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

Maybe if you run solo the BM's will kill quickly but in a party of 3 or more adding more aoe to the mix seems to be a big boost in clear speed.

This is my current BM setup. Would it be worth replacing one of the gems with IIR?

It's personal preference on IIR. If you do replace something it'd most likely be minion damage as i think that's the smallest damage bonus of the gems you use (smarter math people confirm?). I started linking my zombies and BMs with IIR gems after 1.0.2 went live and have since stopped, mostly because I hate picking up 25+ rares a map, when 99% of them are bad and my stash is already overflowing.

I still dont get how most people say that zombies dont die to reflect, maibe its the fact that i have an extra 3 nodes to minion damage, but everytime iam on a elem reflect map montregul zombies die when they fight a pack of 5 monsters.
And by die i dont mean it's something u can avoid with curses/flask, i actually mean that they get 1shot by the montregul explos.

So I dinged 87 picked up Necromantic Aegis and have been rolling around with a Saffell's Perandus/Zahn Cassock guardian. I had planned on seeing if/how long he could just straight tank Temple Piety with 75% spell block and 83% lightning resist. Unfortunately my only temple run today was with CoD BMs and she died in literally 3 seconds. Haven't been back in yet.

Currently my Guardian gem is level 17 and I have him linked with Minion Life/20% quality CoD/Increased Area Effect and with the 75% spell block and ~67% physical block on my weapon switch it's 100% uptime on Consecrated ground whenever there's any amount of minions hitting him. With 20% CoD and Increased AoE the ground procs radius is pretty enormous. I'm not happy having him on a helm since I can't switch him out in an emergency (but I can't really have him poof on weapon switch because that's how I keep his block near maxed depending on what's hitting him), but he hasn't dipped low at all in any of the maps I've done so far; I haven't done any maps over 74 yet however.

I haven't switched over to a Raimant yet for the damage proc testing, but seeing the ~100% uptime on the Consecrated procs and how big the radius is, it seems like it'll be quite strong, especially with Conc Effort instead of Increased AOE.

As far as my survivability with Necro Aegis I haven't felt in danger on anything I've done yet. I dip a bit lower when I happen to get hit by 4-5 charging mobs or those ground poppers that scare me, and I admittedly haven't done a big projectile/chain modded map (my biggest worry), but so far I haven't felt like losing the block has crippled my ability to keep myself alive. My defensive stats with my standard map run setup (I use a lot of IIR/IIQ gear including Auraseize Gloves and Goldwyrm Boots) are only:

3269 HP
Maxed Elemental Resists
6794 Armor

And I run with Arctic Armor and MoM.

If I find myself in more danger of dying on harder modded maps with the loss of the shield stats I'll start switching out my MF gear, but as of right now I'm feeling pretty good about it.

Moose I feel like every week you come up with something new for me to try. I can't wait for what's to come next week, keep it up, thanks!

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Moows wrote:

I still dont get how most people say that zombies dont die to reflect, maibe its the fact that i have an extra 3 nodes to minion damage, but everytime iam on a elem reflect map montregul zombies die when they fight a pack of 5 monsters.
And by die i dont mean it's something u can avoid with curses/flask, i actually mean that they get 1shot by the montregul explos.

try getting the zombie to 20/20 should have enough life to tank through,

I been having a lot of trouble on phy reflect maps now. Its time to bust out warlords mark when u run these maps.

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TyrantKeel wrote:

I've been keeping guardian and spectres in the same chestpiece but if you don't even need to die to get the massive benefit of CoD that's pretty big. You're absolutely sure Guardian gets benefit of all links each time you zone?

Yes, it is as simple as that. Every time you re-zone, it will check what is linked to him. I've tested it, and CoD damage DOES work, but he has horrible hit accuracy. Don't use him for melee damage, use him for OP procs (Leer Cast Aura, Consecrate, Desecrate).

However, if your careless with him, be aware that your gonna lose about 4 chaos worth of gear if your building him properly. I haven't lost mine yet, and hes actually outlived me in at least 1 situation, so that shouldn't be an issue if you pay even the slightest attention to his health bar.

I am about to get my zombie gem level to 20. But it has no quality upgrade.

Is it worth to make it 20% quality and level it from 1 again?

might be better to dump 20 gcp on it lol. 1->20 zombie will take forever.

I'd say sell the 20/0 and buy 20/20. That way you "lose" less currency than just gcp'ing, unless I'm bad at gem prices, which I probably am.