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Jun 20 2026 11:23am
if unique, she needs to already have cursed naturally...preferably from a non cursed TZ game.
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Jun 20 2026 11:29am
I've tried getting a unique spearwoman but it didn't seem to take the cursed affix, is that normal? Do I just go with regular spearwoman?


TZ affixes are only applied to normal mobs. They aren't applied to uniques, champions, superuniques or minions. Minions can display non-functional affixes including those they would inherit from their unique, but they won't actually work.
TZ affixes are only locked in on bound demons when you bind a normal mob with level 5+ bind demon to upgrade it to a unique, and level 20+ to add aura enchanted (soft points both cases).
And I think the cursed affix on uniques may malfunction if they are bound in a game with a cursed TZ affix anyway, not entirely sure about that, but no reason to try to search for cursed TZ games to bind them anyway

uniques are the same in all TZ affixes, so the only thing that matters is what affixes they naturally spawn with. And you've got a 1/4 chance they'll get cursed and 1/7 chance the aura you roll on them will be holy freeze (and 1/4 chance they'll already be aura enchanted, with 1/7 chance it will be holy freeze otherwise any other aura means they can't get holy freeze). So all you can do is either bind a cursed unique spearwoman- already fairly hard to find- and get a 1/7 chance it rolls the right aura, or get extremely lucky and find the 1/28 chance natural cursed + holy freeze spearwoman. In which case she'll only have 1 other random affix, the aura enchantment is not optimal.
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Jun 20 2026 11:37am
Ahh okay got it, yeah not gonna try and roll for that. So for a regular spearwoman is this how it should look?

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Jun 20 2026 11:58am
Ahh okay got it, yeah not gonna try and roll for that. So for a regular spearwoman is this how it should look?

https://i.imgur.com/FbbpCBu.png


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Jun 20 2026 12:39pm
Minions can display non-functional affixes including those they would inherit from their unique, but they won't actually work.

do minions inherit their uniques Cursed affix by any chance? Would it work if you bind such a minion?
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Jun 20 2026 12:46pm
do minions inherit their uniques Cursed affix by any chance? Would it work if you bind such a minion?


Afaik they display cursed and it doesn't work, and I think the same is true for all affixes on minions. You could test it further, I wasn't very thorough
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Jun 20 2026 03:26pm
Oh I'm pretty confident without testing that if -55% fire resist from my NL taintlock applied, it would instantly kill fire immunes in p8. It would be a very visible and obvious difference since with conviction it would be 22% vs 77% damage dealt, without conviction would be 5% vs 60%
Sunder does apply (its sunder effect only), but you MUST have it equipped at the moment the tainted are summoned, and its locked in. Then its just 95% resist for immunes for them



Right now on ladder I've got a not maxed blood oath, not as many +skills with no torch/anni/mang songs/sojs, no CTA, and I've been binding demons in P1 games with only 100% instead of 450% hp. So my demons are probably about 6% of the HP they'd have when fully geared, like 1/15
And with that, I've had some bound demons die to TZ p8 heralds and act bosses. There was a herald who was dealing 2000+ damage per shot through blood oath/string of ears and my demon still tanked it for a good chunk of time, before a stray arrow got me, right as the herald died too
So I do think it could be a consideration for early on how tanky some of the demons are. Personally I'm prioritizing how easy to replace they are, I'm not going to hunt a P8 TZ96 cursed game in pubs without loaders of my own to set it up, but a cursed venom lord takes me less than 5 minutes to replace


swap out sunders then go for phys after fire equipment summon? Hit the stash every game and swap sunders maximize effectiveness :evil:

This post was edited by A30N0fCH405 on Jun 20 2026 03:27pm
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Jun 20 2026 03:33pm
enough long winded responses @goomshill
TLDR

This post was edited by A30N0fCH405 on Jun 20 2026 03:37pm
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Jun 20 2026 04:25pm
swap out sunders then go for phys after fire equipment summon? Hit the stash every game and swap sunders maximize effectiveness :evil:


Bind swap gear before leaving game
Taint swap gear after join, then summon, then main gear
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Jun 21 2026 03:04pm
If nothing crazy happens with balance changes next ladder, can this build compete for a rank 1 finish?
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