Quote (18nomaUSEast @ 27 Feb 2026 00:23)

^goomshill

what is my best bet to secure a strong demon with conviction aura

Quote (Vaatu @ 27 Feb 2026 00:25)

Pay 100 fg.

Quote (18nomaUSEast @ 27 Feb 2026 00:26)

that is fine and dandy but I was asking more which is a strong base for convction

Quote (18nomaUSEast @ 27 Feb 2026 00:34)

well he spawned with convic on second run so I am happy for now


I assume I need to recapture when I have higher level bind demon/passive skills?

Quote (Vaatu @ 27 Feb 2026 00:32)

Haphasto is consensus right now. The aura for monsters maxes at 12, so uhh haphasto is always 88, so his conviction is always 11, with the exception of you finding him in tz. It would go to max.

Someone please check me here.

Quote (Goomshill @ Feb 27 2026 11:57am)

I think its worth noting there's a method to get any pokemon on command as a cursed + aura of your choice, as long as you're willing to expend a shard, at any time of the day

Simply join/leave games until you find a Cursed TZ game (doesn't matter which zone TZ)
Then scout each area that could contain the mob you are looking for, to make sure it has spawned as one of the choices, doing as SMALL of the map spawned as possible
ex Blunderbores spawn with slightly different dr/immune/resists in a few very large areas that you can scout first (durance 1/2, river of flame, frigid highlands) although some variants are in areas too small to scout (harem, pit of acheron)
Once you see the mob you desire in the area, pop the shard and go back

The monsters will be spawned as non-TZ out to a 3 screen radius so you'll run into a lot of chaff before you start getting your cursed urdars/spearwomen/etc, it has to be a big area
but then you're free to bind each mob one by one, to get cursed + the aura you want. You can just keep binding trash mobs with some chip damage, bind then consume if its wrong aura and bind next.
maybe minion mobs are best since they MAY have the 2x hp, I don't know

note that as someone pointed out earlier in this thread, TZ monsters do not always carry the TZ affix once you bind them. Don't know the circumstances why, maybe its because we were binding minions, but there's definitely cases where you bind a cursed urdar and don't get a cursed unique. So always check the affixes even once you get the right aura to ensure its cursed.



Also a question of how willing you are to keep searching, it can take 10-15 games to get that cursed tz and then frigid highlands has only ~22% chance to spawn urdars. But the act 5 variant is significantly better with 15% more overall HP and 55->75% dr. So you could scout a5, see it doesn't have urdars, then give up and go to durance or river in the same game if you're willing to settle for less

Quote (teamsleep @ Feb 27 2026 01:42am)

On the tz monsters not carrying the affix, I dmed you about this aswell, but the 3 screen radius being pre-terrorized monsters would explain it for my case

Quote (Goomshill @ Feb 27 2026 06:55am)

its probably just minions, since minions/uniques don't carry tz affixes

Also its been brought to my attention you can actually bind heralds
I don't even have the foggiest clue how this will work but presumably this means you can actually get concentration aura from your bound demon and who knows maybe it has like 10x the damage/hp of normal enemies
now we have to test out binding heralds which is NOT easy to test

Quote (18nomaUSEast @ Feb 27 2026 12:34am)

well he spawned with convic on second run so I am happy for now


I assume I need to recapture when I have higher level bind demon/passive skills?

Quote (Goomshill @ Feb 27 2026 09:55am)

its probably just minions, since minions/uniques don't carry tz affixes

Also its been brought to my attention you can actually bind heralds
I don't even have the foggiest clue how this will work but presumably this means you can actually get concentration aura from your bound demon and who knows maybe it has like 10x the damage/hp of normal enemies
now we have to test out binding heralds which is NOT easy to test

Quote (SinsOfTheSun @ 27 Feb 2026 11:19)

Your summon's lvl is capped at your own clvl

They get highest lvl aura at monster lvl 96
and even if you can get heph lvl 96 from clvl 91 (TZ 93 +3 lvl for uniques) you still won't bind him at lvl 96 until you are yourself clvl 96+