Doppleganger Guise on an animated guardian

Before I spend a lot of time/money trying to get a good corruption on one, am I correct that the "while sane" portions of the chestpiece would work on an animated guardian? Obviously they can't use the insanity ability or gain those benefits.

Poedb lists this in the description of the item's stats:

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regenerate % life over 1 second when hit while not unhinged

Which seems to imply it would work, since the animated guardian is never unhinged.

the sane/insane state is granted by a skill though so i suspect it does nothing on a guardian as while we default to sane, the guardian won't get the skill at all.

So I got off my lazy butt and tested it. Seems to work!


I equipped an AG with one and no other items. Just the doppelganger guise. He has no source of regen from my passive tree or items or gems (it's divergent AG + regular minion life + regular meat shield + empower), with the sole exception of vitality, which is level 1 (10 life per second).

He consistently survived ultimatums at full health. Occasionally he'd get hurt a bit and his life would stick at ~95% or so... then get hit and it shot straight up to 100%.

This seems pretty conclusive that the 10% regen works, and if it does, the less phys/chaos damage should work too. Now to see if I can get one with a decent corruption implicit.