Diablo – Should I give a healing item to the follower

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I've been dumping marginally useful loot onto my templar friend with my current monk. In the latest development, I handed him my sword that was sucking a few life points from its target to heal its wielder. Does that do any good for the follower? If not (or if so), what items should I give to my follower?

Best Answer

It's possible that it could be of some small use, but there are a few relevant things to remember about followers and lifesteal items:

  • They gain a 2.5x multiplier to any stat items on them (including Vitality),
  • unless a concerted effort is made to boost them, deal significantly less damage than a player would,
  • most lifesteal items operate on a percent of the damage done,
  • Followers suffer no penalties for dying save for a brief delay before getting back up.

Even with strong weapons on the Scoundrel, from what I've seen it's not a great benefit, due to the low damage potential of even the most kitted out followers.

The best things to stick on followers for general use are still weapons with decent DPS that you don't think you could sell for much, as a small amount of damage is still extra damage; and items with large amounts of statistics - the Scoundrel can turn a +50 Dexterity weapon into a +125 Dexterity weapon, the Templar can turn a +50 Vitality shield into a +125 Vitality shield, so on and so forth.

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