3.14 KING OF ALL SUMMONERS. Zombies & Skeletons & Spectres on STEROIDS! | League-Start to End-Game

For anyone still struggling towards endgame, i started season with meat shield thinking i needed the added defence but it keeps minions too close and forces you to run face first into mobs and bosses. Swapped it out for deathmark and it is night and day MUCH better, even for people trying to play tanky, it allows you to stay back and let minions fight boss. Also added damage is great, with a little investment in standard i am now doing close to same dps per zombie that i was doing pre-patch, however i am still down 2 like everyone else.

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Rorschach393 wrote:

For anyone still struggling towards endgame, i started season with meat shield thinking i needed the added defence but it keeps minions too close and forces you to run face first into mobs and bosses. Swapped it out for deathmark and it is night and day MUCH better, even for people trying to play tanky, it allows you to stay back and let minions fight boss. Also added damage is great, with a little investment in standard i am now doing close to same dps per zombie that i was doing pre-patch, however i am still down 2 like everyone else.

Right but you need to Mark enemies then, correct?

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n0rek84 wrote:

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Rorschach393 wrote:

For anyone still struggling towards endgame, i started season with meat shield thinking i needed the added defence but it keeps minions too close and forces you to run face first into mobs and bosses. Swapped it out for deathmark and it is night and day MUCH better, even for people trying to play tanky, it allows you to stay back and let minions fight boss. Also added damage is great, with a little investment in standard i am now doing close to same dps per zombie that i was doing pre-patch, however i am still down 2 like everyone else.

Right but you need to Mark enemies then, correct?

Deathmark also have Minions from Supported Skills deal (15-25)% more Damage

Overall build is still very good and can clear all content. Damage is not the problem. Problem is to keep your zombies alive and yourself. I'm running atm t10 maps and everything is ok until I hit delirium wave 5-6, after that some mobs hit so hard to and those die. If you look my tree I have invested lot for minion defence but zombies are still dying in delirium.

Bone Offering with rumi and block staff really helps for char survivalibity. Also summon holy relic helps zombie and me. Also dropped pride and gonna put another defensive aura after mana res nodes. Damage is still good.

Have to keep testing different setups until find best

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Hottikatti wrote:

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n0rek84 wrote:

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Rorschach393 wrote:

For anyone still struggling towards endgame, i started season with meat shield thinking i needed the added defence but it keeps minions too close and forces you to run face first into mobs and bosses. Swapped it out for deathmark and it is night and day MUCH better, even for people trying to play tanky, it allows you to stay back and let minions fight boss. Also added damage is great, with a little investment in standard i am now doing close to same dps per zombie that i was doing pre-patch, however i am still down 2 like everyone else.

Right but you need to Mark enemies then, correct?

Deathmark also have Minions from Supported Skills deal (15-25)% more Damage

Yes but I think we have better options like Impale for example, I might be wrong ofc. :)

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Linus1985 wrote:

I cant find any information on how much mana host cheiftain and carnage has. Is 10 corpse essence glutton enought for them to spam their charges, this way we could pump up the Specters with an additional defensive support.

I just swapped to essence glutton so i can try removing gem and let you know if they seem to be able to keep charges up.

My gear is actually pretty cosy at this point in the league, going to look into crafting a minion bow and quiver soon I think.

*EDIT* Update: Looks like as long as you are consuming corpses fairly frequently, they can keep up 3 charges no problem with the mana regen, and since youre prob gonna be consuming corpses nonstop to keep ES up for yourself, might be something to look into adding a different gem with specs and AG.

Sense they are resistance capped I was thinking haveing life + meatsheild.

This is more about helping with boss than mapping, i didn't find mapping that bad but this does help with that too, i am running bone offering so survivability isn't too bad, im just saying that meat shield didn't work for me, made clear times painful and actually got me killed because i was in with all minions and at times couldn't see enemy attack.
Also could be missing something but i find deathmark better than impale, even against mobs, even if i use dread banner instead of war banner, impale just seems underwhelming to me.

the get one shotted build

Hello everybody,
I've skipped like 2-3 leagues from the last time I played. Took summoner because still believe it can be great, even since it was nerfed.
Currently I'm doing t2-3 maps including the activation of mirrors and my zombies in general survive (some of them can die on ~3-4th wave). My current gear is very "newbie" atm: tabula and some yellow bs, but everything gives me around 100+ res (chaos is still -60 :) )

So, just a couple of questions:
1. Is it possible to collect over than 1000 str including the nerf of the Baron?
2. When I am using flasks, are they being applied only on me or also on summoners? (for example "onslaught")?
3. poe.trade shows Astramentis 15/100 with "Quality (Attribute Modifiers): +5%" - does it mean that it provides 115 + ~5.75 = 121? (I am newbie in crafting - how do they do it?)
4. what is the best to buy/find to be able to activate more than 2 auras? (I think I've missed something in the guides)

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Linus1985 wrote:

Sense they are resistance capped I was thinking haveing life + meatsheild.

Yeah i was thinking meatshield, blind, or feeding frenzy to free up more slots for other stuff linked to golem.

Either way i don't have enough chromas for a triple off colour baron, and there's not many good red supports gems for them.