[2.0] Leary's Hybrid Summoner (Once Again): Dual Curse, invincible summons, Atziri viable

Disclaimer:

Hello All, Im back with summoner, and on request of Rootz, Im posting a preliminary sketch of what I will be trying to do. It will not be expensive, nor playtested. I will be aiming for atziri and the build might change accordingly.

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Update as of lvl 86/after atziri kill:





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Update as of lvl 77:


Current (lvl 77)
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Tree for lvl 86 (Main late-game goal):

Passive skill tree Hybrid

Or a lvl 89 Goal. It's up to the player mostly.
Passive skill tree Hybrid

Order of importance:

Minion and Aura nodes
Main survivability nodes (Dual nodes, Templar nodes, and nodes you have to pick to connect, obv)
Main curse nodes (Whispers of doom block)
Rest of survivability and Curse nodes

Gear and Links we will be trying to run:

Bones of Ullr (Ill be getting two pairs, but non-atziri should be fine without inc duration):
4-link Spectre : Raise Spectre - Minion Damage - Spell Echo - Minion speed/Inc Duration, switch according to situation (Evangelists, as usual, I haven't played with revenants, but the bubbles are still worth it to me)

+2 Minion gems helmet, ES/Life based
4-link Zombies : Raise Zombie - Fortify - Minion life/Empower - Multistrike (still best dps up, and as before, we will be running hatred)

Gloves, ES/life based.
4-link CoH : Arc - CoH - enfeeble - Temp chains

Victario's Influence - Our chest to run enough aura's

2link : Hatred - lvl20 gen, 2link: Vitality - Blood magic, 2link: Vaal Haste - Vaal Grace/Discipline
This will prob change to Haste - Blood magic but I don't know all that certain yet what to run on life and what on mana

Wand (No midnight bargain yet, I don't have a clue if we can manage)
3-link Aura's : Discipline - Purity of Elements - Enlighten (eventually lvl 3), Vaal discipline till then

Saffells/Rathpith/Crest of perandus (our beloved NA shields)
3-link Flesh offering/Bone offering - Convocation - Desecrate

Once we upgrade into more gear, get a sidhebreath, corrupted, get an unset ring, for extra slots, and enlighten gems

If we get enlighten gems, we might be able to fit Haste in there, or maybe Grace, for the times Haste isn't needed. See fit for that as you want.

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Updates to come, please recommend me anything I might want to consider in this setup. The base will stay the same tho, Dual curse hybrid. Chaos golem won't fit as of currently, but If I could, I would, that thing is tanky enough I'd love it.

Thank you Leary!! as always appreciated. I really enjoyed your 1.3 build & thread and i think a lot of people are happy to see you posting again :)

Nice to see you! I haven't gotten around to respeccing my witch in standard yet b/c I'm unsure what aura(s) to give up, etc.
I look forward to your adventures.

Updated a bit with some thoughts. Summoners are even stronger than I thought, and Might not be hit at all with the aura nerfs.

I don't know about spectres yet. Evangelists are running hot, and to be honest, I don't know if I want to give up those shields. Zombies are also still able to dish out decent damage with my current gem setup, but I also don't have a fortify gem yet. Being able to still run hatred makes the biggest difference here I guess.

Running currently with permanent IIR gem in my evangelists links tho, which doesn't seem to hurt me at all, increased duration will replace that eventually, but most likely not before I go ahead and take on atziri or high lvl maps.

Chaos resistance is still to be added into my gear, but is still high priority.

Fortified legion is only 1c boys. Get one with a good roll. It's worth it.

Leadership cobalt jewels of the wall are extremely expensive, so if you go ahead and get one, make sure it's 4% block and close to max roll. Or roll one yourself. But again, if you really want to max dps and tankiness, this is what you need.

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question to the community: Revenants, do their attacks deal full lightning damage, or is it scaled off of a base phys converted into lightning, or is it a spell?

Revenants deal full lighting damage. I did some testing with both evangelists and revenants.

Revenants deal alot more dmg, but evangelists are more defensive because of shields.

With my currect build low life since i dont like hybrid ... i dont have hybrid proper gear for 50% + chaos res, since we use midnight bargain. And without high chaos res you will be oneshoted in 77+ hard maps.

So i did a test with palace dominus phase 2, he was dead in around 6-7 sec with revenants. And this is without any jewels with + damage.

So overall summoners situatuon has improved alot. Zombies were able to face tank palace dominus without any problems.

Yeah definitely start experimenting with all the new summoner options in 2.0. There is such a great amount of build diversity possible and am really excited for what other summoners can come up with so I can improve my build as well =).

Here's a list of potentially good spectres from the new contents:

Revenants: pretty much top tier in terms of dmg | lightning spell projectile

Knitted Horrors: Great for abusing bloodlust with srs in a hybrid build | 100% pierce 100% bleed 100% physical projectile attack

Lantern bearers/illuminates: | fire projectile burning ground spell

Firestorm dudes in kaom's area {I totally forget what they are called}

The current FOTM is Revenants but am sure there is some spectre that has a huge hidden potential and we had not theory crafted the optimal idea for it yet.

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Yeah definitely start experimenting with all the new summoner options in 2.0. There is such a great amount of build diversity possible and am really excited for what other summoners can come up with so I can improve my build as well =)

Couldn't agree more! I have a summoner to respec in standard and I'm waiting on it b/c I'm still not sure and she is in bottom of queue now since I'm busy w/warbands lately anyway.

Also another interesting thing to notice my zombies now have 18644 hp. This is done by lv20 zombie gem in a vertex + empower lv4. After taking all the jewels with hp/dmg to minions and lv21 gem they will probably hit 23-24k, this will be insane :)

Animate guardian lv18 gem also in vertex + empower now has 25061hp on a tooltip (belly of the beast armor he wears doesnt show in the tooltip)

p.s. I know most of the items needed are not available in the temp. leagues, but I just wanted to show the potential :)

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Eranicus wrote:

Revenants deal full lighting damage. I did some testing with both evangelists and revenants.

Revenants deal alot more dmg, but evangelists are more defensive because of shields.

With my currect build low life since i dont like hybrid ... i dont have hybrid proper gear for 50% + chaos res, since we use midnight bargain. And without high chaos res you will be oneshoted in 77+ hard maps.

So i did a test with palace dominus phase 2, he was dead in around 6-7 sec with revenants. And this is without any jewels with + damage.

So overall summoners situatuon has improved alot. Zombies were able to face tank palace dominus without any problems.

yeah, Hybrid requires a bit more gear, agreed, but I want to be able to run Victario's influence for the extra aura radius/effect and such. Might not be the best but most certainly what I will test out. I think Low life is definetly an option. Revenants do deal more dmg. They are strong. I just don't want to run them because I want the shields (playstyle). I would most certainly not argue against running them.

And yeah, zombie life has improved drastically. I suspect them to be able to tank uber tbh

Hmm interesting new armor, I've missed it while checking new uniq's. There is one problem by using auras in chest peace, this means you will use 4 link specters. Maybe for evangelists it will be ok. But for revenants 6 link its like 30%+ more dps if you compare it to 4 link.

I did atziri today with my low life setup, and i have to say damage was superb.