Diablo – Zunimassas’s Set With Fetish Sycophant Passive

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The Zunimassa's set bonus will allow your fetish army to last until they die.

The Fetish Army skill summons 5 fetishes. An additional 2 can be summoned with a specific rune.

The Fetish Sycophants passive is: When you cast a physical realm spell, you have a 5% chance to summon a dagger-wielding Fetish to fight by your side for 60 seconds.

Do the passive fetishes die after 60 seconds or do they last until they die with the set bonus?

Additional question: How many fetishes can be alive at once using both of these skills?

Best Answer

The Zunimassa set bonus will only affect the fetishes spawned via Fetish Army. Sycophants will still expire once their timer is up.

On top of that, there is a limit of 15 total fetishes at any given time.

There is currently a bug where if you spawn another fetish via the sycophant passive and you have a limit of 15, your oldest fetish will die (including fetish sumoned via fetish army). Thus, if you spawn enough via the passive, you will no longer have any FA fetishes anymore.

This is important due to a few reasons:

  1. FA fetishes have a built in force armor that limits the damage they take to a maximum % of their health, sycophants do not.
  2. FA fetishes can have a different element than physical (some of the runes can turn their element into fire or poison) but sycophants are always physical damage. This matters if you are stacking different elements on your gear.
  3. FA fetishes are affected by gear affixes (some gear can roll up to +15% fetish army) and that does not affect sycophants.

Finally, if you recast FA at any given time, all your existing sycophants will immediately expire.

Source, and also from experience playing a pet doctor.

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