[2.1 Ghazzy - Summoner Guides] High Budget Builds

Can't play much last night but i was able to change some gear...
I buy the Vertex for 1 ex... 336 ES helps a lot at this moment, any other 300+ ES rare Helmet cost more that 1 ex.-
I'm almost 7000 ES right now... i do a lvl 81 unidentified rare Maze map, vaal kill me with one shot, but i get some Itemlevel 83 and 86 gear to try get something later (map was Elemental equilibrium and Enbeble, i don't know the rest of the mods, this ones are visible in top of screen)

As you can see i made some changes it's not optimal but i need to survive to keep playing and getting fun

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diegodgo87 wrote:

Can't play much last night but i was able to change some gear...
I buy the Vertex for 1 ex... 336 ES helps a lot at this moment, any other 300+ ES rare Helmet cost more that 1 ex.-
I'm almost 7000 ES right now... i do a lvl 81 unidentified rare Maze map, vaal kill me with one shot, but i get some Itemlevel 83 and 86 gear to try get something later (map was Elemental equilibrium and Enbeble, i don't know the rest of the mods, this ones are visible in top of screen)

As you can see i made some changes it's not optimal but i need to survive to keep playing and getting fun

You should bench your rings with the "Energy Shield 5-20%" it will give you a lot of ES as well. The Helmet is far from optimal but like you said; It's cheap and ok for now. Just remember that this build is still made for high budget users there are warning symbols in the thread saying this, to avoid the situation you are in where you don't have enough currency to pull the build of in the way its meant to be played.

Now, with the right tuning we can make it some what alright to go with. So change the benchcrafts on your rings to the 5-20% ES bench that should help you a bit on the way! :)

Also not to forget, the idea of the build is to kill things before they kill you, so dont spec in to more ES nodes than i have provided in the end game tree in the thread. Instead, you need to focus on the jewel slots at that point pushing out as much damage as possible so you don't get hit in the first place.








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Regarding Flasks:




I switch 1 rumis and 1 quicksilver for Ruby flasks when i fight Atziri. You can use a Topaz Flask as well if you feel that its more comfortable.
The mana flask is not really required for the build but to guarantee the removal of bleeding effects I personally like to have a flask that i know is more or less never used to always have charges to remove bleed effects. It's simply just a matter of taste.

Hi Ghazzy! Talked to you on your stream yesterday (dont know if you remember me)

This is my first summoner build ever in PoE btw.

Anywho, i asked you if i should get a +3 fire staff, or a pledge of hands.

Now, im playing AngryAA's SRS summonner build. The key thing with his build is, that he's using EB/MoM/ZO.

I'm really not sure if i should get a Pledge or a +3 fire staff. Got a decent +2 staff with cast speed right now (5L)

First of all - should i even bother getting a +3 staff if it's not 6L ? Since you'd want to get a lvl 4 empower (which i dont) or can a +3 fire staff be used as a 5L just fine?

Now for my last question; with the build im playing, would it be best to get a 5L Pledge or 5L +3, or should i keep using my +2 5L Staff until i can get a 6L +3 fire staff?

Thanks in advance, and thank you for your fantastic work on the forums!

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Wrannec wrote:

Hi Ghazzy! Talked to you on your stream yesterday (dont know if you remember me)

This is my first summoner build ever in PoE btw.

Anywho, i asked you if i should get a +3 fire staff, or a pledge of hands.

Now, im playing AngryAA's SRS summonner build. The key thing with his build is, that he's using EB/MoM/ZO.

I'm really not sure if i should get a Pledge or a +3 fire staff. Got a decent +2 staff with cast speed right now (5L)

First of all - should i even bother getting a +3 staff if it's not 6L ? Since you'd want to get a lvl 4 empower (which i dont) or can a +3 fire staff be used as a 5L just fine?

Now for my last question; with the build im playing, would it be best to get a 5L Pledge or 5L +3, or should i keep using my +2 5L Staff until i can get a 6L +3 fire staff?

Thanks in advance, and thank you for your fantastic work on the forums!

Hey Wrannec,

Of course i remember, i only had 1 bottle of rum man! :D

The Pledge of Hands is better as it allows you to remove mana regen/mana and/or mana cost reduction nodes to then be spent towards more jewel slots. In the case of running with Zealot's Oath and Eldritch Battery you have no need for any type of increased mana pool this makes the Pledge lose it's value that makes it better than a "+ staff" so in your specific situation the "+ staff" is the optimal choice!

The difference between a +2 staff vs a +3 staff is only ~20% more damage (+ a very small gain from the +1 to the support gems (excluding Empower as its in the ~20% more damage calculation)
However, 6L will always be better than a 5L even if the 6L is +2 vs a 5L+3!

My suggestion would be to get a +3 staff, 5L or 6L it and use that instead of your 5L+2. But as always, go for that 6L it will make a huge difference in performance!

As long as the Empower gem is lvl 3 you'll want to use it.

Also, never underestimate the power of cast speed rolls on the + staves!



Thank you for the kind words, hope it helped!

Hi Ghazzy!

Thanks for your detailed response! It helped a ton :)

Now all i need is to find a +3 staff with cast speed (or room for crafting cast speed on)

Have a great day, and looking forward to your next stream!

