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

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xhellhawkx wrote:

I know our % minion dmg nodes do not effect BM's damage, but does quality fire pen gem effect BM's damage?

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dessloc wrote:

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xhellhawkx wrote:

I know our % minion dmg nodes do not effect BM's damage, but does quality fire pen gem effect BM's damage?

Nope, unrighteous fire is burning degen damage, degen does not hit so fire penetration does nothing for the BMs.

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grepman wrote:

dom blow is really fun to play around with, but there are few setbacks for summoner:

1. its a melee ability. as as summoner you usually deal no significant melee damage even if you stack strength nodes. so it requires a culling strike for you actually to get the kill before your minions slaughter the mob.

2. it also pretty much requires melee splash and increased duration, if you want to actually use it with any kind of point.
so thats a 4L already, not to mention, you want a 1.6+ attack speed weapon, ideally 1.8+ since usually summoners take zero nodes for attack speed.

3. you need accuracy or RT. since summoners have no accuracy, you have to go for RT to make it half effective. for my build, RT is not a problem, but it might be for many, including the build in this topic

4. biggest problem of them all- it requires you to run in a pack of mobs to cull. this makes it unplayable as a summoner in high level maps. the last thing you want to do with a summoner without significant leech+regen+armor is running into a pack of fire golems with crit and +% dmg as lightning on a 76/77 map

so yeah, its a cool way to bring variety in your playstyle, but I found it completely unusable in high level maps that have any kind of tough mods, where your play is much more defensive (at least solo)

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dessloc wrote:

Correct, neither work. You can find confirmation in various places, the first one I dug up is here (top post): http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/55272/page/4

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xhellhawkx wrote:

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dessloc wrote:

Correct, neither work. You can find confirmation in various places, the first one I dug up is here (top post): http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/55272/page/4

Well trying to figure out what a good 6th socket to contribute would be, does Concentrated Effect work? I know it would reduce the aoe range but seems like it should work? Or would it simply reduce the aoe range and not buff the damage?

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xhellhawkx wrote:

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dessloc wrote:

Correct, neither work. You can find confirmation in various places, the first one I dug up is here (top post): http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/55272/page/4

Well trying to figure out what a good 6th socket to contribute would be, does Concentrated Effect work? I know it would reduce the aoe range but seems like it should work? Or would it simply reduce the aoe range and not buff the damage?