Hey,

I've got a few questions about necro summoners.

#1: When I cast my summons, does the stats clip? For example: 3+ skeleton wand & 3+ skeleton preserved head on swap means I have +6 more skills when I summon them. If I swap back, a portion of them die -- but do they retain the damage, life and attack rating?

#2: Does my summons benefit from any of my stats at all? Or only +skills and the auras I can provide through items/mercs?

#3: Skeleton Mages had a few buffs recently, are they viable compared to 'regular' physical damage skeletons?

#4: Merc. Running a P8SSF, I won't have access to infinity and expensive runewords. What's the best merc? Act 3 with Enchant? Act 5 with Might? Act 2 with Blessed Aim? What do you think and why?

Thank you

This post was edited by Anba on Sep 23 2023 03:20am

1: the stats on your summoned creatures stays
2: No, only potential auras
3: Mages are still not good (Not useless, but no good enough for points)
4: if you cant afford highend items, get act2 Thorns merc, then all your summons reflect dmg. (Get him insight weapon so you can spam corpse explosion) (If you want more life/mana regen go prayer, but Thorns are very usefull)

Hope it helps you