Do others followers (e.g. Leah, Tyreal) that join you in some parts of the story have special abilities (buff, active skills, etc.)?
Diablo – Do “temporary” followers have special abilities
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What we're discussing here is whether or not Shared Ally Effects extend out to your Witch Doctor's summoned creatures and if they stack.
First I'll generalize and say that this applies to all summons that have the same mechanics as the Witch Doctor's summons. A Demon Hunter's summons work differently and are not affected, for example.
Shared ally effects are skills and abilities that you and your allies can benefit from while fighting in the same area. Stacking different abilities between classes provides great advantage to a group.
A good list of abilities that provide shared ally effects is here, you will note that all classes and all follower types have an opportunity to provide some sort of effect.
SAEs do not consider the source of the ability, only whether the ability is eligible to provide a shared benefit. So having 2 Witch Doctors providing effects makes no difference to the question of whether the buff they provide is eligible. So yes, Witch Doctors can buff each others summons.
So which are eligible and do they stack? In general buffs always stack if they are eligible to be shared. A buff becomes ineligible if it is identical to an already provided buff, ie identical buffs do not stack. You can freely have multiple, different buffs active simultaneously.
Finally it is important to realize that followers and some summons (as above) are being treated in the same way that your human party members are being treated with respect to being enhanced by the party's SAEs.
This is being played most widely with the Monk's mantras, but is certainly not limited to them. This battle.net thread talks about a 2 WD 2 Monk team build to exploit this approach to the maximum benefit.
This approach is entirely consistent with Blizzard's co-op multiplayer goals.
It just so happens that all of the main cast is listed under the Credits button. I've written them down below for reference, including a link to their IMDB page where available. The vast majority of them have voice acted for other big games, including Star Wars: The Old Republic and Mass Effect 3.
Player Characters
- Barbarian - Female: Athena Karkanis
- Barbarian - Male: Dorian Harewood
- Demon Hunter - Female: Anna Graves
- Demon Hunter - Male: Robin Atkin-Downes
- Monk - Female: Rajia Baroudi
- Monk - Male: Jamieson Price
- Witch Doctor - Female: Erica Luttrell
- Witch Doctor - Male: Carl Lumbly
- Wizard - Female: Grey Delisle
- Wizard - Male: Crispin Freeman
Leading Cast
- Adria: Alyson Reed
- Deckard Cain: Michael Gough
- Leah: Jennifer Hale
- Tyrael: Jonathan Adams
Followers
- Enchantress: Sumalee Montano
- Scoundrel: Troy Baker
- Templar: Dominic Keating
- Blacksmith: Simon Templeman
- Jeweler: James Hong
- Mystic: Gaille Heidemann
Additional Characters
- Abd al-Hazir: Brian George
- Ashera: Courtenay Taylor
- Auriel: Cree Summer
- Azmodan: David Sobolov
- Belial: Jim Ward
- Captain Hale: Lloyd Sherr
- Captain Rumford: Greg Ellis
- Emperor Hakan: Sofia Pirri
- Imperius: Rick Wasserman
- Ithereal: James Horan
- King Leoric / Skeleton King: Joe J. Thomas
- Maghda: Susanne Blakeslee
- Mistress of Pain: Claudia Black
- Zoltun Kulle: Steve Blum
Furthermore, there are a ton of people credited for "Additional Voices" and "Monster Voice Effects".
EDIT: In the interest of providing a source for this, I've added a screenshot of the first part of the credits as well.
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Aside from cinematic powers, the answer thus far appears to be no, unless they're very well hidden.
Though do be careful - they have the power of being willful jerks, and Tyreal really loves to pull Champion packs or attack treasure goblins you weren't quite ready for.