A Couple Questions Regarding Totems

I'll preface this by saying I've never messed with totems before. These questions will be pertaining to ranged attack totem specifically, if that matters.

If I pick up the status effect avoidance passives, do those effect my totems?

Also, does resolute technique apply to totems?

Thanks for any answers!

1) No, those are applied to YOU not the totems.

2) Yes, cause totems use your stats for their attacks.

Basically, they are a separate entity, thus won't get your defenses but they use your skills, so anything that would modify the skill when you use it, will be applied to the skill when the totem use it.

I haven't used them myself, but here's what I've gathered from reading the Mechanics thread, lurking the forums, and some YouTube demonstrations.

The totem's attack works exactly the same as if you executed it - so Resolute Technique should work with it.

Not sure about status effect avoidance, though. I'll let someone else chime in on that.

EDIT: Nevermind, obscurin's got us both covered. Oh well. I'll leave this post here for history's sake.