Slow Mo Zombies! (No Uniques Needed|Relaxed Playstyle|Easy to Gear|Anyone Can Play|All Content)[3.5]

Hey I successfully obtained the gems I need, however, I'm running into a different problem. I try to equip Charged Dash, and it's saying "Skill Can't Be used" Reading the description of the skill makes it even more confusing as it's extremely complex it seems. I've tried to socket it in weapons, gloves, still don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Do you have a ELI5 for this skill?

Ha ha. Hey sgtbucky,

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sgtbucky wrote:

Hey I successfully obtained the gems I need, however, I'm running into a different problem. I try to equip Charged Dash, and it's saying "Skill Can't Be used" Reading the description of the skill makes it even more confusing as it's extremely complex it seems. I've tried to socket it in weapons, gloves, still don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Do you have a ELI5 for this skill?

My guess is you're using a wand. Melee Attack skills can be used by anything but a wand or bow. There's been a few questions regarding this so I've made the change in the guide. Sorry to make you (and the others) go through the hassle of troubleshooting (I thought I already had this in the guide. I did not.)

If this isn't the issue, let me know.

Yup! I swapped to a random sword and it worked. This skill looks super awesome. Can't wait to slowly transition my build over to yours. The curses have already helped a bunch.

What would you say is a good weapon to aim for? A unique one perhaps? Or what weapon class?

Hey sgtbucky,

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sgtbucky wrote:

Yup! I swapped to a random sword and it worked. This skill looks super awesome. Can't wait to slowly transition my build over to yours. The curses have already helped a bunch.

What would you say is a good weapon to aim for? A unique one perhaps? Or what weapon class?

Are you going one handed or two handed? If you use my filter I have already chosen sceptres or staves. But honestly, any rare will do (I have no idea what can be crafted in 3.5 yet :). I have setup for "chance" items (with an Orb of Chance) the uniques of Mon'tregul's Grasp or Dying Breath. But the guide says anything Minion related, or something that has life or resists for you. Don't allow anything that gives you cold damage for the sake of Elemental Equilibrium.

I had a question. I noticed that charged dash at level 6 as you say is max level we should get this gem to requires 96 dex but your passive tree says you cap out at 34 dex. How are we still able to use charged dash with this low dex requirement? Am i missing something obvious?

Thank you in advance for your reply I really enjoy your build :)

Thanks for the guide again! Wasn't real fond of the skellies until a friend got a vaal skeletons. Now I only use the vaal skill and wow they wreck. My friends are loving it on delve and bosses. My army does all the work lol! So far I've done up to T5 but I just got to mapping last night. I have a question for anyone who might know. (This seems to be the only thing I ever need to ask about lol) With the changes to the Atlas, mob levels changed. Anyone know where the Bone Helmet drops now? I did a Vaal Pyramid which used to drop it and the mobs used to be lvl 75, they are now 72.

Hey Hey triniparty!

Dunno if you remember me, but I played your build last league and of course again this league. I still can't believe how easy it is to get into end-game content without having to spend tons on "meta" items...

Ok I have a few questions and a comment this time round:

Question 1) How much less damage does this build do without EE? My playstyle is a bit more defensive, so the zombies sometimes get to the monsters before I do, and thus EE is then having the opposite effect. I played without it in the previous league, but didn't get right up to t15's because of work etc. Is it worth speccing into it even if I don't proc it sometimes?

Question 2) I see this time round you chose Bone Sculptor instead of Puppet Master for the ascendancy. Is the skeleton boosts remarkably better than the Puppet Master boosts?

-- I apologize for my lack of calculating skills. I hate trying to calculate damages etc and if there's someone else that already did, well.... rather ask them ;)
Oh and the comment : I am on t3's atm and my zombies are doing very well despite not having fortify linked to them yet! Not too sure how they will do in higher maps without that though! :D

Once again thank you so much for an absolutely fabulous build :)

As a new player (just under 4 weeks) I was searching for a build to play in the Betrayal league and found your guide. I wanted to try a summoner and I'm glad I did.

Boy is it fun!!!

The guide is the best laid out I've seen, very newbie friendly and quite apart from the excellent explanation the linking guide for gems with included colours is inspirational.

My very sincere thanks the build clears trash and bosses very effectively and has no reliance on unique items or 6L setups to work really well.

Superb stuff, highly recommended for anyone to have fun.

Hi,

This is the first build I've reached maps with and probably the only one I hit level 50 with (Currently lvl 71). I like it for a lot of reasons, the first is simplicity, telling me where gems are, very newbie friendly.

A couple of things that may have helped or would help:
1. You get pretty high int with this build, getting some of the socket combos with stats you can use is difficult (low dex/str).
2. Similar - I'm not sure if I'm supposed to upgrade all the gems? The level list you had made me think it was the level at which I could acquire them. The only one specifically mentioned is charged dash.

3. Charged Dash - I just now can equip this since i have a dex ring on. But I won't be able to if I upgrade it. It may be worth mentioning that flame dash is useful for a movement skill until you can get the stats for charged dash?

4.Similarly, it may be helpful to help explain a stripped down version of this for leveling? I figured out that I could bring a lot of the fun functions online earlier and get a feel for the build by stripping down a lot of the support gems. You can do a 3B-4B zombie chest (Zombie +2-3 supports), which is pretty easy to find. 2-3B Skelly (skelly + 1-2 supports), 1G/1B - Temporal chain, 1G-2B or 3B for Charged dash or flame dash, cast hit. You can do a solo 1G for hatred or a simple GRB to get a lot of the functionality. The casts on (edit) damaged are nice, but if you just roll with whatever you get in the last slot you can kinda throw in whatever's missing and play with other spells.

Maybe this is just super beginner but I picked the build because it was much less intimidating and had a lot of beginner help pieces listed but there was still a pretty big learning curve.

Edit - also thank you for writing this build it's been a lot of fun to play.

Hi Ozzycan,

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Ozzycan wrote:

I had a question. I noticed that charged dash at level 6 as you say is max level we should get this gem to requires 96 dex but your passive tree says you cap out at 34 dex. How are we still able to use charged dash with this low dex requirement? Am i missing something obvious?

Thank you in advance for your reply I really enjoy your build :)

I'm glad you like it! Nope, you're not missing anything obvious. It's a good observation. The guide mentions this in the Passive Tree section: "Don't forget about attributes. You'll pass some nodes on the tree that give +30 to Strength or Dexterity. If you don't have items to cover what you're short in, feel free to select some of these as you pass them. You'll get respec points that will let you remove them later once you have better gear."

I'm currently level 40-something and am doing this with both the +30 Str. and Dex. nodes. Later on, it'll be easy enough to find an amulet that has enough Dex to give you at what you need (so you can respec out of the +30 nodes then).

I haven't unlocked much crafting yet, but I'm getting the impression that it'll be easy to craft higher Dex on items than we were able to in the past as well.

If you're short on Dex now, and need it for Charged Dash, just go to the Gem seller of your Act. They'll likely have some amulets that can help you out for cheap.

Does that help? Let me know if it doesn't. (Thanks for the compliment.)