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

another quick update about my progress. I dont know why people say summoners are boring I should have made a summoner ages ago this is tons of fun, nothing beats having your own personal zombie virus the only thing that could make this funner is if when the zombies killed things it turned into a zombie to lol.

I am currently level 40, and at this point I can rely souly on my summons to kill everything. I was expecting piety to be a problem but the skeletons just face rolled her into oblivion, then again it was normal piety.

the main problem I am having right now is that I over leveled a little bit so I am not getting the full use out of my 86% IIR at the moment because I am higher then the level of the areas I am in. but the loot is still good. was able to pick this up with some of the chaos I got.



going to start working on getting it 4 linked soon.

I have also decided not to run skeleton totem at least not at the moment because rejuvenation totem is so damn strong and manually summoning skeletons when needed isn't that bad.

skill tree:


not much of a chance since my last post but I picked up hex master and those life nodes and 1 level away from more zombies.

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HCMonstrLP wrote:

another quick update about my progress. I dont know why people say summoners are boring I should have made a summoner ages ago this is tons of fun, nothing beats having your own personal zombie virus the only thing that could make this funner is if when the zombies killed things it turned into a zombie to lol.

I am currently level 40, and at this point I can rely souly on my summons to kill everything. I was expecting piety to be a problem but the skeletons just face rolled her into oblivion, then again it was normal piety.

the main problem I am having right now is that I over leveled a little bit so I am not getting the full use out of my 86% IIR at the moment because I am higher then the level of the areas I am in. but the loot is still good. was able to pick this up with some of the chaos I got.

going to start working on getting it 4 linked soon.

I have also decided not to run skeleton totem at least not at the moment because rejuvenation totem is so damn strong and manually summoning skeletons when needed isn't that bad.

skill tree:

Spoiler

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMAAP0HYwj0EVAUsBdQHNwkPCepMYg6MDvhSOdJUUwtVytabV8qa9ttGXNTdFV5A3zOfRh-WX_Ggh6LepMnm6Gio6crp1ysmLyfv5fAVMHzyT3UGeL345_r5OyK99c=

not much of a chance since my last post but I picked up hex master and those life nodes and 1 level away from more zombies.

Usually the people that say that they don't have a summoner :).

The spell totem is not mandatory, I mostly use it in maps with -50% or no regen at all.
Normal skeleton are a lot stronger anyway, you should those when you are leveling.

Just watched this Kripparrian video: youtube.com/watch?v=y6MzzwAGWIk

Although I think the idea of going to town to use "features" like these is ridiculous, I can see some uses here with weapon swap (default key "x"). For example, keep Midnight Bargain on weapon swap (as a non-CI variant) and swap back after; you could even do this with a low-life build if you're able to settle on a pre-Bargain life total of 30.1-34.9% (precise math required). If you're trying some kind of two-handed thing (which I'm leaning more towards since it allows for 6L primary attack plus 6L zombies), you could prebuff with either Queen's Decree or Chober Chaber, then switch to something like Searing Touch or Lioneye's Glare.

Another cool weapon swap trick... Let's say you had two Queen's Decree's with sockets like this:

• 5L then 1L, Raise Zombie + Multistrike + Faster Attacks + IIQ + IIR | Raise Spectre
• 1L then 5L, Raise Zombie | Weapon Elemental Damage + GMP + IIQ + IIR + Raise Spectre

Zombies raised on #1 would permanently keep their supports even when you switch to #2, and Spectres raised on #2 would permanently keep their supports even when you switch to #1.

Nevermind. Actual testing shows that, for some reason, the weapon swap feature always purges minions; apparently it only works with manual switches (inventory screen), which I figure is too big of a bother.

Changing a couple of gems if fine, but doing an entire ritual it's annoying to me also.
E.G
You can remove your reduce mana gem after you casted your auras and use something else to just level something.
Or use Malachai's Simula helm to cast blood magic auras.

Personally I think, even these type of mechanics should not be there.

I feel in the long run, with the type of unique mods that are been added they will be a lot more of this "exploits".

I like necromancers so I started a witch with this build and am currently level 17 (solo play on Anarchy). I have some rares but nothing very special for gear. I have been using mainly freezing pulse to assist my zombies and skellies, plus either wrath or anger. My question is regarding normal Merveil. How do I kill her with this build? She kills the minions very fast and spamming skellies at her doesn't do anything really. Since I also can't use freezing pulse to any effect my only option is wanding while playing ring around the rosie. Needless to say this is less than effective. Any tips would be appreciated. My first character (a 2-h mace Templar) face tanked her with ease, but this character is quite the challenge.

I have a question about "Arc". Do you use it only to "tag" the mobs or are you gambling on a shock-proc and if so why are you not taking the "static blow" Cluster since your skillpath is next to it?

edit: Atm ( lvl 40) i am still wearing "Bones of Ullr" since you dont have them listed in your gear, when should I put them back in the shelf and start wearing other boots?

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RedRover57 wrote:

I like necromancers so I started a witch with this build and am currently level 17 (solo play on Anarchy). I have some rares but nothing very special for gear. I have been using mainly freezing pulse to assist my zombies and skellies, plus either wrath or anger. My question is regarding normal Merveil. How do I kill her with this build? She kills the minions very fast and spamming skellies at her doesn't do anything really. Since I also can't use freezing pulse to any effect my only option is wanding while playing ring around the rosie. Needless to say this is less than effective. Any tips would be appreciated. My first character (a 2-h mace Templar) face tanked her with ease, but this character is quite the challenge.

I don't know what to tell you, I didn't had any problems with her.
If you do, just add me and I ll kill her for ya.
As i said, summoners are weak low levels, getting some help on some bosses will speed things up.

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Almantarr wrote:

I have a question about "Arc". Do you use it only to "tag" the mobs or are you gambling on a shock-proc and if so why are you not taking the "static blow" Cluster since your skillpath is next to it?

edit: Atm ( lvl 40) i am still wearing "Bones of Ullr" since you dont have them listed in your gear, when should I put them back in the shelf and start wearing other boots?

I do have the boots listed as recommended items.
I was using them until i decided to get more IIR/IIQ.


For the Arc. I use it to keep me a bit active and to somewhat guide the minions, it kinda helps when you want to focus fire something and of course breaking the barrels/urns etc.

It's by no means mandatory to use Arc. If you want to use something else go for it.
I just use it only for the utility. That is all.

About the shock effect you mention.
There is no gable what so ever .
You should read on how the shock effect is generated.

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Shock

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If the duration would be less than 300 milliseconds, the shock effect is not applied. The maximum, unmodified shock duration from lightning damage is 9.2 seconds.[1]

Wiki will explain it much better than I can :).

I killed normal merveil with fireball if i recall correctly, had been leveling it to use vs cold resist enemies.

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Rathik2 wrote:

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xSJx wrote:

Rathik, you should try faster attacks instead of minion damage for your zombies and see how you like it :).

I know, I tried it, I just don't like the green color socket.

Well outside of color prejudice there's no reason not to. Since zoms have no base increase to attack speed (and Multistrike is a "more" bonus), it's 44% more damage, 54% with quality. After Multistrike and passive tree, Zombies have about 190% increased damage before Minion Damage, which means its 92% increase is only 31% more damage even with max quality. Plus Faster Attacks has a lower cost multiplier. Simply put, not using Faster Attacks is a mistake on your part.