve reduced cooldown from ‘Natures Fury’ while wearing ‘Storms Companion’ unique pants.
Gain the benefits from the ‘Wildrage’ aspect but only if you are shifted into one of the forms meaning that the wolves themselves cannot proc the werewolf part of the ‘Beastial Rampage’ aspect even while using the ‘Alpha’ aspect.
After this testing the wolves only gain/count as anything listed for the above 2 things but cannot proc/gain benefit for everything else.
So why have them in the skill tree at all or make all these unique/legendary affects for them but not have them actually do anything.
When if at all is this being looked at.
I should also note that almost any late game build is doing hundreds of thousands of damage and in some cases millions/10s of millions of damage and yet even with all these things the wolves are struggling to kill even a single white mob of my level.
My suggestion would be completely overhaul how companions even work give us something similar to Necromancer with having them on one button as we are giving up huge utility and survivability for having them on the bar ie: have them all use their abilities on traget mob/area using the single key.
Massively up their scaling from our stats, if they get them at all it is not even close to being enough you could straight up triple or more of the scaling and it still wouldnt be enough to get anywhere near what other endgame builds are doing. This could be done using nodes in the tree/paragon board to increase damage (not just skill damage) that they do and survivability just as the necromacer has. Change all the companion damage aspects to not only affect skill damage but passive damage that they do also.
Replace one of the Key Passives to inherently be about companions, having the ‘Wildrage’ aspect make the ‘Beastial Rampage’ key passive affect companions is both not enough of a buff and a wasted apsect/keypassive. Remove/change it to already affect them without needing the aspect and change what it does ie: for every companion you have both you and your comapnions gain damage/damage reduction and cc time reduction as a percent per companion. This would help alot with the issue of having 3 keys of our bar gone and reward a full companion build.
I dont know/think anyone from blizzard would read this but getting the word out of what is/isnt affecting the wolves and ideas for companions in general would help people trying this out alot. Before anyone states just play Necromancer if you want to do a pet build Diablo 2 had Necromancer/Druid and both could do a pet build. It is early in the game life for Diablo 4 and i dont believe it is blizzards intention for druids to not have a companion build just that it isnt working/scaling at the moment thus the need for posts like this.
Testing Thorns to figure out what stats they gain from us shows from a total of 654 on sheet thorns and increasing its value by 83.5% (the total skill increase i gain from my willpower 835) we would get 1200 thorns value assuming it gets the full value from the willpower gain.
Testing on a white mob of my level (95)
Myself getting hit results in 901 damage almost an exact 25% decrease in damage returned.
Wolves getting hit results in 102 damage lets assume they are also getting a 25% reduction on the thorns they return. So what value would they have to inherit from the original 1200 that i get to be getting a 102 return in damage. If someone is better at maths please step in here there is proberbly an easy way but i had to trial and error percentages until i got a number which would allow for the same 25% reduction to equal the 102 damage the wolves return.
11.3% of 1200 is 135.6 if we then take the same 25% off of 135.6 we get 33.9.
135.6 - 33.9 = 101.7 Assuming it is rounded up as the game wont display a decimal number for damage.
So atleast for thorns the wolves inherit 11.3% of the stat. We do have to ignore damage reductions for now but we need to have a working point of what they inherit to start with so 11.3% it is.