[3.0] DreamScythe's Explosive Auto-Summoner

The quick rundown: Swapping insanity weapons causes you take take damage from heartbound loop, which then triggers cwdt summon spectres and zombies. They are detonated using Umbilicus immortalis and Coruscating Elixir.


The long explanation:

1) In order to constantly summon minions, the build uses Two Essence of insanity weapons (one in main hand, one in your alternate weapon swap). Pressing "x" for weapon swap causes the spectral spirits to die, and summons 3 new ones. This occurs every time you swap. Heartbound Loop causes you to take 350 damage per minion death.

2) Higher level CWDT gems are used for 6L raise spectre and 2Lraise zombie. Both have high amounts of life. Raise spectre has more hp in higher tier maps, making it ideal for 6l.

3) Umbilicus Immortalis (Belt) makes it so that our flasks apply to Zombies and Spectres, but not us. That means we can use Coruscating Elixir to bring all our zombies and spectres to 1 hp, which then causes them to explode due to Minion Instability (Skill tree node). They also leave behind a devastating noxious cloud from the witch necromancer skill. and lastly, the spectres are linked with chance to ignite, for some deadly ignite damage.

4) Ylfeban's trickery is an amazing helm now.
Since heartbound loop counts as a hit, shocked ground is spread everywhere constantly. If your ES is too low, or cant acquire the helm, look for a high ES helm with resists instead.

5) Level 20 desecrate with CWDT creates corpses so we can always have spectres/ zombies.

6) Our energy shield is sustained using lots of life regeneration and Zealot's Oath

7) And finally, a very interesting interaction using the Pantheon system Soul of Arakaali (captured Herald of thunder) - this provides 50% increased recovery of es if you have stopped taking damage over time.

By equipping CWDT level 1 and blood rage in your secondary weapon slot, you will effectively be taking DOT from blood rage, then disabling it by swapping weapons.

Weapon set I:



Weapon Set II:









Jewels:
2 x Energy from Within
5 x rare jewel (8% ES/ Minion damage)



Flasks:





For harder bosses, I replace increased area gem with

- required to take continually take damage from heartbound loop. Sai is the best base type as it provides 6% block.

- High energy shield and resists

- legacy divined - 20% shocked ground NO CD. If playing on league, you will look for a high ES helm with resists and intelligence.

- Absolute best item for the build. Focus on getting perfect 40% recovery.

- required to activate CWDT setups.

- Huge regen

- High es with resists

- mandatory for detonating minions

- +1 spectres - 2% life regen enchant.

- mandatory for detonating minions

x 2

Lastly, you need to look for jewels with Minion damage and Energy shield.

6L - Raise spectre (lvl 16) - minion damage - minion life - CWDT (lvl 13) - chance to ignite - AoE/conc effect
(for the 6L, cwdt should be level 13 so it procs every 2 weapon swaps.)


4L - CWDT (20) - raise zombie - minion damage - desecrate
4L - CWDT (20) - convocation - phase run - stone golem
4L - Vitality - Enlighten (level 2 or 3) - Purity of Elements - Discipline

One weapon set
3L - CWDT (1) - flamability - arc
3l - cwdt 1 - blood rage - skill of choice (immortal call works fine)

Secondary weapon set
3L - CWDT (1) - flamability - ice nova
3l - minion speed - culling strike - added lightning damage (small chance to shock)

Witch - Necro
https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAABAMDAAthDF8NfA5IES8RUBGWFScYVhslHKcc3B0UHxgi9CaIKPorCiymLL8x-zQKNbk3ZjeDOQs8LUGHRZ1HhUjnSbFLrkyzTblR-1NSU6VVtVfJXGtd8l8_ZlRmnmebaHRo8mvbbAttGXIPfRh-WX_Gf-OCx4Nfg8yESIVgjHaMsY8aj0aTJ5RvmK2a4JtYm6GezZ_LoS-m66cIpyunMKrErj6vbLQMtzC3Mbc-uJO-isEEwcXDbcRYxq7K08y8zRbQH9OP18_ZW9le2mLa3d-K5FHoWukC6rrr7uwY7IPsiu-I7-v2SPfB99f5N_no-tL-gQ==

Bandits: Skill/skill/skill


Ascendancy nodes:

Beacon of corruption - clouds do a lot of damage


Commander of Darkness - necessary for resists


Soul Weaver - MASSIVE damage boost for spectres

Keep in mind on standard my average ES gear is equivalent to top ES gear you would find on league. I also gain an additional 12% increased ES from my legacy jewels.



Lastly, the ES regen you see is increased by 40% from Beast fur Shawl. 2300 x 1.4 = 3220 Regen.

Latest Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ieip1JuBqII&feature=youtu.be - 3.0 build montage



Old videos (2.6)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UXkZh0FemU T16 Chimera map + boss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oygnLndUFvo&t=3s - boss killing

https://youtu.be/YsnGmQUt-xs - slow montage - build initial conception

https://youtu.be/x-x-giUiYdI - T15 abyss boss kill

In standard I have 8800 ES
2k base regen which is multiplied by 40% - making it 2800 regen.

If playing on league, it will be much easier to gain resists using a rare ES helm, and if necessary, ES boots. You will need to acquire shavronne's revelation, so this is not a good starter build.



Life version (Maligaro's Lens)

I did not level as this build (I used a free respec on standard around level 89)

This section is taken right from the user: Valmar's post on this thread:
p.s. Valmar, your input has been greatly appreciated!



Leveling



My current gear:




My skill tree:

(I got one more jewel for needed resistances, and little more ES cause dont have all the regen needed. Need a couple more levels and then probably respec some ES nodes plus the jewel and 3 minor regen nodes I took to get the 1.8 and the stun immune node. I also changed some little nodes for my own tastes)


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