[2.1 Video Guide] Hybrid ES/Life Tanky Zombie/Specter Summoner - The Puppet Master [HC/SC viable]

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Why would i be a blind GGG follower? I was pretty salty with the nerf and had a 1/2 conversation with Jared from GGG how this is a huge slap in the face.

In the end of the day i try to make things work than just be a grumpy F* like you. There not going to change it and yes of course it's not the same and of course it's a nerf as I lose defense but I am not giving up or walk away because they nerf something.

So at it finest sure you can call me a GGG follower, end of the day I move on and get it sorted someway or the other.

Thank you, The salt is pretty real.

Every time something summoner gets nerfed I get a bit upset(summoner types is my life blood in this game). I have seen the rise and fall of many things over the 2-3 years I been here. There is no other archetype that has seen so many nerfs/revamps in the past yr. But I feel with all the additions of 2.0 Summoners are now in a better place then they ever where.

Play smarter. Don't fall victim to mob mentality. Investing in your spectre is like investing in any other build, they are your weapons, not your wand, not your axe('And my axe! ;P'). We definitely need to think outside the box and oh boy does the poe database help immensely but there are just as viable spectre choices out there. Wraeclast is your canvas fellow summoners. Paint your own picture.

Thanks a lot for this build, Lifting! I've been using it on my first playthrough and enjoying it greatly. I'm doing Merciless right now and I have a question.

Is there an alternative (potentially a better one) to putting Increased Duration on Evangelists? I realize that their shield is great and having it up all the time would be fantastic, but I feel like, if either me or my minions die, it's never because of projectiles anyway, but rather due to some strong localized AoE (oh my god Daresso's spinny blades) or a melee character plowing through us. Of course, I'm not familiar with endgame content yet and it may very well be that projectile spam is the #1 killer in maps, but if it's not, what would you recommend as a replacement, if anything?

Lifting does a good job making n00b friendly builds. I wish he had been around with these when I was new I would not (perhaps) have made as many silly mistakes. Even if you aren't a n00b, you may be not all that comfortable w/summoner, for example, and it doesn't hurt to have a look and see how he does it.

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Ladamar wrote:

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Kodesterx wrote:

Hey I'm new and been using your guide. I was wondering, do I just keep leveling up my gems or should I stop at a certain level?

You should level your gems whenever you can. If you run into a wall (not enough Dex/Str), just right-click the gems and forget about them until you get that extra Dex/Str through passive nodes or equipment. Then you can level them up from the bottom of your inventory.

The only reason not to level a gem is if you barely have enough mana to use it as it is (perhaps due to all the auras reserving most of your mana), and leveling would increase the mana cost beyond the point where you can use it. In that case, hold out until you have some more mana.

Thank you!

Hey, I just wanted to ask about specter survivability. I have decided to use Evangelists for now but I am having a serious issue keeping them alive. The evangelists seem to die to anything that look at them even with 8 zombies running around. I am level 53, I have taken all the minion life nodes you have, but yeah, I just cant keep the evangelists alive..

Currently on Cruel, I dunno if this has any effect.

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Steelrattty wrote:

Hey, I just wanted to ask about specter survivability. I have decided to use Evangelists for now but I am having a serious issue keeping them alive. The evangelists seem to die to anything that look at them even with 8 zombies running around. I am level 53, I have taken all the minion life nodes you have, but yeah, I just cant keep the evangelists alive..

Currently on Cruel, I dunno if this has any effect.

The first thing that comes to mind is that you probably have an underleveled Desecrate and are reviving Evangelists from that instead of the Sceptre of God.

Sceptre in Cruel is a level 53 zone, meaning that monsters found there are at that level. When you kill Evangelists in Cruel Sceptre and revive them, they should be staying alive through most everything until late Merciless.

However, if you're using Desecrate and the gem is not at least level 11 (the level at which it starts being able to create ~lv53 corpses), and then raising Evangelists Desecrate gives you, you are raising underleveled Evangelists who will die to anything.

While it is a pain to have to find Evangelists in Sceptre every time until you level up your Desecrate enough, it's only for a short while. Getting Desecrate to lv11 shouldn't take too long.

Hope this helps and that I haven't missed the cause completely.

Where i can find Stygian Revenants? :)
Just started playing summoner and in which zones/map i can find them?

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Asmodeiuss wrote:

Where i can find Stygian Revenants? :)
Just started playing summoner and in which zones/map i can find them?

Revenants are found in Act 4, in the Belly of the Beast.

Evangelists are found in the Sceptre of God in Act 3.

Don't expect to be able to use either of them very effectively until Cruel, though. You'll have to stick to zombies for a while if you're just starting out. :)

double post, I am sorry

I dont know if this was asked before ( this thread has 15 pages and I have a very slow internet connection atm ) but is it worth to use this armor over a great rare ?