[Suggestion] Detonote Dead should work on Zombies and Skeletons
What I am proposing is to be able to use Detonate Dead on Summoned Zombies and Skeletons both as a more offensive skill for a pure summoner and as a possibility for zombies and skeletons to be used on other non summoner builds. This would give more range to summoners and also give Detonate Dead, Summon Zombies, and Summon Skeletons more use to other classes.
There would not need to be an added downside to Detonate Dead either because Detonate Dead does 20% of the minions max life and Minion Instability does 33% of the minions max life. This means that there would not be any imbalance issues with minion life and detonate dead.
I'm not quite sure of the technical aspects of making this happen but i think it would be a good addition in every way to the current skill sets of the game
Posted Oct 29, 2013, 10:21 PM UTC
Did you just delete yourself earlier..? Well doesn't matter.
When comparing Detonate dead to Minion instability, you gotta remember that Minion instability "reduces" the total health of your minions by 33%, so there's a big downside to it :I
Are you sure it reduces minion total life? Cause It doesn't say that in the tooltip, that would be very misleading
Think about it.
Your zombies explode when they're at or below low life (33%). What happens when you explode =D?
oooohhhh lmao okay you're right I follow you now
Yeah, he spelled detonate wrong.
Sure, but it also depends on how you look at minions. They can be ranged explosive attacks or your body guards. Is a zombie that has for example 500 hp any more useful than a 1k hp zombie (with max hp of 3k)? The only time I think it would be if you had a flicker strike mob to deal with; however, then skeletons would prove more useful.
Yea, I won't ever run a summoner without Minion instability, because it makes even skeletons useful. It's just worth pointing out that they do die faster with MI than without it :I
One problem with MI is if your skeleton dies in one hit I've heard it won't explode. Have not tested this as I never got my summoner above level 30 :(
At least in OB my crappy skeletons used to assplode, even when one-hit-KO'd