Talk:Animate Bone Fiend

please verify
Bone fiends do not shoot "arrows" and their damage is therefore not enhanced by the ranger skill favorable winds. They do physical damage, and their damage is therefore enhanced by winnowing. Their damage can be converted to fire damage by the Ranger Elite skill greater conflagaration.
 * Can anyone test this? I've read exactly the opposite, though I do not have a necro/ranger for easy testing. --Squeg 06:33, 25 October 2005 (EST)
 * The damage done by fiends is increased by favorable winds. It should also be noted that any necromancer 'orders' spell also effects both minions and fiends.--Xis10al 01:36, 22 May 2006 (CDT)
 * I've tested this using conflagration and storm chaser. Bone fiends do fire arrows, as their projectiles are modified by conflagration.  Bone Fiend Arrows  Hope this helps.  --Loonsbury 12:33, 8 July 2007 (CDT)
 * No, they aren't arrows, as Favorable Winds doesn't affect them. I just tested Conflagration with a spear and Conjure Flame, and sure enough, it changed the spear's damage to fire and triggered Conjure Flame. This means that it is another skill anomaly (like Bonetti's Defense, which says "melee attacks and arrows" but is actually all attacks, including wands and spears), and so I have added it to the list --Gimmethegepgun 12:50, 8 July 2007 (CDT)

Bone fiend armor increases by roughly 3 per level and health increases by 20 per level. A level 18 bone fiend has 440 health and 54 armor against physical damage. By contrast, a level 18 bone horror also has 440 health, but has 72 armor and therefore takes 35% less damage than a bone fiend against physical damage.
 * I've seen something about this elsewhere, but would love to have a link to the originating article. This would also help to credit the work. A link under "related articles" would be appropriate. --Squeg 06:33, 25 October 2005 (EST)

duplicate information
Much of the info added/expanded recently is common among all animated undead. Where appropriate i moved this info to minion or Corpse Exploitation and added even more prominate links to those articles to the notes section. --Squeg 06:44, 25 October 2005 (EST)

General Question about what's posted
I notice under Related Articles that is states necromancers have "summoned pets". Is this a correct term, or should it be changed? By stating pets, it gives rise to too many other questions being asked about the nature of minions.--Xis10al 01:40, 22 May 2006 (CDT)
 * they are minions, a totally different class to pets, what related article did you find this in? -- Xeon 01:47, 28 December 2006 (CST)
 * Someone corrected the problem months back.--&mdash; xis10al  [[Image:Xis10al_sig_icon.jpg]] 03:05, 28 December 2006 (CST)
 * Yeah, i just like answering posts from ages ago -_- -- Xeon 03:22, 28 December 2006 (CST)

Availability

 * I recently saw this skill available at Ascalon City. What's going on? --Chiaro 00:33, 17 June 2007 (CDT)
 * You already unlocked it on another char? The Hobo 00:48, 17 June 2007 (CDT)