The Summoner Compendium

There's actually some comments on it in the Mechanics section. It's basically not worth it for HC in my opinion, because you lose the stats of your shield to give them to your minions, but I'd rather be able to block than have tankier minions. This is arguable though and it's not a bad passive, I just don't like it for HC.

Hello fellow forumers,

Right off the bat I want to throw out that I've never actually played PoE before, but my friends and I will be diving straight in later today when it goes live. So I have a few questions:

First off this is the build that I plan on running.

As this is our first run through, it won't be HC. I also have faith that CI will at least be usable (from what I've seen from the alpha, it might require a little more investment, but that's fine by me).

So my first question, is my general setup relatively optimal? I want to use fire spells to be solid boss DPS later game. With this setup will I have decent damage output with my spells? When the beta goes up, assuming that I will probably have to sink more points into ES related abilities, does this look defensive enough? IE, assuming that it is viable to run pure ES as a summoner, in a group, is it possible that I won't die if something sneezes on me? Pure speculation at this point I understand, but I will take a general feeling as a good enough response. If not, would a health/es character be able to reproduce something similar to what I have here?

My second question is gear/gem related. For this build will I need to throw points into Might/Agility? As I mentioned before, I am completely green and I don't have any real feel for what skills I should be using. If I might need to put points into these I'd like to know ahead of time.

My Third question is skill progression. What would make for the easier route (cruise control), specializing in spell damage or minions first?

Thanks in advance,

--IdleAltruism

I've recently talked with a support about Diamond package and I will be done paying for it in about 3 months or maybe faster, depends on the income atm ^^

I'm 100% committed to the summoner/necromancer build, I've got quite a few ideas for the Unique item. Which I'm extremely excited about creating for my favorite build ^^

But I would love to hear great ideas from fellow summoner, what would be your ideal end game item.


Keep in mind it's just brainstorm before I hit Diamond!


PM me if you have a good idea, it's more easy for me to notice instead of a thread ;)

do we have to be worried about the scale of life from our minions? or is this change only for non summoner (without minion nodes) ?

what u think?
cheers

UPDATE;-)

check this:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMB37AsnEkbr7eHZZwtHwJXKwdjc1Nr230Y7Io2xdgkpwiPRtDQm6FI5_fXzLyFYKrETblEBBCXNtjxbOxVFLA6MDlSvDdObVgHAP10VXzO6-RfKoIeiELyHcHFLL_B820ZO-Hi96cri3rmgcBUf8Yc3JMnv5fJPfIena4abKasiECQM9kLKpj6gAQHl5VSUz1fT78d2UNUuJPr7ij6gsfT-6h9WpFqrBFQu9YC40myrJiCEAel5CK1BF3GRtfd82BtnYCDOO98KU_sODrYTdiMdpeFKo2IG-wYhX0WQMNt

assuming, that we can get ~120 skillpoints, i will catch up the following skills too:

[-> start on the left side from +15% power charge duration]

-> 2nd body&soul + 5x 8%incr max es/armor

then go up and grab "Avoid Cast Interuption" and "Zealoth's Oath"

what you think?

cliffs:

its a summoner specc with firestorm as main aoe-dmg skill+ 2x-3x curses[flammability, ele weakness, warlords mark/vuln. with the unique boots], getting spell totem for skeletons with minion instability[bomb], also with CI

STICK IT!
Thx for this awesome information.
Planing EK shadow summoner.But as i read dagger is not a option?

Minions definitely need to not be highlightable with a simple mouse-over. It's almost impossible to tell stuff apart like that, and targeting the right mob becomes an exercise in futility. I don't see much of a reason for them to be highlightable at all since you can't do very much with them directly and can't manually unsummon them. I've played a few summoners now and I have never had any kind of need for the mouse-over info of my own minions, but the screen crowding is a constant obstacle.

I also think there should be better options for summoning multiple minions, especially zombies. Skeletons should summon 50% of their full capacity and zombies should probably summon at least two or three at a time. They're so squishy that they're frequently one-shotted, particularly in the early levels where using minions typically means spam-casting them just to keep at max capacity. If you stop, they're all dead in a few seconds against anything but the weakest of trash mobs. If they have to be this squishy, summoning one at a time is not enough.

great post, a big help!

I click on the "spoiler" tags and they don't do anything, why?

I need help with a summoner build. I'd prefer a build that uses auras. I don't know enough about this to make one on my own without screwing up.

I'm working on a shadow meleemancer... LVL 23 HC as of now. I always loved Meleemancers in Diablo 2, yet they were usually only viable till Nightmare difficulty.... At that point their attack rating and somewhat low defense and hp would get them nearly killed quite often...

Still, with the open nature of the skills and passive tree, I can maybe finally make a proper meleemancer general fighting alongside his troops. I'll get a few nukes, traps, minions, curses and great melee dmg and hopefully it'll work out in the long run...

Here's a maxed build using Lightning based Dmg ... Give or take nodes depending of completion... Sure, i'll probably never get this guy to lvl 100... But some points are overkill anyway, it's more to show the build inclination in an ideal world . Tell me if it seems viable ? Planning of using maybe Lightning Strike for melee and stunning foes, along with the aura that turns dmg to Lightning and curses to weaken and deal more dmg...

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgYAHNwtR0ZxUEKCx5MnlSCofbQMv5fJPdP73nfyHlqRaqz7CScL_kl_xqKjwfPxdkk6bRk74eL3pyu71hFQ5oHAVHNTB2NXK2vbfRjsiij66-64k6cI2QsqmPqAna4abKasiECQM49G0ND9z5uhSOfPZVXGFm9nve5v9On318y8EJdEBIVgqsRNuayYFLA6MDlSvDdObVgHEds4GyepWm0kPKdcSVHsGMNtGYUkqjbp42qMNuUZtDj79ROepJHa3RVQflkC40myLJzBtOTsdhF-r597N2Yspqbr1U9-M13y