09-26-2003, 03:13 PM
Mastery skills are not really synergies. They predate the advent of synergies and were used as synergies before they existed.
Skeleton mastery, golem mastery, summon resist, fire mastery, lightning mastery, cold mastery, druid pets, they all have always since the beginning of their time granted synergy bonuses. These are best referred to as 'mastery bonuses' I think, because that's what they are - in name and in actuality as they're different than the new synergies.
It is not a bug that these skills grant bonuses via +skill items... if they didn't, then +skill items would have no effect on them, their entire purpose being to add to the skills they empower.
Skeleton mastery, golem mastery, summon resist, fire mastery, lightning mastery, cold mastery, druid pets, they all have always since the beginning of their time granted synergy bonuses. These are best referred to as 'mastery bonuses' I think, because that's what they are - in name and in actuality as they're different than the new synergies.
It is not a bug that these skills grant bonuses via +skill items... if they didn't, then +skill items would have no effect on them, their entire purpose being to add to the skills they empower.
*Pren_LL-AB
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USEast HC
Dark_Mutterings (Necromancer)
Doug_Winger (Wearbear)
Heroic career and 1.10 aspirations cut tragically short because NOBODY CAN DO ANYTHING WITH A 22.2K CONNECTION WHY DOES GOD HATE ME.