Dead Reckoning exact mechanics

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Dead_Reckoning

1. Do you still get skeletal warriors?

2. How does each individual cast work? Do two skeletal warriors come out and up to 3 skeletal mages are added to the summon?

3. Is it possible to get only skeletal mages?

4. How would multiple Dead Reckoning jewels work?

1) Yes. Unless you have too many dead reckoning Jewels. You have a skeleton mage cap, and a total skeleton cap. If you can have 10 skeletons, then with 1 jewel you can have up to 3 mages, and so that leaves space for 7 warriors.

2) You summon the normal number of Skeletons with each cast. Some of them are skeleton warriors, and some will be skeleton mages.
I don't know exactly how the choice is made, though I think it will favour Skeleton mages over normal skeletons if you aren't at your skeleton mage cap. Unless you are also at your total skeleton cap, in which case it will just replace the oldest skeletons.

3) Yes, with enough dead reckoning Jewels.

4) See above. The mage cap just increases. Obviously it would also be capped by your normal skeleton maximum as well - there's no point in having 4 dead reckoning Jewels if you can only have 8 skeletons total.

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dudiobugtron wrote:

1) Yes. Unless you have too many dead reckoning Jewels.

2) You summon the normal number of Skeletons with each cast. Some of them are skeleton warriors, and some will be skeleton mages.
I don't know exactly how the choice is made, though I think it will favour Skeleton mages over normal skeletons if you aren't at your skeleton mage cap. Unless you are also at your total skeleton cap, in which case it will just replace the oldest skeletons.

3) Yes, with enough dead reckoning Jewels.

4) See above. The mage cap just increases. Obviously it would also be capped by your normal skeleton maximum as well - there's no point in having 4 dead reckoning Jewels if you can only have 8 skeletons total.

Ah, so all it does is basically allow a certain number of skeletal mages?

If I have a maximum of 14 skeletons available at any time and have two of these jewels, that means 6 of the 14 can be mages, or I can have 14 warriors and 6 mages?

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Natharias wrote:

If I have a maximum of 14 skeletons available at any time and have two of these jewels, that means 6 of the 14 can be mages, or I can have 14 warriors and 6 mages?

6 of the 14 will be mages. The remaining 8 will still be warriors.

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PS: Note that it's slightly more complicated with Vaal Summon Skeletons, since that already lets you have mages as well as other skeletons. I don't know what happens if you have enough Jewels to replace all the skeleton warriors - will the fancier skeletons also start being replaced with mages?