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Tried a Spectre build a while back. Didn't like it.
Tried a Zombie build a few times. Didn't like that either.
Tried a Golemancer once (Fire Golems and GMP) and it was good fun up until you wanted about 6x of them and the cost of attempting that was hilarious. It's easier now, I know... but I deleted it. And they were useless until you filled the entire tree with the jewel nodes you needed without having anything else to survive.

Had a 48 Necromancer with no Ascendencies I was playing around with and was trying out the Zombie-Hat with it and it was the same thing. Didn't like it.

Forgot about the Spectres. Tried the Spectres again. Found this build here...
Probably the strongest build I've ever come across by x2 all the way up to L74 without slowing down for a second.

I do like the Fire Sentinels combined with the Zombies (because without these meat-shield doods, you die really, really quickly without even seeing what it was). I haven't gone for the Slave Drivers yet.

Once you have the curse on hit (with the lightning ball thrown into packs) and then you have the elemental equilibrium passive, pretty much anything on the screen except Abyssal Gold/yellow things that take massive damage to hit, disappear in a hail of fireballs and frostbolts from that one Frost Sentinel you have with the other 4x Fire Sentinels.

The armour piece dropped on my Chieftain; didn't even notice it as I cycloned on.

Hi Kay, thanks a lot for this build! I've really enjoyed it.

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VonKriegII wrote:

hi all

great guide and great setup :) thanks a lot

noob q: how do i craft gloves and shield?

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worldpk's method for the gloves is a good one.

I made mine a little differently for the guide. I used alt orbs until hit blind, then used annul to kill the unwanted mod. After that I multimodded with minio dmg, double res, life and hybrid life.

For the shield, I used a lot of pristine fossils to target life rolls. Cwdt5 and life gained on block are elder and shaper mods. If you are not playing SSF, it's probably cheaper to simply buy it from trade.

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georgepine wrote:

Forgot about the Spectres. Tried the Spectres again. Found this build here...
Probably the strongest build I've ever come across by x2 all the way up to L74 without slowing down for a second.

I do like the Fire Sentinels combined with the Zombies (because without these meat-shield doods, you die really, really quickly without even seeing what it was). I haven't gone for the Slave Drivers yet.

Thanks!

If you're enjoying Flame Sentinels, I'd suggest Goatman Fire-Raiser as an upgrade. Slave Drivers have more damage but short range, so you may not like them.

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gl1esee wrote:

Hi Kay, thanks a lot for this build! I've really enjoyed it.

Great! Glad you're enjoying it.

Hey!

Just wanted to post a thank you, I picked this build as my league starter for blight (I was late to the party), but this build has been the strongest I've ever played, I have managed to gear myself decently using only the currency I've acquired whilst levelling and at no point have I struggled with any content so far and I'm currently doing T13/T14's with ease.

Edit: One thing I forgot to mention and wasn't sure if it had been mentioned before or not, but I am running 5 spectres and I'm using a standard ps4, I am noticing extreme fps loss doing higher end blight content.

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kayella wrote:

If you're enjoying Flame Sentinels, I'd suggest Goatman Fire-Raiser as an upgrade. Slave Drivers have more damage but short range, so you may not like them.

They're not as AOE'e as the Fire Sentinels by a long way, but literally wiping the floor with their own goat-fur after they've "hard-to-tell-what-they-did-to-the-monsters-to-kill-them-so-fast" is the highlight of my hour trying them out.

I'm still using Spell Echo... doesn't seem to be echoing or making them do their spell-stuff casting faster.


*** didn't know you could mix (which I tried before and the different spectre/corpses wouldn't show up once I had one or the other), but they both did in Act8 Solaris Temple (where I could Spectre-up 2x Goatman Fire-raisers and 3x Flame Sentinels). I think there is some kind of memory going on with what you desecrate before in the game engine...

L80 in about an hour from L76 on L9 Maps. Unbelievably strong.
Make sure the zombies have a 20% taunt meatshield gem on them (and another 5% from a jewel passive)... and use the "Mon'tregul's void sceptre" (4x really, really strong Zombies).

