[1.1.1]-[The Auramancer] Multi-aura Shadow Summoner & Support - Updated 03/17

Thank you very much , very helpful . Thank you for the reply , may i pm you with any further questions ?

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NoGoodNinja wrote:

Thank you very much , very helpful . Thank you for the reply , may i pm you with any further questions ?

Ofc you can. But if u ask me in this thread, we could help other people with your same questions, if those are related with the necro build.

Updated the main post with the newest version 1.0.2

With the changes to DoT in this version, Burning Miscreations are the new OP minion, as the damage can be increased by:
-Minion damage nodes
-Minion damage support gem
-Increased burning damage support gem

And this is my favourite combination of gems for this new BEAST:
Spectre - Remote Mine - Minion Damage - Increased Burning Damage - Increased AoE

Thank you for sharing this build. I am starting it with a witch nemesis.
I barely made it for the first act... I tryed it with a shadow at first and I found it way easyer at the beginning. Bear trap and fire trap are really effective.

How did you support your minions at the beginning? DPS? Auras from the start? For now I only have Clarity which is useless for my zombies and skeletons. It helps maintain my mana for fireball/icenova/stormcall.

Good job getting this shadow to lvl 88. Hope I can get there without dying to much.

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Arasul wrote:

Thank you for sharing this build. I am starting it with a witch nemesis.
I barely made it for the first act... I tryed it with a shadow at first and I found it way easyer at the beginning. Bear trap and fire trap are really effective.

How did you support your minions at the beginning? DPS? Auras from the start? For now I only have Clarity which is useless for my zombies and skeletons. It helps maintain my mana for fireball/icenova/stormcall.

Good job getting this shadow to lvl 88. Hope I can get there without dying to much.

This class is really bad at low levels. Before you reach lvl 31, play as a mage doing yourself the dps with spells or traps, then at lvl 31 you can use spell totem linked with incinerate and LMP or something like that, so you can rush yourself. Meanwhile equip your zombie/spectre gems to level em up.
When u reach lvl 40 you should be able to play as a pure necro, using 1-2 auras (discipline and vitality if you can).

Is this build any good for Nemesis/Hardcore league?

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Lordgeez wrote:

Is this build any good for Nemesis/Hardcore league?

It is good, but i do not recommend it for new players.

First off, I love the build. I was sort of working towards a slightly different build that can be found here (http://pathofpoe.com/builds/view/summoner-witch-ee-dual-spark-setup-for-magic-find/), but then when I saw yours it made me want to switch. Then I realized I don't have a Shavronnes, and can't really switch anytime soon with my currency limitations. It's my dream basically. I am a level 70 Witch, basically spec'ed pretty close to that build I dropped the link on up there.

So I am trying out this Burned Miscreation OP'ness, and I found it not to be that OP. Don't get me wrong, the damage output is totally overpowered, but my BM's always die very quick, and to me that makes these minions a pretty poor spectre. You sound like you did your homework, so I am assuming your minions are living, and I want to know what it is you have going that keeps them alive? I am running discipline, clarity, and I could run one more aura too, but I tried doing the purity of elements one and that didn't do too much for these guys lifespan in places like the library - or even just the Lunaris temple where I pick these guys up.

A bit more about my current build - for context - my raise spectre is in a 4L helm with +1 to minion gems (again because I am a poor bastard), and the things it is linked to are Remote Mine, Minion Damage, and increased burning damage - like recommended. I am going to try swapping in a minion life instead minion damage right now, but obviously I am not too hopeful. Perhaps a different aura would work better? or maybe I just need to be more of a Pentauramancer baller.. idk

One last thing, if you want to donate a few exalts and/or a Shavronnes Wrappings to my charity fund, all proceeds go to help out hungry children in a city near you, just saying.

