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

Between snapshotting skullhead 2%regen and 10%block with life leach and regen on the passive tree they have no problems. I pay attention to the life bars of my minions and if I see them dip a bit I immediately hit my seething animation flasks.

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i have a question to the snapshotting. read your guide and wanted to make it work but it doesn't. i just mean the tabula rasa snapshotting to 6L the zombies and spectres. has ggg removed it? everytime i do it and swap the items in town and go out again my spectres and zombies are gone. (and yes i've put the zombie and the spectre gems in the exact same slot of the item.

The sockets must be linked, the zombie and spectres atleast.

o-o-o-o-o-o tabula

o o won't work

u need o-o

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Your guide is great, I really enjoy reading it. Could you please update your Cloak of Defiance build and split it in every 30 levels, like you have with the regular build. Also what auras do you recommend to have first when leveling? Like Anger. Wraith or Arctic Armor?

Thank you in advance.

Its literally the same thing as the IR build. The same exact pathing, i didn't want to be redundant and repost the same thing. The difference starts when u you finish the aura nodes and you grab other defensive nodes on the top side of the tree. There is no particular order u have to pick the nodes in. I think I used hatred/clarity in the beginning.

if you are not running grace where are you getting your armor from. and are you using hybrid evasion/es armor/es or pure es atm?

With the cloak build I have 500 armor. So that basically means I have nothing in regards to physical damage reduction.

To be honest I was fairly surprised at the amount of damage I was able to tank purely by using just AA and MoM.

I tested this by destroying all my minions and just throwing myself at packs in a level 73 map. The game changer was probably AA. I tried tanking packs with and without it and AA makes a gigantic difference. Its safe to say that AA is incredibly OP.

1.24 multiplier for self-buffs applies to AA so at a level 20 gem I get 260 flat physical reduction. At level 26 you get a crazy 396~ flat damage reduction.

The original IR build with the cloak of defiance will probably result in the tankiest build however. Instead of the 3 points into MoM passive node drop those into Inner force.

Am currently using ar/es hybrid gear. Although pure es will work just as well in the Cloak build.

The true test would be the highest level of maps. But with my terribad RNG I won't be able to get there on my standard character(stuck in that 72-76 range) am working on getting my ambush summoner leveled and hoping cartographer boxes will help me gain access to higher content.

Thank you for the answer Matt. What do you think is the most important stat to look for on Cloak of Defiance? Is it

1) % increased Evasion and Energy Shield
2) to maximum Mana
3) % increased Mana Regeneration Rate

Or it doesn't matter and you can safely buy the cheapest one?

Ty.

I've just tried 3x6l evangelists(remote+trap+conc+iaoe+cast) and flame sentinels(remote+trap+lmp+conc+cast), and you know... 2nd guys won! Their clearing speed was not a lot, but faster. Btw, zombies also were 6l with msplash.

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Mikhail1 wrote:

Thank you for the answer Matt. What do you think is the most important stat to look for on Cloak of Defiance? Is it

1) % increased Evasion and Energy Shield
2) to maximum Mana
3) % increased Mana Regeneration Rate

Or it doesn't matter and you can safely buy the cheapest one?

Ty.

+mana and mana regen are the most important, but it depends on your mana regen. If it's 350+ you may not to look at any stats at all, just take the cheapest. I run without grace or determ, only aa20, and it's quite ok with 1600 life. I don't really need more with my 450+ mana regen.
I'll try to post some videos here with evangelists and flame sentinels to compare them.

Hello fellow summoners, I would like to ask something relating to the snapshotting with the 2x chest armors, one being Tabula Rasa.

Would it actually be MORE optimal to have my main 6 socket armor linked as follows :

2L at the top and 4L at the bottom

INSTEAD OF a 5L ?

This would mean the since the 2L at the top would correspond to the 6L Tabula since it is the 'first' link configuration, and so the Raise Zombie and Raise Spectre gems go in there and would work correctly since they are linked...


THEN after snap shotting with Tabula Rasa + supports - I switch to the main armor, put RZ and RS in slots 1 and 2, and then have a whole extra 4 link at the bottom of the new armor - as the second link configuration, and in here I can put a whole 4 link setup such as auras or curses or whatever?

mattc3303 in your original post you have a 5 link and put lightning warp in your main armor configuration after snap shotting - and then have that extra gem slot left over just for enfeeble. So would my proposal work, if I wanted another 4 link instead?

yes that is clearly optimal well not optimal. optimal is vaal orbing your real chest and getting 6 white linked sockets. but its the best value. to get 2 blue top and 4 linked on bottom is pretty good though and is what most summoners should be aiming for as anything more is more expensive.

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alfapf wrote:

I'll try to post some videos here with evangelists and flame sentinels to compare them.

So, here are the vids:
Sentinels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnkahG_WbPY
Evangelists: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f64GRa-mW6o

I really prefer sentinels, but dominus\crematorium boss is not viable with them(haven't even tried with my hp pool yet)

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Daegon wrote:

mattc3303 in your original post you have a 5 link and put lightning warp in your main armor configuration after snap shotting - and then have that extra gem slot left over just for enfeeble. So would my proposal work, if I wanted another 4 link instead?

It would be optimal in your case, however I already have the amount of sockets I needed. I won't bother changing the 5L to a 4L and decrease its resale value.

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I really prefer sentinels, but dominus\crematorium boss is not viable with them(haven't even tried with my hp pool yet)

Sentinels certainly do more damage but I still prefer evangelist just because they seem to never die and the proximity shield is just too good. Not to mention their abilities pretty much bypasses walls. My only complaint is that they are too damn loud lol.

Taking resist/physical resist into consideration I like to refer to this wiki post:
"Supposedly the most armour monsters have in the game is about 930."

"So damage from attacks is reduced by up to 1 per 12 points of Armour, which means that the supposed monster Armour cap of 930 blocks up to 77.5 damage per attack."

against fire resistant targets you won't be doing as much damage. However mobs in this game has really low armor values making evangelist pretty much deal high consistent dmg to all targets.

About AA and cloak of defiance i was using darkscorn and 75% chaos res to a great success at the point i could uses
Split arrow + chain +added lighting + culling strike + iir
Wity bloodrage in order to tank the bleeding.

The good thing is it allow to convert 25% off physical dmg taken (after AA and armor red) and to mitigate it due to max chaos res.

This combo was better than shav for my low life summoner due to no passives point in damages and it prevented 25% of phys dmg tto even it my shields.


But still th3 only chaos dmg i had to fear were chaos or poisonus field ;)