One thing I noticed with my spear tard wife is that she does way more dmg to heralds and bosses when I cast lethargy sigil. Since all this does is reduce defense really, it makes me think her AR suffers a bit. Even with conviction and fana I notice a difference here. Lister seems to have attacks that always hit, and the delay between his strikes seems very small, less of a delay than my tard waifu anyway. Is this accurate at all? She is pretty good with the right affixes, but dps wise I am not sure she really does more than Lister vs high priority targets like Heralds.
Also, whats the consensus on Vigor for spearwaifu? I would prefer conc or fana, but the vigor does seem to help her and my a2 merc get shit down. Slight slowdown vs fana/conc, but she is LE and cursed p8 98tz elite, so I am unsure if I should try to reroll her. Been casting her on mobs and using lvl 1 blood boil to cause the bolts to proc amp, but most mobs are dead by the time they are amped anyway except heralds. The amp does help a lot with clear speed vs the phys + fire immunes types, but I don't think my merc and demon 1 shot high hp enemies while I am just holding teleport anymore like what was happening with conc.
There's still the issue of player vs monster level difference, the level of a bind is set to the minimum of the monster level and your player level. So until level 96 you're always fighting uphill in TZ, since at most you're level 94 with level 96 tz, etc +2 level. And your bound demon will only be level 96 if you bind it in a TZ 96 while you're level 96+. if you bound a level 81 lancer in frigid, well its REALLY gonna struggle to hit level 96 monsters. And of course, once you upgrade to an infinity merc it helps your demon AR a ton.
Lister has 210% of monlvl base ar and gets no % ar from his smite skill. Spearzons have 140% of monlvl base ar, so lister is 50% higher, but they get huge bonus %ar on power/cold strike, and a fair amount of %ar on jab.
Once you have an infinity it drastically nerfs monster defense so that helps chance to hit quite a bit, but it won't overcome the level vs level penalty.
Holy freeze is critical for spreading amp and matters even if you're doing her for pure dps, since nothing boosts her dps more than proccing amp. Unless you run dreadfang merc. Otherwise concentration aura is the most +% ed (~270), while fanat may help her attack 1 frame faster, I'm not sure how the scaling works with jab sequence but mastery+engorge shouldn't cap out speed on its own- but fanat only gets its half damage % ed applied to monsters carrying the aura, unlike players who get the double % ed while using it.