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

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DaveNemesis26 wrote:

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Thunder_Gatti wrote:

36m Shaper DPS anyone? And without an Elegant Hubris or Herald stacking...

This is a live build btw (not theory crafting), so a few of the gems still have some room for improvement. I tried to make it work with a ridiculously rolled double corrupted HH but gave up. Let me know your thoughts...thanks.

https://pastebin.com/7sNSwh9E

Another thing that I wanted to try but didn't get to was incorporating in The Front Line gem with Bone Armor. I think it'll work pretty well. I just keep my mapped Bone Armor and Convocation keys pressed down the entire time anyway, so there's hardly any exposure. It should free up a few passive points or gem.

Tested on a fully loaded T15 shaper influenced map...no deaths. Popped the life flask twice total. Tested the HH belt and it was a huge disappointment unfortunately (aside from the cool sound it makes when you first put it on lol). Sold it for 150ex just now without giving it a second thought. It works but definitely a step down.

how did you get the -50% physical damage computation in your calculation?

Wow, POB really is a broken mess. I put that in a while back when I was testing Pride and Mervail's Retainers with POB and can't get rid of it now. For some reason I'll delete it but it reappears back in POB when you open the link. When I delete it on my end, my DPS#'s don't change at all, so I don't think it's impacting anything.

Btw, my specter breakdown is 2 Carnage, 1 Host and 1 Mervail's.

Also noticed it's set up for Blood stance. I've been playing in Sand since everything dies so quickly and I'm still able to impale 100% of the time, but that lowers the DPS to 2.133 per zombie. I also didn't count any DPS from the specters, guardian, golem or cyclone.

One interesting note is that I can actually run Avian with all those auras, but I'm left with zero mana. I have a 3% mana reserve reduction jewel that I should be able to factor in once I spend more time on it. I was also thinking about trying Aspect of the Spider instead though.

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Noobicious wrote:

Is it worth allocating "Spiritual Aid" and the nodes around it for the increased Damage?

Spiritual Aid itself says "Increases and Reductions to Minion Damage also affect you". Can this have negative consequences in any way/situation?

Nope. All your DPS focus is from your minions. Maybe you can temporarily while leveling, but not for endgame. As a rule of thumb, what I would recommend also is only using Gravepact and Ravenous Horde from your tree for endgame DPS passive points. Allocate Death Attunement on your ammy, but then everything for minion DPS should be going into clusters.

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NefariuZ wrote:

Man I've gone around and around on the build. I have your exact skill tree and an enlighten 4 and I still cannot activate all my auras...

It seems to be aspect of the avian or disc. I have to choose one or the other, can't use both. Additionally youre mana pool is like 1700ish, and mines only 1471. I double checked your gear and I don't see anything promoting a larger mana pool..

What am I missing? Are you running -1 mana reserves which are dang near unaffordable this league?

Don't use Avian with Geofri's.

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KilluaYoukai wrote:

- Minions BASE res and if they receive the -60% or not.

Base Elemental res is 40% / chaos res 20% and no they don't take the -60% penalty.

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sickpython wrote:

After struggling with survival after the nefs to Spirit Offering and Bone Armour, I finally have something that feels more like the necro summoner before all the nerfs of the last two leagues: tanky and powerful.

Using relatively cheap gear at level 91:
12 zombies, 370k shaper DPS each => 4.4m shaper DPS.

7.5k life, 11% (!) life regen.

Community PoB link:
https://pastebin.com/7Acdw6Xs

Hi ! Out of curiosity, Can you confirm your split personnalities grant you 65 life and 65 strength (for the upmost jewels) ? POB does not calculate this. Plus it looks like you have 5% ish regen, can't find the 11% mentionned (nice alternate build though, I'm tempted to try).

I would like to push out more dps, any advice on what I can do to improve my build? I think my gear is solid, but looking to make some good adjustments. I run carnage chieftain, arena master and baranite knights for spectres. ty

Hey Guys I'd like to share my endgame build with cluster jewels.. and thanks to BRUNO

Its definitely not cheap but I believe this is the most balanced version of dps and survivability

Atleast 5k life and dps is insane...DPS outphases sirus and if lucky with the balls can kill him in 2-3 min...uber elder/shaper melts...

Simulacrum i constantly get tier 6 rewards and deathless

Most importantly Delirium 100% done....some mods harder than others but ive done corrupted ones with 100% delirium.

Also I noticed that with 5k life it reduced my chances of getting one shotted in delirium 100 and simulacrum runs..therefore i kept my life at 5k...with the use of cluster jewels..the build is soo flexible..Please let me know if you have any ideas on how to improve the build

Thanks,
Bokuden

https://pastebin.com/hkBydq6X

*THe mana and life node next to heart and soul..i removed because heart and soul can be used with thread of hope. -- saves a skill point

*Also if any chance your zombies are dying which i've had no issues with in all content - you can take out the 4 points for enduring bond..and put the point on hulking corpses and damage pasive..then put 2 points to get a socket passive by devotion and faith and steel.

I just did simulacrum for the first time. Finished all 20 waves deathless easy. Super tanky build. Capped ele res and phys reduction. Highly recommend if you are dying too much.

Could anyone explain to me how Death Attunement is obtained in this version of the build?

https://pastebin.com/SZmdnv4A

Like is there something I'm missing or is this version of the build isn't doable?

Going for more of a fast mapping version of the build.

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Keyser Soze 15 wrote:

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Keyser Soze 15 wrote:

Hi guys, still looking for feedback on my Necro lvl 97 build for Standard on Xbox One. She is a lot of fun but if there are any fundamental things I should do to toughen her up I would appreciate hearing it. Here are a few things I am messing with now.

I yanked Discipline out and replaced Skitterbots. I also booted Flesh and Stone and Dread Banner to use Blasphemy with Elemental Weakness & Flame Dash. I like Blasphemy for cursing over branding... I am going to use Flame Dash for more speed and Elemental Equilibrium on bosses.

I added Frost Wall to CWDT link. I personally think they work well with this build even though others don't like Frost Wall.

This leaves one more spot open but I have to decide what I want before I go and rearrange all my socket colors. I am leaning towards Minion Life for AG but still undecided. I could add something else to my CWDT combo... if anyone has any thoughts let me know. I can't afford another aura.

Thanks

I am not getting any feedback... am I not specific enough? Am I too late in the season to ask such questions? Anyways, I enjoy "conceptualizing builds" and would very much like to learn from you guys. Any feedback or dialogue on my lvl 97 necro Standard build would be appreciated.

So looking at your Char you seem to have your Spectres as your main offense(6link weapon) rather than Zombies which are also setup as Offensive.

If that's the case then your Baron helmet is not fulfilling it's potential of helping you stay alive as your won't be getting much benefit from the Life Leech attribute because your Spectres will be killing monsters before your Zombies can even get a look in.

If you want to stick with Spectres I'd take a look at this forum post https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2181275 as Kay specializes in this type of build.

A few leagues back I did a similar thing using Slave Drivers as my main damage and that was great for that particular league(Blight) but with all the recent changes to Spectres in the last two leagues, they've become less powerful along with other minions. in Metamorph I switched over to pure Zombies and did so much better as you could scale their damage much better.

But this league(Delirium) Minions got a huge buff from Cluster jewels, especially Megalomaniacs with Vicious Bite but the build now requires serious investment to get it to surpass what it was to deal/cope with this leagues content.

I think I've put in about easily +80ex into my Necro this league and I still struggle to survive in some circumstances, my Zombies are virtually unkillable, think I've been through about 5 AG's with Kingmakers(luckily they are cheap this league)