[2.5] Saltizard's Raging Summoner [CI SRS]

Why are you asking? We have the same information as you, come back once we can actually play the game, and test the changes.

Heya.

On the SRS change, I think its a major BUFF towards our damage.

Im a lv 95 life based SRS'er.
Running hatred on generosity.
Normal haste, and vaal haste up 100% of the time.


Why is it a buff?
Think about it, when do we ever have 50 SRS going all over the place?
They fade when they go to far out of screen anyway.
Its easy to get all 50 up, but not really needed imo.

Ill post my gear just so you can see what im working with, i pref other gems then you guys though ;)
Minion speed over melee damage.
Makes them so much faster traveling wise.




Currenctly sitting on 8.3k hp
980 HP-sec
70% movespeed ( without vaal haste )
6.41 cast per second SRS without vaal haste aswell.


What i love about my gear, is the enchant on the gloves
'' cast commandment of the grave when your skills or minions kill ''
What this does, it makes 3 ice SRS minions on kill, with a 5 sec global CD ( but the duration increase helps them live longer ;) ) Mine are up for 11 seconds, meaning i can get 6 icy SRS up.
When they die they explode, also triggers the cloud of our ascendancy.

Boot enchant.
6% to freeze, shock and ignite if you havent crit recently.
Which is all the time :) And this works on our SRS aswell.

Main reason I went life based was because i hated the fact to use mana for SRS, considering we needed to spam it often, requiring alot of mana regen...

And the thing about the crude bows... ive spend over 1.4k chromatics to get the right colours, and it still didnt happen.

So i just went with a staff
- +2
- +1
- has blood magic.

Makes it so easy to get them all off for bosses.

Again, this is changing now, because we only get to summon 20 a time.
So i might switch to CI aswell.
Running hatred > generosity + Clarity & Discipline.
Means ill skip out on normal haste, which isnt to bad as its only 16% cast speed & attack speed + 9% move speed.

I plan to go with this build as my Breach starter build. But I have one question, what about Realm Ender staff ? Since it's already +3 Fire Gem.

Sydjex.

Realm ender has
+1 to fire gems.
+1 to cold gems.
+2 to elemental gems.


yes, its +3 to fire gems, initially.
But it doesnt give level bonusses towards empower or the other socketed gems.


What the +2 to level of socketed gems does, is it gives a level extra to empower AND SRS.
While the realm ender doesnt.

A +2 +1 staff gives us the following.

SRS = level 21 ( if corrupted good that is )
then you gain 3 levels on top of that.
Because of the +2 fire ( boosting the gem itself ) and +1 level because of the +1 socketed gems.

Then, empower is king.
giving us 3-4 extra levels ( depending on level of empower )

Meaning that if you have a
+2 fire
+1 socketed gems
weapon, you gain the following in total.

SRS
+3 levels from item.
+3 levels from support > Could be +4, if you got the best empower gem.


That makes your SRS level 27.

Oh yeah, my bad, I have expressed myself badly there, I mean while waiting for a 6L with +1 fire, and +2 to socketed gem and Empower 3 or 4.

If you cant afford a +2 fire +1 socketed yet.
Just buy a 6L staff ( any ) And put the essence of rage on it!

What essence of rage does, is it gives you a 100% +2 fire gem stat on the weapon its used on.

then you'll still have +2 to your level of SRS. Meaning its then 23.

If you go with realm ender, not quite sure if the elemental + affix works for SRS itself honestly.

But im pretty sure realm ender will be more expensive as a 6L then a white staff so :)

And OP, can you post a video of your gameplay mate?

The only thing i got against CI is the fact that you need to use mana for skills, and im really curious to see how your mana sustains.

As i imagine you have very little mana to begin with ( remaining that is ).

Just hope its able to get 20 SRS off, before you run out of mana really :)


Oh, and i guess you just took life items and some life nodes in the tree to level with yeah?


Cheers bro.

Ok, thanks a lot about your replies ! That cleared some doubt I had about it !

Tried to set this up on a random char i still had.

This isnt going to be my build, ill stick to the life version...

Having like 120 mana and the skill costing 70 mana, fuck that.

theres no point in doing this whatsoever, cant stand casting 2 and waiting for mana to fill.

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Qfierced wrote:

And OP, can you post a video of your gameplay mate?

The only thing i got against CI is the fact that you need to use mana for skills, and im really curious to see how your mana sustains.

As i imagine you have very little mana to begin with ( remaining that is ).

Just hope its able to get 20 SRS off, before you run out of mana really :)


Oh, and i guess you just took life items and some life nodes in the tree to level with yeah?


Cheers bro.

Yes, took life nodes and random items while leveling, switched to CI around 70.

And for the video, i'll make an atziri run video, at least try to, let me look into that and i'll try to get it done today x)

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Qfierced wrote:

Tried to set this up on a random char i still had.

This isnt going to be my build, ill stick to the life version...

Having like 120 mana and the skill costing 70 mana, fuck that.

theres no point in doing this whatsoever, cant stand casting 2 and waiting for mana to fill.

i have around 300 manareg/s with the setup and skyforth, didn't play much with these boots, something like 100 mana left is good enough, the only case where i could not be sustaining it is with vaal haste or headhunter cast speed shenanigans, but it doesn't really matter with the 50 srs cap.

for 2.5 i guess i'll swap spell echo to either minion speed or elemental focus, i'll make a character is breach and try things out!

Edit : added a video at the end of the post, quality is pretty crappy but i'll try to make better ones in the future