2.0~ Alf's True summoner

Thanks you for your guide, it's really great. I wanted to start new summoner instead of my failed Witch and it helped me a lot.

I decided to use Knitted Horrors 'cause I'm running out of RAM sometimes when trying to use Revenants. Also, they will have bonuses either from both auras and Unholy Might, that's useful, I think. Currently I have only 5l Mortis. Is Raise Spectre-GMP-PPAD-Minion Dmg-Faster Attacks a good setup for those mobs? Besides, can this build be complete without using Animate Guardian all the time?

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panda285 wrote:

Thanks you for your guide, it's really great. I wanted to start new summoner instead of my failed Witch and it helped me a lot.

I decided to use Knitted Horrors 'cause I'm running out of RAM sometimes when trying to use Revenants. Also, they will have bonuses either from both auras and Unholy Might, that's useful, I think. Currently I have only 5l Mortis. Is Raise Spectre-GMP-PPAD-Minion Dmg-Faster Attacks a good setup for those mobs? Besides, can this build be complete without using Animate Guardian all the time?

If u have a Memory problem, there is a way to lower a lot the quality of the skills and spells by modifying a file that is located in the same folder than the filters, production_Config is the name, you can put a 3 for bad or a 5 for super bad on texture_quality=1 (its a mess of text, you will have to search "texture_quality" and change the number).

If you still want to go knitted horros: Spectre-GMP-Pierce-PPAD-Minion Damage-(Slower projectiles).
The problem is that u will have trouble to get 2blue+4green on a vis mortis.
You should use Bloodlust instead of Melee physical on full life for SRS and temporal chains instead of ele weakness. You should also put Haste instead of Wrath.

The best spectres for me, if you dont want to go with spiders, are the dogs (voidbearer from kaoms stronghold (lvl 69)), have you tried them?.
You should link for the dogs: Spectre-GMP-Faster projectiles-Minion damage-ECHO-(Added chaos damage).
Anger instead of Wraths for this ones.
This guys hit super hard, more than the spiders, but they dont have so much aoe, this will be better for ur lag.

The animated guardian its SUPER OP, he gives you 2 auras and it never died so far for me, and i never rerolled a map, so he has done pretty insane combinations of map mods. Can you tell me why you want to remove him? Maybe there is a better option than just removing it.

So there is a way to Roll a +3 fire staff, if you have some masters high level (Catarina, vagan and elreon 8). This is something that some guys came up with, and makes crafting a +3 really cheap.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/3hht78/so_this_is_how_we_managed_to_accumulate_72_mirrors/
The +3 was the most expensive part of the build (for the core items at least, ofc you can get a Headhunter or a +1 vismortis), so now we are gladly doing a CHEAP build !!!.
Good luck crafting urs staffs.

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If you still want to go knitted horros: Spectre-GMP-Pierce-PPAD-Minion Damage-(Slower projectiles).

As I know, their projectiles always pierce, so it's better to use Slower Proj in 5l, right?

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The best spectres for me, if you dont want to go with spiders, are the dogs (voidbearer from kaoms stronghold (lvl 69)), have you tried them?

I wanted to use Horrors 'cause of potentially big AOE and their ability to deal additional chaos dmg(which is imbalanced to me, dog's Added Chaos is optional and requires 6l) while being affected by Unholy Might. Dogs are nice, but they don't have nice AOE as Horrors or Revenants, I suppose. I'll try them soon, thanks.

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The animated guardian its SUPER OP, he gives you 2 auras and it never died so far for me, and i never rerolled a map, so he has done pretty insane combinations of map mods. Can you tell me why you want to remove him? Maybe there is a better option than just removing it.

I'm quite broke right now, so he's quite expensive for me. I already dropped most required uniques and can try to use him, but looks like he'll die fast, lol.

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panda285 wrote:

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If you still want to go knitted horros: Spectre-GMP-Pierce-PPAD-Minion Damage-(Slower projectiles).

As I know, their projectiles always pierce, so it's better to use Slower Proj in 5l, right?

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The best spectres for me, if you dont want to go with spiders, are the dogs (voidbearer from kaoms stronghold (lvl 69)), have you tried them?

I wanted to use Horrors 'cause of potentially big AOE and their ability to deal additional chaos dmg(which is imbalanced to me, dog's Added Chaos is optional and requires 6l) while being affected by Unholy Might. Dogs are nice, but they don't have nice AOE as Horrors or Revenants, I suppose. I'll try them soon, thanks.

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The animated guardian its SUPER OP, he gives you 2 auras and it never died so far for me, and i never rerolled a map, so he has done pretty insane combinations of map mods. Can you tell me why you want to remove him? Maybe there is a better option than just removing it.

I'm quite broke right now, so he's quite expensive for me. I already dropped most required uniques and can try to use him, but looks like he'll die fast, lol.

