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

Thanks for this guide. It's probably the easiest I've done all 4 labs.
I had a bit of gear and some currency to help get me started but was also fortunate with some drops, like my first ever good Stygian belt:



and amulet to give me lots of extra strength and dexterity:



I anointed my amulet to get the "GravePact" passive.

I think it's a bit of a glass cannon, so you *really* need good life rolls on all your gear. I've also invested some extra points into life nodes and life jewels. Kay's Summoner, in contrast, invests a lot more points to make you tankier.

I've reached level 92 and am pushing higher maps and deeper delves.

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PostoFragola wrote:

Another question, if I replace the minion life support with Raise Spectre, and leave the rest unchanged which spectre are the most usefull to have?

I am really enjoying a holy flame totem with Armageddon brand on PS4 so I don't play my necro as much now that I beat Uber Elder. Enjoying my couch time for a change:)
In my 6 link I have Minion Damage, Feeding Frenzy, Elemental Army, Fortify, Raise Zombie, Raise Specter. I did this so the specters benefit from the other minion links with the zombies. If I swapped the specters to another area, I would replace with Concentrated Effect since it is blue and I would not have to roll my colors. I also like the empower swap with fortify, again no color changing. Hmmmm it's zombie night Friday so maybe I will do both. I have 600c just rotting away, may just buy a couple max level and see what's up... Honestly, I may drop all the golem shit and grab life, I don't think I need regen so I am feeling like adding stone golem is not the best, adding flat life would be better. I am the weakest link in this build by far.
This is what I'll do, swap stone golem with raise specter, respec tree for more life. Add empower and concentrated effect. Report back to you all in a timely manner with results. I may take Mistress of Sacrifice, that energy shield buff is needed terribly. Nothing I can't redo with over 100 orb of regrets rotting away in stash :) Let's see what POB says...
Ok, sold, I mean DONE DEAL. REALLY. Actually Fortify give me MORE dps than Empower so I am not touching that. Concentrated effect is bananas batshit crazy!!! It adds 79k to the zombie slam! and a 21/20% corrupted adds another 3-4k.
So that is a done deal there. I am afraid of losing my specters when they are unsupported, we are talking Uber Elder here... If I remove elemental army my resists drop from 79%(+4 with 20/20% elemental army) to 66. Chaos is STILL 75%. If I stay commander of darkness, that fixes that, but I lose my energy shied buff. So my quandary is Bone Barrier or Mistress.
I'm not interested in losing fortify. But will swap elemental army for Concentrated Effect. That drops minions to 75% (86%) that is acceptable.
Not sure on giving up bone barrier either. That is a lot of minion life lost. But Concentrated Effect more than makes up for losing -10% resistance to enemy I think I am sold there. 16k minion life to go from bone to mistress, that's a hard call as well.

TLDR: I am going to swap concentrated effect for Specters. The specters have 80k life UNSUPPORTED! I need the charges they generate, I NEED my zombies slamming! Concentrated Effect adds 99k damage (over 50% MORE)... SOLD! Stone Golem is gone and tree is getting reworked for life for me:) Did you notice minions have life leech cap of 16000 per second LOL!! It will be a fun night... again! I may go 2 Carnage apes for frenzy, to Host apes for power charges. I don't need their damage, the zombies need their charges!

Edit: It's me, I'm ALWAYS editing:)
I am going to try hairy bonecrushers again, they are slow, but they do enduring cry, not sure if that is shared with party or not, but it is the only possible way I see to get endurance charges. So I'll try 1 carnage, 1 host, 2 bears. There are elemental weakness specters too... mmmmmmmm I LOVE this build! Actually we do more physical than elemental so I may throw a Vulnerability specter in as well! Yaaaaayyyy time to go shopping in Wraeclast... EXCITING STUFF!

Final EDIT:(I do have a job) I'm trying this, if I can find them.
Host chieftain (83k life) 3 power charges, Carnage chieftain (83k life) 3 Frenzy charges, Merveil's retainer (56k life) for Vulnerability, (Defiler has 133k life) for Elemental weakness. Sounds like 4 candidates I will be interviewing tonight! Also remember if you take specters to your hideout, they go into your desecrate pool. Lose a specter, port to hideout and drop desecrate, they should be in there... also remember pressing the A key shows you what you're about to raise so you don't mess up your rotation.

When I beat Uber Elder, I lost 1 specter slave driver (life is 53k). I died 5 times and ALMOST 6...

