Please add pet bonuses to ascended affix pool

I was surprised to see there are none. Most of the generic ascended affixes are not relevant for full minion builds, which don’t need more player resistances or stats. Pet bonuses could make an impact for them.

While we’re at it, a couple of armor augments with pet bonuses would be nice too, but I imagine that’s harder to implement. Cheers.

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Please god no. No pets allowed :smiley:

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The way the game is coded, it’s technically impossible to put pet bonuses on modifiers such as Ascended Affixes. The technical reasons are the same reasons why you can’t place pet modifiers on things like Conduit affixes or skills (for example, the Claw of Hagaraz modifier to Call of the Grave gives bonus damage to the player, not the pets)

What can be done - and what we certainly need more of - are more components that give pet bonuses (Bysmiel’s Binding drastically needs a buff because there’s only Eldritch Mirror and half of my pet builds already have 100% Vitality Resistance overcap) and more augments / components that give things like Slow resistance and other resistances to pets.

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Even if it was possible, the second you go back to a non pet build, that monkey paw is gonna curl like a bitch when you’re re-rolling dozens of pet bonuses :sweat_smile:

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I was kinda let down by that too.

Only specific Ascended Affix that helped my Cabalist were the Raise Skeletons ones.
The Curse of Frailty affixes were useful too, since I’m constantly debuffing enemies.

But other than that, all other Ascended Affixes were basically useless, whereas on a non-minion build, even the generic ones (Resistance Improvements, Damage Increased, etc) can be useful, even if they’re not perfect.

Good to know, thanks.