👻3.20👻 Kay's Summoner💥SRS Bomber💀Poison SRS💀Melee SRS🕷️Spiders💀Skeleton Mages

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bubupanda wrote:
hi sorry, as an ex minion player myself, why didnt you all consider using animate guardian? its a very huge damage boost, you can easily replace meatshield with taunt on hit jewel and inc duration change for minion life?
so far 3 of my spectre and AG never died even on the sirus fight
, or im missing something let me know


I think AG is good, but it's very easy to suddenly just die. Especially against AN mods + essence mods. It feels bad to lose him, so I don't push it nowadays.

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Sukafu wrote:
Should have said in the first post but I am playing SRS Guardian in SSF If that changes anything. 6L Fleshcrafter I'll benchcraft when I get one.


Oh! OK!

You still need blessed rebirth for Fleshcrafter. It gives minions 4s immunity so the ES will be 100% and they can do full damage. When they take a little damage and lose ES, then they can't ignore resistance :(
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ExcelionM wrote:
I'm sorry if I missed it, but how does one craft one of those beautiful +1 shields with +%life on block :O


I bought synthesised bone shield with block implicit. Then just hit with bound fossils. It's the easiest way. :)

Don't try bound + pristine on shaper base. The chance is too low.

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Souljasam wrote:
I have avatar of fire on my skin of the lords. Do I still need the added cold/fire damage? Id assume no because Avatar turns all damage into fire.


Avatar of fire will work fine :)
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kayella wrote:
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Yuzlol wrote:
Thanks for your updated mage skeleton guide... gonna use this now for hardcore.
Any additional recommendations for a necro version in hc since this should have more survivability?


Try to get as much spell suppression as possible! Just to keep safe when block doesn't work.

The damage is overkill, so definitely use Aegis aurora + determination (swap shield and haste) if you can!

You can also think about using shield spectres instead of dps spectres. The proxy shield + increased duration is very nice!


Is spell supression worth it even i wont get a lot of it? Just another x% unless i can get 100%?

Was thinking about dropping more dmg in favor for more life regen because so many degen effects nowadays

Edit: btw i just noticed your ascendancy for necro doesnt match you linked pob... commander of darkness and bone barrier switched
Last edited by Yuzlol#0653 on Sep 17, 2022, 3:38:37 PM
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kayella wrote:
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Karaliah wrote:
I'm now mapping with the spider build and most of the gear that I need and I'm loving it <3 It is so much fun to play ^^

Only sometimes I stand there without spiders but I'm running from pack to pack. Sometimes I have only 2-4 spiders left in the next pack and sometimes none. Am I doing something wrong?

And could someone look over my character cause sometimes I'm dying really fast


I think you don't have the Aul's amulet yet? It's very expensive... try unlink empower and increased aoe from Malevolence. Then swap skitterbots to Discipline. It will you lots of ES.


Ok, I'll try that, thanks :D
But I can't activate Malevolence even without the gems. So unlinking wouldn't change anything or am I wrong?
Last edited by Karaliah#7005 on Sep 17, 2022, 6:04:38 PM
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kayella wrote:
I made this build on my Guardian, but it can be adapted for the Necromancer with some changes.


since i already have a level 98 witch, what adaptations would be the best for the critical skelemages?

i'm still working on getting a +duration fleshcrafter as i still don't want to corrupt mine with the rolls it has because with my luck it will trash it lol

i'm not concerned at all about map clear speed as i always take my time to completely clear everything anyway
poe is going down fast. Diablo 4 and Baldur's Gate 3 have no performance issues. play them instead
Last edited by spaceace7373#7726 on Sep 18, 2022, 6:29:45 PM


>>> Watch 3.19 Cold Conversion Skeleton Warriors build guide video on YouTube <<<



About the Build

Cold Conversion Skeleton Warriors (high budget)

ABOUT

This is a high budget build that scales a lot of damage, as well as freeze and shatter for safer mapping. It’s also a lot easier to see what’s happening without skeleton mages spam.
However, it’s not super tanky and doesn’t have fast clear speed because you need to resummon the skeletons.
The support minions are also a bit squishy, so you need to keep an eye on the Animate Guardian.




Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

Guardian

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
POB: https://pobb.in/u/kayella/1riEui0AMSH4


MASTERY
20% increased effect of offerings
10% increased life
Determination 25% increased efficiency



CLUSTER JEWELS

Large: Feasting Fiends, Renewal, Vicious Bite
Medium: Blessed Rebirth and Renewal
Medium: Feasting Fiends and Renewal
Small: Quickening Covenant
Small: Fortress Covenant

Blessed Rebirth is very important for skeletons, so make sure you have this notable.