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Pip_n_Tip wrote:

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jh3509 wrote:

My minion speed is capped so they go crazy.

What is the cap for minion movement speed? And how do you know if you are capped? Just adding up all the +speed % from passives and gear?



Zombie on!

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GrunkleBob wrote:

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0nyX wrote:

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Hey Pip_n_Tip,

There is no movement speed cap in the game unless otherwise stated. So the only minions that have a movement speed cap are the minions that are raised by the gems that say so. For example: Raise Spectre has "Minion Movement Speed is Capped". Even though the wording is general, it's specific to the minions raised by the gem. So out of all minions on the battlefield, only the spectres will have a capped speed. That's why they add movement speed into the gem itself.

Make sense?

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PostoFragola wrote:

Hi WoD, it's my first post and I wanted to thank you for your awesome work, I just started a Necro the other day and I'm currently at lvl 58 and rocking the story mode, super fun!
I have a question, why in the tree we pick the Whispers of Doom to be able to cast an additional curse? I understand that the only curse we apply is Enfeeble, am I missing something?
Thank you again!

Hey PostoFragola,

You're very kind. Thank you very much. I'm glad you're enjoying the build and PoE! We pick Whispers of Doom because we do use two curses. Enfeeble is linked to CwDT and Lightning Ball, while Temporal Chains is linked with Blasphemy and turned into an Aura (but it's still a curse).

Good question and feel free to ask anything else! Thanks again for your kindness.

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x Peleus x wrote:

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PostoFragola wrote:

Hi WoD, it's my first post and I wanted to thank you for your awesome work, I just started a Necro the other day and I'm currently at lvl 58 and rocking the story mode, super fun!
I have a question, why in the tree we pick the Whispers of Doom to be able to cast an additional curse? I understand that the only curse we apply is Enfeeble, am I missing something?
Thank you again!

It is for Enfeeble and Temporal Chains. They are both Curses.

But the question is now is Temporal Chains still a curse if we use Blasphemy to turn it into an Aura.

As Temporal Chains has the word curse in its gem description identifiers, and the game is very particular about these identifiers.

I say yes. Temporal Chains is still a curse even with it becoming a Aura when linked with Blasphemy. It is still curse enemies with slow but it is now just doing it in a larger radius.

You are correct x Peleus x. Curses are always curses. The tags at the top are key for sure. Good job.

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Pip_n_Tip wrote:

I just hit 96. Time for some fun.


Of course none of this would have been possible without W_o_D. Shout out to the man in the high castle. Just saying.


Zombie on!

Aw shucks. Come on now. ;). You've all made so many changes to your builds you all deserve all the credit for sure.

And congrats on 96!

So fun build that i start play SSF in standart,i really hope that nerf hammer dont hit too hard to minions.
My first SSF toon and prolly last one.

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x Peleus x wrote:

Hey Folks.

So I went for my 3rd ascendancy last night, wanted to get it done before the Kitava fight. I went for Commander of Darkness over Bone Barrier I figured it would help with resistances and damage more so then Bone Barrier does.

That being said after act 10 our resistance drop another 30%, which it shows on my character now. But I have 2 Aura's active but it is not showing the extra 40% on my character sheet.

Is this just a glitch as I feel it is. I played a map and did not feel squishy at all.

Even Path of Building does not show the bonus resistance with the Aura's.

https://pastebin.com/X03y8fbb

Cheers!

I'm pretty sure it's already been answered, but I'll reply anyway :) Commander of Darkness won't impact our character. Only our allies (including minions). Generosity Support linked to Hatred means that Hatred doesn't affect us at all. I don't know why, but curses linked with Blasphemy don't count as Auras for Commander of Darkness either. It's always been that way, but it'd sure be nice if GGG worded Commander of Darkness like the other nodes on the tree that say "non-curse auras".

But Commander of Darkness doesn't impact our character in any way, just our minions. Good observation though!

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GrunkleBob wrote:

If anyone is wondering how hard the Necromancer nerf will be...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3P3cTQL_qA&feature=youtu.be

Uber elder naked, no flasks just a 6-link hammer and zombies... terrible.

Ha ha. I don't think the nerfs will be bad if any. For one, this person had to get there. They obviously only did this for the battle and not the grind. But HUGE kudos to the person for doing the battle and fight as is! That takes a lot of endgame experience to do that. So good for them! I took a screenshot of their weapon:
...makes sense.

It is a really cool video though. I'm not trashing it at all.