7 Aura EB Summoner:

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kenelee wrote:

could you please include details of the Act2 bandit rewards.

You have two options:
1: Skill point, Skill point, Skill point.
2: HP, Skill point, Skill point.

i did option #1 but it dose not matter which one you do. they are both very close.

planning on getting EB, just started Merciless.

How much HP should I have before getting it? I have about 1100, level 55.

As long as you dont get one hit with charger mobs then you have enough HP. Mobs will mostly ignore you and attack your skeletons; so just hide behind your minions.

If you play the summoner correctly you will never get hit. Always move and don't stand still especially when fighting range monster with LMP/GMP that do chaos damage.

It's true that I hardly get hit, but some enemies are annoying to deal with. Undying Alchemists, Blackguard Archmages...
You know, stuff that can damage me even if they don't specifically want to.

this is the kinda build I am working too, nice to see it is not an stupid idea after all :)

Only question I have is about sockets, how do you manage to have all those skills up:

7 aura gems + mana reduction gems (+ area of effect gems?)
3 minion gems + spell totem + minion support gems
2-3 curses gems + area of effect gems
firestorm

It seems to me that it would require a 5L or 6L chest (?)

I will show you my items as they are right now so you can see the links. it takes too long to explain in words.

My items are not good as you can see but that is the main point of the build. you can hunt with just about anything.





EDITED: This may be helpful to some players but it is fairly common knowledge. Basically when an item is white, you can add Armour's scrap and it will add +5% quality. So my items that show +20% basically where white items that i scraped 4 times then alched once.

I am saving all my currency atm and converting them to exalted orbs. if i see a godly item for sell then i buy it otherwise this 4xscrap 1xalch will do for now. don't waste your crafting materials. save it to use for trades.

Hey you actually mentioned me in your guide, how flattering ^^ Thanks.


Btw., are you convinced Minion Speed is worth it? I only tested it once and never really leveled it up back in CB. Does it really help much in terms of fighting uptime? (of Zombies of course).

I abandoned it pretty quickly back then, didn't seem to do all that much. Let me hear what you think about it.

Other options I usually went with are Faster Attacks (works ok but it's also not really overwhelming) or Melee Physical Damage (this one seemed pretty considerable)

The Minion Speed in this game is similar to the Slow Zergling Vs Speed Zergling fights on SC2.

Speed helps a lot, i would not go without it. It is so good that if one day i get 6L chest, i will add speed to my summon skeletons too (i am leveling one in my boots atm for that day :D). Specters are Speed Capped, so i cant make them any faster but i always pick a range specter so it dose not matter much there.

Biggest weakness of summoner is the lack of good AoE, you can improve this by getting LMP Specters but this is not great. So your summons surrounding one target quickly to kill it and moving to the next target is the most effective way of killing. The faster they can surround the better.

That makes perfect sense and I remember thinking just the same.

My sketchy testing and the opinions of others have led me on a wrong path it would seem :P

Thanks, I will gladly try it out this time.