3.9| Stress-Free PoE - SLOW-MO ZOMBIES |SSF the Atlas w/ 1 Button & Any Gear|Dungeon Crawl PoE!

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M_atrix wrote:

Yes! I finally DID IT!! Level 100. Done. Fi-na-lly.

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PatGniak wrote:

Gz on the 100 too!!!!

And thank you for sharing some details in your post.
Also interesting to look at your character.

The "Trigger a socketed spell when you use a skill" seems fun.

And what Spectre are you using?

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0nyX wrote:

Gz on the 100!!!

I played about 20hours last week and did 28-36 on my challenges then called it a day for this league

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Katalaeia wrote:

Assuming the 3.10 balance changes don't gut it, I feel like I'll be returning to this build for Delirium. :)

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M_atrix wrote:

Yes! I finally DID IT!! Level 100. Done. Fi-na-lly.

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More than 120 hours of dreadful grind. Had to swallow 4 deaths which erased nearly 40 hours of progress. Every death was like an electroshock.

Once I died 2 times in 4-hour span. I was mad and deflated at the same time haha.

Those 2 deaths (at 27% and at 33% xp) were from beyond monsters.
First one - from a unique monster which summons exploding red rings of death. insta-killed me when I dashed into it without even seeing it. The second one was the one with billion lightning balls. Erased me in less than a second. From that moment I never rolled "Slaying Enemies close together has a 13% chance to attract monsters from Beyond" on maps ever again.

Then I died once to the acid cavers boss (at 43% xp). Literally dashed into his spinning blades (misclicked the button!..). Insta-death.

Then I switched some passive nodes and added additional 450hp at the cost of minion life and damage. My clearing speed went down by 10% or so, but I felt much more tanky and this actually helped me to survive at least 3 nearly deadly blows at various points. I couldn't even see the red color on hp bulb ^^. Whew. So this thing alone saved me another ~30h of time.

And the last one was just yesterday. As always I was just doing Alva missions and jumped into one of those temples to kill the architect. And as soon I entered it - BAM. Dead. Didn't even know what and why killed me. That was the first death in there ever. I was really confused and was already at 90%... down to 80%. But very soon in the next Atzoatl temple I corrupted my newly leveled Empower gem and got lucky. Got my second Lvl 4 empower. Big upgrade from lvl 3 for the skeletons. It was great for increasing my clearing speed. Then, after 30 minutes, I finally successfully vaaled Carrion Golem gem to 21 and temporal chains to 21 also. I was literally back to the same killing speed as I had before the passive nodes switching ^^

So here I am. My main goal is complete with this game. Will never go for lvl 100 ever ever ever again. Too damn stressful. I think lvl 96-97 is the best stopping point.

Amazing build.

Favorite map - T15 Siege. Lots of xp and no dead ends.

Ended up 23rd among Witches and 75th among all SSF players this league. Not too shabby.

Now I can finally go and kill Sirus once again. He waited for me since lvl 98 heh.

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M_atrix wrote:

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PatGniak wrote:

Gz on the 100 too!!!!

And thank you for sharing some details in your post.
Also interesting to look at your character.

The "Trigger a socketed spell when you use a skill" seems fun.

And what Spectre are you using?

Thank you!

"Trigger a socketed spell when you use a skill" is amazing. Having 2 of these on 2 wands means that every single time you use a skill (usually summon skeletons, I just spam them haha) it casts 2 skills at the same time! (every skill has 4 second cooldown though) This little thing alone doubled my clearing speed and dps and opened more gem slots for spectres.

As for Spectres I use: 2 Solar Guards. 1 Carnage Chieftain. 1 Host Chieftain.

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0nyX wrote:

Gz on the 100!!!

I played about 20hours last week and did 28-36 on my challenges then called it a day for this league

Thanks man!

I'm also working towards 36 challenges.

Today I defeated the uber elder, so another challenge done.

Now I just need to either complete the hall of grandmasters map (with some luck) or somehow get one of those other 4 unobtainable unique maps which seems to never drop this league...
Oooooor I just need to get lucky and get that unique watchstone from conquerors and 36 challenges will be complete. Then I will be able to play some other games, finally, lol.

EDIT: aaand it's done. Sirus dropped me a unique watchstone and bam, 36th challenge complete and that's it. Nothing to do. Every single piece of content this game has to offer is done. Heh.

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M_atrix wrote:

Yes! I finally DID IT!! Level 100. Done. Fi-na-lly.

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Jaggedrain wrote:

So I'm looking at this build and I love it, but I was wondering - what kind of effect do you think it would have if I replaced the skeletons with Spectres?

I could take out the Infernal Legion and replace it with something like Summon Phantasm maybe?

I usually just follow builds slavishly like the mindless zombie I am, but I really like Spectres (plus I just got a fantastic new skin for them) so I want to use them if possible.

Would replacing skellies with Spectres ruin the build, do you think?

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Wrecker_of_Days wrote:

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Jaggedrain wrote:

So I'm looking at this build and I love it, but I was wondering - what kind of effect do you think it would have if I replaced the skeletons with Spectres?

I could take out the Infernal Legion and replace it with something like Summon Phantasm maybe?

I usually just follow builds slavishly like the mindless zombie I am, but I really like Spectres (plus I just got a fantastic new skin for them) so I want to use them if possible.

Would replacing skellies with Spectres ruin the build, do you think?

Hey Jaggedrain!

Thanks! If you end up playing it, I hope you enjoy it then too.

You can swap out any minions you want for any minions. I plan around Zombies. Honestly, the only reason I have Skeletons is that Vaal skeletons is so strong. But you could really add any you want. You could make Spectres your 6link and SRS your 4 link if you wanted. If you're getting rid of skeletons though, I'd suggest getting rid of Minion Instability as well. I mean, it's just one node, but...up to you.

Yup. Swap out anything you like. There isn't really anything specific to this build that needs Zombies or Skeletons as far as I remember.

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Jaggedrain wrote:

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Wrecker_of_Days wrote:

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Jaggedrain wrote:

So I'm looking at this build and I love it, but I was wondering - what kind of effect do you think it would have if I replaced the skeletons with Spectres?

I could take out the Infernal Legion and replace it with something like Summon Phantasm maybe?

I usually just follow builds slavishly like the mindless zombie I am, but I really like Spectres (plus I just got a fantastic new skin for them) so I want to use them if possible.

Would replacing skellies with Spectres ruin the build, do you think?

Hey Jaggedrain!

Thanks! If you end up playing it, I hope you enjoy it then too.

You can swap out any minions you want for any minions. I plan around Zombies. Honestly, the only reason I have Skeletons is that Vaal skeletons is so strong. But you could really add any you want. You could make Spectres your 6link and SRS your 4 link if you wanted. If you're getting rid of skeletons though, I'd suggest getting rid of Minion Instability as well. I mean, it's just one node, but...up to you.

Yup. Swap out anything you like. There isn't really anything specific to this build that needs Zombies or Skeletons as far as I remember.

Yeah I can see what you mean wrt Minion Instability - without skeletons who are expendable, it's a wasted point that can be used for something else. I certainly don't want to be hunting up flame guardians all the time because they exploded!

Thanks for the advice :)