MMORPG.Com's @ProtoSori, Raging Spirit Summoner {Ambush/Invasion}

For invasion, you will want to get the minion / hp nodes FIRST, then work on the crit nodes as you finish the rest off. Remember, the crit is just an additive feature to a classic summoner. It essentially gives you a high damage spectral throw without needing to be specced into spectral throw or physical or aura's etc. Get the HP first, crit later. The ambush version exists as a fun build. Not as the best build or the most balanced build. It is the only way to use Raging Spirits effectively, which is why personally I didn't take a single hp node until I hit 65 and finished my crit / minion nodes. If you want a more balanced experience, leapfrog crit / hp nodes. I went crit first because, well... I had to test the build and who doesn't like 50 raging spirits flying around on flesh offerings buff?

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMA37BXK5LBB2OOvnNTES1r2xB0fIN9GA5czfrsikV-uJNtGevupwjB8yj6na6PRqKjgh6YrYLHGmwdFNDQgUl_xohC-ejT-6as-tKboc9lsjgRlpAbQYeofWae99dVxmZPnaMOSHBWtz5akcAazLz8q-OEnaqaE_4KaqxZ84VgwFFirNvUiPGsqphvqsTz6nDV1p01knKpkn1NuXBSFr-18vcy5c9uqqlu6hhKyGxGRIE_J3JsGLBfmDIJ3CNZbT-bHb4nqVptJDynXElR

+194 to Strength
+44 to Dexterity
+302 to Intelligence
+211 to maximum Mana
+149 to maximum Life
Evasion Rating: 53
+3 Maximum Endurance Charge
+3 Maximum Frenzy Charge
+3 Maximum Power Charge
4% Additional Elemental Resistance per Endurance Charge
4% Physical Damage Reduction per Endurance Charge
5% Attack Speed Increase per Frenzy Charge
5% Cast Speed Increase per Frenzy Charge
50% Critical Strike Chance Increase per Power Charge
16% increased Spell Damage
100% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
8% increased maximum Mana
Minions have 30% increased maximum Life
Minions deal 105% increased Damage
+2 to Maximum number of Zombies
+3 to Maximum number of Skeletons
30% increased effect of Flasks
Enemies you hit with Elemental Damage temporarily get +25% Resistance to those Elements and -50% Resistance to other Elements
220% increased Critical Strike Chance
1% of Life Regenerated per Second
104% increased maximum Life
30% increased Critical Strike Multiplier
40% increased Physical Damage with Daggers
Minions have 20% increased Attack Speed
Minions have 20% increased Cast Speed
+8% to Chaos Resistance
+10 Life gained on Kill
120% increased Critical Strike Chance with Daggers
10% increased maximum Energy Shield
260% increased Critical Strike Chance with One Handed Melee Weapons
Minions Leech 1% of Damage as Life
+1 to Maximum number of Spectres
21% increased Attack Speed
3% increased Cast Speed
24% increased Evasion Rating and Armour
+10% to all Elemental Resistances
6% increased Attack Speed with One Handed Melee Weapons
45% increased Skill Effect Duration
+60.4% Energy Shield
+38.8% increased Melee Physical Damage
+88 Accuracy Rating
8.8% increased Evasion Rating

This build has been tested and verified to be highly effective.

The idea behind this build, is to be a standard summoner, with an active playstyle like all the other builds out there. Raging Spirits provide the means to do this, and they are very useful for many reasons.

Raging spirits by themselves are not sufficient to do end-game content with, however, by adding them to an arsenal of minions in which both the minions and the spirits are buffed by the same passives, this creates a devastating combination for a more active gameplay while still having your high dps spectre's and meatshield skeletons and zombies. The raging spirits themselves act as meatshields as well in that they cannot be targeted by mobs, but non-piercing projectiles are intercepted and absorbed by them nonetheless.

You will want the following linked together -

Chest -
4L : Raging Spirit - Spectral Throw - Cast on Crit - Greater Multiple Projectiles
5L : Raging Spirit - Spectral Throw - Cast on Crit - Greater Multiple Projectiles - Increased Duration
6L : Raging Spirit - Spectral Throw - Cast on Crit - Greater Multiple Projectiles - Increased Duration - Multistrike (Multistrike has more single target dps than melee splash, and has comparable aoe dps due to the fast killing and so many spirits)

Dagger -
3L : Spell Totem - Summon Skeleton - Faster Casting

Shield -
3L : Critical Weakness - Desecrate - Clarity

Boots -
4L : Summon Spectre - Concentrated Effect - Trap - Remote Mine

Gloves -
4L : Reduced Mana - Haste - Clarity - Critical Weakness

Helm -
4L : Summon Zombie - Faster Attacks - Minion Damage - Melee Splash

The idea here, is to have your zombies and spectres up, cast a skeleton totem and critical weakness on the mobs, then you use spectral throw to create raging spirits. You play this like a normal summoner, however you are an active summoner now in that you essentially are doing damage with spectral throw in a roundabout way. You aren't doing alpha damage, look at it as if you are doing damage over time that also blocks shots for you lol.

http://www.twitch.tv/protosori/c/3906157 - For visual reference of what the build does.

As far as gear requirements, use a dagger with 10% crit chance. You also need cold or lightning damage on a ring or dagger but NO FIRE DAMAGE. Since the majority of your damage will come from fire/physical, you want the cold / lightning to proc elemental equilibrium which will give you a 50% damage boost.

: Oak/Kraityn/Passive Point

Snapshotting with this build is simple.

Step 1: In town, equip Chober Chaber / Queens Decree / Whatever other items beef up minion damage / life / speed for each prospective zombie / spectre loadout.

Step 2: Once you have the items equipped, port in to the laboratory (monster lvl 66), and use desecrate on the ground. Hold "A" to target each corpse. Summon zombies from the corpses that are not the FIRE SENTINELS.

Step 3: Toss a mine on the ground after the desecrate corpses are cleared and all that is remaining is a fire sentinel or two or three. Detonate the mine, which will pop a trap, which will summon the spectre.