Properly geared follower is immortal so it will be a great tank for demons and even Rift Guardians. Followers can use items with crowd-control effects like slow, blind and stun and support items like Oculus Ring, which will enhance your damage. They can also grant you great bonuses like Nemesis or Flavor of Time without sacrificing your own valuable gear slots to achieve it.
Follower's final skill protects you from dying, which frees talent slot for your character because in most cases, one source of 'cheat death' is enough.
On product page you can see the exact item/skill setup and extra options.
You can equip 13-14 items on each follower and Emanate allows you to gain effects of some legendary powers and set bonuses equipped by your follower:
- Broken Crown (helm): Whenever a gem drops, a gem of the type socketed into your helmet also drops.
- Homing Pads (shoulders): Your Town Portal is no longer interrupted by taking damage. While casting Town Portal you gain a protective bubble that reduces damage taken.
- Spaulders of Zakara (shoulders): Your items become indestructible.
- Goldskin (chest): Chance for enemies to drop gold when you hit them.
- Custerian Wristguards (wrists): Picking up gold grants experience.
- Nemesis Bracers (wrists): Shrines and Pylons will spawn an enemy champion.
- Gladiator Gauntlets (gloves): After earning a massacre bonus, gold rains from sky.
- Gloves of Worship (gloves): Shrine effects last for 10 minutes.
- The Flavor of Time (amulet): Pylon effects last twice as long.
- Dovu Energy Trap (amulet): Increases duration of Stun effects.
- Rakoff's Glass of Life (amulet): Enemies you kill have an additional chance to drop a health globe.
- Avarice Band (ring): Each time you pick up gold, increase your Gold and Health Pickup radius by 1 yard for 10 seconds, stacking up to 30 times.
- Krede's Flame (ring): Taking Fire damage restores your primary resource.
- Unity (ring): 50% damage reduction but you must also wear it.
- Sage's Journey (3-set bonus): Double the amount of Death's Breath that drop.
- Cain's Destiny (3-set bonus): When a Greater Rift Keystone drops, there is a 25% chance for an extra one to drop.
Follower Facts:
- Abilities scale with main attribute and 25 000 Str/Dex/Int will maximize them, which is not very hard when using the best gems in all sockets as they get 2.5 multiplier.
- They have 20 seconds revive timer if they die (you can use immortality relic to stop deaths).
- They give you 20% of their Magic Find, Gold Find and Experience Gained bonuses.
- They can benefit only from Esoteric Alteration and Mutilation Guard legendary gems.
- Critical Hit Damage is capped at 150% but damage caused by your followers is inconsequential, it's best to use them for their utility.
- Cooldown Reduction (CDR) works only with Templar's Heal. Extra sockets and Attack Speed are universally useful properties for all followers.
- You can use one follower at the time with the only exception being Asheara's Vestments set, that can summon all three at the same time. You can gear all three followers to swap them as needed, each character has their own separate followers.
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