[Major Damage/Mapping Improvements-Update 7.1.22 PoB/Vid] The Fortified Summoner: HoP MI Champion

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Sumidian wrote:

I can't make heads or tails of what is going on here. Average Damage - makes sense. But from there I'm flummoxed at the rest of the numbers as none of them seem to add up together properly.

Is there one of these numbers which is most useful, and practically applicable? As a reference point.

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Sumidian wrote:

After fiddling with maps for a bit I'm finally at 16 - felt weird this league to get there for some reason. But this is by far the most tanky build I've ever played at this point in the league. It can basically laugh at Ultimatums now. So fun!

But I picked up a cheap scepter with a really good setup - but it doesn't have Cold or Lightning Damage. So for now, since no Aul's, I'm going to add one of them to my Amulet, and just wanted to confirm that +Cold/Lightning Damage is the same as +Cold/Lighting Damage to Attacks in this case - as we want Cyclone to hit with the cold/lightning damage to then proc the EE keystone effect?

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Sumidian wrote:

Thank you! That tooltip is a life saver! I've been checking in POB up until now! LOL! You've been so helpful, you don't have a Twitch, or a Kofi, or something like that? I really appreciate the help as its made this league that much more enjoyable. And I'm learning a ton.

Found this which will boost my Enduring Cry and Increased Duration support. Hopefully can save a talent point or two with it on the tree. Now just need to find some Tainted Oil!

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KooperT wrote:

So I've put in a good chunk of currency towards this build and I don't think I can improve on it too much more without considerable investment (Aul's necklace is around 15ex currently) or a good minion helm with +3 or Hypothermia which are also quite costly.

It's also been tough to find a good weapon to utilize for this build, with just +1 spell gems / attack speed rolls, and enough open slots to multimod minion stats - so for now, I settled with what I have (with a cast socketed spell craft). So instead of running CWDT + Holy Relic, I have that in the weapon now.

This has freed up 4 slots on my glove - was originally running a CWDT + Golem + Feeding Frenzy.

Any thoughts on running a 3L or 4L spectre in this build? I know Animate Guardian was suggested, but I don't see much use for the Ephemeral/Kingmaker buffs since we already have perma-fortify, and I'm currently using a watcher's eye with % crit reduction - coupled with the corrupt on my shield, i'm already at around 80% crit reduction.

Instead of a golem, which would only provide around 4% phys mitigation (or attack speed if you went lightning golem), I was considering running a They of Tul spectre (grants 15% attack dodge & 15% spell dodge) which applies in an AoE on the floor. Normally not great for mapclear, but obviously can be very useful in the Ultimatums. Any other good options to consider? There's also the Xoph's Loyal spectres which can apply "Covered in Ash" but I heard it's very unreliable. Maybe Solar Guards/Flame Sentinels etc. for some additional ranged AoE? Or something with a curse on hit?

Alternatively I was thinking about just running an Animate Guardian with a blind aura chestpiece.

Overall the build is performing well and I'm working on high tier red maps without issues. I do notice that chaos damage/degens are extremely deadly on this character, more than I am used to, since our HP pool is quite low. Physical and elemental damage tickles, but sitting in any degen for more than 1-2 seconds is death.

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KooperT wrote:

So I've put in a good chunk of currency towards this build and I don't think I can improve on it too much more without considerable investment (Aul's necklace is around 15ex currently) or a good minion helm with +3 or Hypothermia which are also quite costly.

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It's also been tough to find a good weapon to utilize for this build, with just +1 spell gems / attack speed rolls, and enough open slots to multimod minion stats - so for now, I settled with what I have (with a cast socketed spell craft). So instead of running CWDT + Holy Relic, I have that in the weapon now.

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This has freed up 4 slots on my glove - was originally running a CWDT + Golem + Feeding Frenzy.

Any thoughts on running a 3L or 4L spectre in this build? I know Animate Guardian was suggested, but I don't see much use for the Ephemeral/Kingmaker buffs since we already have perma-fortify, and I'm currently using a watcher's eye with % crit reduction - coupled with the corrupt on my shield, i'm already at around 80% crit reduction.

Instead of a golem, which would only provide around 4% phys mitigation (or attack speed if you went lightning golem), I was considering running a They of Tul spectre (grants 15% attack dodge & 15% spell dodge) which applies in an AoE on the floor. Normally not great for mapclear, but obviously can be very useful in the Ultimatums. Any other good options to consider? There's also the Xoph's Loyal spectres which can apply "Covered in Ash" but I heard it's very unreliable. Maybe Solar Guards/Flame Sentinels etc. for some additional ranged AoE? Or something with a curse on hit?

Alternatively I was thinking about just running an Animate Guardian with a blind aura chestpiece.

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Overall the build is performing well and I'm working on high tier red maps without issues. I do notice that chaos damage/degens are extremely deadly on this character, more than I am used to, since our HP pool is quite low. Physical and elemental damage tickles, but sitting in any degen for more than 1-2 seconds is death.