Cabalist pet questions

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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Hi all,
A couple more specific pet questions.

First, Necromancer Spectral Binding / Spectral Wrath. If I read correctly, the RR debuff only applies once the caster is hit–while the main point of having pets, it seems to me, is to have them draw enemy fire instead of me. Is it even worth investing in spectral wrath on a pet build? Or should I expect that even with pets, the enemies that I really need to debuff will also be the enemies that reliably hit me despite the pet barrier?

Second, Occultist Blood of Dreeg: does every part of BoD also apply to all pets? E.g., aspect of the guardian, “x damage converted to y damage to BoD”? When casting BoD with unstable anomaly blight fiends, I think I see the initial animation on the pets, but not the circling spheres–but that might just be because the spheres get swallowed up in the fat pet model.

And, if BoD conversion applies to pets, will it also apply to secondary effects–say, I get elemental to acid conversion (primordian amulet + spectral arbalet), will the Familiar’s lightning strike also be converted?

Appreciate your help as always!

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Is it even worth investing in spectral wrath on a pet build?

Absolutely. No matter what you play -%rr skills are a must. And you are going to get hit a lot even with a pet built. Most noteworthy enemies have aoe attacks and/or pet skills that will hit you.

Blood of Dreeg

Aura skills with range apply to all allies in range. Pets, other players, npcs all included. But damage conversion from aura skills apply only to caster.

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I like to think like this: for white, yellow, and orange/hero monster it doesn’t matter if Spectral wrath active or not, but the purple/red/nemesis/boss monster will always go after you, so spectral wrath will always active in these kind of fight.

The most reliable way for pets to become a barrier is by making them use their taunt skill, which can be tough for skely, also casting buff skill seems to make the mob to switch target to you. So in pet Cabalist, spectral wrath still triggered more than expected.

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Got it–thanks so much!