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It is important to note that only modifiers that EXPLICITLY STATE MINION will effect your minions. Other things like spell damage, attack speed, crit, etc will not impact your minions, only YOU.

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xSTGx wrote:

Hi, and thanks to OP for sharing this build!

I used it with relative success in the 1MFB, and unless something inspiring falls in my lap in the next hour, I think I'll probably use it again for Darkshrine. I would just like some advice/input on two aspects of playing this build:

#1 Survivability in general -- [Disclaimer: of course 1MFB had a lot more incoming damage than a typical league, so maybe I'm looking for an answer to a question that was never meant to be asked.]

Just not really sure what the survivability "theme" of this build is even supposed to be. (And tbh I'm not an expert on the survival mechanics of the game in general, but I'm honestly going to read up on them right now!)

Once things got moving along, I was working with 2.5-3k life, 200-500 ES, full resists, and little if any evasion. For a long time I was wearing ES armors and had only 1% phys. reduction from gear, and just used a Perpetual Granite Flask of Iron Skin to have a "temp" armor up every time I went into combat. (Or at least whenever possible.) Eventually got a Belly of the Beast, and started wearing a belt with a ton of armor on it, which got my phys. dmg. reduction to about 12-14%. Better but obviously still not enough.

Was trying to pick the best gear I know how - good max life rolls, good multi-resists, good ES when available, etc. Was able to make it through most content due to overwhelming offensive power, but tier 7-8 maps, esp. certain Beyond bosses and "mini bosses" who leap slam or flicker strike (or whatever) on to you, those guys were one-shotting. And of course there were some long fights where I'd just run out of charges. e.g. Desert boss.

So, just wondering how I'm supposed to play it w/r to survivability in general. Armor? ES? Eva? Seems like OP is going for "Armor" but I saw one poster above mentioning Eva. (Personally I chucked all the Eva gear I found, thinking it was "not for me"...)

Assuming it is supposed to be an armor/life/ES build, how far off "the mark" was I, compared to what the OP and other assumably "pro" users of this build would be experiencing? (And is armor/life the emphasis, or ES?)


#2 Attributes, as relates to gearing -- while leveling and even end-game, it wasn't really clear to me where I was supposed to be getting the attributes to wear the expected gear/(leveled) gems. I was "stuck" wearing lots of +STR and +DEX gear basically ever since I made the transition from "flame totem" (leveling) to "SRS and auras" (end game), and I'm wondering if this is normal or if I was doing something wrong.

My solution toward the end was to start putting points into the +30 STR and DEX nodes (Might, Agility, Expertise, etc.) but I kinda ran out of time before going the distance with this. Good idea or ...?

Overall, any advice appreciated! Thanks again to OP and to anyone who takes the time to read! :)

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Darkith1546 wrote:

Sorry for the noob question but this is my first time playing a SRS character. When do I use the Melee Splash gem? It is for farming maps??? I currently use Multi-Strike.