2.0~ Alf's True summoner

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General Idea
Hi, this build is a true summoner build, we can summon a large variety of minions, they all have a purpose and they obey our orders(the most part of the time).

Changelog

Videos

Note: The videos sometimes lag a bit, this is cuz my computer is not that good.

Percs
-8.2%life rer, around 6k life.
-Eldritch Battery(EB)
-Mind over matter(MOM)
-1 curse: Ele weakness or Temp chains.
-Auras: Hatred and Wrath with Generosity
-4 spectres, 8 zombies, 1 golem, 1 guardian, 20+ SRS with no vaal haste, (and dont forget the skeletons)
-YES, you can have a pet too, but this is not recommended cuz the zombies might get hungry.

Pros.
-Pretty tanky and safe. HC viable.
-Insanely fun
-Insane Clear speed.
-Can do all maps with appropiate gear.
-Can run all map mods.
-Many jewells.
-ATZIRI viable.
-Life based (hybrid gear for EB tho)
-Infinite SRS spam.
-You will never feel lonely :D

Cons.
-i dont see any, do you?, oh wait
-Many jewells (expensive, but you dont need them at full craft to be op)
-Big micromanagment, if you are lazy, this is not ur build.

-----------------------Leveling and Gearing---------------------------------------------------

Leveling
-If you want to level as a summoner, you can. Try to get zombies fast, they will tank for you, and link them to minion life and fortify as fast as you can (maybe melee splash if u feel they not die).
-You will try to get Searing bond, (extremely powerful for boss kill, and only need increased burning damage).
-Untill you get searing bond, you can use other skill, like incinerate or flame totem.
Quest rewards.(early levels)
-Make a witch (kill hillock, pick zombies)
-Lightning Tendrils (or you can make a shadow and pick fire trap after killing hillock, before starting ur scion)
-Melee Splash (try to link to zombies)
-Now, try to get searing bond and increased burning damage.
-For auras, get hatred, for your zombies, you will only cast searing bond.
-Remember to always go with resis capp, buy goldrim(http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Goldrim) or Aurumvorax(http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Aurumvorax). I usually level with 2 Aurumvorax, and i get pretty easy resis capp in merciless.
-The more life you get from items, the better, you dont need anything else (and resis ofc)
-If you get a nice jewell (with life or minion damage), allocate a jewell, the closest one.

Tree Progression
The idea is pretty straight forward, in order of importance:
-Grabb all the life and life reg
-Minions nodes
-EB, MOM, ZO
-Jewells and Skill duration nodes.

Starting tree- 15 points. Grab the life and rege, u cant die this way.

Tree 2- 41 points. Some minions nodes and life.

Tree 3- 59 points. More minions and some life.

Tree 4- 83 points, complete the core tree, (EB and MOM, only put Them if you have a good ES gear, if not skip them)

Continue grabbing all jewells and skill duration nodes.
Tree 5- 112 points (lvl 89) Finally , we having a lot of jewellers, good ES gear.

Tree 6- 122 points (+oak). This build is so fun and awesome that you reached inimaginable levels of power! (lvl 100).


Bandits
-Oak, kill, kill, or just kill them all, will only make difference at level 100.

Gearing up.
To enter maps, you will need good ES+Life gear. (Around lvl 80).
-rare staff +2 fire (to do dps on boses, SRS-minion damage-mele damage- echo - Blood magic (you will use blood magic untill u can get a +3fire with bm vagan mod)
-4l chest, rare, life+ 200-400 ES, Good for start. (Spectre-chain-GMP-echo)
-Boots, dont use urlls untill u have good ES pool, ES+life boots untill then.
-Head, dont need +2, focus on life ES.
-Vis mortis, same than urll, this is endgame chest, make sure you have a nice Es gloves and head before equipping this one.
-Rings, Dont get unset rings, untill you have good resis gear, you CAN live without golem and Vaal skeletons, put curse on gloves.
Now, you are getting a lot of items, better gear, mapping a lot:
-+3 staff,BM, 6l
-Vis mortis, 6l
-2 unset rings, Chaos ress if possible
-Corrupted Sidebreath
-Corrupted +1 gems urll
-HeadHunter belt, super fun and a lot of nice stats, it gives many auras to minions.(Many people say that this is as good as a rare belt, and its just for fun. Its not, its extremely good for a summoner build and far better than a rare, but its expensive.)
-vis mortis corrupted +1 gems 6l, well, dont dream, this is super expensive :).