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Wrannec wrote:

Hi Ghazzy!

Thanks for your detailed response! It helped a ton :)

Now all i need is to find a +3 staff with cast speed (or room for crafting cast speed on)

Have a great day, and looking forward to your next stream!

Again Wrannec,
It is my geniune pleasure to do this for the community. I'm just glad soo many people are enjoying the threads & stream!

<3

Hello ghazzy. The other day I talked to you on your stream about not using an enlighten on your blood magic auras to win a free slot if you have more then 1033HP. It would look like this: https://poe.mikelat.com/#8v3R75/H8L7h/Bbzh4/sYGvWFPb

Also I was wondering, what do you think of using on animate guardian?

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gvieira wrote:

Hello ghazzy. The other day I talked to you on your stream about not using an enlighten on your blood magic auras to win a free slot if you have more then 1033HP. It would look like this: https://poe.mikelat.com/#8v3R75/H8L7h/Bbzh4/sYGvWFPb

Also I was wondering, what do you think of using

on animate guardian?

It's a matter of taste, the survival of the AG is my nr.01 priority hence the increased life or even the use of Slitherpinch gauntlets for more life steal.
But yes, the Asenath with its low lvl TC curse is always nice! :)


Regarding the removal of an enlighten, thank you for contributing numbers! Apprecaite it :)

Alright, I'll try to keep this short as possible.

I'm level 93, lvl 21 srs (other gems went higher qual also), 6l Pledge (lvl 3 empower), 2 unsets (3 vaal haste, 1 vaal summon skeles).
I'm using 11 jewels all with cast speed and minion damage. I can pre-cast about 27 srs.
I've attempted about 9 ubers now on warbands, 8 of which ended at the trio, aka the cycloner's house.

Only recently I beat the trio because I changed out my helmet for 4R helm using enduring cry and a cwdt/imm. call/inc. duration set up. This is the only way I've figured to win this fight. I start the fight with [melee dmg on full life gem] then switch to melee splash after dying. On this last run I used 4 portals for the cycloner, and I probably messed up the atziri fight.

My normal trio fights look like your 1.3 uber trio fight. Uber trio is just so tanky that I have to play a technical fight against the cycloner. When I get to Atziri, I set up everything and she goes through a few rotations of spells instead of just going into split phase like she probably should after one spell.

You can view my character called Doedre_The_Hutt on my character page. I'm glad to see some progress finally, and I will keep trying; but I'm quickly losing steam. All I want to do is beat uber by myself and reliably. This is the only thing I have left on my check list other than find a mirror.

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Murfdawgg wrote:

Alright, I'll try to keep this short as possible.

I'm level 93, lvl 21 srs (other gems went higher qual also), 6l Pledge (lvl 3 empower), 2 unsets (3 vaal haste, 1 vaal summon skeles).
I'm using 11 jewels all with cast speed and minion damage. I can pre-cast about 27 srs.
I've attempted about 9 ubers now on warbands, 8 of which ended at the trio, aka the cycloner's house.

Only recently I beat the trio because I changed out my helmet for 4R helm using enduring cry and a cwdt/imm. call/inc. duration set up. This is the only way I've figured to win this fight. I start the fight with [melee dmg on full life gem] then switch to melee splash after dying. On this last run I used 4 portals for the cycloner, and I probably messed up the atziri fight.

My normal trio fights look like your 1.3 uber trio fight. Uber trio is just so tanky that I have to play a technical fight against the cycloner. When I get to Atziri, I set up everything and she goes through a few rotations of spells instead of just going into split phase like she probably should after one spell.

You can view my character called Doedre_The_Hutt on my character page. I'm glad to see some progress finally, and I will keep trying; but I'm quickly losing steam. All I want to do is beat uber by myself and reliably. This is the only thing I have left on my check list other than find a mirror.

Tree looks great, gear looks like you should try to get the 5-20% ES benchcrafts on the rings for increased survival, whats your total ES atm? 6k?

You really should change out Melee Damage on Full Life when you're fighting the trio-boss unless you feel comfortable in the playstyle which requires an extremely agressive approach where you put vaal skellies and SHIFT+cast SRS with the mouse hovering over towards the area which the skellies are placed to make Qurai (cycloner) charge there whilst your spirits will begin by raping A'Alai (titty bitch). After this you should be as agressive as stepping to the left instead of moving back, this will cause your minions to faster reach the targets and less risk of taking damage.
If you die once you will have an insanely hard time clearing that room, a CWDT IC setup can help a ton if you despite perfect execution dies.

From what i've heard and seen on your gear it's not much you can upgrade more than the actual approach / strategy vs the boss. I personally change Melee Damage on Full Life despite knowing exactly what to do and executes it perfectly. Just because of the fact that as soon as any spirits take a single point of damage outside the ES they are provided by my Discipline, they will lose one entire socket. And we all know that links are worth more than any + mod from any staff in the game!

5L +3 is worse than a +0 6L for example (ther are other reasons why Pledge is better than +3 but you get my point).


Get back to me if you still have problems and i'll see if i can further explain or show you how to solve your problem!