"summon resists" question

[Cormallon]

I have a most likely easy question: When is summon resists applied? Is the amount of resist taken when a summon is created (and thus it is worth to have summon resists on prebuff equip) or is it applied everytime a summon is hit and takes the values the skill has at that moment?

Thanks,
Cormallon

[Chimaira]

It is applied when the summons is created/summoned...just like skeleton mastery. So you can prebuff with Arm Of King Leoric and such.

[farting bob]

Never really thought about that cormallon, but i suppose it does make sense to be applied with skele mastery ie: when it is summoned.

[Nautilus]

I've never really worried about the resistances of my necro's summoned army. I'm just working with the idea that they're all disposable anyway.

Belfast says: "Go ahead, kill them all. It doesn't matter if you kill them... again. I'll just use you to fill up my legion."

[Chimaira]

I think you really need summon resists...Otherwise serious elemental attackers are going to smoke your army. 1 point is usually sufficient, but you really need that 1 point. I've only had my army crumble twice...once was a fanatiscism Lister and the other was the council guys by Mephist and some Blood Lords with conviction...ouch.

[Cormallon]

Thank you all, so the consensus is that it is prebuffable and applied when creating the summon. Good.

I'm not using a large army but a single golem, that makes the resists far more important for me. If the golem is dead I'm without a tank and distraction, and that is bad in HC ;) Now I need to find a wand + head with +3 GM / +3 SR / +3 CG / +3 IG , hehe.