Flask
Instant Life, Instant Life, Fire Res/Eternal Life Flask of animation, Rumis/normal granite, Quicksilver.
The fire res flask is usefull to fight some bosses, like megaera on crematorium and Atziri. The animation life is good to heal minions (and urself), more important on reflect maps, or when ur minions are taking a lot of damage (some boss fights like necropolis boss). You will have to decide wich flask use, normally i go with the Animation one.

-----------------------My gear----------------------------------------------------------------

My current gear


My current flasks


My current jewels


-----------------------Gems and Links---------------------------------------------------------

Links
-Staff- SRS + Minion damage + Melee damage + Empower 4 + spell echo + Melee damage on full life
No melee splash. I dont think is necesary since our spectres do the area damage and fast clear. Go with BM gem instead of Melee damage on full life untill u have BM on staff (If you feel that you need more area, replace mele damage on full life for melee splash, put melee damage back for boss).(dont have empower 4?, you better get one fast, you should only care about getting a lvl 4 empower once you get a +3 and 6l staff)

-Chest- Spectre + Minion damage + Echo + Chain + Light pen + Greater multiple projectiles
(culling instead of chain and slower proj instead of GMP for bosses).

-Head- Zombies + Guardian + Empower 4 + Minion Life (dont have empower 4?, fortify untill then)

-Boots- chaos Golem- Hatred - Generosity - Wrath/Lightning Resis aura (on reflect maps)

-Gloves- Flesh off- vaal haste - Increased duration - Convocation

-Rings- Vaal skeletons , Elemental Weakness/Temporal chains, Rallying Cry, Flame dash (depends on what u prefer). For mapping i find more usefull go with flame dash + curse. For atziri, skellies are really good, so i take flame dash out.

-Secondary weapons- Desecrate 20(if you are a very anxious person, link it to faster casting and spell echo, nahh just kidding). Can also use flamedash or leap (with 2 Brightbeaks)

-Belt- wait, you have sockets here?

-----------------------Jewels----------------------------------------------------------------

Unique jewels
There is no really good unique jewel for a endgame build, but there are some that might be useful for leveling. They are not worth buying, just pick the ones from quest rewards.

Rare Jewels
You would like to have in order of importance
-Life (or have a nice rip)
-Minion damage.(no need to explain here)
-Cast speed.(more SRS plus faster skills, this is the easiest stats to roll since it can come from diff mods)
-Minion resistance (if you manage to get +ele res for minions on gems (+40 all resis), u will have less resummoning time, since ur minions will die less in heavy elemental damage fights, its more important if u are running ele refle maps)
-Everything else is trash.

This is a example of a really nice jewel:

-Ok, but i dont have the money: Roll life with alterations, its cheap and fine, once you get the currency, try to roll better ones.

-----------------------Crafting a +3 staff----------------------------------------------------
This is not something i came up with, but is super usefull for this build.

Take any iLVL 55 staff.
-master mod a suffix, regal a prefix until you hit +2 fire (35 regals and scours on average)
-remove the suffix so you are left with a single stat rare +2 Fire
-Multi Mod (elreon), No Caster rolls (vagan), No Attack mods (cata), Flat mana
-Exalt +1 to all gems (As it is all that can be added)
-Remove mods
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/3hht78/so_this_is_how_we_managed_to_accumulate_72_mirrors/

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Spectres
Good spectres
-Stygian Revenant ~ Highly Recommended, insane aoe and good damage, from The Harvest (lvl 70)
-Voidbearer ~ Really good single target damage, might be best for atziri killing, from kaoms stronghold (lvl 69)

Fairly good spectres
-Undying Evangelist ~ Defensive option, from The sceptre of god (lvl 66)
-Pocked Lanternbearer ~ Good damage, from The crystal veins (lvl 68)
-Knitted Horror ~ Tanky, ok damage, from The dried lake (lvl 67)

The gems i use on spectres are good for revenants only, if you decide to use other spectre, you will have to change some gems.

Golem
-Chaos Golem, the other ones just gives us nothing.

Zombies
They are just zombies, plz.

Animate Guardian
-Helm: Leer cast (must have)
-Weapon: Dying breath (must have)
Chest ~ Rare chest (life resis), Hyrri's Ire or Death's Oath if you can get it cheap(running this one, seems awesome)
Boots ~ Atziri step (best option, fairly cheap, buy any roll), Rare boots.
Gloves ~ Rare gloves (life resis), Slitherpinch, Asenath's Gentle Touch, Meginord's Vise

-----------------------Questions and Useful info----------------------------------------------

Questions

-Can do a witch?
Just dont, Scion is better.

