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

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Haaken wrote:

but there are lots of chaos enemys?
why much energy shield if im oneshot to chaos anyway?

Maybe you should read the CI tooltip

[Removed by Support]
wow .. this was really bad.. -.- ^^

sorry guys, should have known that!

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Sirais wrote:

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Sirais wrote:

currently i have a lvl 20 non Quality Raise zombie and a lvl 17 Q20 Raise zombie.
nearly every other gem has a Break even point where it better to switch to the Quality
gem.
Not so with Raise Zombie it seems to me. is the lvl 20 one so much better than the Quality from the lower level gem ? Or is it only some strange experience i made ?

does noone know the answer ?

how can i realy test the strength and survivability of my minions ?
isnt it all pure guessing?

Before the patch for Summoners, it was always better to use level 20 Raise Zombie gem. At that level, they get resistances and thus, in my experience, zombies became more tanky and dies less frequently than the lower levels. Now after the patch, there might be a difference but I believe its just very small.

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HighBlow wrote:

does snapshotting still works? i can't do it anymore.

If you don't have a 6L regalia, you can summon the zombies in a tabula rasa and then switch to a random regalia with good ES, works perfect for me.

Of course snapshotting is extremely time consuming if your minions die fast, so it's just a temporal solution until you get your 6L regalia.

For snapshotting you need at minimum a chober chaber + sidhebreath + tabula rasa to be worth the time, also lvl 20 zombies are incredibly useful, that's like 7,5 exalts total (much cheaper than a montregul + 6L at around 100 exalts)

PS: You can not summon zombies and specters in the same tabula rasa! Sadly snapshottings only works with the upper left socket of the 6L.

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Vomitorivm wrote:

Sadly snapshottings only works with the upper left socket of the 6L.

I work with the lower-right socket on 6L-Regalia and Tabula. Snapshot only for specters.

1-2-3 gems leveling in switching weapons

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Flesh offering will provide a lot more DPS than DD, and flesh offering doesnt need support gems. I don't even use increased duration with it. The 40% attackspeed for your zombies/spectres/spirits is just insane...

DD would just use up corpses that you need for flesh offering. If you want spells to cast during downtime...use Raging spirit.

I run 4 auras, so I had to cut skeletons and Arc in favor of raging spirit. 8x Zombies are pretty good at culling anyway when they have multistrike and melee splash.

I've listen to your advice and tried that Flesh Offering and you were right, its insane.
I'm taking Piety down now twice as fast. Thanks for that tip! :)

Also do you know what could I link Raging Spirit too to make it stronger? Or is it good enough on its own?

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Nauzhror wrote:

Build works fairly well still not great for leveling though it seems, even after patch 1.0.6.

Was playing it on Nemesis, but just RIP'ed to Cruel Dominus at level 57.

Exactly what happened to me ... went fairly well up to Cruel Dom at lvl 57 ... im being slaughtered and slaughtered.
Dead end ... guess i' ll try something else ..

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Yloss wrote:

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Nauzhror wrote:

Build works fairly well still not great for leveling though it seems, even after patch 1.0.6.

Was playing it on Nemesis, but just RIP'ed to Cruel Dominus at level 57.

Exactly what happened to me ... went fairly well up to Cruel Dom at lvl 57 ... im being slaughtered and slaughtered.
Dead end ... guess i' ll try something else ..

You could join a public group and beat Dominus that way, that's what I did on my summoner.

So far post 1.0.6 I've made the following modifications to this build (I run the CI version):

1. Added Flesh Offering + Bone Offering + Desecrate + Increased Duration
2. Dropped Whispers of Doom but kept Hex Master. Flesh Offering and Bone Offering eliminate the need for a second curse. For my curse I run Temporal Chains.
3. Dropped Minion Instability
4. Grabbed all the new minion nodes except Necromantic Aegis and the ones behind it
5. Eliminated skeletons entirely. Spectres+Zombies kill plenty fast.
6. Eliminated Culling Strike + Arc + IIR. Maybe in a group you'd still need Cull but I don't group.
7. Put IIR on my Spectres and Zombies since I'm not culling anymore
8. Run Shock Nova + Faster Cast for breaking urns. :p
9. Run Cast on Damage Taken L4 + Molten Shell L9 + Enduring Cry L7. Not sure if this is the best survival setup or not but seems to work pretty good.

I'm progressing in maps but have only done up to 73 maps so far, maybe at higher maps I'll find out if I broke something ;)

Anyway if I've went this far I may as well post my spec and gear