Lord of the Dead. (Witch Summoner Build) Updated 2.0 patch

Hi Mate i really love your guide!

Some Things are a bit unlogical for me!?
How do you start getting your Minions when you swap out the skeletons later on?
I personally only curse the enemies and my skeletons finish them so i am able to get zombies and spectres rolling!
Atm i am running 2 auras clarity and purity so only 2 defensive ones mostly for myself but as i progress with gear i wanna get something like haste for my minions ;)
Which do you currently run?

Best greetings

Phieck

Not sure if this been answered before.

Quite new to the game and this is my first summoner character. Around lvl 35 atm and everything have been pretty smooth so far. But i have no idea what kind of gear i should look after. Whats stats on gear are vital for a summoner?

You start to get your zombies by going to a easier area and getting your max zombie count.

For summoners all you need is defensive gear, hp , es(if CI), resists, mana, dex and str stats, mana regen, ect

as for auras, am running haste, vitality, anger, wrath, discipline atm (if i could squeeze in hatred i would or maybe a grace if i have no mana)

i know how to get my zombies but the think is if i do not want to auto attack or use spells how you kill mobs without having skeletons ;)

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Phieck wrote:

i know how to get my zombies but the think is if i do not want to auto attack or use spells how you kill mobs without having skeletons ;)

Idk, why wouldn't you want to use skeletons o.o. I guess I use arc so maybe I can slowly prick them to death with my low dps arc lol.

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Phieck wrote:

Hi Mate i really love your guide!

Some Things are a bit unlogical for me!?
How do you start getting your Minions when you swap out the skeletons later on?
I personally only curse the enemies and my skeletons finish them so i am able to get zombies and spectres rolling!
Atm i am running 2 auras clarity and purity so only 2 defensive ones mostly for myself but as i progress with gear i wanna get something like haste for my minions ;)
Which do you currently run?

Best greetings

Phieck

Later on in the game i find skeletons not as useful(don't get me wrong they are really good, but situational), skeletons are a bad source of damage compared to zombies and spectres. At the moment i'v been running EB(Haste, Dicipline, Purity, Vitality, Clarity, Warth), and trying to gear my character up better.

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Kapten_Manner wrote:

Not sure if this been answered before.

Quite new to the game and this is my first summoner character. Around lvl 35 atm and everything have been pretty smooth so far. But i have no idea what kind of gear i should look after. Whats stats on gear are vital for a summoner?

1. Health
2. +1 Spectres
3. Helment +2 minions 4L
4. Resistances

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Phieck wrote:

i know how to get my zombies but the think is if i do not want to auto attack or use spells how you kill mobs without having skeletons ;)

Spectres are core to this build.

I just started playing a few days ago. I read several summoners guides and yours seemed most like the kind of summoner I wanted to play, so am using your guide. Really liking it so far as I'm in act 2 and just got my second spectre.

The specters don't stay alive well yet, but they make a huge difference. I've been only choosing ranged attackers which seem to stay alive a lot longer. As soon as I get back to the game (at work right now) I plan to give you a new spectre for your list ... one that casts a curse so you don't have to.

I have crap for gear but have only died a couple times. I need more base mana though, so am working on that while using Clarity as my only aura right now.

Thanks for the guide.

How will this build fare endgame without Midnight or Bones of Ullr? I am pretty new to the game and don't think I will be able to afford them.

Got my summoner to level 32 with the help of your guide. Died quite a few times, though I would blame that on my incompetence and desyncs.. :P