-Pledge of hands?
-If you cant get a +3 staff, pledge is not that bad, but a +3 is better.

-Lightning coil?
-Its possible to go with coil for extra tankyness, but u will lose a spectre, the colour for sockets will be harder and will need more lightning res. Its up to you, i prefer vis mortis.

-Animate Guardian? when?
You dont want this dude to die, cuz he is expensive (5items), so only use him when u have all nodes on minion life, a decent level on Animate guardian gem, and a decent level on minion life gem.

-Warcrys? they seem pretty good
Big summoners dont cry, we dont need this skills and you need to be close to danger to use them.
Rallying Cry is not so bad, might change for vaal skells if you prefer.

-I am afraid of spiders, can take revenenants out?
Right now, revenants are the best. Evangelist are not bad and are more defensive option. If you chose evangelist, take wrath out and put haste instead.
For evangelist use Spectre-minion damage-Echo-inc AOE-Culling strike/faster casting-Added fire.
Can switch Aoe for conc on boss fights

-My spectres die in Elemental reflect maps, what do i do?
Replace wrath for purity of ligth. Go with hatred and purity of light. Also run a slow life recovery minion flask instead of the fire one. Allocating minion life leech node is not a bad idea (but you might want to save the point).

-Whats happening on the gif?
Its a Crematorium lvl 78 boss kill.

Tips
-Remember to remove Echo to summon spectres, u can press A to target the corpse.
-If you guardian is going to die, you can remove the gem from the helmet, unsummoning him from danger.(Dont worry, this will never happend, he is super tanky)
-Minions prioritize monsters that u cast spells on, so if you want that zombies attack a certain monster or pack, curse it.
-Use convocation to protect yourself, the minions will taunt enemys, cuz u dont do damage.
-Use vaal skeletons to tank heavy loaded areas, when opennings boxes or in boss figths.
-Always try to save a vaal haste for boss figths.
-You can use Desecrate (secondary weapons) to cast flesh offering where there is no corpses near.(useful on some boss fights).
-Don't stare directly at Vanja. You will get into trouble.
-Dont stand near obelisks, those things are dangerous.

2.0~ Alf's Only SRS

Hideout
Remember to make a nice HO, or ur army might start a motin.
This is mine!.

Thanks for reading, any comments and sugerences are welcome. Currently my character is named Ariannahh, in standar.

gonna try this out :) im currently at lvl 20, would be better if u would make a detailed skill tree on lvls

Not too easy to do in new league but it's almost exactly what I'm going to respec to after a few more levels. Currently leveling as dual flame totem, will be switching to almost the same build minus some of the gear and animate guardian. 6L staff and armor is pretty much out of the question right now but they're not crucial. That's the beauty of summoners - you can get away with 5L or even 4L for SRS and spectres.

I'm thinking stygian revenants will be nerfed though so other spectres might be used again, as well as a replacement for Wrath. We have to wait and see.

lol i started to use srs in level 6 or something is that bad lol?

OK guys, BIG update here:
-Skill tree progression.
-Leveling guide and tips.

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yoshis wrote:

gonna try this out :) im currently at lvl 20, would be better if u would make a detailed skill tree on lvls

done!

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MrSparkle001 wrote:

Not too easy to do in new league but it's almost exactly what I'm going to respec to after a few more levels. Currently leveling as dual flame totem, will be switching to almost the same build minus some of the gear and animate guardian. 6L staff and armor is pretty much out of the question right now but they're not crucial. That's the beauty of summoners - you can get away with 5L or even 4L for SRS and spectres.

I'm thinking stygian revenants will be nerfed though so other spectres might be used again, as well as a replacement for Wrath. We have to wait and see.

If they get nerfed, i will switch to evangelist or lanterns, summoners never run out of spectres.

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yoshis wrote:

lol i started to use srs in level 6 or something is that bad lol?

Is not bad, try to get zombies for tanking, and spam srs on boss fights. Might want to get other skill for bosses thats more effective on early levels. Check the leveling guide section i just added

Thanks for making passive skill tree step by step! really appreciate that!

Video Added, might add more later.

i took a bit other notes, need to fix now bcz i didnt know what should i take 1st and etc lol

Updated and corrected a lot of things. Gif added !!