{3.2.0} Spectral Gods: [Life Based Spectre/Golem Hybrid Summoner | Clear Speed | End Game Bossing]

Wanted to update my Animate Guardian experimenting......

I know someone questioned his survivability earlier, and I'm glad to inform that its not horrendous. I did Temple Piety (no crazy mods) with 2 players and he survived all 3 rounds.

Level 20 Guardian, Level 18 Minion Life Gem, Sidehebreath, and all the Minion Life passives.
4 Seething Hallowed Life Flasks of Animation.
Leer Cast, Zahndethus' Cassock, Red Beak, Crest of Perandus, Random Junk + life Glove/Boots.
Capped Resists (81%)

Bummed Rush Piety. If you sit back and play around with her adds your gonna lose pretty much all of your minions, including your Animate Guardian.

My friends Animate Guardian Unfortunately didn't make it, but he was using a level 14 one with a lower level minion life.

So he is useable on higher level maps, just gotta use some common sense with him. If your doing a map with insane mods, remove him before the boss. Hes a free Aura though otherwise. Been enjoying double Leer Cast with me + guardian.

He did alright in 72~73 maps as well. Piety was the first thing to drop him below 95% that I've ran into so far (Zahndethus' Cassock is simply insane regen). Piety only managed to get him to 75%, but then again I did almost use 4 whole Flasks.

Also, some good news that he "might" be getting some love:

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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TheFatChickThriller wrote:

That's the major drawback of the skill, unfortunately. Beside that, it's kinda stupid that you effectivly can't use the skill on high level maps AT ALL, unless you go back and get some lower level items in, say, the Library first. ilvl73 is max without Empower, like what? There's no other skill in the game that has his kind of restriction

This is being looked at. We're not going to change it as a knee-jerk reaction, but are looking at potential improvements to the skill, including looking at the level requirement.

About Conc effect for BMs. Why did you say it doesn't work? It works properly, damage is increased...

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alfapf wrote:

About Conc effect for BMs. Why did you say it doesn't work? It works properly, damage is increased...

I didn't work 1 patch ago. It was fixed and was stated in thread too. Just read last 4-5 pages.


On the separate note,

I'm starting to doubt the idea of 6L chober - after 3+ exalt worth of currency all I can show for it is a 6s 4B2R chober...

First of all, thanks for the well-written guide!

Have you tried using Bringer of Rain for the summoned zombies? You could link Raise Zombie - Melee Splash - Multistrike - Cast on Death - (Melee Physical Damage) - (Faster Attacks) - (Blind). Then you swap the helm out and gain back the use of your body armor.

After looking at your videos and seeing the supercharged zombies in action: Do you actually need the specters at all? Would it be better to cast more zombies?

You could use the BoR if you want, I like to enjoy the benefits of 20% Q gems more.

As you can see my spectres arn't specced for maximum damage. I don't have many 'more' multipliers on them. As they are now they are just great for taking out trash whites/blues before your zombies even reaches them.

you may not notice it but they do significant damage on bosses/rares as well. Its a steady degen as compare to the chunking damage of zombies. Also if you have them why not use them? Its a 1 passive pt investment. Its the two damage combined that really makes you kill things fast.

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About Conc effect for BMs. Why did you say it doesn't work? It works properly, damage is increased...

It worked after 1.0.2b, I indicated it works on my first post as well.

My BM's instantly dying against piety. How can i increase their survivability?

Mine build completyly different from yours btw. Mine is low life es build (for iir)

Thats the build:


I'm using vulnerability and flammability.

Gems: Raise Spectre + Minion Life + Minion damage + Minion and totem elementel resistance + INC AOE + INC Burning Damage

So, any tip? (:

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Jaqen wrote:

My BM's instantly dying against piety. How can i increase their survivability?

Mine build completyly different from yours btw. Mine is low life es build (for iir)

Thats the build:

build

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMAVysHY-aBc1PAVBFQa9u71n0YO-HsiuL3bRmnK8Hzi3pciqKjf8Yc3MHFkyc4G-wYtAy_l4_6w200Csk9e9dXyfIeAW88joRI6roo-oLH6-7T-_nouJOofWh0pwgR21qR2mKdro9G2QtqrJSgGmzQ0CqYpqzkIpuh-oCIQClP99eQM-w4rJjMvDrYFLAQl4VgTdh8uy3SOjBEBKrEnjyMdiSLOVJNuYFv98G8NwSzTm0CcVgH

I'm using vulnerability and flammability.

Gems: Raise Spectre + Minion Life + Minion damage + Minion and totem elementel resistance + INC AOE + INC Burning Damage

So, any tip? (:

Just got back from farming Merc Piety a few dozen times. If Merc Piety is your question, I can help.

Okay. So first and foremost. Don't bother with Vuln and Flamm. Use Enfeeble and Temporal Chains instead.

My reasoning:

We're poor and have shit gear so we need survival. Nothing slows you down more than having to resummon your army after every run.

So run Enfeeble to make sure she can't burst down your minions with a shot or two. You can spam pots through that.

Also, I realized that my minions were doing tremendous damage without needing Vuln and Flamm. Literally I saw no difference, if I set up correctly, I've seen my zombies 2 shot Piety.

Damage isn't the concern. Why Chains? Simply because she runs around a lot. Nothing slows you down more than having your zombies constantly chasing her down. Use chains to stop her it'll also help against her constantly throwing ice spears at you and stuff.

That's what I use on Piety now. I used to use Vuln and Flamm but ended up having 2-3 minions go splat.

Now I lose a BM every dozen or so runs and that's always due to lag stopping me from spamming pots.

Also use Rejuv Totem + Vitality and other defensive auras. Hatred also helps since my Zombies seem to chill her frequently which helps again.

Hey Mat. Again awesome guide. I have this bookmarked and sub-ed to your youtube. Keep up the good work.

Question....Do Flask Life also affect our flasks for our minions. Or not. Thanks.

Hi! Did you think about how could you benefint from a lvl2 empower gem on this build? Would it increase the remaining support gems effect with a meaningful amount so you would drop a support gem?

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Xerinia wrote:

Hey Mat. Again awesome guide. I have this bookmarked and sub-ed to your youtube. Keep up the good work.

Question....Do Flask Life also affect our flasks for our minions. Or not. Thanks.

If your asking if flask nodes affect life flasks. Yes, it boost the amount recovered and in turn boost the amount recovered to minions.

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Hi! Did you think about how could you benefint from a lvl2 empower gem on this build? Would it increase the remaining support gems effect with a meaningful amount so you would drop a support gem?

Empower does not power up support gems only the skill gems.