Warlock you mean right?

The skills were changed from REQUIRING to COSTING. And almost all skills use (or will use) their stat as part of their direct damage and utility bonus's. For instance burning blade's armor and burning effects are directly effected by how much hellfire you have..

so while you CAN use any of the others, which is the design to allow more freedom on how you build, you are required to use them strategically if you want to maximize or trivialize their outputs.

Aha. So for the Nether Warrior to be maximally effective one should have 25 Nether Points but one doesn't necessarily need them?

And yes, I did mean the Warlock. Sorry!

Great work, btw. I never really played Vanilla but I'm really enjoying the challange of your MOD.

the pets themselves do not need 'stats' to be good.. but when you cast them they basically reset the pool of the other side. so if you are using a lot of hellfire spells and then cast a netherwarrior your hellfire will reset and your damage will dip real low

Does the damage bonus kick it at lower levels? Currently have level 17 warlock. I spent some time against the dummy with both nether-costing-skills and hellfire-costing-skills and with the charge at 0 or 50 (for the appropriate skill) didn't seem to make any noticeable difference in damage output (averaged out over dozens of casts).
I did this because I'd been playing up until that point trying out hellfire then nether and not seeming to notice a difference - so went to town to experiement. Of course very hard to track anything that pets do.

what your arcane damage chart? Press J and watch the % of damage go up, also most of the hellfire spells directly use hellfire as a coefficent and some of the nether essence do as well.

Those where questions I was going to ask, already answered. Thank you!