[0.10.1] HC Necro-Witch Guide | How to survive and progress as a pure summoner.

I am curious about the middle health nodes.

Guide build

Discipline and Training build

The Build Summary tool at exile pro shows the Discipline and Training build to have the following differences:

+2 passive points
-30 str
-20 int
-16% life
+1% life regen
+30 maximum life
+8% all resistance
+44% increased armour
+34% maximum energy shield

Is this worth considering for Hardcore/Onslaught?

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Schn1tt3r wrote:

Looking at your gear and spotting no "blood magic" gem while saying you use 6 auras tells me:

Another build ruined by the last patch which fixed "Covenant" "Malachai" "Alpha Howl" etc snapshot trick. No way to reserve as many auras with no "reduced reservation" in passive tree or gear, am I right?

it still works., just carry the item switch with u to new areas

Its there anyway to facerools only with zombies? I dont really like spectres, and its there anyway to play summoner from low lvl? Cause im bored of freezing pulse leveling.

The Summoner is one of my favourite Character-Builds in POE. Maybe the reason why is, I have played a Necromancer in Diablo 2, LoD. After I've read so much summoner guides in the last weeks, yesterday I found a witch-summoner end-build with only 10 points left in my link-collection. I beg your pardon, but I don't know the source, where I've linked this Tree.

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMBAP0HYw5cEHQQlxGWFLAVIBVQFy8XUBmFGYYZihpsGo8c3B2qJKonqSmlKk0qmCzpL28xnjWSNuk5UjowOuE_J0QERX5GcUp9SshMLU25TeNOKk5tVcZV1lYtVytYB1uvZOdnoGvbbRluqm-ecLtzU30Yf8aApIIegwmHdohAiPGPRpAzks2S85Mnm6GbtZ2uoqOmV6aspwisR6xZrH-smLQMtfK8N7-XwfPDOsk9ykrMvM9l0NDZC9kT2wvdDeGI42rnY-ss8XbyHvJF9tr31_qA-tL7CfzF_gr-jw==

At this time I've played the HC-Summoner as a Templar, level 30. A Templar- & Shadow-Summoner are possible, but, as you can see, you will loose 5 or 6 skill points in the late endgame. So, yesterday I've decided to start a new HC-Char as a Witch. I want to try out, if it's possible or not, to follow the linked build in the HC-League, without spending too much life notes in the beginning tree as a witch. It works, but clarity and summon skeletons are necessary, to kill Brutus & Merveil on Act 1. For both I've used Firestorm with 4 Zombies and 6 skeletons from a save spot. You can quickly build up a 2H Dagger Shadow for make the quest The Caged Brute, kill Brutus, to get both skills, Clarity & Summon Skeletons; or ask your friends or buy them from trade channel. My main attack skill is Freezing Pulse, for AOE I use Firestorm and from time to time Frost Nova.

Purity of Flesh & Holy Strength will be my first life notes. With my Marauder I've found Raise Spectres! When I've wrote this I am at Level 18,5. It's time for Rock'n'Roll on Act 2!

Happy Summoning
Best Regards

Fallagar

ps I believe The Spectres are the salt in the soup! A Summoner without Spectres is like a sheriff without his star on his heart - or maybe a cowboy without cows is only a boy; a poor boy.

Looks like my tree =P.

Its slightly different u prob grabbed that a week ago. I bought some more ar/es pieces so I can run mana sheild now.

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Fallagar wrote:

The Summoner is one of my favourite Character-Builds in POE. Maybe the reason why is, I have played a Necromancer in Diablo 2, LoD. After I've read so much summoner guides in the last weeks, yesterday I found a witch-summoner...

Spoiler

end-build with only 10 points left in my link-collection. I beg your pardon, but I don't know the source, where I've linked this Tree.

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMBAP0HYw5cEHQQlxGWFLAVIBVQFy8XUBmFGYYZihpsGo8c3B2qJKonqSmlKk0qmCzpL28xnjWSNuk5UjowOuE_J0QERX5GcUp9SshMLU25TeNOKk5tVcZV1lYtVytYB1uvZOdnoGvbbRluqm-ecLtzU30Yf8aApIIegwmHdohAiPGPRpAzks2S85Mnm6GbtZ2uoqOmV6aspwisR6xZrH-smLQMtfK8N7-XwfPDOsk9ykrMvM9l0NDZC9kT2wvdDeGI42rnY-ss8XbyHvJF9tr31_qA-tL7CfzF_gr-jw==

At this time I've played the HC-Summoner as a Templar, level 30. A Templar- & Shadow-Summoner are possible, but, as you can see, you will loose 5 or 6 skill points in the late endgame. So, yesterday I've decided to start a new HC-Char as a Witch. I want to try out, if it's possible or not, to follow the linked build in the HC-League, without spending too much life notes in the beginning tree as a witch. It works, but clarity and summon skeletons are necessary, to kill Brutus & Merveil on Act 1. For both I've used Firestorm with 4 Zombies and 6 skeletons from a save spot. You can quickly build up a 2H Dagger Shadow for make the quest The Caged Brute, kill Brutus, to get both skills, Clarity & Summon Skeletons; or ask your friends or buy them from trade channel. My main attack skill is Freezing Pulse, for AOE I use Firestorm and from time to time Frost Nova.

Purity of Flesh & Holy Strength will be my first life notes. With my Marauder I've found Raise Spectres! When I've wrote this I am at Level 18,5. It's time for Rock'n'Roll on Act 2!

Happy Summoning
Best Regards

Fallagar

ps I believe The Spectres are the salt in the soup! A Summoner without Spectres is like a sheriff without his star on his heart - or maybe a cowboy without cows is only a boy; a poor boy.

I too enjoyed necromancer on d2, witch doctor was alright on d3... currently playing a witch summoner on standard and starting another on dominion league, my current standard tree at 64:

Saboteur for traps I think is important, I use a lot of fire and lightning traps now that I have ancestral bond.
Necromanic aegis is nice, I lost some defense personally but it lets me use a large shield to give my minions better armor and stats.
Sovereignity is quite nice for auras - since the 1.0 aura change I now just use a Clarity aura (stopped at 13) and Discipline - both linked to reduced mana.

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Decapitator wrote:

btw this is my dream smn weapon haha - if only....
this or midnight bargain, but this is extra sexy

Hey guys, so I'm one of those people who frankly doesn't trust myself to create a viable build, which led me to this awesome thread. The thing is, whenever I click on a link for the passive tree past 25, it keeps giving me the exact same tree. Am I doing something wrong, or does the internet just hate me?

Any help would be very welcome!

Thanks!

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NinjaMelons wrote:

Hey guys, so I'm one of those people who frankly doesn't trust myself to create a viable build, which led me to this awesome thread. The thing is, whenever I click on a link for the passive tree past 25, it keeps giving me the exact same tree. Am I doing something wrong, or does the internet just hate me?

Any help would be very welcome!

Thanks!

the original thread was made before the current patch. thus the skill tree was also different
since the website only does the current version then the links don't show anything in the changed sections. you will run into that alot in the older guides

Really good guide! But as you said on other comments, your skill tree was outdated in this guide :/.

Could you please link me your current skill tree that goes according to your guide on the new skill tree please :3?