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

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Ramus wrote:

Wow, I just had this drop earlier and immediately swapped it for my old belt. I had no idea this type of belt combo existed! Did not play abyss. Now I can switch my staff to either a unique or something with more defenses. My health is now 5k and my ES is around 500. Would be great to get myself to 5.5k life though.

That's a great belt! Sweet Life and Resists.

Every bit of content has special types of items that can only be dropped within that content. So Breaches, Abysses, Labs, Delves, Incursions...every corner has specific little "trinkets" that can drop in the game only in those sections. It's fun to discover hey?

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triniparty wrote:

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Ramus wrote:

Wow, I just had this drop earlier and immediately swapped it for my old belt. I had no idea this type of belt combo existed! Did not play abyss. Now I can switch my staff to either a unique or something with more defenses. My health is now 5k and my ES is around 500. Would be great to get myself to 5.5k life though.

That's a great belt! Sweet Life and Resists.

Every bit of content has special types of items that can only be dropped within that content. So Breaches, Abysses, Labs, Delves, Incursions...every corner has specific little "trinkets" that can drop in the game only in those sections. It's fun to discover hey?

Could you tell me anything else about -Severed in Sleep/United in Dream?

I'm really curious about these swords. Would we use the envy aura from united in dream? (Yikes, it's a 2ex item but im seriously considering it!) Any idea if envy would trigger the self buffs from the commander of darkness skill?

I have been following this build. The one hand version so far only. It is fun and easy. It allows me to get comfortable with the game because its that easy to play.

I cannot thank you enough for posting this build guide.

See you in game sometime.

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Ramus wrote:

Could you tell me anything else about -Severed in Sleep/United in Dream?

I'm really curious about these swords. Would we use the envy aura from united in dream? (Yikes, it's a 2ex item but im seriously considering it!) Any idea if envy would trigger the self buffs from the commander of darkness skill?

Severed in Sleep is really cool. The poison aspect is the big perk of this weapon and it works best on builds with really fast attacking minions like SRS. Our Zombies aren't smacking 100x a second, but when you add skeletons to the mix, especially on a single target boss, things melt. The other perks like minions having extra damage, chaos resist, and health recovery are nice, but the part that makes this expensive is the poison.

United in Dream is Crazy. It gives a little bit more to the damage and chaos resist to your minions, but it changes the life recovery minions get to Leech. That's huge for the Zombie Slam. It makes it more valuable to all minions all the time (as long as they have fast enough movement speed to start hitting enemies (which our build has :) )). The Aura Envy is an Aura. So it will apply the Commander of Darkness Perks. It follows the same rules as the other damage Auras, so it'll reserve 50% of your mana. So unless you manipulate the tree to have lots of mana reservation, you'll have to get rid of Hatred. Nothing wrong with replacing Hatred with Envy, but you may as well uncheck EE from the tree and Chaos damage (from Envy) isn't an element. When I used to use United in Dream, it was the only method to get Envy. I'm not sure if that's still the case.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

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TH3R3AP3RofSouls wrote:

I have been following this build. The one hand version so far only. It is fun and easy. It allows me to get comfortable with the game because its that easy to play.

I cannot thank you enough for posting this build guide.

See you in game sometime.

Hey TH3R3AP3RofSouls. Nice to see you. I'm glad you like it. I hope it's easy and fun all the way to the end for you :). I really appreciate the thanks and compliment! If you have any suggestions please let me know.

Hey triniparty Where can i find the craft + 1 Maximum Number of zombies/Skeleton?

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armstrongxnxx wrote:

Hey triniparty Where can i find the craft + 1 Maximum Number of zombies/Skeleton?

Hey armstrongxnxx,

You know, that's a good question...I don't exactly remember. I'm pretty sure it's something I got from Unveiling an item. I'm playing league on PC with my Slow Mo Zombies and my other builds in standard on console. I have the craft available on PC but not on console. So I'm pretty sure I just found it as an option to unveil from an item.

Are you league or standard? Sorry I don't exactly remember.

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triniparty wrote:

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Ramus wrote:

Could you tell me anything else about -Severed in Sleep/United in Dream?

I'm really curious about these swords. Would we use the envy aura from united in dream? (Yikes, it's a 2ex item but im seriously considering it!) Any idea if envy would trigger the self buffs from the commander of darkness skill?

Severed in Sleep is really cool. The poison aspect is the big perk of this weapon and it works best on builds with really fast attacking minions like SRS. Our Zombies aren't smacking 100x a second, but when you add skeletons to the mix, especially on a single target boss, things melt. The other perks like minions having extra damage, chaos resist, and health recovery are nice, but the part that makes this expensive is the poison.

United in Dream is Crazy. It gives a little bit more to the damage and chaos resist to your minions, but it changes the life recovery minions get to Leech. That's huge for the Zombie Slam. It makes it more valuable to all minions all the time (as long as they have fast enough movement speed to start hitting enemies (which our build has :) )). The Aura Envy is an Aura. So it will apply the Commander of Darkness Perks. It follows the same rules as the other damage Auras, so it'll reserve 50% of your mana. So unless you manipulate the tree to have lots of mana reservation, you'll have to get rid of Hatred. Nothing wrong with replacing Hatred with Envy, but you may as well uncheck EE from the tree and Chaos damage (from Envy) isn't an element. When I used to use United in Dream, it was the only method to get Envy. I'm not sure if that's still the case.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Man, you are just awesome. Thanks for that information. I am really tempted to pick one up now. I'm going to see if I can find one at 1ex and then I may pull the trigger. At this point I have no real reasons to use a 2h staff aside from skele gems, I don't need the resists.

It also appears that Aul's uprising has level 15 envy with no mana reserve.. that is interesting as well, but I would need to get rid of my current unique amulet. Actually.. this might be huge with commander of darkness? If I can run this aura for 0 mana then I get the 20% elemental resist from commander, etc. Making that affect both me and my minions, and keeping hatred/EE as well.

I just love how many different ways this build can go. Theres almost no way to "Screw things up" and you can sink as little or as much into it as you want. Call me a fanboy but I plan to use this build going forward for league openers.

*Reposted from 3.4 in case you didn't see it and visibility*

Thank you for writing up the guide to this build and being so supportive in the discussion! I always love playing summoner since it seems so poetic considering the themes of the game revolve a lot around the undead and corpses.

Anyway, a major problem I ran into is low mana. Is this build specifically designed to reserve away all the mana? After using Hatred and having Temporal Chains turned on, I have about 90 mana or 15% of my mana left to do anything?!

Also as I've been leveling, I've grown really attached to using a spell-totem casted Arc followed by button mashing SRS with melee-splash, which procs Elemental Equilibrium just fine and does like 90% of the work for me clearing the map off screen quickly.

So the trouble is that I would like to use charge dash also to activate Holy Relic, but does that mean I'll have to give up on my current playstyle? Any advice is appreciated, thanks again!