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I would like to submit my summoner Witch. So, what makes my summoner witch stand out from the others?

First of all i only use minions, i dont use any other skills like firestorm to rain on the enemies while my minions fight. However, other skills are often considered a must for high lvl summoner builds. But my build has solved this problem.

My witch has Skeletons linked to a Faster Cast Rate gem, and why is that? Well, ppl who play summoner will probally notice how skeletons seem to "go afk" and not attack the enemy monsters. My build solves this problem by simply respamming the skeleton skill with a pretty high cast rate (0,65 secs for 5 skeletons). (Updated for 9,12: more like 0,5 for 2 skeletons, but skeletons have more life due to the new patch.) This means that i can summon my skeleton next to the enemies very fast in order to actually make the skeletons attack the enemies. (Skeletons who are too far away just walk around randomly.)

In order to get this Fcr, i combine mana regen skills with faster cast rate skills in the passive skill tree. (Updated build in 9,12 also uses haste, which also gives fcr, and also makes my minions attack faster at the same time.) I also have mana regen on my gear though. Forexample my amulet gives 60 percent more mana regen.

The most important skill for this build is Clarity, and why is that? Well, mana regen passive skills and mana regen stats stack with clarity, so if i have an amulet with 60 percent mana regen, i also boost clairty by 60 percent. When i dont have clairty on, i only got like 40 mana regen per second, but when i use clairty, it goes up to 119 per second, even though clarity says it only gives me 20 mana more per second.

The few things i havent covered in my build are zombies and curses. Now, i CANNOT summon my zombies so that the mana regens to max every time i use the skill. But this is because i linked more passive skill gems to zombies. However, with 119 mana per second (Updated for 9,12: More like 157 mana per second.) i can still raise the zombies very very fast without using mana pots.

I placed a point in whispers of doom for this build. This allows me to cast 2 curses on the enemies. I use 1 curse linked to a totem, which means that the totem will basically do the casting process for me. Then i haft to use the other curse myself, but with 0,4 cast speed for my my own curse, it doesnt really delay me from spamming minions that much. There are a few other thing in this build that im not going to cover, just because they are not connected to minion and curse spamming.

So how does it stand out from a normal summoner?
1: Faster cast rate for a minion skill, which probally sounds really stupid but it is not stupid.
2: Doesnt use a skill like firestorm or fireball, relies on spamming the skeletons so that the mana regens to max every time the skill is used.
3: Does not attempt to get a high amount of passive skill gems for minions, this is because the mana cost will grow higher. The minions dont need to be that good when they are in never ending numbers.
4: Does not need mana pots or health. Allright im not sure about this one, but i just had to add it.
5: (for updated version). Haste aura in a build that only uses minions.

Does the build have a weakness? Well, its not chaos damage since the build uses CI. Maybe having monsters run past your skeletons to attack you, but when you learn the micro management for the build, there is no real weakness for it. Monsters that run very fast is the only one i will add as a weakness. (Allthough i have a curse called temporial chains that will slow thesse down.)

Keep in mind that the build is very vulnerable by itself, but it makes up for this by having a non stop respam of skeletons to block enemies off. Also zombies make a great defense for the build.

The build is prob. going to suck in PvP, but its defitnetly good for farming since it doesnt need ultra good items, item stats that are important are only Mana Regen, ressits and energy shield, and sockets of course.

Skilltree: (I am missing some fcr nodes, mana nodes, buff nodes and aura nodes. But the intentended goal can be achieved for something like lvl 80 or maybe a bit more.)

THIS IS UPDATED FOR 9,12

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAQMAAYFuigWqm1UNMSecD2ZMTBHES7wTayO-FLN6rRfvGN4Yum2EGknwSSF52nohnXQyIa479ipDudcsE_JWLiR0mjLquew5S11FPbebNz-eX01CTNa8RA31RElHOJxKJksZSsXTCk0zvqtOYownU_ror1UcfUZWJRf_Yzq_yGSu361mEqjuZ-ky1G7B1fFyoJ9TdwAWCXescSt50r5penHH_HyGyhl9IZMAfppk04KqKcSQaVMllhxlapzFRM2hCJm_o1mqTacuWc6nmHqRp58YX6m_B2KrKgU5rXb3Lq5zcQOzZGVKtAoPW7QO8i65Y47FvSG7Vr37qXG_f_fiwL_LyMN-w33IOTAByrm9kctBHRHNymZj0vGr1tTRnIPZCR3Z2zMiuOIy-3Xi9gc97SUyS_OBOCL1ObqP-JMbnP2YbdP_Nxmf

Build #8 made me really go wow at what they put together!