Also, the 20-25% Elite Damage is additive with other sources of Elite Damage ( Aughild's Authority, The Furnace) as you would expect.īe aware that Leoric's Crown and Broken Crown do not work with Soul Shards in any way! Even if you have Broken Crown on your follower, you need to have a normal gem in your Helmet for this effect to work since it emanates to you. The Damage Range on the Lesser Soul Shards is local to your Weapon, meaning it is directly applied to your Weapon DPS and is affected by the Damage % affix on Weapons. Even better, the range on those affixes is slightly higher than the normal ranges! This is a good thing as it makes sure your build is not in trouble using a Soul Shard because it desperately needs Cooldown Reduction from a Flawless Royal Diamond socketed into your Helmet for instance. If you have it equipped in your own Weapon and your follower has a Poison Damage Range on its Weapon, then your follower attacks can proc the stacks for you! Moreover, there is one Soul Shard special power that kind of works on followers, the Essence of Anguish stacking effect granting you up to 25% Cooldown Reduction, 25% Movement Speed and 50% extra damage taken at 10 stacks. While this is not gamebreaking, it helps them to proc special item effects such as Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker more efficiently. Eventually you can also use the +15-20% Melee/Ranged Damage Reduction for follower setups not using the Immortality Token (for T16 content or simply builds using Enforcer) to help them survive.Īdditionally, you can get a Lesser Soul Shard with +12-15% Attack Speed for their Weapon.

This means you can use a Prime Soul Shard in your follower Helmet to get the +946-1125 to any Main Stat in order to have an easier time reaching their 25,000 Main Stat cap scaling their skills.

While Soul Shards Rank 0 and Rank 3 special powers do not work on Followers, the normal offensive and defensive stats accessible with Rank 1 and Rank 2 upgrades are working just fine.

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