[2.4]Animate Weapon Summoner. 2 BUILDS! Poison OR Elemental - Max Block, EB/MoM. Atziri Video!

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Nurbel wrote:

Additional Notes:

You should Mention that Quality on AW is Key, also Quality on Generosity is very good (also on Auras, but not that much).

Instead of Spelltotem+Ice Nova you can Use Freezing Pulse+GMP (Quality on FP is very good). You only need to apply EE once every few seconds, so continous casting is not that necessary.
It also tells you Minions to "go" where you cast. So you can control them a bit better.

For Curses, go for Elemental Weakness. Vulnerability is only the best Option if you play AW on Poison.

cheers

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Nurbel wrote:

I don't know why there are more Skillbar buttons. Yes, there are Builds out there who need 2 but...

Some weeks ago, Chris mentioned that they will add more Buttons for Skills. This cannot be that hard to implement.

I also think that they should put some skills together for Summoners. It's the only Class that really need every Socket on the Gear for Skills and even than it's not enough. While it's cool that you have options for the most situations to counter them, you have to have them ready when you need them.

I really want to link a CWDT setup with Bone offering, to get the Block chance when i take Damage. But i already cannot socket all Skills that i want to.

cheers

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ThatsSoGoodman wrote:

Hey I haven't seen anyone mention it yet, but the item Jorrhast's Blacksteel is an item from Tempest League that might be fun with this build. It's a 2-H, so you'd rely more on Rumi's for max block, but it could be fun to try.

They're only like 10c in PSC, so at least it might be worth picking up to test with.

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Nurbel wrote:

I testet Jorrhast's Blacksteel while the Tempest league was running (Ripped People sold them cheap on Standart x)). In my Opinion, this item is best in slot for an AW Build. Sure, your Weapons don't last that long (~77 seconds as Necromancer, all duration nodes and inc. Duration support Gem) but running around with 120 to 160 Weapons in Groups is fucking Amazing. BUT, the lag and Framerate drop is crazy. So going for the maximum amount of Weapons is not that good, but you spent less time on Summoning and even that the Weapons don't last that long, in the End you have an increase in clearspeed. Especially when soloing and bad rng happens, you still have enough Minions to fight with.

I Build this on life, with Kaom's heart ect. and had about 7,8k life. But that's just life and not the best defence, so as the OP said, for leveling this Item is not the best choice. For having much fun it is indeed.

You don't need that much defence as an AW Summoner. I leveled with the Life Build (+1 Staff and Blood Magic Vagan craft...~650 life per cast :D) from 93 to 97 without problems and Deaths (one death from Flamebearers...i hate that Mod) but it worked "well" No regen/slower regen maps sucked balls, but in a Group it was okay'ish. If you want to level solo, go for Poison AW (AW-added chaos-poison-minion dam-splash-inc. duration) so you can drop wrath and anger for defensive auras like Grace and Determenation. Less Damage, but also a viable option. I leveled as this last league to 92. At that point i switched to low life, which should be the goal for everyone who want to level close to 100 with an AW build, and mostly solod until 96 where i stopped.

The defence you achieve is amazing and totally worth it. But it's expensive. My old poison Character runs like 8,5k es 700es regen with ZO, 17k armour, overcapped resists, stun and Freeze immunity and enough damage to do maps without stress. Not the best clearspeed but safe and i didn't die once from 91 to 96. I ran mostly 8 mod maps with 120+ quantity with really dangerous mods from T9 till T15.

Keeping your eyes open and good positioning will safe you more XP than everything else.
I played many Builds and the only Build i consider getting to level 100 is an AW Build on low Life, but this is only my opinion ^^

cheers

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Organics wrote:

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Nurbel wrote:

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Maaan if I had the currency I would totally roll low life.

Did you use Jorrhast's with the poison build? How on earth did you get those colours? Must have been expensive.

I'll have to work hard to prove you wrong about lowlife being the only build being able to reach 100.. haha. 7 more levels to go!

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Nurbel wrote:

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Organics wrote:

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Nurbel wrote:

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Maaan if I had the currency I would totally roll low life.

Did you use Jorrhast's with the poison build? How on earth did you get those colours? Must have been expensive.

I'll have to work hard to prove you wrong about lowlife being the only build being able to reach 100.. haha. 7 more levels to go!

No, i didn't use Jorrhast's with poison, because back then the mechanic of Poison like today was not in the Game. I just used a Tabula for the Test, so i did not colour the Mace for that ^^

LowLife AW is not the only Build that can reach 100, it is the only Build that i would go for 100 (which i will do, but soloing from 97 1/2 to 100 is...yeah ^^). I respecced my old 93 Witch to Necromancer and AW yesterday (Elemental Based) and the Damage push is insane compared to my Scion (which is not an ascendant yet, i don't want to RIP in the Fucking Lab, which is not hard as an ES based Character, especially when at lvl 97).

I still want to go lowLife Bloodmagic, but for that i need the Fucking Stone Golem buff enchant on my Helmet -.-*