The Blue Eating Ember Demon

I recently hit 32 (and earlier, 33) on my DS/Dark MM. I love the sudden burst of AOE, cone, and the team-heal!

However, since applying Abyssal Empowerment, my Ember Demon runs out of endurance in what feels like less than 10 seconds during a fight. I'm currently set to +1/x5, and I can take it on like a champ. The only problem is, 6-8 seconds into a fight and my Ember Demon runs out of endurance and just sits there taking damage.

Anyone else notice this, or have an idea to fix me having to feed the tired guy blues all the time?

Slot em with endurance reductions.

It a) reduces endurance nessesary to cast b) reduces the endurance they require for their powers. c) team with any set that can boost recovery.

Nope, slotting end reduction in the pet summoning powers actually does reduce the end cost of the pet's powers as well as the cost to summon them. Just 1 SO would probably make a big difference.

Thank you both so much. I'm going to go slap an IO EndRdx in that bad boy. And one in my damn Demon Prince, too; he eats endurance like he eats souls.

For the best results mix in a Damage/Accuracy/Endurance enhancement, and then substitute an Accuracy IO for an Accuracy/Damage enhancement if they're being stubborn even after the first one didn't work. That way you keep a good amount of accuracy and you aren't sacrificing an entire slot to endurance.

Be glad you're not Robotics/. Protector Bots are just as bad (if not worse) with Endurance, except there's two of them.

I always either frankenslot MM pets or just 6-slot them with Blood Mandate (great set bonuses and ED capped accuracy and damage plus end reduction). The only thing you have to keep in mind is that pet powers only benefit from enhancements that apply to that power. For instance, a Slow set Acc/Slow IO would not provide any +accuracy enhancement to powers with no Slow component, and Pet Damage IOs do not affect non-damaging powers. That means that unless things have changed adding a Pet Damage set EndRed IO (like the Blood Mandate Acc/Damage/End) will not reduce the endurance costs of the Ember Demon's heals or shield powers since those deal no damage. It will affect the attacks though, and those are usually the highest end drain.

Once you hit level 50 you may want to slot a couple of Heal/End Hami-Os. HOs apply to all powers a pet has, so they would give you a nice heal boost while completely eliminating any endurance woes.

Enchant Demon is definitely a display bug. Slotting a MM upgrade power never affects the pet, it only affects the upgrade power itself. The upgrade will cost less endurance to cast but the powers granted by it are only affected by the enhancements in the pet power itself.

The easy way to test whether Pet Damage sets affect Shiver is to slot Summon Demon Prince with only Pet Damage set IOs, including some accuracy, and then monitor the Demon Prince's combat statistics when fighting +0 mobs. If the Last Hit Chance reading is unchanged after he uses Shiver then the pet damage IOs are applying to non-damaging powers (and everyone slotting a Lich can rejoice ) but if it shows a lower to-hit chance than the damaging attacks you'll know the IOs are not applying.

We that's no fun...



That snippet was against +0s and it definitely shows that the ACC isn't getting applied to Shiver since it has a base ACC of 1.00. The combat log shows 85%, but the other 10% is from Supremacy. Looks like I may have some more slotting to consider.

I was afraid that was still the case. My standard (pre-50) slotting for pets with non-damaging control powers is one generic Accuracy IO of the highest level I can slot, then Pet Damage IOs and generic Slow / Hold / Fear / whatever for the rest. If I ever get a MM with such a pet to 50 I'd probably swap to a mix of IOs and Hami-Os since HOs / SHOs apply to all pet powers.

In the Demon Prince's case, every power except Frozen Aura has a Slow component, so a mix of Slow and Pet Damage sets could work. I'd suggest two Acc/Dam, two Dam/End (from the same sets), and two Acc/Slow IOs. That gives ED capped accuracy for all but Frozen Aura, pretty good accuracy for Frozen Aura, ED capped damage for all attacks, and plenty of end reduction. Plus you get two minor set bonuses (I'd go with Blood Mandate and Brilliant Leadership since they offer regen and recovery as the two-piece bonus).