Spirit

Totems are allied constructs that perform Skills for you. They are Remote Skills rather than Minions: their Skills use your offensive stats, while each Totem has its own Life and defensive stats and can be damaged or killed.

A Buff is a beneficial effect applied to a player, Minion, monster, or other target for a duration or while a condition remains true. Buff Magnitude comes from the creator, while Buff Effect usually comes from the affected target.

A Persistent skill is toggled in the Skills Panel and remains active until disabled or until its reservation or other requirement can no longer be met. Persistent Buffs, Meta skills, and Reviving Minions often reserve Spirit.

Minions are summoned Allies with their own offensive and defensive stats. Player modifiers do not apply to them unless the modifier explicitly affects Minions or Allies, and the player does not count as their own Ally.

An Aura continuously applies a Buff to eligible allies or a Debuff to eligible enemies within an area around its source. Many player Auras use the character's Presence, but the exact targets, radius, reservation, and effect come from the individual skill.

Companions are powerful Reviving Minions with a separate global limit. By default, you can have only one Companion summoned at a time, regardless of its type or the number of creatures represented by its skill.

Reservation commits part of a resource to an active effect. Most persistent Skills reserve Spirit, but some effects reserve Life or Mana. The reserved amount remains part of the resource's maximum and cannot be spent, recovered, or used as defence while it is reserved.

Efficiency reduces a cost or reservation by dividing its base amount. Increased Efficiency has diminishing returns: 50% increased Efficiency divides by 1.5, while 100% increased Efficiency divides by 2. It is not the same calculation as reduced cost or less reservation.

Herald Skills are Persistent Buffs that reserve Spirit and provide a payoff after a qualifying enemy death or condition. Each Herald has its own trigger, damage component, ailment interaction, and scaling requirements.

Blood Magic removes the character's Mana and converts Skill Mana Costs into Life Costs. It changes which resource pays for Skills, so Life recovery and cost management become part of sustaining every Mana-costing action.

Eldritch Battery converts all maximum Energy Shield into maximum Mana, then doubles Mana Costs. The converted Energy Shield becomes a Mana base value and no longer functions as a defensive Energy Shield pool.

Enfeeble is a defensive Curse that makes affected targets deal less damage. The skill gem scales from 20% less damage at level 1 to 29% less damage at level 20 before Curse Magnitude and monster-rarity modifiers.

Equipped means a usable weapon, off-hand, armour piece, belt, amulet, or ring placed in the character's equipment slots. Flasks, Charms, Skill Gems, and Jewels are not Equipped, even when they occupy another character interface slot.