{3.10} Speaker for the Dead | The Mass Minion Summoner | League Starter, Leveling Guide 💀

Tried to look at your char but it's private.

My guess is your HoA is linked to some support gems that makes its reserved mana cost go from 35 to 57%.

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thomzon wrote:

Tried to look at your char but it's private.

My guess is your HoA is linked to some support gems that makes its reserved mana cost go from 35 to 57%.

Can you look now?
Btw if you got some suggestion about what i need to do now, you are welcome, its my first character.

So your weapon is the issue. It has 3 built-in support gems. Even if they are provided as item bonuses, they still apply a mana multiplier to the gems that can benefit from it.

In your case, that's Zombies and your Herald of Agony.

So either get a different weapon with less support gems built-in, or move the HoA elsewhere.

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thomzon wrote:

So your weapon is the issue. It has 3 built-in support gems. Even if they are provided as item bonuses, they still apply a mana multiplier to the gems that can benefit from it.

In your case, that's Zombies and your Herald of Agony.

So either get a different weapon with less support gems built-in, or move the HoA elsewhere.

Gotcha. Didnt knew about this mechanic. Any suggestions about equip? Gloves isnt bad?

No life and barely any resist, but the 2 support gems are nice. Don't forget to have added chaos damage to spells on any abyss jewel.

Boots could certainly use more life, and resist if they are not capped.

Helmet could be quite cheaply upgraded with +1/2 to minion gems and minion damage.

Amulet gives you almost nothing, weird choice, any life+resist one or blood grip would be better.

Belt is not bad :-)

Should find a cheap 6-link body armour with life, it can be quite cheap to start with meh affixes.

Good luck !

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thomzon wrote:

No life and barely any resist, but the 2 support gems are nice. Don't forget to have added chaos damage to spells on any abyss jewel.

Boots could certainly use more life, and resist if they are not capped.

Helmet could be quite cheaply upgraded with +1/2 to minion gems and minion damage.

Amulet gives you almost nothing, weird choice, any life+resist one or blood grip would be better.

Belt is not bad :-)

Should find a cheap 6-link body armour with life, it can be quite cheap to start with meh affixes.

Good luck !

Stupid questions..
Helmet. Maybe i need to buy another with those options?
Boots, what you mean about capped?
I wanna do Belly of the Beast. I already bought him with pretty good stats. What is cheapest way to make him 6th slot with full links?
Thanks for info, rly appreciated.

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Sorator13 wrote:

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Thanks Hercanic for the excellent guide. Really enjoying the build. Per comments in this thread, I am using Cyclone instead of Charged Dash and this has helped me with the Legion content.

My question: I don't notice the effect of the Faster Attacks Support gem linked with Shield Charge and would like to swap it out. Any suggestions for something that might complement Shield Charge effectively in this build?

I suppose I could just throw in a teleport skill or Portal, but I would like something with a bit more synergy.

I'd go with Onslaught, for the extra movespeed, personally.

Thanks for the suggestion Sorator13. I really like the concept, but I couldn't get Onslaught to proc very often. There might be some timing technique that would make this work, but I couldn't figure one out.

At the moment I have my Zombies gem in the slot (I don't have an Empower gem). Zombies will proc the Fortify Support gem linked to Shield Charge fairly reliably, but I'm not convinced it is that useful.

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L0rdOFImmortal wrote:

Stupid questions..
Helmet. Maybe i need to buy another with those options?
Boots, what you mean about capped?
I wanna do Belly of the Beast. I already bought him with pretty good stats. What is cheapest way to make him 6th slot with full links?
Thanks for info, rly appreciated.

Hey man no stupid questions, it's easy for "veterans" to forget how dense and cryptic this game can be for newcomers. Hercanic's guide is great, but it's huuuge, so it's normal to understand parts and bits a few at a time.

- So yeah, the +2 minion gem levels + minion damage helmet is usually something you buy. For example: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Legion/E7nmzZh5

- Capped resistances mean you have at least 75% in Fire/Cold/Lightning resistances, even with the -60% total malus you get from completing Act 10 of the storyline

- I understand you want to do Belly, but if you're new to the game, I would not recommand it. Having the 6 slot on that chest with the right colors is gonna be hard enough, and 6 linking a unique chest is also very sensitive to huge amounts of bastard luck. You could instead first buy a simple 6 links with already the right colors, with as much life as you can (base trade link for the 6 link: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Legion/pPYypbT0). Once you have that, you can work your way a more "endgame" setup with the belly, cause it's gonna cost A LOT.

Good luck :-)

A question from a newb:

Why do we need the whole cast while channeling thing? I find that ball of lightning with GMP + faster casting or spell echo works well enough by itself and can clear whole sections of legions mobs really fast.
I'm just wondering why we need to spend two gem slot on the whole channeling thing?

On the whole sheild charge vs flame dash thing. I find myself constantly double casting flame dash by mistake (no gem linked to it) making it really unreliable other than for map traversal since its much quicker than SC.

Oh and great build btw! It's been the smoothest leveling experience I ever had with the game so far!

Hi,

I'v noticed some people here are struggling with alternative choices I provided in earlier posts.

So to hopefully help them, i'll explain it with some more detail this time.

Gloves setup:

I replaced charged dash with cyclone, both are movement & channeled skills so works like a charm.
I also replaced ball of lighting with essence drain (great with life on hit by spell -> shaper rings stat). It can actually be replaced with any projectile skill that also is a spell, pick whatever suits you best I guess. (Essence drain just heals you for every enemy hit aswell)

Keep in mind though that with cyclone, single target & (second) dodge are gone -> not so great for boss fights -> awesome for clearing (open) maps & legion mobs though.

Shield setup:

I first had a flame dash setup here but it turns out it's still bugged for alot of players (double dash).
So I'v replaced shield charge/ flame dash with frost blink for now. any teleport spell could work here... also supported it with faster casting & culling strike (although culling strike works best with flame dash)

Like some people mentioned already, arcance surge isn't that great since it only will scale your own spell damage and not your minions.

Plenty of skills that can replace culling strike... (suggestions welcome)

Boots setup:

Here I replaced hatred & generosity with immortal call & phase run (both trigger with cast when damage taken support). -> this means you can have more support skills on your weapon to boost zombies & agony crawler (herald of agony).


This is just a setup I like and enjoy playing with. It won't work or feel great for everyone. Then again nothing holds you back to experiment yourself there are so manny options when it comes to builds in path of exile. Just tweak, squize, grind, change, chance, replace or throw some exalt at your build until you like it!