3.8| Stress Free PoE - SLOW-MO ZOMBIES |Clear the Atlas with YOUR Items at YOUR Pace (SSF & Co-op)

Late to the party this league, but I have been lurking a lot :)
I started the league with this build, but switched due to the lag-a-thon on the PS4 once we get all our toys out to play.
Eventually came back after the patches have made it a little better and bearable (although I cannot do blight maps at all, as they just reduce the game to a PowerPoint deck).

So, this build is awesome! Easily the furthest I have got into the end game (at least my version of it currently as I am learning) in the 3 leagues I have played PoE.
This morning I polished off the last couple of maps to complete every map in tiers 1 through 10. I've done a handful of tier 11-13 maps as well and will start systematically chalking them off as well. Everything is still going very smoothly so far and hit level 90 too.

Early on I got very lucky and had one of the Headhunter divination cards drop for me, that sold instantly for decent coin. Just had my first Exalt drop last night as well, so I have a little spending money to play with.
After the card drop and sale I bought myself a new weapon, helm and six link chest and then a little later on the smaller purchase of the amulet with Gravepact already on it.

I would be very interested in others opinions on what I should be looking to improve upon next as I push into the center of the atlas.
The gloves somehow have survived through the leveling process, so they would be first up I think :) What next?



I am still following the original build 100%, but I can feel the itch to start trying out some of the changes others have noted in the thread. I may reach out for a summary further on, it is tough to piece together the full picture this far into a thread :)

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shirt10 wrote:

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Late to the party this league, but I have been lurking a lot :)
I started the league with this build, but switched due to the lag-a-thon on the PS4 once we get all our toys out to play.
Eventually came back after the patches have made it a little better and bearable (although I cannot do blight maps at all, as they just reduce the game to a PowerPoint deck).

So, this build is awesome! Easily the furthest I have got into the end game (at least my version of it currently as I am learning) in the 3 leagues I have played PoE.
This morning I polished off the last couple of maps to complete every map in tiers 1 through 10. I've done a handful of tier 11-13 maps as well and will start systematically chalking them off as well. Everything is still going very smoothly so far and hit level 90 too.

Early on I got very lucky and had one of the Headhunter divination cards drop for me, that sold instantly for decent coin. Just had my first Exalt drop last night as well, so I have a little spending money to play with.
After the card drop and sale I bought myself a new weapon, helm and six link chest and then a little later on the smaller purchase of the amulet with Gravepact already on it.

I would be very interested in others opinions on what I should be looking to improve upon next as I push into the center of the atlas.
The gloves somehow have survived through the leveling process, so they would be first up I think :) What next?

I am still following the original build 100%, but I can feel the itch to start trying out some of the changes others have noted in the thread. I may reach out for a summary further on, it is tough to piece together the full picture this far into a thread :)

My thoughts on upgrades would be gloves and then 2x minion damage and minion speed rings something like or better

They are nice free DPS upgrades

You could go with a +1 maim chest, I was running that on my physical build but sold it for 11ex as I wanted to tinker with a Baron build and although it a nice little dps boost it really is overpriced for what it gives :)

you simply cannot have enough minion speed imo the faster they charge forward and smash everything the safer you are :)

Ok, how do you kill Minotaur? He keeps one shotting me even I have 6K+ effective life.

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mitbanomen wrote:

Ok, how do you kill Minotaur? He keeps one shotting me even I have 6K+ effective life.

Let me quote Wrecker, because his/her advices helped me to kill the Minotaur:

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Wrecker_of_Days wrote:

Regarding the Minotaur, I just did the Minotaur in my last Slow-Mo Zombies session. If you go to the one hour mark of my last video in the Zombie playlist you'll get an idea of how it goes. It's one of those fights that you really have to learn because the boss's attacks can be dictated in a way. those that aren't familiar with the battle will quickly spread his lightning (which slows and weakens), his "rock slides", and his dive all over the map so that there isn't anywhere safe to hide. So the key is to stay as close a possible (without getting hit cause we're not tanky). Stay close but always try and stay behind him. His AoE slam is mostly in front of him. His dive (which is really hard to see with minions) happens mostly when we distance ourselves from him. His "rock falls" can't be stood in :(.) So, if you have to move away from him, hopefully, you'll be able to notice where he used to be. When I distance myself from him I don't normally see where he is, so I just assume he's diving. If you can guess where he's diving from remembering that he doesn't change directions underground. It's a straight-line dive. So try and move perpendicular to his starting point. When you no longer fear the dive, you will find the fight easy to deal with.

