(3.2) Leary's Auramancer (Low and High-end Summoner, under reconstruction ) w. Beginner guide

Sounds good, yeah was aiming for shav's aswell, also just makes it more comfortable to run those auras of, of life :D Thanks for the fast answer! I'm quite tempted to do a phys zombie main dmg build because of the buffs, but the AI is still guuuhh :D I was initially not going to play summoner this season, but my summoner blood is racing at the thought of any new specters lurking in act 9-10 :o

Probably going to run something along the lines of https://goo.gl/NkeuYk

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Candyface1337 wrote:

Sounds good, yeah was aiming for shav's aswell, also just makes it more comfortable to run those auras of, of life :D Thanks for the fast answer! I'm quite tempted to do a phys zombie main dmg build because of the buffs, but the AI is still guuuhh :D I was initially not going to play summoner this season, but my summoner blood is racing at the thought of any new specters lurking in act 9-10 :o

Probably going to run something along the lines of https://goo.gl/NkeuYk

Ye, still working on the guide. Included my classic version for you (the option Im most likely to go).

I also included a beginner's guide for those who are interested and pushed back the more informative non-build specific stuff to the second post (minion breakdown and video's are now below the spectre compendium)

any leveling uniques to try and pick up at the start?

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Bazztastic wrote:

any leveling uniques to try and pick up at the start?

When every leveling unique is like 5c? Nah, just make sure to know which recipes (the +1 fire sceptre and +1 minion helmet ones mainly)

+1 fire by getting a magic BBR linked sceptre (or wand) and sell it with a alteration and ruby ring

and the helmet you should start looking out for a bone spirit shield from lvl 15 on, then sell this with a transmute and a life flask to get a flask of animation, which you can then sell with a 4link helmet and alteration to get a +1 minion helmet.

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Bazztastic wrote:

any leveling uniques to try and pick up at the start?

I would recommend a Sidhebreath. https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Sidhebreath. The extra life, damage and movespeed is pretty potent across the board.

A Nomic's Storm I also found really amazing to level with. https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Nomic%27s_Storm. You get 40% move speed on full ES and the extra dex comes in very handy early on.

And of course don't forget The Baron. https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/The_Baron. If you can manage to get 2 blues on it very early, your minion life and damage output gets really insane early on. Even with a little bit of strength, you will notice a significant damage increase and survivability of your minions.

Zombies get a nice buff in 3.0 so don't be afraid to level with them along side your SRS. Their slam does some very nice damage and you don't need AOE support gem.

Skeletons got a huge buff as well. They still move as slow as heck, so they won't be your main clearing minion (unless you get the right uniques for it, like Queen's Escape), but they are insane single target damage dealers now.

With the new acts and monsters what do you think is the best spectre to use? ( so far lv 51 and using kitava heralds)

And what do you think about going with zealot's oath?

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itaizilca wrote:

With the new acts and monsters what do you think is the best spectre to use? ( so far lv 51 and using kitava heralds)

And what do you think about going with zealot's oath?

Spectre depends on your goals. Heralds are ok for leveling, but after that, prob just switch to flame/frost sentinels.

ZO is fine because it's so easy to reach, but you can't rely on it as a defense so don't invest too hard in it.

Is the Leveling process 1-69 build meant to be starting build until you are high enough to transfer to one of the others? For example can I follow that path and then swap easily to SRS Lowlife or will I need to level specifically for Lowlife SRS

what would you suggest, aurabot. aurmancer or summonmancer for this league?

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Dahhaka wrote:

Is the Leveling process 1-69 build meant to be starting build until you are high enough to transfer to one of the others? For example can I follow that path and then swap easily to SRS Lowlife or will I need to level specifically for Lowlife SRS

That leveling process works for any summoner, not even just the ones mentioned here. It's supergeneric

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what would you suggest, aurabot. aurmancer or summonmancer for this league?

depends what you enjoy, but Auramancer is still superstrong build elemental. If you run a fire-based EE skill (or arc/ball lightning with AoF) running phys spectres and zombies allows you to scale with hatred and phys to lighting and elemental weakness (thats what im doing right now with heretical guardians). It's way stronger than I even imagined, even at the start of maps, where I dont even have all aura effecrtiveness and curse effectiveness yet