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

Hello! First off, thanks for your guide; I've always wanted to make a Summoner.

Anyway, I've been following this build and I just finished Cruel. It's been pretty much a breeze since the beginning until A3 Cruel. Now, my Zombies die extremely fast. They currently only have 1,660 HP, which I feel like is extremely, extremely low, but they have decent DPS. My link for my Zombies is 4L: Raise Zombie-Multistrike-Minion Health-Faster Attacks. My gear is pretty general (ES, Mana Regen, Resists, etc.) with only these two being specific for minions.




What can I do to increase the survivability of my Zombies?

Thanks!

Simple answer is get higher level gems. The easiest way to do that is with +2 to minion gems helm. That will improve your zombie gem and the minion life gem. You should notice quite a difference.

The other thing you can do is support your zombies with defensive curses like enfeeble, temporal chains, and warlord's mark.

You probably still need to rely on minions exploding with MI at this point. Like above use defensive curses and try to throw in your own damage.

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On a lighter note, punishment is getting buffed finally, might see some fun with getting monsters to die by attacking minions. Always wanted to use that curse.

I always thought the only use for this gem was with a summoner, if even then. Curious to see the details about the balance changes...

Hi, my question.
Trap+sunblast is better then inc burning damge suport gem ?
Worth to by sunblast belt ?

sorry for bad eng.

generally more damage modifiers are always better than increased.

Each time when I encounter totem or rare monsters with "other allies cannot die" in reflect maps then I know the grasp zombie will die because of the reflect of the simultaneous explosion.
Even with life leech + minion life + warlord;s mark + enfeeble they can still one shot themselves.

I dont use Mon'tregul's Grasp to summon my zombies now and I am fine with double reflect maps even without warlord's mark.

For those who are tired of getting new zombies gain and again after reflect maps may give normal zombies a try.

Hey guys,

How do you farm with this build? So essentially how do you turn this to an MF build?

I guess after snapshotting the Raise Spectre gem should be linked to IIR and IIQ.
Using a +2 helm with MF in it.
Swapping out the rings and amulet for MF oriented stuff (which might be safe as I havent seen to much deaths so far). Preferably Andvarius but I dont have those.
Boot should stay windscream as the second curse really help at bosses.
Dont have any decent MF gloves (only Sadima's) but that also an option.
Shield should maybe stay to provide some survivability and for weapon... no idea, I would probably stick to my wand.

ideas?

Its possible to mf with it. I can't say that I'm a good example since I dropped a lot of mf for survavalability. I now run 150-170 IIR on gear + a very little bit of IIQ. And snapshot minions with mf gems on easier content, like while farming piety, sometimes dominus and lower maps. The amount of damage one can get from CoD alone is so big that leaving out some dps (sometimes even defensive) gems from minions doesn't hurt much.

Just get some IIR+IIQ on every piece, but don't forget about resist cap and life on every bit of equipment. Andvarius is only viable if its near perfect, since it's drawback is decieving. It's not just -20% resist, you also lose resists you could get from rare ring, life and/or mana and regen.


P.S. While the freeze mine is still with us, not using mf gems on minions on lower content is silly in my opinion.

i think i broke the game more!!!
Got 9 auras 8 zombies 3 spectres and i stroll through all level maps like its nothing and have now killed all bosses on all maps wit out losing a minion now including courtyard......


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