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

Its a personal preference, I just noticed as i made my zombies and spectre's stronger and stronger the skeletons started to lag behind. Eventually casting them even with a totem was a total waste of time for me.

My build incorporates fast movement speed to clear as fast as possible. Stopping to cast skeletons goes against that logic. I find zombies sufficient enough to hold any sort of agroo. Also removing skeleton and the connected support gems lets me have much more freedom with auras and support skills.

Same thing with MI. I noticed my raw zombie and spectre damage heavily out dps's the explosion damage I get from MI. So I decided to make my zombies and spectre as tanky as possible while boosting their aoe damage as much as possible. AOE damage as you can tell reigns king in POE.

For my playstyle (which is very aggressive in your face type summoner, clearing maps asap with high tanking ability + 4 instant life pots). I made these decisions to go with my playstyle. There is no wrong way to build your character. A slower moving safety oriented player may utilize skeletons and clear from relative safety.

Alright I made some changes,

The beauty of BM's is that you really don't need many support gems to make them very strong

I decided to put them into my +2 minion helm
RS(i get +4more damage) + Burning Damage + Minion Life(2% more life) + Increased aoe or elemental resist

and move my zombies into a 6-link

RZ + Melee Splash + Multi Strike + Faster Attack + Life Leach(infinite sustain) or melee physical + Added Fire
now your zombies hit like a truck.

Have you thought about using arctic armor for additional defence?

Yeah I tried it, the mana drain is pretty intensive after gem lvl 15-16. I don't really see a noticeable difference.

Thanks for this thread Matt (and all other contributers ofcourse). It has really helped me with my summoner and the wealth of ideas and empiric data here is of great assistance. Cheers!

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mattc3303 wrote:

Alright I made some changes,
I decided to put them into my +2 minion helm
RS(i get +4more damage) + Burning Damage + Minion Life(2% more life) + Increased aoe or elemental resist

My question here is how are you experiencing the lack of Increase AOE radius? With a maxed out IAOE gem your pretty much covering the whole screen in flames. so wouldnt this technically slow down your clear speed or does the increase in damage from the minion helm + zombie sidegrade cover this in your opinion?

Your actually right. That config did slow me down lol. Well that is why you experiment with your build. Increased AOE is too good to pass up.

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It was a real problem to item swap with tabula within a level 76 map where fire golems took out my zombies fairly quickly (even with 21k hp)

back to:

RZ + melee splash + faster atk + multistrike -> +2 helm
(quick item swap to grasp/chober/resummon if they die)

Tabula used for 6 linking random spectre when I want to throw in some flavor into my usual BM squad.

Flame bearers work quite nicely with BM's (goes through frost wall)
(RS + faster proj + GMP + Life Leach + Remote Mine + Fire Pen, melts bosses and rares quickly)

6Link chest for BM's

Didn't find any info on this subject, does iir/iiq have any use if your minions do all the killing?

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Pavetsu wrote:

Didn't find any info on this subject, does iir/iiq have any use if your minions do all the killing?

Yeah, it gets added together. You can go to the character screen and click on your zombies or whatever summon skill and see exactly what their final IIQ/IIR is. If you don't have IIR/IIQ gems on your summons, they'll simply have whatever IIQ/IIR you have.

I dont think iir/iiq works with the BM aura though.

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Yogsothoz wrote:

I dont think iir/iiq works with the BM aura though.

Correct. It does not work with DoT damage (nor does Fire Penetration and a couple others I cant remember) according to the information in this thread. Im 100% sure someone has posted that in this thread otherwise 6L would be a "must" but as it is now there is very little reason to have more than a 5L for a BM spectre setup (the 5 being RS, IBD, IAOE, MH, MR).