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

An armor/es hybrid chest will roll rrgbb much easier. But you really just had an incredibly bad string of luck. I tried to get RRRB on an es boots once, spent 200 chroms and no luck. A friend of mine says let me try, i trade it to him, and he gets 4R!!!! on the second chrome.

Random is random, it can suck sometimes.

For instance I have done 15-20 68-71 maps in the last 3 days and not a SINGLE 70+ map has dropped for me.

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Balbafu wrote:

Cimos21, how do you run 4 auras on mana alone? I can barely run three and have most of the aura nodes...

This sounds ridiculous, but I take off wrath every time I cast a minion, then turn it on again. I have exactly 106 mana unreserved, and my spelltotem/skeles/fastercasting costs 105 mana. With 87.5 mana regen, I dont face any problems casting curses, totems, and offerings.

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Vomitorivm wrote:

@Cimos Interesting, you didn't take Minion Instability but Inner Force? I mean MI is just a huge boost virtually for free and IF is rather useless since you can't deal much damage yourself anyway, or do you?

And Elemental Equilibrium? You know that if you attack with multiple elements at once (wrath, hatred), you will lose DPS and massively lose DPS if you attack with all 3. Why did you chose it?

Have you thought about Whispers of Doom? I think it's more valuable to have permanent Vulnerability/Enfeeble + Temporal Chains on all enemies than to get one more aura node.

Hey buddy, I dont actually have Elemental Equilibrium...not sure where you got that. I do o have IF, and I originally got it because I had low ES/res, but now I have good ES and res, and I totally forgot that it doesnt add to minions. Going to reassign those 3 points.

Minion instability? I have heard bad reports from this - saying it has poor damage, and I thought - Id rather have minions leech or regen back to full life when they are low life, than just explode causing me to cast a new one. Am I wrong? Is minion instability really that good?

Hey guys, I'm new to this 'Matriarch' summoner build and I need a bit of help with my gear! Could you suggest some upgrades I could do with my gear for no more than 10-15 chaos per each piece. Also what time would be the best to switch to CI? I'm currently at 2368 ES and 693 life i'm hoping its not low at my current level 68? If so how can I increase my ES easier?

I linked all my gear and passive tree below, waiting for suggestions :)

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Leapp wrote:

Hey guys, I'm new to this 'Matriarch' summoner build and I need a bit of help with my gear! Could you suggest some upgrades I could do with my gear for no more than 10-15 chaos per each piece. Also what time would be the best to switch to CI? I'm currently at 2368 ES and 693 life i'm hoping its not low at my current level 68? If so how can I increase my ES easier?

I linked all my gear and passive tree below, waiting for suggestions :)

Hello Leapp. In my experience with 2 CI characters, 2-3K ES is when you switch to CI. This is usually low-mid 60s. At 68, I'd say you're almost ready, but you need to get some more ES.

1) If you switch to CI, you will immediately get more ES, because of the 4 nodes behind CI. The last one is 12% more maximum ES, which is multiplicative instead of all the other ES nodes that say % increased maximum ES. So that 12%more will give you alot of ES.

2) Your wand's only useful stats are mana and cast speed if you are a summoner. Here is a weapon you can get for like 1 chaos, that will add alot of ES.

3) The easiest places to upgrade ES for your gear is (a)Chest (b)Shield (c)Helm. Good luck with your search!

Another update: this build rocks...especially in 1.0.6. Zombies DPS is crazy...with my spec and gems, knowing what I know about DPS, I would guess that the 8x Zombies are doing over 40K DPS. But that's just a guess based on how fast things are dieing...when hit by zombies.

This build requires minimal gear, especially if you dont care about MF or snapshotting. I am only using Chober Chaber for snapshotting, as switching weapon is EZ...and doesnt require you to lug around a bunch of gear.

Evangelists with Added Fire / Life Leech / Increased AOE are insane. The shield they use is awesome for projectiles ranged attacks, and with added fire and life leech they are basically invincible... I have had my entire zombie army wiped in a map before, only to look and see that both of my evangelists are full HP...lol.

Minion AI is way better after the patch. My zombies literally go attack anything I curse or desecrate, and go specifically to the area where my mouse cursor is when cusring/desecrating.

The only 1.0.6 questions are whether to keep using Arc if culling for groups, and how to fit Raging Spirit into the build.

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Cimos21 wrote:

Minion instability? I have heard bad reports from this - saying it has poor damage, and I thought - Id rather have minions leech or regen back to full life when they are low life, than just explode causing me to cast a new one. Am I wrong? Is minion instability really that good?

MI is bad overall. Its main use is (was) being able to go throught content (bosses) that destroyed your army within a second via spaming skellies.

Now you have desecrate+ summon more zombies, although you can (should) skip those scenarios if you aren't prepared, the risk/reward ratio is too low.

TL,DR: MI sucks. Maybe (maaaybe) use it while leveling.

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dulahan200 wrote:

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Cimos21 wrote:

Minion instability? I have heard bad reports from this - saying it has poor damage, and I thought - Id rather have minions leech or regen back to full life when they are low life, than just explode causing me to cast a new one. Am I wrong? Is minion instability really that good?

MI is bad overall. Its main use is (was) being able to go throught content (bosses) that destroyed your army within a second via spaming skellies.

Now you have desecrate+ summon more zombies, although you can (should) skip those scenarios if you aren't prepared, the risk/reward ratio is too low.

TL,DR: MI sucks. Maybe (maaaybe) use it while leveling.

true regret that point MI is useless.

How's the clear speed on this build? I use to run a RF spork.. how's this compared to that?
Also, if i decide to go CI.. is a 6L Shavronne's good for this build?

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HighBlow wrote:

What did you guys changed since 1.0.6 in skill tree or gem setups? My Leveling gear should i change something (snapshoting still works?):

Passives:
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMAB2MOSBEvEVARlhzcJ6kvbzvhVytr220ZcLtzU30Yfll_xohrkyeZmqKjpyu297vWv5fB88k92RPi9-OE5oHrY-yK8h4=

updated gear

Go low life if you have shavs and run 5+ auras. Your minions will probably not die at all