And here is the link to the video. The Minotaur map starts at about minute 59.

Don't worry. At last you will be victorious and the Minotaur will fall.

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mitbanomen wrote:

Ok, how do you kill Minotaur? He keeps one shotting me even I have 6K+ effective life.

send in minions first by popping skeletons as far away from you as possible tbh you will find that your minions take him out in about 5 secs before his first action

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Caligula_Exile wrote:

I could give you some maps Tier 5 - 9 for free, if you want (Blight league, Softcore). Just whisper me ingame if you are interested (Caligula_Exile).

Thank you again Caligula_Exile for your kindness. You gave me maps as you mentioned above. I'm very glad and happy for your help :)
Hope you enjoy playing standard. Wish you the best :)

Cheers

You're welcome. I hope you had fun playing the maps.

I'm hybrid now, playing a Baron-summoner-witch in Standard and this Slo-Mo in League. I can't leave league yet, I still need one achievement for the blight-portal-effect and I want to find at least one golden oil.

hello again. its been awhile. commander of darkness does not seem to add the 20% to elemental rez. when i turn on hatred. any ideas why?

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hello again. its been awhile. commander of darkness does not seem to add the 20% to elemental rez. when i turn on hatred. any ideas why?

Hatred is turned into an aura that only affects allies(minions) so you dont have it on yourself to trigger the 20% res. I got around this by using an unset with clarity lvl 1. does not need to be any higher as its just used to set off the resistances.

Edit: I have my old one your welcome to if needed just send me a message in game, has resistances and T1 life on it may help.

Got up, showered, made an omelet, killed minotaur!
Sweat a little, got hit twice and shocked.
Stayed mostly behind him and close, but it was REAL easy!
Also cleared chimera and hydra easy, but phoenix got me twice(2 deaths). F that guy!
Oh well, on to red elder, now that atlas is mostly done, I can buy maps and chase him easy and then beat him in a magic map! Suck it elder I'm coming for you!


Spoiler alert: If you beat shaper and then chase elder to shapers map, you don't get uber elder, YOU MUST beat red elder first! Learned this last league and my Ngamahus flame cyclone had no range for an uber elder fight. Good luck!

I would say this is hardcore viable THIS LEAGUE (I know necros getting rip'd)
I only die when I expect to, which isn't that often, and usually my fault.

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GrunkleBob wrote:

Got up, showered, made an omelet, killed minotaur!
Sweat a little, got hit twice and shocked.
Stayed mostly behind him and close, but it was REAL easy!
Also cleared chimera and hydra easy, but phoenix got me twice(2 deaths). F that guy!
Oh well, on to red elder, now that atlas is mostly done, I can buy maps and chase him easy and then beat him in a magic map! Suck it elder I'm coming for you!


Spoiler alert: If you beat shaper and then chase elder to shapers map, you don't get uber elder, YOU MUST beat red elder first! Learned this last league and my Ngamahus flame cyclone had no range for an uber elder fight. Good luck!

I would say this is hardcore viable THIS LEAGUE (I know necros getting rip'd)
I only die when I expect to, which isn't that often, and usually my fault.

Yea, minions are so amazing this league, have always been my league starter my only hope is rather than gutting them at worst they are equally as strong as they were before and not weaker.

This league has got me many firsts. First... Char to lvl 96, Elder kill, Uber elder, Deathless Uber Elder, Deathless Uber Atzari and drops allowing aiming for hitting 30/40 achievements.

My build did end up breaking away from slow mo zombies, but all the experience and information gained playing this build for multiple leagues was the foundation that allowed it transitioned into a high life/regen spectre/zombie build with Vaal Skele for blight control