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ZartoK89 wrote:

Hello Kay :) I did practice speedrunning your leveling build for two weeks now and found a way to buy all the required gems for the transition for mapping so there is "no swaps".

But now I see that you have a new build that replaces the Minion Army Build! :O

How much of a power difference and smoothness is those two builds compared to eachother? Like, I found pressing SRS->run->SRS->run a good way to clear decent (especially with unleashed).

My plan for the new league was Minion Army Build -> Spectre + Spider (ish.. without spending too much currency on items not relevant to the next transition) -> into Cold HoP.


What are your thoughts now going into 3.15? I know the manifesto is not out yet, but based on the current game would you rather going your new skele build instead of Minion Army? How would that affect my plan? Would it be better to go skelly -> skelly mage -> Cold HoP when enough curreny? Or is the skelly mage the end game deluxe build?

So many questions :D I just want to hear your thoughts on all this.

How did you go with the speed run? The fastest I did was 5hrs with goldrim/tabula/wanderlust.

The new levelling guide goes directly into new Minion Army. Most of the gems and links are finished at start of Act 5 and then some fixing in Act 6 (should have 4x 4-link and currency to buy gems that are not quest rewards).

It's not a big change to Minion Army actually! It's basically bye bye SRS, hello skeles :) Actually I think the skeles feel better than SRS. and it's easy to upgrade to the new skelemancer build. I'm thinking to make skelemancer as warrior main actually. I thought the clear speed was just as good as mages and no gem swaps for mapping/bossing.

My plan is Minion Army -> Skelemancer -> SSS/Cold HoP.

Reaper looks really interesting too... maybe combine with spiders for clear speed? I think it will be more like a meme build though because I can't imagine if it has 5x DPS of HoP.

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mrkeltz wrote:

Hey Kay I used your build in the past and was one of the best leagues I had and was thinking of maybe running it again as a safe starter for this coming league. I popped the pure spectre's into pob and it seems SO only does around 300k dps. Is there anything in the build I need to fix or did they just get nerfed that hard recently?

SO are still good but not completely OP like before. They had double nerfed. Directly nerf was spell trigger -> attack trigger (no more spell echo) + overall Raise Spectre nerf.

About POB, it only calculates one single hit, but SOs have shotgun effect with GMP. So the DPS is more like 3-5x the number in POB.

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kayella wrote:

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mrkeltz wrote:

Hey Kay I used your build in the past and was one of the best leagues I had and was thinking of maybe running it again as a safe starter for this coming league. I popped the pure spectre's into pob and it seems SO only does around 300k dps. Is there anything in the build I need to fix or did they just get nerfed that hard recently?

SO are still good but not completely OP like before. They had double nerfed. Directly nerf was spell trigger -> attack trigger (no more spell echo) + overall Raise Spectre nerf.

About POB, it only calculates one single hit, but SOs have shotgun effect with GMP. So the DPS is more like 3-5x the number in POB.

Ahh they were hit hard then but still usable. I'm assuming crabbies may be the way to go now then? Last question I promise as I know a lot of people are coming in with the new league commin.

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kayella wrote:

Reaper looks really interesting too... maybe combine with spiders for clear speed? I think it will be more like a meme build though because I can't imagine if it has 5x DPS of HoP.

Reaper bleed kills, being a DOT will proc on kill effects for you.

Apply a debuff with the new Absolution skill, and get minions from kill. While also procing Herald of Purity minions

A bit like a spell Dominating blow

Any plans for a Summon Reaper build guide for Expedition League?

Can't wait to try it out, although it probably won't be too difficult to include one of your build (Minion Army for example) if Summon Reaper mostly just consumes other summoned minions?

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mrkeltz wrote:

Ahh they were hit hard then but still usable. I'm assuming crabbies may be the way to go now then? Last question I promise as I know a lot of people are coming in with the new league commin.

Really personal choice. SO better for fast clearing vs Crabbie better for bossing. Crabbie's downside is visual clutter with the water fountains though so some people prefer Snow Rhex.

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CoolColJ wrote:

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kayella wrote:

Reaper looks really interesting too... maybe combine with spiders for clear speed? I think it will be more like a meme build though because I can't imagine if it has 5x DPS of HoP.

Reaper bleed kills, being a DOT will proc on kill effects for you.

Apply a debuff with the new Absolution skill, and get minions from kill. While also procing Herald of Purity minions

A bit like a spell Dominating blow

Absolution seems interesting... depends on damage scaling but how about Triad 4B + Doryani?

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dragothica wrote:

Any plans for a Summon Reaper build guide for Expedition League?

Can't wait to try it out, although it probably won't be too difficult to include one of your build (Minion Army for example) if Summon Reaper mostly just consumes other summoned minions?

Definitely I will try to build something with Reaper!

I'm really wondering about the scaling and special ability.

I wonder if we can bind the reaper spell to LMB to make it dash everywhere :P

I use about 6ish hours untwinked from act 1 - 10 with all the labs done.
What I did along the way is the following:
-Finding two BBG (no need for links) wands to level up gems in the swap slots: bone offering, desecrate and summon skeleton and another wand where i level up Frostbite, Hatred and Hextouch.
-As soon as I get a 4L SRS I swap out my now empty BBB into the BBG (skel, BO and desecrate) wand that I leveled up on the switch setup.
-I also found out that Holy Flame Totem is not necessary after act 3-4 since I do enough dmg with just srs + skeletons, so I use the red gem slot that is open for the vitality gem.

Interesting plan Kay :) Could you post what gem setup you have by the end of act 10? Would be nice to see the differences and to test out a speedrun with the new setup. I guess the nodes are pretty much the same since its general minion ones (maybe some unspeccing of minion instability earlier when switching out of inferal or giving that to the skitters?).

Edit: Yeah, the reaper skill looks interesting :P probably meme worthy indeed. Depends on the rate it eats the minions and if it makes up for the 20% dmg reduction of the minions

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kayella wrote:

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kingfoxii wrote:

Hi, i am struggeling to find a chest for my Kingsmakter Animate Guardian. Can you explain how i can craft one? Atm i dont have the energyshield enchant. Is there any good alternativ for me?

If you don't have the craft, just buy body armour already with it!
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ultimatum/o7R0B4Cl



When you get the craft, then you can combine with:

Consecrated ground (6% heal):
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ultimatum/eRm4OZbUL

or

Nearby enemies are blinded:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Ultimatum/jww7oSX

Tank you alot for your response. I found the craft meanwhile. Wich one do you think is the better one out of this two?