Yes, they have perma pierce(just tested ingame), go with slowers and culling as 6l. I dont think that chaos damage would be op on knitteds, its op in dogs tho, cuz they do some sort of incinerate with no added damage penalty.
The good thing about KH is that hatred also affects them, not only vis mortis, but even with hatred, they dont hit as hard as revenants. The revenants are super insane.
The aoe of dogs is not that bad with GMP and fasters, the are much better than horrors or revenants on single, they melt map bosses.


Leer cast and dying breaths should be around 1c or alche each, you can buy atziri step worst roll, even corrupted, for 1c too, they drop price super fast when people start doing atziri on ur league.(i got mines for 1fuse on standar) For gloves and chest there are plenty of cheap options, even rares with life are nice. Even the chest i am using costed me 6c, its a chest that nobody wants (deaths oath). Another good option for chest is the new Hyrri's_Ire (a really good option).http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Hyrri's_Ire
Dont worry about him, if you have high level gem and minion life too, he wont die.

I'm going to try this build soon, I haven't played for a while but I just heard that revenants got nerfed, should I still use them?

I'm also very tempted to test the guardian, what happens to him if I die?


Edit; definitely going to try the guardian with the items you advice, willing to spend a few c on it the aura's seem OpOpie:
Items deleted on Death: When a Guardian dies, all its equipment is deleted and cannot be recovered. This makes very risky to use powerful or valuable items on an Animated Guardian. When the player dies, the Guardian will remain alive and will continue to fight, so it is advised to immediately resurrect (if in softcore) in order to pull the Guardian from the instance. It is possible to prevent a body armour worn by a Guardian from being deleted upon Guardian death by crafting Equipped Animated Guardian drops item on death on the Armourer's Workbench.

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JuicedG wrote:

I'm going to try this build soon, I haven't played for a while but I just heard that revenants got nerfed, should I still use them?

I'm also very tempted to test the guardian, what happens to him if I die?


Edit; definitely going to try the guardian with the items you advice, willing to spend a few c on it the aura's seem OpOpie:
Items deleted on Death: When a Guardian dies, all its equipment is deleted and cannot be recovered. This makes very risky to use powerful or valuable items on an Animated Guardian. When the player dies, the Guardian will remain alive and will continue to fight, so it is advised to immediately resurrect (if in softcore) in order to pull the Guardian from the instance. It is possible to prevent a body armour worn by a Guardian from being deleted upon Guardian death by crafting Equipped Animated Guardian drops item on death on the Armourer's Workbench.

Revenants are best spectres right now, so you should use them. The guardian is immortal, mine never died so far, and i even did some 82 maps. If you die, all your minions will appear alive with you in ur HO (or town, depends where u revive), they dont die if you die. Use leer cast, Dying breath, Atziri steps, New Hyrri's Ire and some rare gloves or one of the recommended uniques, for guardian.

Hi!

I'm playing again PoE since beta and i'm using your build in my first HC tempest character, and now i'm level 60 (I'm very proud of it) and your build works very well.

Currently i'm in the stage when I switch to EB MoM ZO, but i'm afraid if that substracts some survability (or maybe i'm not used to play with those nodes). I'm running defensive auras (Purity of elements, Arctic armour) instead Wrath + Hatred, because my main focus is to stay alive and not to do more dps.

What do you thinkg about it?

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Sulik7 wrote:

Hi!

I'm playing again PoE since beta and i'm using your build in my first HC tempest character, and now i'm level 60 (I'm very proud of it) and your build works very well.

Currently i'm in the stage when I switch to EB MoM ZO, but i'm afraid if that substracts some survability (or maybe i'm not used to play with those nodes). I'm running defensive auras (Purity of elements, Arctic armour) instead Wrath + Hatred, because my main focus is to stay alive and not to do more dps.

What do you thinkg about it?

If you want to be tanky, you should go with temp chains instead of ele weakness, you can remove Sidebreath for a rare ammy with life and resis. Of course, you will have to use less jewels (1 or 2) in order to fill life nodes (the wheel and Heart and soul). I dont like purity of ele and arctic armour combo, since you are losing a lot of damage. You dont really need purity cuz u can capp easily, specially with no sidebreath equipped, and i dont really like AA. I would still go with hatred wrath combo. Just more life and temporal chains, and you have to play really careful, with some things like storm/ice/fire bearers mods and some map bosses (life malformation wich is super overtuned).
If you want a super defensive aura combo you should try Grace + Determination or Grace + AA(no iron reflexes, since will cost you so many points that is not worth the travel). Since you are not going with generosity for this auras, you can use a extra curse, enfeeble, after allocating whispers of doom. http://tinyurl.com/opd7aj7 Passive tree for 2 curses, lot of life, Deter + grace or AA+Grace.

Hello, this guide has been amazing to follow for my first summoner build. Currently playing in Warbands and this character has been a blast. Thank you for the time and dedication in sharing it with us, and helping everyone who has questions!

That being said I do have a question,
Why use MoM if you are going to run 2 auras and have 100% mana reserved? MoM has no effect if it has no mana to sacrifice, right?