Temellin
*Gnomalicious*
Hello forums, this is a post about the second necromancer class tome Leeching Servant. This tome gives your pet a chance to mimic your lifetaps, the exact percentages unknown (I recall it being listed as 20/40/60/80 at one time). When the necromancer's final pet was the Relic, melee pet this was a fantastic sounding tome that essentially added the ability for your pet to pop a free nuke. However, with the introduction of the Runic, caster pet this tome loses it's appeal for two main reasons. First, the caster pet already has Ancient: Lifebane in it's spell list making this tome extremely redundant. Second, the caster pet is unable to cast two spells simultaneously causing this tome to result in a DPS loss when it causes the pet to cast and mimic the spell instead of maintaining it's current DoT rotation.
Since this is a class tome aimed at improving the necromancer's pet I think that it ought to be changed to something that is beneficial to both of the pets in the necromancer's arsenal (even if the Runic pet is superior on virtually all accounts). I interpret it's intended benefit to be either adding a DPS boost to the pet or by adding some survivability to the pet in the form of a chance to lifetap. For your consideration I offer two alternatives to the current form of this tome, one that aims to improve the durability of both pets and one that aims to improve their DPS with a minor durability increase.
Runed Bones: Carves strange runes into the bones of your minion, granting them 20/40/60/80% of the benefit of your Mind Shield, Stun Resist, Spell Ward, and Damage Reduction (a maximum of 8/16/24/32% Mind Shield/Stun Resist, 4/8/12/16% Spell Ward, and 5/10/15/20 Damage Reduction. Assuming you have them all capped)
Skeletal Symbiosis: Improves the effects of Companion Health/Strength and allows your pet's to receive a minor benefit from your Spell Casting Fury, Combat Ferocity, and Combat Agility AAs. Perhaps a 1/2/3/4% increase in Companion Health/Strength (Raising the focus benefits to 40.4/40.8/41.2/41.6% with Health/Strength 8) and a 15/30/45/60% benefit from the AAs applied to the pet (.9/1.8/2.7/3.6% spell crit with rank 3 Spell Casting Fury, .75/1.5/2.25/3% chance to hit/dodge with rank 3 Combat Ferocity/Agility)
Since this is a class tome aimed at improving the necromancer's pet I think that it ought to be changed to something that is beneficial to both of the pets in the necromancer's arsenal (even if the Runic pet is superior on virtually all accounts). I interpret it's intended benefit to be either adding a DPS boost to the pet or by adding some survivability to the pet in the form of a chance to lifetap. For your consideration I offer two alternatives to the current form of this tome, one that aims to improve the durability of both pets and one that aims to improve their DPS with a minor durability increase.
Runed Bones: Carves strange runes into the bones of your minion, granting them 20/40/60/80% of the benefit of your Mind Shield, Stun Resist, Spell Ward, and Damage Reduction (a maximum of 8/16/24/32% Mind Shield/Stun Resist, 4/8/12/16% Spell Ward, and 5/10/15/20 Damage Reduction. Assuming you have them all capped)
Skeletal Symbiosis: Improves the effects of Companion Health/Strength and allows your pet's to receive a minor benefit from your Spell Casting Fury, Combat Ferocity, and Combat Agility AAs. Perhaps a 1/2/3/4% increase in Companion Health/Strength (Raising the focus benefits to 40.4/40.8/41.2/41.6% with Health/Strength 8) and a 15/30/45/60% benefit from the AAs applied to the pet (.9/1.8/2.7/3.6% spell crit with rank 3 Spell Casting Fury, .75/1.5/2.25/3% chance to hit/dodge with rank 3 Combat Ferocity/Agility)