support!

how do u think about Wheel of the Stormsail ???

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Intoxikate wrote:

Been following your guide all the way, and now I just switched to the Budget summoning gear after hitting level 64. I have every gear in your budget guide and I followed everything exactly. I know my gems aren't at the highest level yet, but so far, my minions just aren't doing that much damage. I was killing MUCH faster with just the plain "Facebreaker/IB" gear I was using for powerleveling. When can I realistically expect my minions to ramp up in terms of killing speed? Even my Burned miscreations aren't doing that much damage. Like I said though, I'll shut up if all it means is to level up my gems(they are all about level 16 atm), but I'm kinda unimpressed at the moment. Any thoughts?

I made the change from Spectral Throw to summoner at lvl 55 on domination league (in nemenesis, I did it at lvl 58 I think) and was quite easy to clear my way out to merc lunaris temple 2 where I can get stronger BM's.

I just picked 1 BM and 1 Undead Evangelist from cruel and blasted through merc. My gems were around lvl 14 that time as I did not have any +minion helmet available.

@anhlatuan
how do u think about Wheel of the Stormsail ???
bad !!!

Is Saffel's shield the thing that lets zombies stay alive against merci piety? I have and old summoner from open beta and I've seen that the tree is salvageable to turn her into a MF summoner (which makes me quite happy) but I've in my few attempts at Piety I end up just spamming skeletons since all my zombies/spectres die. I'm running purity, have level 18 gems, and just don't know why they melt almost instantly. My gear is sort of bad and I don't have the currency right now to set up all the links for everything. I do have a 4L +2 minion helm and a tabula rasa.

I was trying something else that I read somewhere else, 6L zombies with multi strike, melee splash, with IIR + IIQ but everything just melts to piety.

How do you keep your minions alive to the point that you don't even run summon skeletons? Is it super important to get the +minion health uniques for 'snapshotting'? Or is it mostly the shield really?

@Jazriel
shield + my passives

Regarding the Animate Guardian, will it stay the way it is if, let's say, I don't log into the game for a long time, like a week or so? How about if I stash away the gem and not use it for a long time, but then go back to it, will it still keep it's last state of items consumed? Just kinda paranoid about how I can mess up my guardian since he's kinda pimped out right now with good gear I don't really want to lose lol.

EDIT: And a couple minutes after I posted this, I died to a discharger unique mob in one shot, and I was surprised to see that my AG was still there when I zoned back in! I read somewhere that AG would be reset if you died, but I guess not! I guess only if the AG itself dies?

Quick Question on the single target Burning Miscreation

Minion Damage grants flat increased damage, while Concentrated Effect increases Area Damage specifically. Is there a difference between the two as damage goes? It seems as though Minion damage would be better at level 20, as the %increase to damage is greater and it doesn't reduce the area of effect of the BM.

@Lloydicus
more damage > increased damage still

should the sunblast rolls be high or we just need the auto trigger mod?

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JamesVictor wrote:

should the sunblast rolls be high or we just need the auto trigger mod?

I assume that the sunblast is only there to trigger the trap support gem, otherwise it does not do anything.