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l2edhawk wrote:

First off, I love the build. I was sort of working towards a slightly different build that can be found here (http://pathofpoe.com/builds/view/summoner-witch-ee-dual-spark-setup-for-magic-find/), but then when I saw yours it made me want to switch. Then I realized I don't have a Shavronnes, and can't really switch anytime soon with my currency limitations. It's my dream basically. I am a level 70 Witch, basically spec'ed pretty close to that build I dropped the link on up there.

Dont worry too much about shav... just save for it and play with 2-3 auras in mana and u'll be fine.

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l2edhawk wrote:

So I am trying out this Burned Miscreation OP'ness, and I found it not to be that OP. Don't get me wrong, the damage output is totally overpowered, but my BM's always die very quick, and to me that makes these minions a pretty poor spectre. You sound like you did your homework, so I am assuming your minions are living, and I want to know what it is you have going that keeps them alive? I am running discipline, clarity, and I could run one more aura too, but I tried doing the purity of elements one and that didn't do too much for these guys lifespan in places like the library - or even just the Lunaris temple where I pick these guys up.

The 3-must-have auras for any summoner in my humble opinion are: Discipline, Vitality and Purity of Elements, that combination of auras will help you a LOT keeping them alive, and ofc you can use minion hp.
If you cant run those 3 auras, then run Discipline and Purity Of Elements and use Rejuvenation Totem instead.

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l2edhawk wrote:

A bit more about my current build - for context - my raise spectre is in a 4L helm with +1 to minion gems (again because I am a poor bastard), and the things it is linked to are Remote Mine, Minion Damage, and increased burning damage - like recommended. I am going to try swapping in a minion life instead minion damage right now, but obviously I am not too hopeful. Perhaps a different aura would work better? or maybe I just need to be more of a Pentauramancer baller.. idk

One last thing, if you want to donate a few exalts and/or a Shavronnes Wrappings to my charity fund, all proceeds go to help out hungry children in a city near you, just saying.

Yeah, as i said a few times, its a pretty expensive build, but u can play it with crappy gear at higher lvls.The problem is that u'll have to resummon zombies more often, go slowly so they can regen with vitality, etc.

If i where you, i'll just focus in zombies doing the following:

-Get a 35+ Chober Chaber, and use it to snapshot your zombies/spectres (This will grant you a HUUUGE amount of hp to your summons, and its very cheap to get, just for snapshot)
-4L zombies in your +1 helm with minion hp, RM and minion resistances
-Run purity and Vitality in mana with reduced mana support gem
-Get 2-3 undying evangelists 4L linked with RM, increased AoE and ll
-Use a spell totem, for example: Spell totem - faster casting - incinerate - LMP
-Burning misc will be very squishy with that gear, my suggestion is to not use it yet.
-if you have trouble with spectres survival, swap a gem for minion hp, but dont worry its better to focus in zombies at those levels.

This is a pretty effective and cheap setup, specially at your levels, so you can farm 66-69 maps "easy".

My current setup for maps is 2 Undying Evangelist, linked with the recommended and 1 Burning miscreation, linked with the recommended too.

I'm doing something very similar, rolled summoner, had a shavs drop so I figured might as well play around. As much as I generally stay away from summoner 'cheese' I didn't think about the redbeak thing, I could summon my bubble guys with redbeak then a BM with midnight bargain (till I get a prism guardian and drop midnight anyway). That said I generally map with 2 specters so a minor bit of cheese to eke out a bit more damage wouldn't be a terrible thing

I'm finding 2 evangelists + 1 burning are pretty facceroll for most maps and even when the rest of my army gets wiped my evangelists generally put in work and stay alive (not counting chain maps mind you). quality life leech is a must for these guys on reflect maps if you remote mine them I've found, but otherwise I love them as spectres. 2 evangelists + 7 20/20 zombies are strong enough to get my less than 4k es tail through 73+ maps (not counting gmp chain maps!) with 3 auras (not counting clarity to get myself to low life till I get that prism guardian anyway)

similar trees and gear, wa just doing some hunting around and found this post so i figured id chime in, happy looting!