3.5 Abyssal Summoner guide

Such great stuff in this thread! That applies to all posters, and of course especially to Mr. Grimlock. I'm learning a lot!

I'm still a noob, though. Just had the thought that I ought to have already gone after the next two Ascendancy points. Will do that as soon as I level again. Am 76 as I start to play this evening. Yep, noob and very slow.

The advice about using Mon'tregul's Grasp and a shield while using zombies is much appreciated. That upped my survivability considerably while leveling through the last few acts of the game.

I've just started doing maps, and this seems quite up to the task while I work on getting gear for the "final" build, but Syndicate damage still feels extremely dangerous, and my minions' damage output much too low, even in the tier one and tier two maps I've done so far. Perhaps Commander of Darkness will make the necessary difference. In the meanwhile, lacking a Soulwrest and Lightless Shroud, I think it's time to take any minion damage nodes I can while leveling through maps.

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grimlock9999 wrote:

I'll hit you up to see if you have a tab rasa and a 20% SRS gem, should be able to level this one quick to see if it's just meme, or if it has legs.

These are only 8c and 1c respectively right now. If I give you like ~12c you should be able to get yourself Wanderlust, Goldrim, Lifesprigs, Sidhebreath etc :)

What do you think the best amulet/rings for bossing are? I wear bisco's and 2 ventors for mapping but would like to have stuff to swap for bosses. I want to finally do Shaper today to get my t16 orb. I guess just a bunch of life? I'm not sure what good ring mods for summoners are.

Trying out non MF jewellery for a bit to see how the difference feels.

Not sure what amulet to wear other than just getting as much life as possible. I started looking at unique amulets and came across Hinekora's Sight. You can get them with perfect 10/10 dodge rolls for 1ex each. With Atziri's Step this would put us at over 50% for both dodge stats.

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What do you think the best amulet/rings for bossing are?

My dream combo, if you have 50 EX, is Aul's uprising and watchers eye with haste mods. This would give permanent phasing, free haste, 7% spell dodge.

So, so far on the Jewel to have all 3 mods + life +cast/attack speed of minion and +damage if you used a minion skill recently is still over 100 chaos per jewel and thats for low hp one.

to make it cheaper for your style 1c - 15c per jewel you can take 2 of the 3 mods

1) -life
2) -cast & attack speed of minion (these counts as one mod they come together)
3) -damage if you used a minion skill recently


personally i tried 1 & 2 and 1 & 3 because i wanted more life and minion damage this is my opinion but i feel like you should go for 1 & 2 if you want your phantasm to fire more projectile while you run pass everything, and 1 & 3 for more power to skeletons/ boss damage (when you use summon skill)

or you could go all out damage with 2 & 3
or you could go with a mixture of everything idk

i personally liked 1 & 2 you can just run through the whole map while phased with bubonic trail murder boots

also bubonic trail murder boots doesn't seem to proc the effect of 3

honestly no matter what you pick it will all effect everyone of your minions

I've been playing around with gorgons gaze helmet, and definitely recommend this for tough fights. It slows, then petrifies bosses, which makes fights insanely easy. Doesn't work well vs teleporty bosses though.

I ve been having trouble with uber elder have you managed to beat that?

I'm not even close to getting that far yet. Been on holidays. Still, that fight should be achievable. Do you have a taste of hate flask?

no i do not have one i think , i hate the fact that they target the phantasms and its tricky sometimes to dodge , also that shaper beam wipes out all the minions even with convocation , it gets really hard to keep up sometimes and dodge all the same

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Best in Show Jewel will be a watchers eye with good mods. Assuming you are not one of the few who can afford one, then we will use all ghastly eyes.

Do you think it's worth spending Regals trying to turn magic Ghastly Eye jewels into useful rare ones?