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there is a catch, our shield HAS TO BE Saffell's Frame.

For ppl who can't afford saffell's frame or chober chaber, i suggest using Crest of Perandus and queens decree.

Chober chaber is going for retarded prices in Nemesis (like 12c for a 25%) and Saffell's is even worse (2ex+++)

Queens decree substitutes 10-25% health for 15% damage and costs about 1 c. it's alright.

Crest of perandus is a great alternative for saffells when farming lunaris and piety. Your minions get 3% life leech, ~70 health (before modifiers) and a whopping 40% block for attacks. Piety's ice shot and melee in fire form are both "attacks". So while saffells would reduce the elemental damage your minions take by 85%. Crest of perandus lets them block and avoid 40% of all her attacks (both the physical and elemental damage. while still leaving them resist capped at 75%

Its extremely effective for the price.

@Imposibil
read guide

@Jonix
queen's decree is an okay-ish sub to chober
perandus, not so much, just grab an angelic kite as a last resort

I am following this guide as close as I can, I spent lots of time on it so far, I finally hit lvl 65 and I thought it was epic time. But apparently I cannot even do docks, the void bears destroy my minions. Here is my current gear and build. One difference is I am using Bone of ullr boots, so I summon 6 zombies and 3 spectres.



and my passives

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgAAEJcVIBcvGYUZhh0UHaokqij6KaUqTSqYLOk1kjbpOuE_J0GHRARGcUp9SshNuU3jTipVxlXWW69k52egaHRuqm-egKSCx4MJh3aI8Y9Gks2S85MnlKCYrZuhplenCKxHrFmwd7QMtfK3PriTv5fDOsk9ykrMvM9l0NDYTdkL2mLdDeGI42rnY-ss6-7yHvJF99f56PqA-tL8xf4K_o8=

am I missing something? thanks.

@MrGuardian
i've had a few people report this, if you are certain that your minions get wrecled by spell damage, spec out of NA and take the keystone again, i suppose you are running grace and purity

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tehosiris wrote:

@MrGuardian
i've had a few people report this, if you are certain that your minions get wrecled by spell damage, spec out of NA and take the keystone again, i suppose you are running grace and purity

I am running grace purity and vitality
I know you mentioned get zombies form normal ledge, Now does it matter where to get the miscreations? I have been getting them from cruel mode.

Tried running the slums, and my miscreations got wrecked in 2 hits from fireballs.

Minion resistances at lvl 20: fire res 32%, cold res 64%, lightning res 32%.

purity with 70% increased effect of Auras you Cast brings it to around +45 resists and caps everything. Granted minions staying in the aura is iffy (ur 1 point from +30% increase radius, might be worth it, idk). Regardless, Crest of perandus with minion resist gem caps lightning/cold and bring fire to 53%. (without purity)

Are you assuming the purity, grace, determination and vitality auras won't be on your minions? Might be worth it to get the +30% radius node since its available with 1 point.

if your aura's reach ur minions it makes having a kite shield pointless, might as well grab crest of perandus or another high block/armor/hp shield. Granted, saffell's is fantastic, but for 2ex....if your starting a 1st char on nemesis...might not be feasbile or worth it...imo. i'd roll with crest for the block/hp leech and grab the aura radius increase (if it assures minions get ur buffs, might have to test this)

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MrGuardian wrote:

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tehosiris wrote:

@MrGuardian
i've had a few people report this, if you are certain that your minions get wrecled by spell damage, spec out of NA and take the keystone again, i suppose you are running grace and purity

I am running grace purity and vitality
I know you mentioned get zombies form normal ledge, Now does it matter where to get the miscreations? I have been getting them from cruel mode.

Tried running the slums, and my miscreations got wrecked in 2 hits from fireballs.

spectres are linked to where you grabbed them, they don't scale up or down. hence why they are getting wrecked.

So have to grab them from merc then? But that still doesn't explain why the zombies are dying in seconds from the dock void beares

I'm going to say this but your zombies ain't going to be tanking anything at Merciless much at lvl 18 with your +2 helmet. They WILL die. Either stick in a Minion Resistance or get it to lvl 20 with the helmet. They will have their increase resistances against those Voidbearer.

The utmost important thing is that you need to know the range of your auras. You want to be close enough that they get the auras on them. If you notice their HP dropping in a battle fast, either their HP is low that the Vitality aura is hardly making a difference or you're not within range.

I would recommend leveling your gems a bit more too. They are rather low for being lvl 65.



--And if you've read the guide. The specters does not scale UP. So yes you need to grab it at the highest difficulty (Merciless). Zombies does not matter because they're not from a corpse.

hey, this build is pretty sweet.. although when I play with friends in maps I feel that more damage from the burned miscreations would help out alot, kill speed = more survival since pets wont need to stand around getting their heads smashed if monsters die even faster
(playing solo is absolutely no problem at all, dont worry)

so the question is, does +%Minion Damage nodes give the burned miscreations more damage? I would think so since theres an easily noticable difference in damage when you swap rarity for minion damage