[2.6] Ben's Ranged AutoSummoner (BUDGET, MoM, guardian/shaper viable, projectqtup viable)

Do increases to DoT or chaos on your character/from jewels affect your minions? Also looking at Beacon of Corruption.

Great Build it Rocks! - SouthBound Gloves are not a Bad choice btw extra 16% life is nice. also an 8% Anatomical Knowledge Unique jewel is nice on them gem slot otw down to big life cluster.

I feel like I'm missing something. Having hard time reaching 5k life+Es combined and occasionally getting one-shot by certain bosses, such as High Gardens boss. Damage on the other hand is great and I can solo pretty much anything that doesn't blow up my Weapons.
https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Moxfi/characters

Defensive stats:
AR 3123
PhysReduct 24%
ES 294
Life 4591
Ele Res %159+
Chaos Res %145

CWDT + IC + Inc Duration, set of lv5
Arctic Armor
Chaos Golem

Things I could improve:
Q20 gems everywhere.
+2 Skin of the Loyal OR change it to something completely different. More deeps.
Skin of the Loyal is doubling ES and AR found on items, so AR/ES +Life items would work nicely, improving my health pool. Currently focusing on AR+Life items for some reason...
I could fit in Determination with an Unset Ring, but then my Mana pool gets destroyed and MoM would be useless.

Also:
Do jewels with +DoT% and +ChaosDmg% work on Minions? Tooltips say Yes, but I know better than to trust them :D

I'm having issues with soloing bosses which wipe out the weapons with AOE attacks.

I'm already running bone offering and still find that the boss wipes out the weapons in a few seconds.

Is there anyway I can beef up the minion's suitability any further outside of running items which increase minion life? (I'm already doing this)

Stuff like atziri is very difficult because the flame blast wipes out everything.

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ironstove wrote:

I'm having issues with soloing bosses which wipe out the weapons with AOE attacks.

I'm already running bone offering and still find that the boss wipes out the weapons in a few seconds.

Is there anyway I can beef up the minion's suitability any further outside of running items which increase minion life? (I'm already doing this)

Stuff like atziri is very difficult because the flame blast wipes out everything.

I don't think this build is good for bosses with multiple phase. This is an open area map farmer, not an atziri farmer.

Ok, I've been Weapon Animating for leagues, so was eager to try it.
Short: fun but you'll dump it in a while. Not worth it.
1. you want to animate melee and ranged in 1 set. It is possible with GGRRBB or GGGRBB, which is 4-5 offcolors.(added chaos-minion dmg-gmp/poison/void/-duration/splash) Other combos are suboptimal. Cmon, this nullifies "cheapness" of the 6s 0L approach
2. The proc is soo unreliable, some maps and mods are a no-go. Selfcast is way better.
3. having a separate set of ranged animation links is an option, but you nullify the autosummon ability
4. ranged weaps are very powerful, but managing them manually by collecting-carrying is a pain. At some point you no longer hunt for items, but for wands.

I was trying all options, but then switched to a poison sword + victario's shield, and my minions suddenly became insane.

I have a feeling GGG balance team didnt work out the item well enough to make it a build option. Trust me, cwc or totem animator is much more convenient and reliable for the same price. Elemental animator is also very strong.

Fun, hipster, niche. Very niche.

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Moxfi wrote:

I feel like I'm missing something. Having hard time reaching 5k life+Es combined and occasionally getting one-shot by certain bosses, such as High Gardens boss. Damage on the other hand is great and I can solo pretty much anything that doesn't blow up my Weapons.

In my opinion, this is not a good usage of Skin of the Loyal. Yes, it will give you a shitload of dps. But it will double almost nothing on your case. In my opinion, Skin is best used when your other items have good ES. You're also mising out on a potential 100+ life on your chest.

If you really want to keep Skin, you should use ES + Life items, or AR+ES+Life items.

Are you sure you have enough unreserved mana to protect you with MOM ?

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akavangop wrote:

Ok, I've been Weapon Animating for leagues, so was eager to try it.
Short: fun but you'll dump it in a while. Not worth it.
1. you want to animate melee and ranged in 1 set. It is possible with GGRRBB or GGGRBB, which is 4-5 offcolors.(added chaos-minion dmg-gmp/poison/void/-duration/splash) Other combos are suboptimal. Cmon, this nullifies "cheapness" of the 6s 0L approach
2. The proc is soo unreliable, some maps and mods are a no-go. Selfcast is way better.
3. having a separate set of ranged animation links is an option, but you nullify the autosummon ability
4. ranged weaps are very powerful, but managing them manually by collecting-carrying is a pain. At some point you no longer hunt for items, but for wands.

I was trying all options, but then switched to a poison sword + victario's shield, and my minions suddenly became insane.

I have a feeling GGG balance team didnt work out the item well enough to make it a build option. Trust me, cwc or totem animator is much more convenient and reliable for the same price. Elemental animator is also very strong.

Fun, hipster, niche. Very niche.

1. GGRRBB or GGGRBB is easily achieved by crafting sockets. Sure, it's not the cheapest, doable! That said, this build does best when the Jorrhast's procs on melee weapons instead of ranged, and you summon the ranged ones by yourself.
2. So far I haven't skipped a single Shaped Strand due to mods. I'm at the point where I don't even care about the mods and just run in. My Jorrhast's keeps proccing on things I'd rather pick up :(
3. Autosummon taking ranged weapons makes my soul weep :( Not to mention the 6s/6l items...
4. I've filled 2 stash tabs with wands just for this. I pick up a few wands here and there to keep my supply running, but I do run an alt and buy EVERY wand possible each time I level it up.

Victario's + Poison sword (United in Dream?) sounds like a fun setup, but wouldn't that force you to self-cast every AnimWeapon?

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wichtounet wrote:

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Moxfi wrote:

I feel like I'm missing something. Having hard time reaching 5k life+Es combined and occasionally getting one-shot by certain bosses, such as High Gardens boss. Damage on the other hand is great and I can solo pretty much anything that doesn't blow up my Weapons.

In my opinion, this is not a good usage of Skin of the Loyal. Yes, it will give you a shitload of dps. But it will double almost nothing on your case. In my opinion, Skin is best used when your other items have good ES. You're also mising out on a potential 100+ life on your chest.

If you really want to keep Skin, you should use ES + Life items, or AR+ES+Life items.

Are you sure you have enough unreserved mana to protect you with MOM ?

I upgraded a few things and am now running 5k'ish HP with the proper jewels - SotL is for DPS, yes, but I've also got few hybrid items on me (5k/500 or so). That said, I could aim for Life/ES items instead of Life/AR. I'm not sure if I want to spend an Exalted or two on that, though - finding Res/Life/ES items and getting 75% allres is hard, not to mention the +30% Animate Weapon Duration and +15% Minion Damage gloves!

Edit: Path of Building says BIS gear would give me 5577HP / 6165ES, with 75% all res - purely with Rare gear, SotL, Jorrhast's and Spirit Guards x2. Now I'm tempted... :D

As for MoM - I have around Edit: 1400~ unreserved mana, which has helped a ton in tough situations (double-Beyond/Breach/Onslaught or Nemesis)

How do you manage the auto-summon of journast on the ranged weapons??