[1.3] Templar Summoner a.k.a The Pillager - HC/Bloodlines - Updated

Meh... RIP @lvl 84. Crematorium lvl76 Map, 100% damage as cold, shocking ground, unique bosses pimped and couple of more mods I can't remember now.

To cut it short, retarded path-finding (or lack of it) killed me, plain and simple.

I got in to the final level of Crematorium, and found myself at a terrace, with 2 narrow pathways on both side.

So, I get in, poke my nose out and see the boss. My minions are chilling on a terrace, stuck. I start running around like a headless chicken to force them to re-spawn on me, but it just doesn't happen. Meanwhile, she is pounding them and me with that fire rain crap (note that i was over-capped by 50%), which I countered by spamming life potions.

So, after about 20 seconds of me trying my god damned best to get my utterly retarded companions to spawn on me, I've burned through all my life and quicksilver potions.

Now I can see that my lvl76 BMs (i got them on lvl 76 map with deamons) are still alive and burning her ass down to like 1%. Kill unique boss message pops, I cheer out loud.
But.. with her dying breath she managed to cast that fire rain bullshit. I was out of potions of any kind, started to run out of it, and dropped dead...

There you go :)

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milrz wrote:

How many summons do you have when you play like zombies or spectors or??

I had 8 zombies and 3 specters, thanks to Bones of Ullr unique boots.

I wanna still say this is so great of a build. I am just having so much fun with it. I once again enjoy playing endless hours. I never got away from game but never played like I used to until I ran this. Thanks for your time and fast response.

You are welcome brother, and I love it too.

I am a bit frustrated now since I've finished a lot harder maps, for example, several lvl78 courtyard maps, with those 3 insane bosses, and lived through all of them without dropping below 50%.

And now I died because my zombies forgot how to zombie.

And that is the major problem with summoners. In 1.0.6b they told us that minions will now keep attacking, independent of your actions (paraphrasing). That's bull, the moment I pop a vase, they all run back and orbit me with enemies at arms reach.
But thats not the biggest problem, poor bastards will get lost on regular basis.

Pathfinding is terrible. I avoided most of the maze-like maps because of it. But I had to do this one since I want to finish those challenges. And that was the death of me. Just watch that Necropolis map I've uploaded, or Academy map that I will upload tonight, and you will see what I am talking about. Its nerve wrecking.

Worst part is that sprinting forth yelling YOLO to force summons to spawn on you doesn't have a set distance. So, sometimes you will run out half a screen and they will spawn on you, and sometimes you will run out couple of screens, stop, turn and realize that you are utterly alone. Then your gang will calmly walk to you. And they all have massive move speed bonus, much much more than you. So I don't get it. Not to mention that popping Quicksilver in PoE is a gamble. De-sync is your worst enemy.

Anyways, this character is incredibly durable. I had 9.1k armour, 4.6k life, 2k Es, 130% all res. -10% chaos res. So you can take heavy beating and have INSANE damage. Especially if you get your hands on 74+ Burning Miscreations. Just get a white map, and alt it till you get one with deamons. Those guys devastate everything and NEVER die. They survived constant aoe and killed the boss in the end, while zombies disappeared in first 5 seconds even with 8k life each.

After I reached Nemesis A3 it was easy mode. Literally. I never felt threatened, and I've steamrolled through everything. 9 day old character, with pretty cheap gear running lvl 78maps. Hey! Thats end-game, with 5-6 exalts in gear. And I overpaid for everything, since league is ending, and I simply don't care about currency.

Anyway, I wil try to make my lvl78 marauder into a summoner, just for fun, and remake this build when the new league starts.

Perhaps I will level one up and try the same with CI and Arctic Armour. Dunno, I'll think of something :)

Uploaded couple of vids last night. Here is an example of lvl 76 Burning Miscreations:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7aBzSC0Onw&list=PLI78bstPY3SC9rei5KK17-8iwQBAj3zB-&index=18

Before this one, I was running lvl76 Precinct map with deamons, and used 6L Raised Spectre on BMs. You can see the difference. These guys are BEASTS. They can't die, and they simply devastate everything. One way of getting high level BMs is to grab a high level map and alt it till you get inhabited by deamons.

RIP. 84 is a good run imo.

Sitting in the upper 40's myself at the end of cruel. Still playing a bit of the summoner, but this is right around the point where I always get tired of grinding and start another build (A3 Cruel to A1 Merciless)

Hey guys,

I've respecced my 78 Marauder in this build, well, pretty damn close to it, and its kicking ass. This is the planned build if anyone is interested:

http://bit.ly/1b9e8A0

Work in progress ofc, and since I am mostly a solo player I left dual curses out.

Another thing... I've created a summoner friendly guild consisting from guys that I met on this thread, so if you want inv, feel free to whisper me @ToeTags. We are from all over the place, cross league, super nice and friendly :) </whisper 'and some of us are over 30'>

Cheers

I have but one question. Is there a reason you didn't take minion instability? I'm trying this out since I got bored with my marauder and ranger.

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Bobtilton wrote:

I have but one question. Is there a reason you didn't take minion instability? I'm trying this out since I got bored with my marauder and ranger.

Because your minions will almost never die. It can work while leveling, but i haven't tried it to be honest.

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ToeTags wrote:

Hey guys,

I've respecced my 78 Marauder in this build, well, pretty damn close to it, and its kicking ass. This is the planned build if anyone is interested:

http://bit.ly/1b9e8A0

Work in progress ofc, and since I am mostly a solo player I left dual curses out.

Another thing... I've created a summoner friendly guild consisting from guys that I met on this thread, so if you want inv, feel free to whisper me @ToeTags. We are from all over the place, cross league, super nice and friendly :) </whisper 'and some of us are over 30'>

Cheers

Tree looks good.