DH Gold Find Guide Part III - Follower

We have the desicion between 3 Followers.
The main purpose for our follower is the gf.
You get 20% of your follower's mf and gf.

Templar
+ 4-5% more gf because he can wear a shield with gf
+ heal and steady hp regeneration
+ help in emergency or hatred regeneration

Scoundrel+ 3% crit

Enchantress+ 3% attack speed

I prefer the Templar, because of the gf and he is the best help in emergency situations.
3% crit or 3% attack speed isn't enough for me to take another follower for gf runs.

Follower Equipment
Amulet 18% gf
Ring1 12% gf
Ring2 12% gf
Shield 18% gf
=> 60% gf => 12% gf for you!

My templar has 71% gf, this makes 14% gf for me.
(Not really worth to buy expensive equipment for your follower!)

Weapon (One hand Axes, Daggers, Maces, Spears and Swords)
dps doesn't matter
give him any weapon you can find

Templar Relics
No gf or mf is available on this item slot, so equip anything you find on your way.

Follower Skills
Choose the skills you like. Under following link you find my preferences.

Follower Skill Calculator

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DH Gold Find Guide - Introduction

Followers overview

In Diablo 2 there were mercenaries and now in Diablo 3 we have followers.

Followers are only in solo play available.

They should be an assistance for solo play. They have a great impact for solo farming runs, because:

•  you can rely on your follower and so you can configure your tactic on the follower's skills.
•  you get 20% of your follower's mf, gf and +xp. (source)

There are 3 different followers:

Templar
The templar are holy warriors. His key features are defensive fighting (tanking), healing and recovery and holy justice.

Scoundrel
The scoundrel fight with ranged weapons. His key features are ranged killing, disabling shots and attack boosts.

Enchantress

The enchnatress use magic to protect there allies and to do damage. Her key features are debilitating magic, arcane blasts and supportive spells.

 

During the play through you get quests to acces the followers. You can have all 3 of them, but you must decide which of them should fight with you, the others stay in town.  

You must equip your follower with items. There look doesn't change with the equiped items only with the level of the follower.

Skills

Every follower have 8 differnt skills, but can only have 4 of them. For every stage you must decide for one of two available skills.