A secret few among the Templars grant absolution by bearing the guilt of others.

Spend 1 alch on a mace, give up 1 socket for Animate Guardian.
You are now immune to ailments, at least until the guardian dies. :D (I think?)

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Nubman wrote:

Is there any benefit to minions not having ailments on them?

Protection from chilled/shocked ground, I suppose.

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I_NO wrote:

What the hell is that lol

warhammer is invading poe!

I tried smite skill and didn't think it was powerful enough. Will having level 30 smite make it a usable skill? Is there any point in this mace?

I actually think this is good in multiple situations.
1) Summoner - you can keep an animate guardian alive and suddenly you immune to freeze,shock,ignite...that is CRAZY!) Probably worth investing in keeping a minion alive possibly for that alone.

2) If you are willing to use another skill every 4 seconds the smite aura at level 30 would be 25 to 479 added lightning damage. To put that in perspective Herald of Thunder at 20 adds 19-76 lightning damage to attacks. This is close to 7x more on the top side of that. Wrath adds 16-248 at level 20; again this is close to 2x at the top end of that. Yes it doesn't have the %increase of Wrath or the random bolts of HoT

Will it be annoying to weave in a different skill ever 4 seconds? Yes. Will it make you absurdly strong if you do? Yes.

The question is this:
If you animate guardian with this and also use one does that mean you and your minions are totally immune to ailments?

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junyamint wrote:

If you animate guardian with this and also use one does that mean you and your minions are totally immune to ailments?

yeap

wonder how this will interact with holy relic

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Altnaharra wrote:

Cool, maybe they'll give us an option to turn off the large red character outlines around targets.

That would be wonderful!

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RPGlitch wrote:

I wonder what smite is.

Just in case you were being genuine - https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Smite

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Arrowneous wrote:

I tried smite skill and didn't think it was powerful enough. Will having level 30 smite make it a usable skill? Is there any point in this mace?

It's either for support builds in parties, or summoners. This is certainly not for killing stuff yourself. Also Animate Guardian for ailment immunity (depends on how good the radius is) or maybe even Animate Weapon since the big Smite buff is pretty powerful when shared across dozens of minions.