[1.0.1b] Summoner Guide / Minion Guide

Thanks the for advice! When release hits will try and come up with something without MI and aegis to see if double andvarius is doable at all (without insane amulet+body armor resist rolls, I mean).

Got an idea for the upcoming animate weapon, get the nycta's lantern and use animated weapon with blind and quality added cold. Extra safety + possible damage. Even low freeze time should be enough for spectre's to kill everything.

Having such a hard time dropping sadima's touch, it gives me nothing but quantity, but man it's great, supposedly. Again all comes down to a great rare glove roll...which I never get, all trash.



P.S. So temple Piety is only douable with MI? It's not that I will make it that far in the foreseeable future.

Well no, I never used MI, but I suppose exploding zombies/skellies on her would kill her eventually although I don't like that strategy much. The bottom line is that you need to max minion resists, which is what you want aegis for.

But if you're into MF-ing you should probably not get aegis and just use an archon shield, and farm some regular easier content, skip very hard bosses. Aegis is really just for high elemental burst situations(or things like Kole if you have a 1k++ armor shield, I found it reduces blood smash damage by a lot.)

"

Allnamestaken wrote:

The thing is...recently bought 2 andvarius(es). Now my resists are pretty low, even aurumvorax does't save me. And I was used to having max resists....

Sell those andvarius and get rare MF rings. For the same price you will get about the same effective MF (iiq+iir), plus your resistances back

I would take Baalat advice, people always seem to disregard the power of iir/iiq rares. In terms of effectiveness they can beat andvarius b/c u can roll IIQ too.

I'm not disregarding...those two andvarius were 3 ex for both, one of them is 4% of perfect overall. Even if I will be able to sell them, or one of them, no way I will afford two good rares. I think with the upcoming change to quantity they might be going up...that is if rares can be legacy lol. Tried poe explorer, the best ones (the ones that are clearly much better than andvarius) are 60 ex, the others cost a bit more that andvarius, since everyone knows how shitty negative resists are. Well one can always get lucky on a good deal.


On a different topic, if I want my zombies as a meatshield only (as there is no way they will kill anything with two BM auras around), wouldn't it be better to use this setup Zombie + minion life + Multistrike + empower. That would net a lvl 24 fat multistriking zombies.

Zombies with melee splash adds to the aoe damage. And if you use Grasp the Infernal blow mechanic does a whopping 20% of the corpses' max hp in fire damage(with melee splash u can insta gib packs). Fire damage is important here since it synergizes with flammability, eleweakness which is used by BM's as well.

IMO, for me 8k hp zombies with 79% AR and around 250 regen(totem + vitality) with instant animation flasks for instant burst hp makes defensive support gems kinda pointless. If you really want awesome surviability I would use life steal support or warlords mark.

Edit: no matter how tanky you make your zombies they just seem to melt in certain situations
=(. I can't seem to find a way to work around it besides using a skele-totem for distraction. Maybe i'll carry a conversion trap in my inventory to switch to, i already carry frost wall for certain map bosses.

Empower is pointless on everything except viper strike it seems.
So on your experience they do get kills even with BMs running round, weird, mine probably can't kill shit because I don't yet have grasp nor multistrike and use two MF gems.

I would still try it. Am always up for experimentation I hadn't found anything better than stacking atk spd and splash damage for zombies so far. Maybe in the future some other interesting support gem comes out.

I am planning on making a summoner for MF, is a low life summoner a good idea for this so I can use leaftrap?

Running one right now, its awfull without shavronn's. I still do run it quite often even on maps, but even then I have to swich from low-life to full life and back constantly, depending on enemies. Too much work, once release hits I'll drop wondertraps, or will leave them for when I'll be running docks. Not worth it on maps, loss of exp is just too big, plus potential loss of a whole map. With shavs it would have been another story, but even them - other builds get more benefits from low life, increased damage, spelldamage. We reaistically (full summoner) only get the rarity.