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

At work ffs :(

Can't wait till I get home and do some testing...
So excited :)

Also thanks for the guide Rathik! summoner build is the most fun I had in a long time playing Poe.

Flesh offering is 3 seconds duration (no quality gem) + 0.5 per extra Corpse consumed, so Desecrate + Flesh Offering provide a 4 seconds buff without additional corpses.

I'm just thinking if Summon Raging Spirit can replace Arc, but this will work just if the zombies follow the Spirits aggro (the reason that I used Arc until now). Need to do some tests.

Just made it to lunaris. swapped to burning miscreations. Found they are killing stuff quicker than my zombies atm, am finding most stuff almost instantly dies. Started farming catacombs just by running through the area. since my zombies and i seem too slow for the cull going to run the specters with my iq/ir gems for now.

looking forward to everyone else opinions of the new update

This is a decent build, but it does not have good survivability, simply because it has no armor. Even if you have alot of ES and CI youre armor is still shit and you will take ALOT of dmg if you get hit

Desecrate + Flesh is Sick.

But: More Buttons to trigger... 1 Curse Less -> 2 New Skills.

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CupcakeFactory wrote:

Desecrate + Flesh is Sick.

But: More Buttons to trigger... 1 Curse Less -> 2 New Skills.

Yeah i ditched my curses in favor of desecrate and bone and flesh offering. found stuff was dying to quick to curse.

need some advice. I have 2 dead chrs, a 60 scion and a 57 witch (not used in a long time so free respec on the witch) with the new skills do you see either of them being viable sooner than the 68 stated in the original guide?
if not I will take one and level some more then roll it over to this.

I have been playing CF and IB builds but this looks like something I can really stack MF on and go.

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Zaluron wrote:

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CupcakeFactory wrote:

Desecrate + Flesh is Sick.

But: More Buttons to trigger... 1 Curse Less -> 2 New Skills.

Yeah i ditched my curses in favor of desecrate and bone and flesh offering. found stuff was dying to quick to curse.

Yeah. Bone is not so important but nice to have (imho). Most stuff is dying incredible fast so my
Zombies dont have to Block that much. And with Life Regen/Steal they are at max Life
most of time.

But I´m only doing Piety runs, so dunno about maps.

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crystall wrote:

summoner now fun to play and viable but still far far away from OP.

Yeah, don't undrstand why people say summoner is OP, it isn't true, I've 87summoner and he isn't OP, really guys you're enhanced and it's good but for now we aren't OP just because we can do solo piety or dominus merciless.

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Daddyboo wrote:

need some advice. I have 2 dead chrs, a 60 scion and a 57 witch (not used in a long time so free respec on the witch) with the new skills do you see either of them being viable sooner than the 68 stated in the original guide?
if not I will take one and level some more then roll it over to this.

I have been playing CF and IB builds but this looks like something I can really stack MF on and go.

Prior to the Summon Buff of the most recent patch it was viable sooner than 68 (Summoner currently at 53 and clearing content fairly consistently).

It might not be quite as fast as other builds, but once your Zombies are strong enough to actually kill and not just blow up constantly the build is viable.

I'd tried Merciless Prison earlier this week and was having difficulty due to Lightning Arrow destroying my Zombies faster than they could kill/reach targets (not yet 20 to get resists).

Post Patch they were barely taking damage from the same Archers. Brutus did manage to kill 5 of the 7 Zombies along with however many skeletons died in the fight, however he still went down fairly quickly. If I'd had desecrate to keep refreshing my Zombies it would have been easier still (And then add Offering...)

If the damage on the Raging Spirits is high enough, it should be even easier to run early game (use them as your DPS spell, benefiting from Minion Damage nodes). It will definitely give more benefit to Minion Damage early on.