2H staff Blight of Lachesis and perm army

Acolyte
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Anyone have more info about this staff, tried it or played around with it?
Gotta be very strong for perm minions yeah?This is a screenshot of the staff in question

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Unless someone is in the CT (in which case theyā€™re under NDA) or theyā€™re devs (in which case they wonā€™t spoil anything), then no one has ever tried it or played with it. I donā€™t think thereā€™s any more information than that, either.

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It could be good with Wolves if the Electrify goes up to 100% chance, they get 150% more lightning damage and 60% more damage over time with nodes and can get more hits from the lightning bolts/spirit wolves.

Additionally on this Wolves get both the lightning tag from the lightning bolt node and the cold tag from ice bite node allowing them to get upto +4 from the staff.

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Yeah it looks like a ā€œcatch all minions/companionsā€ staff. That is good to have a item wide like that. I think this staff will be build enabling for many builds

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Iā€™m also curious to know about this. Iā€™m curious about why thereā€™s a mage skeleton if itā€™s not electric.

I want to find a build to use, maybe Iā€™ll try the wolves.

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Not all of the affixes need to apply to all of the minions. They would benefit from the other affixes.

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I understand, I donā€™t know the real potential of this item

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Yeah, itā€™s a bit weird with the +lightning minion skill which I think is only Primalist. Maybe itā€™s just a more general minion staff themed around lightning or lightning mages (which would be cool if it converted Skellie Mages to lightning).

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I tried to find ways to use it in the necromancer, but I think Iā€™ll do it in the primalist, ray wolf and, believe it or not, you can make the scorpion turn into lightning too.

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And Storm Crows too.

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This is the staff Iā€™m currently using on my necro. I got it with 15 Weaverā€™s Will and used the new rune on it immediately.

I got +XX to minion bow and melee damage
And +XX to minion spell and melee damage

One to tier 3 and the other to tier 5. Itā€™s been a crazy damage boost.

Now I donā€™t know if thereā€™s better options (probably), but bosses are dying in 2-3 secs. For context, just started empowered monoliths, so definitely not a build defining moment.

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Cool, interesting.
I discovered this weapon in my necro, but I was curious to use it by getting the 4 additional points, 2 of cold and 2 of lightning, so I opted for the minion shaman, I tested it yesterday and the tests were very promising, Iā€™m curious to see your build if you want to share.