Svalinn Question regarding Chaos Minion Army

What would be a good elemental spell to utilize with Chaos Minion Army? for Svalinn to trigger on block?

anyone?

No idea. Maybe something that shocks or chill/bonechill. Not sure if u will get enough ailment effect though. Which character are you using it on? Can't see the reset of your build.

I'm looking at some other minion builds, don't really see people utilizing it for that. Minion builds are usually pretty tight on sockets.

Maybe elemental golem? If you're not using one of the other golems? Detonate dead?

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Belegur85#5784 wrote:

No idea. Maybe something that shocks or chill/bonechill. Not sure if u will get enough ailment effect though. Which character are you using it on? Can't see the reset of your build.

I'm looking at some other minion builds, don't really see people utilizing it for that. Minion builds are usually pretty tight on sockets.

Maybe elemental golem? If you're not using one of the other golems? Detonate dead?

Yeah that's what I was thinking too, that other minion builds don't really use Svalinn to proc an elemental spell on block.

It isn't my build, it's someone else's. But I wanted to see how to improve the build.

This is their POB link: https://pobb.in/heb_il8lTBE1

Looks like they have some pretty good gear. They could try and get some better implicit on the shield, but with aura needing to be in helmet, looks like the gem set up is pretty full and locked in.

Forbidden Rite + Portal

Joke aside, I'd go purely defensive. You should not be getting hit when playing minions; it's their job to tank for you. Anything offensive would be unreliable, and it's always better to buff the defense when the pew pew targets you.

Frost Shield will put up a shield around you that absorbs 20% damage and grants you a spell crit buff. This might be too dangerous if you have a lot of ES.

Frost Wall will put up a barrier.

Sigil of Power will create a field that will eventually create a zone where enemies deal less damage, but this isn't very reliable on a trigger setup.

Glacial Cascade has a built in knockback.

Purifying Flame creates consecrated ground.

Dash with "attack in place" selected should have you dash away from the enemy.

If you don't already have a golem, Stone Golem of Safeguarding will create a golem that absorbs 18% melee damage (at 20% quality).

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Aldonés#1294 wrote:

Forbidden Rite + Portal

Joke aside, I'd go purely defensive. You should not be getting hit when playing minions; it's their job to tank for you. Anything offensive would be unreliable, and it's always better to buff the defense when the pew pew targets you.

Frost Shield will put up a shield around you that absorbs 20% damage and grants you a spell crit buff. This might be too dangerous if you have a lot of ES.

Frost Wall will put up a barrier.

Sigil of Power will create a field that will eventually create a zone where enemies deal less damage, but this isn't very reliable on a trigger setup.

Glacial Cascade has a built in knockback.

Purifying Flame creates consecrated ground.

Dash with "attack in place" selected should have you dash away from the enemy.

If you don't already have a golem, Stone Golem of Safeguarding will create a golem that absorbs 18% melee damage (at 20% quality).

Any way to improve the chaos damage? outside of Jewels with more chaos/physical damage to improve poison DPS. Large Cluster jewel to grant 10% minion damage per passive?
Any other suggestions? those are super costly.

I don't know of any chaos damage utility spells. I assume you already have a means of maxing out Wither, and that buff is too potent to leave in the hands of cast on block. Shock will benefit your minions, but your hit damage is likely too low to make that viable.

It's been a long time since I've played any minion build. I'd look at Ghazzy's guides. He has some good chaos focused minion builds. You can check out his YouTube channel as well. Most of his updated guides have written and video versions.

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Aldonés#1294 wrote:

I don't know of any chaos damage utility spells. I assume you already have a means of maxing out Wither, and that buff is too potent to leave in the hands of cast on block. Shock will benefit your minions, but your hit damage is likely too low to make that viable.

It's been a long time since I've played any minion build. I'd look at Ghazzy's guides. He has some good chaos focused minion builds. You can check out his YouTube channel as well. Most of his updated guides have written and video versions.

This is actually Ghazzy's guide xD

But I'll ask him, to see what he can do to improve it further, for more damage. The build struggles on killing quickly. It's very tanky though.

There's not a crossover between chaos and elemental spells in this context that I'm aware of. The spells that have both are Voltaxic burst and Alchemist mark, which I don't think will be useful here. Why I suggested ailments for buffing damage, but I don't think you will scale it enough. So that leaves defensive or utility, which is probably going to be less useful than more minion gems. I've seen some of Ghazzy's minion build guides, I think he would of considered it, but maybe he has some ideas about it. Another question would be what are the gems on the current build that would be dropped to fit something in. They all look pretty useful to me.

Maybe something that procs wither stacks, but I don't think you will want to be blocking enough for it to be useful. Usually the player is trying not to get hit when using minions.

Something I have seen on some builds is the use of Volatile dead for consuming corpses and potentially benefiting necromancer ascendancies and increased cast speed. Not sure that can fit in here though, it's more for other builds specifically utilising it.