Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? My demonic mastery is at level 26 so it can't be that. My second tainted (third demon) summons and then despawns a few seconds later. Then my other tainted will randomly despawn also. I can summon two of any other demon but not tainted.

If you’re using a flickering flame I heard it bugs tainted

Take off flickering flame from you or merc. Unfortunate and known bug.

ahhh... I am using flickering flame! That's crazy ok I'll try with a diff helm.

can confirm without flickering flame equipped it's now working fine. that sucks

This post was edited by Randallw23 on Apr 20 2026 08:11am

Yeah, it's a known and annoying bug, but thankfully it's just a single piece of gear that's easily replaceable with anything else. The best part of flickering flame is the - fire res and that can easily be mostly replaced with any 2 socket helm with 2 facets, of hell, even a 20fcr, 3 socket circlet with 2x fire facets 1x fire Colossus jewel and you would be doing more damage than flickering flame anyways.

You can basically replace it with whatever you want lol.

Thanks bro. I threw my hellwarden on for now.