[2.6] Zombie summoner - 6 Big Zombies

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Different question: Best way to get high level Carnage Chieftains? The ones from the merc Old Fields can only take so much beating before they die in high damage maps.

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Saltychipmunk wrote:

for chieftains .. fields -> desecrate spam in an map above tier 8 will get your a suitably tanky minion (under the assumption you have at-least some form of life regen for the poor bastards



as for shields str on a shield generally means you have to use a hybrid base if i recall, not certain.. but i think that is the case.

frankly resist are only a major problem for this build if you use

1 queen escape for faster clearing (ie 2 hander)
2 use umbilicus .. though sadly umbilicus is probably going to die unless ggg does something drastic about how horrible it is for personal clear speed .. summoners rely too much qs flasks


so if you dont use those 2 otherwise dead slot items (from a stat perspective) the only reason not to rock a str shield is if you are already over your current str break point .. ie 1000 or 1200



also keep in mind that once 3.0 hits .. poison is not going to be that useful for zombie builds .

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Mecielle wrote:

On the topic of clearspeed: I was very disappointed with it at first. And I did not want to use Queens Decree or Umbilicus. So I spent some moneys on Shrieking Essences of Fear and made these two rings:

Now my Zombies are faster than me while I am using

and the travel time between hits is so much faster. Clearspeed went up a TON. I am convinced getting two movementspeed rings is easily the best clearspeed upgrade you can do.

It might even be worth it to spend 1-2 passives on resists if the rings cause you problems with resists. I would rather have the clear speed rings than 2 passives. We can get either 12% all res from the "Elementalist" node left of Templar start for 1 passive or 15% all res for two passives from "Diamond Skin" left of Marauder start. Or what might be the best one, 10% all res for two passives from "Sentinel" south of Scion start. This would also give us 10 strenght and a bunch of evasion and armour. If you already have 1200 str anyway it might be a good idea to give up one of the 30 str nodes and get Sentinel either way.

I have taken Sentinel for now until I manage to get a movement speed+str+cold res ring. Was a bit unlucky to get 2x fire res on rings...

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Saltychipmunk wrote:

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Mecielle wrote:

On the topic of clearspeed: I was very disappointed with it at first. And I did not want to use Queens Decree or Umbilicus. So I spent some moneys on Shrieking Essences of Fear and made these two rings:

Now my Zombies are faster than me while I am using

and the travel time between hits is so much faster. Clearspeed went up a TON. I am convinced getting two movementspeed rings is easily the best clearspeed upgrade you can do.

It might even be worth it to spend 1-2 passives on resists if the rings cause you problems with resists. I would rather have the clear speed rings than 2 passives. We can get either 12% all res from the "Elementalist" node left of Templar start for 1 passive or 15% all res for two passives from "Diamond Skin" left of Marauder start. Or what might be the best one, 10% all res for two passives from "Sentinel" south of Scion start. This would also give us 10 strenght and a bunch of evasion and armour. If you already have 1200 str anyway it might be a good idea to give up one of the 30 str nodes and get Sentinel either way.

I have taken Sentinel for now until I manage to get a movement speed+str+cold res ring. Was a bit unlucky to get 2x fire res on rings...

I can give you a few reasons why its not as great as you think

1 legacy league is artificially propping up all the league content. this is something people dont appreciate but pretty much all the old league content isnt actually viable at all under vanilla rates.

essence on standard is horrible , too rare to target craft anything. the current availability of essence on legacy is probably about 4 - 6 times greater than vanilla and 10 - 20 times greater than the dead economy on standard.

so once legacy ends .. you are going to be in for one massive shock by how shit the vanilla values are.

2 resists on the baron build is really really really hard to cap if you use all the recommended uniques .. it is so bad that i took the scion resist jewel socket on mine and i am not over capped enough to do eleweakness maps

3 generally summoners want unset rings because of all the qol things they have to roll with.


but you are correct minion speed is huge it is why queens escape is considered the best summoner unique weapon in the game.

i would consider 2x unset rings with str resists and life as your top tier stretch goal .. but i would emphasize stretch goal. you aint getting them in 3.0 any time soon and god forbid if ggg actually fixes summoner qol .. i can make a safe bet the fear essence market will be poisoned by soulless flippers

every top tier summoner knows very well the value of minion speed .. its when everyone else starts to catch on that i am worried about