Animate Guardian dies over and over

three times the last 2 days, while it lasted weeks before without dying.


Only thing i knowingly changed was switching helmets from this
to this.


I think i run all important Minion Defence Nodes:
Minions gain 20% of maximum life as extra energy shield
Minions have 30% increased maximum life
Minions recover 5% of life on minion death

I know there is another one but worked fine till now.
Strange thing is, that my random Spectres do survice
so i struggle to blame the new helmet.

Any idea?

Edit:
Just remember that i also switched Meat Shield for Feeding Frenzy support.
But still, my Spectres should die before AG.

This is indeed because of the helmet. The "whispers" thing isn't lore, it gives minions a crazy attack speed but also a degen effect (20% max life as chaos damage per second). My guess is either your spectres have very high innate chaos resistance, or much likely you have some minion leech effect, that help them sustain the degen, while AG does not, having a large life pool and low damage.

didnt know that...

do you think meat shield could balance that out?
cause the helmet gives me +11% full DPS which id like to keep.


Edit:
Right now hes wearing Kaoms Hearth (+500 life)
But would this be a better cunter to the chaos damage?

Dead minions deal zero DPS.

I think your options are either increase the chaos resist for minions by a fair amount, or ditch the helmet.

Don't forget, it's also decreasing your minion life pool by a whopping 22% which is massive.

I gave up on animated guardians ages ago when GGG decided they hated minions and burned them to the ground. Just before the whole game went to crap with their hardcore - don't have fun approach. By the time you get everything to the point where your AG can't die, you really don't need it anymore.

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Aldora_the_Summoner wrote:

By the time you get everything to the point where your AG can't die, you really don't need it anymore.

According to PoB Animated Guardians Curse on hit with Temporal Chains gives me 41% more DoT.
I sure wont give that up.

What do you think about the above Armour?

I prefer the Doppelgangers Guise armour for my AGs.

Turns them into really tanky bastards.

Get rid of the helmet, you will never have enough sustain on your AG to counteract the degen it gives.

My low budget gear for AG:

Leer Cast Helm (50% increased damage for allies)
Dying Breath Weapon (18% increased damage for allies, enemies have 18% increased effect of curses on them.)
Garb of the Ephemeral (nearby enemies cant crit, nearby allies cant be slowed below base action speed)
Gloves with Curse on Hit Corruption
Windscream Boots (lets AG cast an extra curse so it does not overwrite yours)

Now now, in a perfect world my AG gives me 41% more dps. That perfect world exists on PoB! Seriously, Kingmaker alone is worth the AG.

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Orbaal wrote:

I prefer the Doppelgangers Guise armour for my AGs.

Turns them into really tanky bastards.

Second this!
Orbaal was kind enough to help me out with a minion build. I was really scared about the AG dying due to the expensive (relatively speaking) gear I put on him. But so far he has stayed alive through everything, which includes me getting one-shot or otherwise dead quite a few times.

He's a total Hero with the right gear, and can be a combat multiplier. Definitely something I'd like to try again :)

And since he can't take advantage of skill gems in the gear you give him (nor the +2 level in your old helmet, I think) it doesn't matter if you buy corrupted gear with 2 sockets or whatever. Probably not a problem on PC, but it made it a little more manageable to find gear for mine on PS market (many, many fewer players, and many items simply don't exist on the market).

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LoTharios wrote:

didnt know that...

do you think meat shield could balance that out?
cause the helmet gives me +11% full DPS which id like to keep.


Edit:
Right now hes wearing Kaoms Hearth (+500 life)
But would this be a better cunter to the chaos damage?

In the future, Kaom’s Heart isn't that good. Belly of the Beast will grant a level 20 AG 1995-2660 life depending on the #% life roll. It also comes with all res and is much cheaper.