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

More updates to the build.
I will try to flesh out my explanation section a bit more as I gain more experience while tweaking my build.

Check out my character progression.
https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/mattc3303/characters

Again, if you have any questions regarding summoner or the game in general u can post in this thread and I will answer as soon as I get the chance. I been playing summoner for the last 2 yrs and have seen all the changes and progression and played pretty much any variation of the summoner builds.

I would say this thread has been the hub of summoner theorycrafting for the longest time =). I welcome everyone's unique and interesting ideas.

If you want to watch a streamer who knows his summoner shit. Follow AngryAA. I pop into his twitch chat from time to time ;). I am 'zhoukon' on Twitch. I can stream if you guys are interested. No webcam thou. And it might be boring as shit as am not rolling hardcore this league. But I will try and answer every question.

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mattc3303 wrote:

Rough skill linkage:
staff - SRS links
chest - revenant links
helm - zombie/animate guardian
glove - Inc dura - flesh - vaal haste - curse
boot - convo - haste - discipline - phase run

I'd swap Curse and Phase Run, so the movement speed lasts as long as the cooldown.

What do you think of my setup to freeze literally whole screen (and depending on the layout, screens away)?


Projectile Weakness grants over 100% chance to pierce. I run zombies on my 5L Dying Breath (hopefully 6L soon). (Not sure how optimal this is compared to a +gemlvl helmet, though)

@b0moodc

Shit this is super interesting. Its basically a blanket of crazy slows. Good job sir.

I would even goes as far as stacking another Dying breath on your animate(if you're not doing this already) I think your setup does 100% atk, cast, move stops on normal mobs and you basically trivialize any boss in the game I believe.

I would actually 6L revenants and 4L zombies.

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mattc3303 wrote:
Rough skill linkage:
staff - SRS links
chest - revenant links
helm - zombie/animate guardian
glove - Inc dura - flesh - vaal haste - curse
boot - convo - haste - discipline - phase run

I'd swap Curse and Phase Run, so the movement speed lasts as long as the cooldown.

Very true. Thanks.

There are so many ideas I want to try but so little time =).

Edit1 @b0moodc:

No wait. 100% pierce chance is really bad with revenants. Chain is actually a huge increase to their clear speed. If you pierce 100% they can't chain anymore.

I think you should think of another spectre to use with that kind of setup. Flame sentinels maybe. Knitted horrors... actually u won't be able to take advantage of movement bleeds if mobs literally can't even move. Maybe even tentacle miscreations.

Yes, I stop everything from moving or attacking except for act and map bosses, obviously. For those, I can replace GMP with Empower most of the time to get a very slight boost to the slow, barely noticeable but it might save my butt one day... :)

Thanks for your spectre suggestions, I'll look into them.

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b0moodc wrote:

Yes, I stop everything from moving or attacking except for act and map bosses, obviously. For those, I can replace GMP with Empower most of the time to get a very slight boost to the slow, barely noticeable but it might save my butt one day... :)

Thanks for your spectre suggestions, I'll look into them.

Also this: http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Hypothermia

u might as well slap that on your spectre as well for the free more dmg

flame sentinel + echo + hypothermia + minion damage + fire pen + slower proj

tentacles + phy proj atk + hypothermia + minion damage + lmp/gmp + slower proj

dat. more dmg stacking will be op.

Matt, have you thought much about bow summoners? I got to thinking you could stack a CRAZY amount of "more" damage modifiers on zombies.

Ideal weapon would be a Tora's bow using iceshot (provides bleeding + chilled ground).

Zombie Links

Zombie > bloodlust > hypothermia > minion damage > melee physical + X gem (multi-strike, added fire, melee splash, etc).

That's a whopping 4 MORE modifier damage gems linked to zombies.

Grand Total of "more" damage: 59 + 39 + 49 + 49 = 196% "more" damage.

You can even add a COH setup to the bow to further maximize the damage. Something like Ice shot > GMP > Pierce > CoH > Curse1 > Curse2.

Been an idea I've been wanting to try for a bit.

Edit: This can even be worked into your slow build, using one of the curse slots for temp chains, since Ice Shot should provide plenty of ground ice with a good amount of pierce.

I just found a really interesting website with datamined stats on monsters! Now we can see exactly why Revenants are the best!

I made a new thread with this info.

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Stygian Revenant
MonsterProjectileSpell -- Deals 2439-5691 Lightning Damage
MonsterProjectileSpell -- Deals 1626-3794 Lightning Damage
140% Damage
182% Life
75% Lightning Resist (Merciless)
0% All other resists


Flame Sentinel
Fireball -- Deals 471-706 Fire Damage -- 2 additional Projectiles
Fireball -- Deals 578-867 Fire Damage
Fireball -- Deals 538-807 Fire Damage -- Adds an additional Projectile
120% Damage
180% Life
75% Cold Resist (Merciless)
0% All other resists


Undying Evangelist
ProximityShield -- Base duration is 8 seconds
DelayedBlast -- Deals 824-1237 Physical Damage
DelayedBlast -- Deals 495-742 Physical Damage
120% Damage
120% Life
37% Fire, Cold, and Lightning Resist (Merciless)
0% Chaos resist


Knitted Horror
MonsterProjectileWeapon -- 200% increased Projectile Speed -- Bleeding targets take 10% of the Physical Damage Dealt per second, and an additional 50% while moving
98% Damage
225% Life
75% Lightning Resist (Merciless)
0% All other resists


Pocked Lanternbearer
MinerThrowFire -- Deals 1212-1819 Fire Damage -- Deals 1347.05 Base Fire Damage per second (4 seconds)
MinerThrowFire -- Deals 203-304 Fire Damage -- Deals 450.13 Base Fire Damage per second (4 seconds)
121% Damage
121% Life
40% Lightning Resist (Merciless)
0% All other resists

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Moose65 wrote:

That's a whopping 4 MORE modifier damage gems linked to zombies.

Grand Total of "more" damage: 59 + 39 + 49 + 49 = 196% "more" damage.

That's not how you put MORE modifiers together. It would be:

1.59 * 1.39 * 1.49 * 1.49 = 4.90

490%, not 196%

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Hercanic wrote:

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Moose65 wrote:

That's a whopping 4 MORE modifier damage gems linked to zombies.

Grand Total of "more" damage: 59 + 39 + 49 + 49 = 196% "more" damage.

That's not how you put MORE modifiers together. It would be:

1.59 * 1.39 * 1.49 * 1.49 = 4.90

490%, not 196%

Been awhile since I did minion damage math, my apologies.

Either way, that should stack up to be some pretty impressive zombie damage, no?