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How do you guys handle Piety on normal - all summons die in one hit.

How does this look for a CI Summoner for OB?

bumping this so people read this thread and stop making new summoner ones

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Letamol wrote:

How do you guys handle Piety on normal - all summons die in one hit.

same here cannot even hit her, i must group up otherwise i had no chance i hope summoners are not like this in late game every Boss is bad to kill with summoner.

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Letamol wrote:

How do you guys handle Piety on normal - all summons die in one hit.

Get to Piety. Portal back to town, start a public party, call it "Piety portal up", go back to Piety, open new portal, stay alive ;) Other than that - I have no idea how to beat it solo.

any CI build? since poster deleted CI build

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Letamol wrote:

How do you guys handle Piety on normal - all summons die in one hit.

My tactic seems cheap but I bring in 8 Zombies and let them blow up on Piety. Then I run behind a Pillar to block all of her attacks from hitting me and non stop Spam Skeletons. They pretty much get one shotted when she's transformed but when she changes back they tend to trap her while I keep spamming skeles. I also drop skeletons by me when She summons monsters so I don't die. This has worked for me in both normal and cruel difficulties but I'm pretty nervous about merciless.

Piety: Need Quicksilver Flask and a cleared area with lots of corpses near the waypoint and lots of Tps + Lighning Resi. When in Piety room, activate quicksilver, run directly to Piety let her blow up all the Zombies, TP out go to WP get new Zombies and repeat til shes done.

Piety = Spell Totem + Skeletons + Minion Instability

The end.

Having a blast with my summoner witch so far. Got all the skills and items I used for my build in closed beta.

Here's the skills I use:

Skell + Minion Health + Minion Damage + Spell Totem
Zombie + Minion Health + Minion Damage
Spectre + Minion Health + Minion Damage
Temporal Chains + Increased Duration
Anger and Wrath.

Gear:





Didn't realize I was still using a non-rare wand lol. Anyway, I prize sockets for now. A lot of the gear is pretty much shitty except for the uniques.

Is there any way to get the summoner clearing speed to scale end-game? It seems with all other builds you'll keep getting better gear which will keep improving your character, but because summons don't scale with gear very much, it seems like you'd just hit a wall. Am I missing something?