Summon Resist

Passive: increases the resistances of all summoned creatures.

Summon Resist is a level 24 Necromancer passive (Summoning tree, requires Golem Mastery; it unlocks nothing). It costs nothing to use and casts nothing: when a skeleton, a skeletal mage or a golem is summoned it is given +resistance to fire, lightning, cold and poison, all four at the same number, on a curve that starts at 28% with one point, reaches 57% at level 10 and 66% at level 20, and can never pass 75%. The curve is the whole story: the first point is worth 28, the twentieth is worth 1.

The numbers

• Resist All is passivecalc1 dm12, the diminishing curve between Param1 20 ("Resistance % Min") and Param2 75 ("Resistance % Max"), which the Basin writes as min(20 + 55 × (110 × level ÷ (level + 6)) ÷ 100, 75): 28% at level 1, 47% at level 5, 57% at level 10, 62% at level 15, 66% at level 20, 68% at level 25, 70% at level 30. The Basin's level-by-level table reaches 75 only at level 60.
• Mana: the skill is passive (passive 1) and its tooltip has no mana line, so the column is left out.

The line reads lvl, so +skills from items count in full; a +1 from a wand is a step up the same curve.

How it works

Summon Resist is a passive state (passivestate "summonresist") that sets the passive_summon_resist stat on the Necromancer; the minion skills read it when they summon. The Basin's rules:

• It applies to the Necroskeleton (Raise Skeleton), the Necromage (Raise Skeletal Mage), Clay Golem, Blood Golem, Iron Golem and Fire Golem, and to nothing else: not to revived monsters and not to pets of another class the Necromancer summons through items.
• The resistance is set at the time of summoning; raising or lowering the skill's level afterwards changes nothing for a minion already standing.
• It adds to the minion's own resistance, and the sum can pass 99%, at which point the minion is immune to that element, though the game does not display it. The Basin's example is a Clay Golem, 50% cold resistance of its own, with a level 6 Summon Resist's +50%: it takes no cold damage and is not chilled.
• It does not touch physical or magic damage; Bone Wall and Bone Prison segments are not covered either, as their pages note.

The immunity is invisible. A minion the Basin's rule has pushed past 99% shows no immunity in its display, and a minion summoned before you put on +Summon Resist gear keeps the lower figure until you summon it again.

Synergies and +skills

No synergies: Summon Resist has no dsc3 lines, no …SymPerCalc column, and no skill names it as a synergy. It is read as a stat on the caster at the moment of summoning. Because the curve is read at full level, +skills from items are worth the same as hard points, and because the curve flattens, the first point is worth more than the next nineteen together: 28% for one, 38 more for the other nineteen. The Basin lists the +1–3 Summon Resist affix on wands and shrunken heads of item level 24 and above.

Against players

Summon Resist never touches a player. It changes what the minions take from a player's elemental hits, which are themselves cut to 17% by the player-versus-player rule as any hit is; see Player versus Player.

Build notes

• One hard point is 28%, and with +10 skills it is a level 11 Summon Resist at 59%; twenty hard points reach 66%. Past one point the passive is one of the cheapest places a +skill does work.
• The cap is 75% and the curve never reaches it in play, so the minions' own resistances decide which elements they shrug off: the Clay Golem's cold, the Iron Golem's poison.
• Revives get nothing from it; a revive army looks to Skeleton Mastery for its life instead.