Couple of skill rants

[WarBlade]

Heh, was any of the new ranged attacks AI pose a threat to her?  I read that supposedly monsters will no longer target just the summons or nearest targets.

Oh, that reminds me. Merc AI has been upgraded the same way. I noticed an Iron Wolf ignored a closer target and started blasting away at a further target. They were the same monster type, but the closest one was hiding behind a pillar.

But to answer your question, not really. There was a point where a couple of them, thought "bugger this" and came running after the character instead. I threw up a decoy, as you do, and they still weren't fooled. Decoy worked nicely at other times when cast at the edge of the screen though.

I gotta admit though, the synergy looks interesting on paper at least.  Especially to my D2C Fanatical Martyr who Redeems part time.

Yeah, he'd do well. I had a Thorny Martyr running in Act 2 Nightmare and really couldn't see much difference between 1.09 "players 8" and 1.10 "players 1". Quite alright for 1.09 items I think considering he uses Bloodletter with the rest being crappy rare junk.