The Shadow "knows"

[Kevin]

She will fire blast when in melee range. I keep FB on my left, and the trap of the minute on my right. Warrior almost never melee's in this case. She generally stands by me and whips the "grenades" out. Though I think her AI is tuned or at lesat biased for highest damage ability. Since I never have a melee skill up she generally doesn't melee. I will have to look at it again, but I don't seem to recall her using melee attacks unless she got hit. I don't recall being able to get her to retarget if she has gone into melee without doing a disengage move. Walking helps with this as well. If you walk your minions walk, so making sure to toggle back to walk in combat slows her down and she will start trapping and bombing for me.

I was only thinking of master for a tank because I wasn't sure if either of them could do much in the way of real damage and having a recastable tank had some appeal. Now that I know that I can get them to deliver good damage, and since I will have a lot of high level traps as well, it seems that investing some in Warrior as opposed to a bugged WoI for the minor synergy bonus, makes more sense. I am playing a variant with FB as my main skill and the other traps only for support and synergy bonus. :) Mercs can tank pretty well when used correctly and a fast swinging barb might be the way to go as the aura's don't seem to complement to much in this case.

I had been debating Warrior or Master for other reasons as well, but knowing how the skill mechanics work (and I read your original thread) simply made the choice simpler. :) I always planned on being the main damage source, but having a minion that can keep up will be nice. :)


As for the AB thread (last post specifically), I didn't think that shadow traps counted in the limit. I know that in 1.08 you chould have out 5, and she could have 3. I am pretty sure I have screenies of 8 traps on the screen in a single player game. I guess I'll have to get my trapper out and confirm this again. Of course I haven't really played a trapper too much since then so I could be wrong. If this is true Warrior removes that problem as well since any of the traps I put out she will have doing nearly the same if not more damage, if I put enough points in her.

I'll just have to keep playing and see. But seeing how my grenadier is part of a party, it may be a bit before she gets played again. :)