what happens when you have 20 soft points in bind demon, resulting in him getting a bonus aura

then you swap weapons to a set with with less skillpoints, resulting in bind demon lvl 19. does the demon lose its aura or does it stay the same from the moment it was bound on?

Should stay since that's how every other prebuff works

we did some testing

your demon's stats are locked in for the entirety of a game when its summoned and won't change when you swap gear
it resummons your bound demon at the start of each game you join and redetermines its damage/HP/defense/armor/etc, so the gear you have equipped when you leave a game determine its stats when you join the next
but it keeps all the affixes and modifiers - extra strong / extra fast / aura enchanted / spectral hit and anything on the base mob like cursed / champion affixes / etc will remain even if it resummons using 1 point bind demon

terrorized zones will add their terror affix to any NORMAL monster you bind, but NOT to champions/uniques.


Still unclear on some aspects of bind demon, like how damage/health are calculated for normal vs champion / unique and whether this carries over to ng. It seems evident that some mobs with extremely high HP (hephasto) definitely keep their high hp relative to other demons

great insights , thank you. is it possible to get a demon with fana+conviction aura? i feel like they are in the same pool, resulting in mostly a combination of might/fana/conv + some holy freeze/shock/fire aura most of the time

you can only have 1 aura on a bound demon. If it already has aura enchanted, it won't add a 2nd aura with level 20+ bind demon, it keeps the original aura if it has one (and won't reroll for a new one)
likewise "extra fast" affix does not stack with bound demons that already have it
haven't tested extra strong or spectral hit since these aren't as obvious but it seems very unlikely they stack either

Its virtually impossible to test the raw HP/damage of units that are only 1-4x the values like unique/champion/uber variants though, something I'd need mods to directly read the values or how code was implemented
if anyone knows that part I'd like to see it

wait the no-2-aura-thing is news to me. i could swear i had a fanat+holy fire/shock demon because i could see the fana , and everytime i blinked him into something he insta cursed all enemies in his presence. any other explanation for this? sadly only have a shit one atm

you sure about the holy fire? even without a holy fire/freeze/shock aura, a monster with cursed will still cast a very large aoe amp damage on 75% of its attacks
level 88 monsters cast 18 amplify damage with 13.3 yard radius on 75% of attacks which is still a gigantic aoe and usually hits everything, its just not as screen-filling as holy fire/shock/etc that has 75% chance to cast that same aoe on each target each pulse