Lich Questions

So I started my Lich with the intentions of going Full Spectre Minions - finding out they Suck because they are so high Spirit cost ruined it for me and I converted to ED/Contagion and blasted through Normal and Just got to Cruel before server reset.

Im using the Vaal Guard Spectres now but can only afford 2 of them atm. I origibally went Necromatic Conduit as well and then on my 2nd Ascendency I got Souless Form. Im guessing I should drop NC and spec into Eternal Life ??

Really confused with the Lich ascendncies and how they work.. Im going to try and keep some minions up and use Ed /Cont as my main skills..

Whats the thoughts on Lich minions and even running them or just go FUll Chaos and forget Minions???

I would focus either on doing damage myself or doing damage with minions.
Not both at the same time.

Then I would plan the tree according to my choice.

If it picked the first choice, I go spreading chaos all over.

If I picked the second choice, I would pick SRS with skeletal MAGES.
No specters or other crap.

I use spectres and minions, as well as focusing on chaos damage. I ended up trading for some high spirit items and rolling a nice amulet that gives me a lot of spirit. You can find some decent spectres for around 50 spirit. They serve as a buffer for me to spread chaos. I haven't spec'd into any extra minion life or damage at this point and I'm at T7 maps. Eventually I will have to up their life I'm sure but it's working pretty well right now.

t15 here. you MUST spec into having 78% resistances or so and 120% more minion HP... even that doesn't help enough. Bosses difficulty +2 (as in the atlas points) are a slugfest. Also not worth the loot.

Go Vaal guards with Flamability and SRS and flamewall. only problem is the FPS drops a lot.

I use a half chaos build (no chaos nodes, just minions and ES on tree) where the chaos is used just for debuffing (Maim,blind,hinder etc). Minions wither on hit so i can get the dmg to actually do something even without chaos nodes on tree.

Unearth mobs on corpses that just died by contagion, then use Dark effigy and ED with the debuff supports (50% less hp regen support, hinder, whatever you want).

use Pain offering A LOT. like all the time. I gave unearth the skill that makes it target them if within 6 meters just because I only have 3 skele warriors (they got culling on them).

I find boss fights that start well pretty fast (where my minions don't get 1shot from a random starting AoE), or fast for a non Amazon build.

I only got +4 minions skills on my gear in total, and like 290% more minion dmg.




** You need a Scepter with enough +# to # of fire/phys/etc, and to have like +80% total Presence aura. this is probably the only thing that makes the big numbers of unearth work for you. Otherwise if not using unearth or a BIG amount of minions, go with +dmg and +speed scepter and Presence aura.