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(Possibly) Discovered What's Breaking Command Skeleton in Rathmas/Jesseth

I created a video this morning, I figured it would be easier to show what I'm talking about but I'll describe it here as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC4wZAIyTAs&feature=youtu.be

A lot of people have been talking about how broken necro's pets are since the season began. Specifically, it seems there are two big problems; skeletal mages wandering off or not attacking, and command skeletons not working properly. I believe I have isolated one thing that causes command skeletons to break.

Essentially, if a mob of ANY type (white, blue, yellow, purple, whatever) kills you while your command skeletons is being used, you will not be able to use it again on that monster once you revive. When you activate command skeletons, the skeletons jump over to the monster, but Jesseth's doesn't give the damage bonus, and the skill does not illuminate as usual. I noticed a SHARP plummet in my dps every time I died and revived, which seems to correlate with this.

You are still able to use command skeletons successfully after reviving, but only if you use it on a separate mob first. This creates an issue for yellow packs and rift guardians, for sometimes there isn't something else you can use to force command skeletons to trigger. You can also SOMETIMES respawn at checkpoint, return to town via the rift portal, and go back in to "reset" the command skeletons, however I haven't found a way to replicate that 100% of the time so I'm not sure what exactly causes that to fix it sometimes. Anyways, I just thought this was interesting and worth having a discussion about. Let me know what you think, or what you've found!

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