[3.2]Blink & Mirror Arrow Necromancer * Shaper down * Build of the Week * Deadeye version added*

Do you think champion will be good for trap version with enemies cannot evade you can use another bow

Many props to OP for such a well-written guide.

I played this in Abyss all the way up to high-tier Red maps (would have gone further if I actually tried to optimize my gear a bit, for sure), and it was the easiest lvl 95 I've ever done. It was my own tweaked version with a Victario's Influence chest along with Empower and Enlighten. Not to mention all the new Shaper/Elder Quivers and Bone Helmets out there.

I'm pretty keen on doing an Ascendant (Necromancer/Deadeye) version of this as I believe the new nodes for both of those covers so many core concepts from the original build - Necromancer Aura stacking and Offerings, Pierce without the gem, Deadeye's new "No bleeding while moving" update.

I reckon it should be perfectly fine.

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Ceverettz wrote:

I'm pretty keen on doing an Ascendant (Necromancer/Deadeye)

Ascendant Deadeye isn't good for this build, because her passives (pierce, additional projectile) only applies to you and not your minions.

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Semarogin wrote:

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Ceverettz wrote:

I'm pretty keen on doing an Ascendant (Necromancer/Deadeye)

Ascendant Deadeye isn't good for this build, because her passives (pierce, additional projectile) only applies to you and not your minions.

Dangit, I knew I was forgetting something.

Ah well, I'll put it on the back burner then. Might think on it some more, I suppose.

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Do you think champion will be good for trap version with enemies cannot evade you can use another bow

Yes, but I'm not too excited about taunting every enemy. Also, traps take a little bit longer to clear maps bc of the trigger time.

How would you be leveling the Deadeye variant? I wanna give a Deadeye variant a try in the upcoming league as a starter.

I'm either going to level as Spectral Shield throw or as a bow character. So far I'm leaning towards Spectral Shield throw because the gem gains damage as it levels up, and it doesn't require GMP. On the other hand bow characters really need to upgrade their bows and links to stay relevant. Skilltree for SST would start out like this:
https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/3.1.1/AAAABAICAH11vqe74-96jX7Eohm0PeL0-HsUoSItg7Gz5wrqYr02t7av6_ajzZgB0RUg_roEsUjuCpt1yxuteK6iQNN-ZU0=

Minimum required uniques before converting to summoner:
- Lioneye's Glare
- Victario's Influence (just need 3 sockets)
- Drillneck or a Penetrating Arrow Quiver (craft with essence of misery)
- Kikazaru (for ES regen on Eldritch Battery; if you cannot obtain, use only 2 auras and spam mana potions instead)

To convert to summoner, respec 21 skillpoints from the Shield throw build in order to get this tree:
https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/3.1.1/AAAABAICABzcfXWboSpNHRRBh48ahrONfe96WpH56Czpz141kl-YpwgAXvfXYRBuqpit8riFYFXGtz5MLUrIuJOqxILH7Ir-uvaj7-tqrE2S7g5pTti9zzJMsyP2FLC-pxUge8MwfAgu_gpRR9rdTbmjisy8vTY6WBm0WW0tg5ARm43QH-2DrJgdvqh9U88zh49GA-4RDz8nFm_javrSFy8ksIqvgKT3wRmO036CHtsLa9u18hVDOw0o-gDu0_vr7mVN

Obviously I havent been able to test all of this yet, but in theory it should work. Definitely not an endeavour for a newer player, though.

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dariidar wrote:

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Do you think champion will be good for trap version with enemies cannot evade you can use another bow

Yes, but I'm not too excited about taunting every enemy. Also, traps take a little bit longer to clear maps bc of the trigger time.

Putting on a Chin Sol seems to provide more damage. An unoptimized version that I have in PoB is doing 45k per clone on a 5L (Mirror-Trap-Cluster-MinionDamage-PointBlank)(non-boss DPS). Additionally, I think PoB does not take into account that the minion is close range to the target so the actual number should be 90k. Lioneye has far shot but that's not relevant for trap variant.

The playstyle will be clunky. Split arrow has 60% chance to hit without any item investment into accuracy. With +500 accuracy in items, you have a 77% chance to hit with split arrow. Minions would miss more than half the time without taunt. You'd have to throw the traps, while they are flying, shoot two packs of curse-on-hit split arrows into the crowd and pray they connect.

You can maybe Lioneye for maps and weapon swap into Chin Sol for bosses. Then use a spell that always hits like orb of storms to proc taunt and intimidate. It still wouldn't be a good mapper though due to lack of movement speed.

There are other ways to taunt - Enduring Cry for example.

But another problem with Chin Sol is that it has fire damage. You need some way to deal cold damage only in order to proc elemental equilibrium.
Also, its attack speed is pretty low which makes a lot worse at scaling flat elemental damage from auras.

Yea that's true, I've kind of overlooked the attack speed aspect of it. For auras you can run wrath+hatred instead of wrath+anger but wrath+anger is probably superior.

Overall there's a lot of arguments against using Champion and only one argument for it, which is single target damage. And the single target damage doesn't look like it's worth all the trouble for.