Necromantic Aegis

Necromantic Aegis is a keystone passive skill that removes all bonuses provided by modifiers on equipped shields from the character and imparts those bonuses onto minions instead.

Specifics

The character will no longer benefit from any modifiers on equipped shields including implicit modifiers such as armour rating and chance to block. However, the player character still affected by the movement speed penalty of the shield.

Passive skills that increase shield stats—for example, Shield Block and Shield Block and Defences (the #% increased Defences from Equipped Shield part) — will have no effect. Passive skills that provide a bonus while holding a shield, such as the elemental resistances granted by Sanctuary, will still benefit the character.

Increased Rarity of Items found and Increased Quantity of Items found modifiers can only benefit the character. These bonuses will be rendered useless when transferred to minions.

Bonuses not from modifiers on the equipped shield are not removed from the character and transferred to minions. Skill gems socketed in equipped shields will still be usable. The buff from will still benefit the character.

Location

Necromantic Aegis is located in the centre of the tree, top left of the Scion's starting area. The keystone shared the same small passive node that connects to Decay Ward cluster.

Class	Distance from start
Scion	8
Witch	10
Templar	10
Shadow	14
Marauder	14
Duelist	17
Ranger	18

Version history

Version	Changes
3.12.2	Fixed a bug where shield modifiers were still applying to you while you had the Necromantic Aegis keystone passive allocated.
3.7.0	Decay Ward and the preceeding small passives have been moved from behind Necromantic Aegis to across from it.
1.0.0	Fixed a bug where Necromantic Aegis did not correctly give base block chance to minions.
0.9.13c	Fixed Necromantic Aegis applying to totems.
0.9.12qq	Fixed a server crash that could occur related to minions receiving chance-to-block from the Necromantic Aegis keystone passive skill.
0.9.7b	Fixed a bug where Necromantic Aegis was not working properly in 0.9.7a.
0.9.5g	Introduced to the game.