Does Infestation combine better with Death Channel or Animate Dead? Or would you always run both if able.
Playing a summoner^Sif, so spell slots are at a premium. I’m planning to retrieve the golden rune from Tomb.
Having Infestation active supercedes Animate Dead. Infestation makes scarabs from all monsters that are in the 5x5 area when they die, while Animate Dead has a spell-power-dependent chance to reap kills of only natural monsters. And scarabs are much stronger than zombies. Death Channel is weaker than Infestation but very strong. Zombies do have the advantage of not timing out until you leave the level, unlike scarabs and spectral things.
The strength of these spells feels proportional to their levels and how much training needed to use them. Haunt is amazing, too.
I’m a bit confused. I thought there was synergy because with Animate Dead you can get Death Scarabs + Zombie Death Scarabs, basically 50% extra Death Scarabs. Are you saying that synergy has been removed?
Huh. I’d be surprised if Animate Dead raises player allies as zombies, but I don’t know for sure.