Maligaro's Lens + Necromantic Aegis and weapon swap

When you have Maligaro's Lens equipped while also having Necromantic Aegis, your minions do not heal you when you swap your weapons. Even though they do actually die because you take damage from Heartbound Loop.

I don't see what the bug is here. If you swap weapons, you no longer have Maligaro's Lens equipped, so your minions obviously can't inherit its mods. Or am I misunderstanding something?

I tested it with a single Maligaro's Lens in weapon set 1 and weapon set 2. Do you think I would need to have two Maligaro Lenses so I'd have one for each weapon set?

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RawSushi wrote:

I tested it with a single Maligaro's Lens in weapon set 1 and weapon set 2. Do you think I would need to have two Maligaro Lenses so I'd have one for each weapon set?

Yes, Necromatic Aegis Applies the effect of your CURRENTLY EQUIPPED shield to your minions instead of you, gear in an inactive set is counted as nonexistent for stat calculations and effects.

I've tried it just now with a Maligaro's Lens in both weapon sets. I spawned in spiders from Arakaali's Fang and then despawned them by swapping my weapons, but they did not heal me.

My guess as to what's happening is that a weapon swap event necessarily has to be executed as an un-equip and re-equip. Then, for the minion to die, the calculation step that says the minion should die must necessarily be an effect of no longer being part of your equipped items, so at the time of death there's no way for the minion to have any shield equipped (since a weapon swap death implies you're unequipping the shield).

Then, only after the minion death does the 2nd copy of Maligaro's Lens become equipped to your minions, at which point the minion is already dead and can't benefit from the shield's effects

In short, I would bet that the way they have implemented the behaviour is:

1. Weapon swap command received
2. Unequip current weapons
3. Minion dies because it's no longer equipped
4. Equip second set of weapons

In which case this behaviour is still technically not a bug, but it's a slightly unintuitive and unsatisfying player experience.

Thanks for the detailed explanation! Seems like this will be what causes the problem...