(3.3) Fire Skeletons: A Earendel build without instability
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We'll just start off with the PoB link for those of you who want to get straight to the point.
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https://pastebin.com/NS0T07Ds
This is more of a rough draft of a character. I am hoping someone takes this and runs with it. I feel Earendels is far better than the current meta believes. That said... If you're like me and just wanted the new Skeleton weapon to actually be good, well you're in luck. Its pretty amazing for a build that converts skeleton damage to fire and focuses on buffing skeleton elemental damage instead of relying on skeletons blowing up with instability. We are drastically lowering enemy fire resists with Elemental Equilibrium and Flammability. Gear and Links
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Try for an Earendels with low skeleton degen to help with keeping them alive. Mine stay up pretty easily during fights where they aren't one shot by wind up attacks. and when they do drop i pop out 5 at a time so i have yet to feel like they die faster than i can replenish them. You are trying for a skeleton, aura, or offering enchant on the Baron pretty much anything useful is good enough. I haven't had much luck with enchants... ever. Swap melee splash for added fire against bosses if needed. Fire pen against big bosses like guardians, sharper, or maps with large resist mods. Zombies are just meat shields who leech life for us. Feel free to swap minion life in for either minion skill. The new Phase Run is pretty slick with necro aegis and victarios. where you have a ton of move speed for a very long time after each decent size pack of enemies you kill. Flesh or Bone offering, both are good options and depends on what you need for the content you are running. Skill Tree
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https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-passive-skill-tree/AAAABAMDAAQHBLMI9A3iES0VJxVQFm8XLxhWGjgabBzcHaoi9CSqJLAnLyj6KpgsnCziMZ4y0TWSNuk6WDrYOuE8BTwtQYdFR0WdRnFIjkrITLNN41NSVcZakV8qZlRmumh0aPJqQ2qsa9tsC20Zbqp7w3yDfRiApIKbgseDCYNfg8yD24V7iECKr4yxjr6PGpARkDOQVZLBkyeYrZo7muCf36EvogCmV6aspwiofbB3tAy18rc-uJO86r6Kv5fAZsk9ytPQH9OP0_vYvdkL2mLfsOGI42rr5Ovu7Djsg-yK7-vwH_Ie8kX56PqA-tL-Cv5J_o8=?accountName=Dinkadoo&characterName=Nitz_Your_Skels_Aspload
PoB https://pastebin.com/NS0T07Ds Notes 1. Necromatic Aegis can be swapped for any other number of skills if you like generating frenzy charges yourself with ball lightning. personally ive been running freezing pulse and ele weakness for my curse while playing with friends so generating frenzy charges with ball lightning for me is a no go. 2. Area of effect and elemental damage nodes in templar tree can be bypassed with int points if you feel you don't need any more aura radius for 1 extra skill point. Optional strength nodes can be allocated elsewhere if not needed. 3. Clarity can be swapped for convocation if you have enough resists from gear to not need the resist buff from Commander of Darkness 4. Lvl 100 points. pick up the socket below the scion life wheel on the way to the duelist tree, after that the tree already runs by several useful nodes like Skittering Runes for better flamiblity, or Potencey of Will for better up time of offerings, It even is connected to the terrible 3% life 5% ES wheel between witch and shadow if you want a bit more of a life pool, or you can work towards yet another socket. Last edited by Dinkadoo#6019 on Jun 30, 2018, 2:49:33 AM Last bumped on Jan 11, 2019, 11:35:36 PM
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I run a similar build on high tier maps, its a boss murderer. When you grab the Bone Sculptor ascendancy node and the From Dust jewel granting 5 skeles per use Maligaro's Lens gives you much better survivability at about 20% life every 3-4 seconds, with a high rolled Earendel's.
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I put together something to use it (although quite a bit a ways from what you have here). I'm low level still, so what's on my profile is only halfway there, but putting in a PoB of where I'll be looks really nice.
At level 73 I ran a few T15s and the damage already felt good and fast, however I was still lacking on the defensive front so I died a few times when I failed to play smart. Here is the PoB for my goal: https://pastebin.com/pvMyNsUQ This is mostly reasonable, except maybe gloves with minion life (I crafted it on my current gloves in PoB)..most all the other gear I'm already using and spent less than 2ex total for everything. Gems are of course leveled and quality-ed in PoB too. |
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" This is a really good combo, and does seem realistic, thanks for posting and well done putting together that synergy. BUT, the post title was to use earendels without instability... I'm thinking skelly mages, SRS or fire spectres would still be able to do all content without instbility: Skelly mages and totem SRS https://pastebin.com/mzksgPt4 SRS self cast and kitavas thirst https://pastebin.com/T0DEzAzw Voidbearer spectres with farshot really like enemies covered in ash. If voidbearers had better AI, this would be more exciting.... this damage is multiplied by 50% at max range! https://pastebin.com/JxegYJkJ Good old flame sentinels https://pastebin.com/VLU8NcHM |
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