Hilariously OP. The Spectres just destroy everything and you can't even tell what's dead first or dead last (had to reduce my resolution scaled to the GPU to 1600x900 from 1920x1080 and 60fps 90% of the time).

The +2 from gear and the +2 from the Ascendency- you really notice that...


*** Desert Spring L12 Red Map (yellowed). I don't think anything in it was able to hit me before they got spectre'd to death.
Got a Convoking Wand in a previous Red map (The Park, I think). Got a 57% Increased Damage to Minions on it, making 296% total minion damage. You can raise Goatman Fire-raisers in Desert Springs with "Strong Crit Modifiers" on them... so I Spectred them...

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Panacea06 wrote:

Hey!

Just wanted to post a thank you, I picked this build as my league starter for blight (I was late to the party), but this build has been the strongest I've ever played, I have managed to gear myself decently using only the currency I've acquired whilst levelling and at no point have I struggled with any content so far and I'm currently doing T13/T14's with ease.

Edit: One thing I forgot to mention and wasn't sure if it had been mentioned before or not, but I am running 5 spectres and I'm using a standard ps4, I am noticing extreme fps loss doing higher end blight content.

Are you using any zombies at all?

I’m also on the PS4 but not as far as you. I’m pushing into upper yellow maps and only have 4 Spectres. I use a few zombies and a chaos golem (mainly to hit the 10 minion mark) and also notice FPS drops during big blight actions. I’ve tried one low level blight map and that became unplayable in the last minute and I ended up dying bc I couldn’t control my character well enough with the FPS drop (it was also V1 of the wand and shield at the time).

I just think the Consoles can’t handle the blight mechanic well. Even PC players are struggling with it.

Anyway, good to hear that you got up to t-13/14 without problems.

How did you get the +1 Spectre armor? I’ve looked in the trade market but can’t find one (not that I could afford it anyway). I’m still in a tabula.

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Oldsterman wrote:

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Panacea06 wrote:

Hey!

Just wanted to post a thank you, I picked this build as my league starter for blight (I was late to the party), but this build has been the strongest I've ever played, I have managed to gear myself decently using only the currency I've acquired whilst levelling and at no point have I struggled with any content so far and I'm currently doing T13/T14's with ease.

Edit: One thing I forgot to mention and wasn't sure if it had been mentioned before or not, but I am running 5 spectres and I'm using a standard ps4, I am noticing extreme fps loss doing higher end blight content.

Are you using any zombies at all?

I’m also on the PS4 but not as far as you. I’m pushing into upper yellow maps and only have 4 Spectres. I use a few zombies and a chaos golem (mainly to hit the 10 minion mark) and also notice FPS drops during big blight actions. I’ve tried one low level blight map and that became unplayable in the last minute and I ended up dying bc I couldn’t control my character well enough with the FPS drop (it was also V1 of the wand and shield at the time).

I just think the Consoles can’t handle the blight mechanic well. Even PC players are struggling with it.

Anyway, good to hear that you got up to t-13/14 without problems.

How did you get the +1 Spectre armor? I’ve looked in the trade market but can’t find one (not that I could afford it anyway). I’m still in a tabula.

Yeah I'm using 10 zombies, 5 spectres, skitterbots and stone golem.


I am also still using a tabula at the moment, I'm achieving 5 spectres by using;
and the Death Attunement passive (also Unnatural Strength ascendancy).


The wand isn't ideal as it reserves 30% of your life, but the increases to your minion speed and damage are great, not to mention the additional spectre and zombie.

hey,

im playing the v1 wand+shield build.

I got everything now for get 6 spectres ? how should i link my gems in my helmet and in my chest ?

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One of my fastest and smoothest end-game leveling experiences for SSF. From no gear to maps was incredibly easy (opted for SRS until I got spectres - took Flame Necromancer is in a really nice spot and this build really capitalized on all of the things I would want in SSF.

TYVM for the guide!