2 different levels of Raise Zombie gems = double amount of zombies?

Just as the title says, is this a bug? I am currently using two Raise Zombie skill gems on my witch (soraoi), one socketed on a headgear with a +1 minion tag, the other one on a focus without a +1 minion tag.. Right now, I can summon 8 zombies, 4 for each gem I think.. I've noticed this when leveling up my Raise Zombie skill gem.. I had two zombies pre-leveling up, leveled up the gem, then re-used the skill just to have higher level zombies.. I was kinda surprised when I ended up running with double the maximum number of zombies so the idea came into me that two different levels of skill gems can be used for double effect (for minions though as I don't think running two different levels of Ice Spear is a fantastic idea).. I wanted to test this more but I had no way of having 2
Raise Zombie gems with different levels until I came into a headgear that gives +1 to minions.. I just thought this might be a bug as I tested it with Raise Spectre and it didnt' work.. Haven't tested it with Summon Skeletons yet though..

It's not because of your 2 gems. If you have zombies out, then level the skill, you can summon a new set of zombies and have 2 sets until the old (lower level) ones die.
I'd love to see someone speed run with like 20 zombies, now that I think of it, and it should be possible.

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Opplerdop wrote:

It's not because of your 2 gems. If you have zombies out, then level the skill, you can summon a new set of zombies and have 2 sets until the old (lower level) ones die.
I'd love to see someone speed run with like 20 zombies, now that I think of it, and it should be possible.

Currently my char witch and more evolved, and what was said by Opplerdop also happened to me xD
Currently I have 4 gems of summon
I'm at level 26 and I can summon 5 zombies, and 20 skeletons, just so I have to walk and collect loot,
edited: 3 spirit \o/ (Horde of Undeads)
Born a new necromancer
- Rise ... rise ... my immortals *.*

It's something that will be fixed later on, but yes, it works currently. At one point I decided to try it out and had level 4, 5, 6 and 7 zombie gems equipped with every +minion skill active which was somewhere around 32 zombies. It's entertaining, but completely unnecessary. Have a necro build that's level 57 now, uses 1 of each summon gem and never has any problems on the highest difficulty.

Partied with someone last night in Act 2 Ruthless that was running around with 27 Zombies.

By the time I added my 4 & a couple of others added theirs, I think we had approx 40 zombies & 6 players roaming the maps.

Was a blast :)

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Partied with someone last night in Act 2 Ruthless that was running around with 27 Zombies.

It was with me. And its not a bug. It is supposed to happen. A death-worshiping witch is lore friendly anyway.

Yep ... didn't say it was a bug ... interesting build & could be fun.

You should submit it to GGG for posting in their weekly series of unusual builds.

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Illysio_Nightstar wrote:

didn't say it was a bug ...

That wasn't directed at you, its directed at people who think its a bug. But how would I go about submitting it.

EDIT: Check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3adlnQpY-4&feature=plcp

I can confirm this to be true, however I have played with this a little bit more, and have found that you can use two of the same level summon zombie gem, however they have to be different in some way. For example, I had one zombie gem with +minion life support gem, and the other was in my weapon, with them both not receiving the benefits of that support gem, the independent zombie limits take effect.

So either it is a bug that different levels of zombies are not added together, or it is a bug that two different skills with the same support gems will count to the total of 1 skill.

So whats in reality? I've tried two different zombie gems at once with no luck. If i revive zombies from gem 1, zombies from gem 2 replace the older zombies not giving more zombies as I would expect.