JEWELS

Ghastly Eyes: Minion damage, Attack speed, Taunt


Highly recommend taunt on one jewels!



ASCENDANCY

Radiant Crusade
Unwavering Crusade
Bastion of Hope
Time of Need



PANTHEON

Major: Brine King (freeze immunity)
Minor: Abberath (burning ground immunity)


Necromancer

For the Necromancer, you need two changes:
1. Passives:
Refund Safeguard cluster
Allocate shield mastery: +1% attack block per shield block

2. Ascendancy:
Mindless Aggression
Bone Barrier
Plaguebringer
Mistress of Sacrifice



Gearing

Gear, Gems & Links, Flasks

GENERAL

Here is an overview of the gear, including gems, links and examples.
You will need to self-craft some items with fossils and essences.
Also make sure you have 75% elemental resistance, and positive chaos resistance.



HELMET

The helmet has +2 to all minion gems and reservation efficiency.
The enchant should be Skeleton damage.
And it should also have +1 skeleton number, if possible.

The gems are: Anomalous Raise Spectre, Anomalous Stone Golem, Divergent Animate Guardian and Anomalous Feeding Frenzy.

For the spectres, I’m using 2 carnage chieftains, 1 crabbie and 1 pale seraphim.
If Feeding Frenzy is too rippy for the support minions, swap to Meat Shield instead.




BODY

The body armour is a +2 Fleshcrafter. It can be +2 duration or +2 minion.

The gems are: Vaal Summon Skeletons, Awakened Minion Damage, Divergent Predator, Anomalous Elemental Proliferation, Divergent Melee Splash and Awakened Elemental Damage.

When fighting Pinnacle bosses, swap Proliferation and Splash to Elemental Focus and Multistrike.




GLOVES

The gloves are Triad Grip with 1 red and 3 green sockets.

The gems are: Hatred, Haste, Precision and Awakened Generosity.

The 75% cold conversion is better than 100% conversion because of Generosity.



BOOTS

The boots have Brittle Ground for +2% crit chance.

The gems are: Divergent Tempest Shield, Convocation, Assassin’s Mark and Enlighten.

*Note: divergent tempest shield can be very expensive. Normal tempest shield is OK! (lower spell block)



WEAPON

The wand has “Minions are Aggressive”, +1 to all spells, +1 to minions, and trigger.
The special mod “Minions are Aggressive” gives your Skeleton warriors the Dash skill, which helps a lot for mapping.


Guardian gems are: Desecrate, Spirit Offering and Life Tap.


Necromancer gems are: Desecrate, Divergent Bone Offering and Life Tap.




SHIELD

The shield has +1 to minions, increased critical chance for minions and life recovery on block.

The gems are: Flame Dash, Steelskin and Portal.

You can change Portal to something else, like Faster Casting.

*Alternative*
You can make the build tankier with Aegis Aurora and swap Haste aura to Determination




AMULET

The amulet is Ashes of the Stars.
Reservation efficiency is the most important mod.
And the anointment is Charisma for Reservation Efficiency.




RINGS

Use your rings to get lots of life and resistances.
I also used my rings to get enough Strength and Dex.




BELT

The belt is Darkness Enthroned with two best Ghastly Eye jewels.




RECOMMENDED FLASKS


• Life with bleed immunity
• Basalt with extra armour
• Quicksilver
• Bottled Faith (regen + 10% damage taken)
• Rumi's Concoction

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Last edited by kayella#0845 on Sep 19, 2022, 8:09:15 AM
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spaceace7373 wrote:
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kayella wrote:
I made this build on my Guardian, but it can be adapted for the Necromancer with some changes.


since i already have a level 98 witch, what adaptations would be the best for the critical skelemages?

i'm still working on getting a +duration fleshcrafter as i still don't want to corrupt mine with the rolls it has because with my luck it will trash it lol

i'm not concerned at all about map clear speed as i always take my time to completely clear everything anyway


It's pretty easy to change:

1. Passives:
Refund Safeguard cluster
Allocate shield mastery: +1% attack block per shield block

2. Ascendancy:
Mindless Aggression
Bone Barrier
Plaguebringer
Mistress of Sacrifice

3. Gem change:
Spirit Offering > Divergent Bone Offering

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Karaliah wrote:

Ok, I'll try that, thanks :D
But I can't activate Malevolence even without the gems. So unlinking wouldn't change anything or am I wrong?


Oh. In that case just keep it like that :)

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