Summon Tainted

Summons a Tainted to fight by your side.

Summon Tainted is the Warlock's second summon (Demon Skills, level 12, requires Summon Goatman, unlocks Summon Defiler). It calls a fire caster (summon warbighead, pettype demon, EType fire) that casts Tainted Fire Ball at its own level, Tainted Resist Fire on itself, and Blood Boil at your hard points in that skill. The number that decides it is its fire damage, which is the Fire Ball's and not on this row; what this row sets is the demon's life, defense, fire mastery and the three skills.

The numbers

• Mana is 25 at level 1 and rises 0.5 a level (mana 50, lvlmana 1, manashift 7) to 34.5 at level 20.
• Defense is ln78: Param7 (75) plus Param8 (20) a level, 455 at level 20.
• Life is calc1, "HP % Modifier": Param1 (35) × (level − 1), plus Blood Oath's Life of your demon line, so +665% at level 20 from this row.
• Fire mastery (passive_fire_mastery) is ln91 plus Demonic Mastery's Damage line: Param9 is empty and the calc steps by Param1 (35) a level after the first.
• Resist Fire is cast at level min(ln56, 30): Param5 (1) plus Param6 (1) a level, so the Tainted's Resist Fire level equals the skill's level up to 30.
• Fire Ball is cast at lvl; its damage range on the tooltip comes from Tainted Fire Ball's own EMin/EMax columns scaled by the fire mastery above, a row that is not in this page's facts, so no figures are given here.
• Attack speed and Run/Walk follow Summon Goatman's pattern: its own line capped at 25% plus Demonic Mastery's attack speed line capped at 25%, and Demonic Mastery's dm91.

The row's lines read lvl, so +skills raise the demon; the demon cap (petmax) reads Demonic Mastery's hard points (1 demon, 2 at 5, 3 at 10).

How it works

The Tainted is a caster, not a melee hitter: the row has no tohit or item_normaldamage passive and no melee event. It carries two of your sunder stats, item_pierce_damage_immunity and item_pierce_fire_immunity, copied from you, so a Monster Fire Immunity is Sundered charm on the Warlock lets its Fire Ball hurt fire immunes. Its physical damage resistance is Blood Oath's dm91 line. Casting is allowed in town (InTown 1) with a 15-frame local delay (0.6 seconds).

The third skill, Blood Boil, is cast at skill('Blood Boil'.blvl): your hard points in Blood Boil, not the Tainted's level. With no hard points in Blood Boil the demon has no Blood Boil.

Synergies and +skills

One synergy line in the tooltip: Blood Boil: Fire Damage per Level on the Fire Ball, read from hard points; the per-level figure is Tainted Fire Ball's Param8, a row not in these facts. Read but not listed as synergies: Demonic Mastery's damage, attack speed and run/walk lines and Blood Oath's life and physical damage reduction lines. Summon Tainted gives a synergy to no other skill.

Against players

The Tainted's Fire Ball hits on a player are cut to 17% of their value by the player-versus-player rule (difficultylevels.txt PlayerDamagePercentVSPlayer), see Player versus Player. The table has no other player-specific value.

Build notes

• Every line here reads lvl: a +skill is worth a hard point for the demon's life, defense, mastery and Fire Ball level.
• Hard points in Blood Boil do two jobs for this demon: fire damage per level on the Fire Ball, and the level of the Blood Boil it casts.
• Resist Fire tracks the skill level to 30; at level 20 the demon has a level 20 Resist Fire of its own.