[2.0]Rathik's NEWBIE FRIENDLY FUN&CHEAP FARMER, DPS Summoner. High AOE DMG, SURVIVAL."The Matriarch"

Sup, Rathik!
I really like u guide and have 1 question about MF.
In patch Version 0.9.12c
"End-Game Map Changes:

The player's "Increased Item Quantity" stat does not affect the drop rate of Map items any more. It does still increase the drop rate of everything else inside Maps."

Does it mean if i wanna farm only in maps - i need to have heavy IIR set.
And dont need IIQ, cuz stat does not afffect for drop Items.

Or

"Map items" = only "", and IIQ still usefull in da maps.

Sry for my bad english.
Thanks.

hi everyone,

how viable is this build against merciless dominus? I'm asking because I've never had a summoner and I have a lvl 80 witch with full respec available. I would like to do a 1000 dominus testruns with high IIR/IIQ to see what drops I get and keep a full log of it :)

thanks for the info

bye

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SoundwaveOiA wrote:

hi everyone,

how viable is this build against merciless dominus? I'm asking because I've never had a summoner and I have a lvl 80 witch with full respec available. I would like to do a 1000 dominus testruns with high IIR/IIQ to see what drops I get and keep a full log of it :)

thanks for the info

bye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCyYeZqUJBM

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Valkaneer wrote:

Could someone help me out with this. I have been reading the comments and I see a lot of "This build will get you owned till lvl 60+ and you need ppl to help you if you want to live". So how exactly does "Rathik's NEWBIE FRIENDLY FUN&CHEAP FARMER" Fit the bill at all? All I read is this build is not newbie friendly, not any good for solo till high lvls, and IMOF use this face breaker build thing instead. So how exactly is this newbie friendly when the only time it is friendly is when you are no longer a noob?

It sounds interesting, but also seems like this is not something a noob like me would want to attempt, seems to me you have to have the gear before you attempt this build too.

Ignore them.
And the facebreaker power leveling guide is NOT for new players.

Take the word of players that did this build on nemesis/onslaught on brand new economy.

Links are on first page.

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/479976/page/88#p5376015

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mushroomy wrote:

Sup, Rathik!
I really like u guide and have 1 question about MF.
In patch Version 0.9.12c
"End-Game Map Changes:

The player's "Increased Item Quantity" stat does not affect the drop rate of Map items any more. It does still increase the drop rate of everything else inside Maps."

Does it mean if i wanna farm only in maps - i need to have heavy IIR set.
And dont need IIQ, cuz stat does not afffect for drop Items.

Or

"Map items" = only "

", and IIQ still usefull in da maps.

Sry for my bad english.
Thanks.

The only thing that effects map drops is the map quantity from the map.

Read carefully what is says.

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PoE wiki has a very detail explanation about it, here are the links.

I don't know the exact formulas and this is just the way I view the chances that IIR and IIQ effect drops. I may be wrong. They do make sense to me though.

Rarity
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Rarity

Item Quantity gem
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Item_Quantity

Drop Rate
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Drop_Rate

Item quantity increase the items that monsters drop, including Orbs.
On my understanding it goes like this.
If a monster has a chance to drop 1 item and you have 100%IIQ the monster will drop 2 items.

Item quantity does not increase map drops directly but if a monster is to drop 2 items because of your 100% IIQ, the second item could be a map.
Only value that effects map drops directly is the maps quantity.
It does not effect the level of the map that will drop though.

Item Rarity gem
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Item_Rarity

Item rarity effects if a dropped item will be magic, rare or unique.
Again, my understanding.
If a unique item has a 1% chance to drop and you have 500%IIR the chance to drop increases to 6%.

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Niall wrote:

So I misread the thread a little and switched from the Facebreaker to the Summoner a little early, at level 61, and I'm being destroyed in most of Act 3. I currently have a level 15 20% quality Raise Zombie, and a level 15 12% quality Raise Skeleton, and the rest of my gems have no quality. Will levelling the gems to as high as my level will allow salvage the build? My gear is bad but I can't afford to buy good gear now only to replace it come level 68.

Thats odd I switched to summoning act 3 cruel and havent had an issue. I died once in a3 merciless just tonight on that unique lightning boss that warps on top of you just after I soloed vaal (easily) and didn't have any zombies up.

Thats the only time I've died. Clear speed has been exceptional. Im 61 myself and using:



Getting multistrike on the zombies helps A LOT. I used carrion queens till I got to cruel solaris (gmp, minion damage, leech), then used fire banner guys (gmp, minion damage, leech) through the rest of a3c until merciless a3 (where I am now using merciless carrion queens until I get to solaris again). These spectre's clear groups incredibly fast, and the zombies/skellies eat bosses/rares alive.

All bosses so far but dominus have been incredibly easy to solo, mostly just using skellys. Replace the totem with added fire and spam them on top of piety like in rathiks vid. Hide from ice spears, run from fire piety, spam skels. Merciless vaal died in about 40 seconds to zombies/skels alone, didnt even bother with specs. Note I ran from cruel dominus after killing all his adds and fighting him in caster mode, his shock nova move would constantly wipe out all the summons. I went and got a party and came back spamming skellies and zombies. No problem.

Oh voidbearers with added chaos, leech, and gmp are freaking incredible. I farmed a few levels in docks cruel with them and it was crazy in a 6man party with just 3 vb's running around.

Both zombies and spectre's hardly ever die. Evangelists are awesome too. The zombies alone do crazy damage. I have all minion keystones, all minion life nodes, and all but 3 minion damage nodes. Im currently filling out energy shield nodes now so I can refund my hp nodes and go CI by the end of a3m questing. Drops rates even with mediocre gear have been great.

I only just got multistrike at 60 so I need to drop that faster attacks and replace it with meele physical damage. My dex is retardedly low atm Ill grab a 30 node and some more on gear soon. I have better gear waiting for me to borrow from my wander till the endgame loots start flowing in.

I think for now Im going to use a +2 minion helm for zombies and chest for spectre's; a) wont be buying a 5link for awhile still (saving for a 5l white vaal regalia to start playing with, and at 100 and counting orbs of alteration to try to roll %/# es on a blue then regal it).

Got that 13% zombie gem for 2co heheh.

In 6man groups I really prefer just using spec's as 9 zombies running around can make things a little hectic for everyone else. But I duo maps on my wander with a buddy a lot so I can go the whole party with him. For 6mans I will likely continue to just let spectres deal my dmg while I cull with arc, and bring out the other stuff on bosses if needed.

very nice guide i will follow it tnx!!

I went against everything this guide said and built this for the 1 week race. I've never played a summoner before and wanted to see it in action. With no starting gear (obviously), I have leveled the entire time as a summoner witch using zombies and freezing pulse. Needless to say, it has been very slow going and very boring. Level 26 atm and can't wait to get to cruel, but it's gonna be a while.

There is no doubt this is a solid guide, but it takes a long time to kick in. I'm hoping to get to 65 in the race and not rip so I can switch her to nemesis and twink the hell out of her.

great guide.
thanks so much for putting this together. just started playing and the skill map can be a bit overwhelming. the guide and the links to resources are hugely helpful.

Is this at all viable using Tabula for the 6L?
Im trying this, and my ES is SOOOOO low