Encyclopedia Necrotheurgia

[Gaxx]

Hello fellow Necros,

I'm looking for some concrete evidence/definitive answer of what the Minion of Hate focus effect on the Encyclopedia Necrotheurgia does.

So far it has been summoning a max level pet for the 56 and 59 pets (I am not sure about the rogue pet yet). I don't have any parses to back it up but the damage output from these pets seem to be decently increased over the output from the non-focus item summoned pets even with the pet level taken into account.

I haven't had much time to play around with it yet but the 56 monk pet I summoned last night was hitting for 61. The 59 pet I summoned the day before was also hitting for 61 albeit much more frequently and with more overall damage output (due to the higher level of the pet I'm sure). Again, this is all anecdotal with no parses to back it up. Both pets were buffed with Augment Death.

Does the focus effect add any extra stats such as increased STR and HP to the pets or is it just summoning a max level pet (or max level +1?) every time.

I've read a lot of conflicting information about this so I'm just trying to get some clarification so that I understand what this effect does.

TL;DR - What exatly does Minion of Hate do?