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

OH WOW,

so i tweaked my lvl 85 summoner to follow my current hp layout and wow am astounded at how much armor can affect your clear speed. IR is amazing.

adding grace to my aura pool alone and am at around 5k armor. All my gear is armor/es and am going to make my switch to eva/es for even more armor.

am using arc with life leach, ele pro, and fast cast

am able to run with my minions instead of being in the back which really improves the ai

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mattc3303 wrote:

OH WOW,

so i tweaked my lvl 85 summoner to follow my current hp layout and wow am astounded at how much armor can affect your clear speed. IR is amazing.

adding grace to my aura pool alone and am at around 5k armor. All my gear is armor/es and am going to make my switch to eva/es for even more armor.

am using arc with life leach, ele pro, and fast cast

am able to run with my minions instead of being in the back which really improves the ai

If getting too easy you should add a couple of andvarius to boost your IIR and add some fun (-40% all resist) :)

@mattc3303:

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mattc3303 wrote:

OH WOW,

so i tweaked my lvl 85 summoner to follow my current hp layout and wow am astounded at how much armor can affect your clear speed. IR is amazing.

adding grace to my aura pool alone and am at around 5k armor. All my gear is armor/es and am going to make my switch to eva/es for even more armor.

am using arc with life leach, ele pro, and fast cast

am able to run with my minions instead of being in the back which really improves the ai

Hehe, what did I tell ya? =o)

I fiddled around with my tree again at level 81 and now have 14,000 armor and 4,200 HP. Tanky summoner FTW! In three levels I can get either ~2,000 more armor or ~500 more HP.

wait how the hell do u have 4200 hp? I had that amount pre-patch but post patch am down to 3400 hp. Every piece of my gear has at least +70hp. Can you show me your gear?

@mattc3303:
You must have some nice gear! Mine is fairly average, totaling a mere +207hp. I made up for this by making a few gem sacrifices so I could finally use my Kaom's Heart (found it in lv.67 Catacombs from the chest-area Necromancer). With that and a shield, I cannot have a 6L Spectre. I also had to drop Clarity, Temporal Chains, Arctic Armor, and Faster Casting on my skeletotem. So I am only dual curse now, but am not noticing a significant difference. Bosses only take half the effect of curses now, and regular mobs die too quickly, so Temp Chains ultimately doesn't contribute as much damage. With as tanky as I've become, the defensive benefits of Temp Chains are also less important. This change gave me my ring slot back, allowing me to solve my resistance deficit. I am now once again resist-capped!

All of my other gear is ES, so with 1,600 Eva shield and ~600 armor from Kaom's Heart, I am able to get up to 14k armor. The damage mitigation is fantastic!

Oh, something I didn't know: Kaom's Heart has 0 movement penalty. I went from 4% to 12%, and let me tell ya it was very noticeable! It has such a great feeling that I am now seriously considering that +8% movespeed node by IR. Because I am so tanky, I'm now freely running through mob packs, so the added movespeed would help there, especially considering we're limited in our boot choice as 'Spectre-mancers.' Unlike nearly all other classes, we don't have to stop moving to attack, so movespeed gets used much more on us.

Matt, what songs did you use in your map videos? I like your music.

Herc, can you record a video? I'm curious how your summoner plays.

@perfectmemento:

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perfectmemento wrote:

Herc, can you record a video? I'm curious how your summoner plays.

I would love to, but am unsure what capture software would be gentlest on my overheating laptop.


@cronik:

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cronik wrote:

i started just fine as summoner on anarchy, myself. just use frost pulse, firestorm, or ice nova and blast away with minion support. here's a starter path that results in a little extra firepower for your casting while gunning straight for MI.

Your path takes 13 points to reach MI. Going this route will take 15 points and require zero restructuring later.

Ice Nova is superior for farming white packs in early levels to pretty much anything else you could get. Take Ice Spear for rares and bosses -- zombies will keep them at crit range.

Freezing Pulse has an annoying damage dropoff at range, so you have to get just as close as Ice Nova, but cover far less ground. Fireball has a pathetic AOE. Firestorm is decent and has range, but it's unreliable due to its random spread.

I got lucky in Anarchy and transmuted a white wand with +1 Cold Gems. =o) The chill effect combined with stuns means my zombies and I hardly take any damage, and mobs usually target minions first so I take even less damage.

i'm a bigger fan of going left at first since you have more options to get minions going right away and you're building spellpower for ice nova while you do it. it's worth the ~7 respec to me, but i guess that's just me. your way is probably the safer way to go if you don't have a real definite plan in mind, i'd agree, but you'll still probably respec a few points even on your path.

and yea i did ice nova leveling. it went pretty smooth the path i took, and i gotta tell ya, since it's the first 30 or so that's rugged, it's a hell of a lot nicer going my way since you can immediately pick up a bunch of minion nodes that way and get rolling quicker.

Thanks to this guide, I never thought of IR on summoner before.

Just sharing some experience, lv79 summoner in 69 maps running EB/2Curse (I took both es and health nodes cuz I know refund is coming, so my hp wasn't high) and kept the full passive refund till I get carcass jack and ephemeral edge yesterday.

Before the refund, I had 1.5k hp and unlimited mana (aura: discipline, anger, wrath, purity, clarity, grace, vitality), iir/iiq was like 50/200 and all resis were ~65 with purity. Any creep could 3 hit me with no problem.

After going CI/IR/EE/2Curse, I had 8k armor and 5k es with auras: discipline, purity, grace, clarity.
But my mana regen was like 20/s (my rings and amulet went strength, for gem requirements).
A curse: ~65, a skele totem: ~140, a zombie: ~150, arc? i never had mana for that.
Mana potion is bad with auras on, because you get full mana (like 200) so soon that the pot effect stops before you can spend the mana.
Yes with CI/IR I was unbeatable and can tank tens of creeps. But I hate being mana hunger and frozen a lot.

So I decided spending all my regrets for EB/IR/EE/2Curse, having 2k hp and ~4k armor, I'm much less tanky than CI/IR, but is enough to keep me alive.
I can now run more auras, which helps in damage and survivability.
I can now spam arc for shock and ee, skele totems in case they got destroyed quickly, curses to cover big group of mobs, and zombies if they ever died. (arctic armour would be a plus)

*Trees and more accurate stat would be provided after work :D

i have a few questions about gear.

atm i have 104 strength, and thats only i have grab 3x 30str nodes. i can lvl up all my red gems now (and i have atziris foible). how you store that many strength on your gear?

also how much mana you have? i have 1036 mana atm and i run determination/grace/discipline/purity atm. cant run clrarity to that, but thats not so important cause i have 45 manaregn.

link gear pls how you manage your str/mana please. i need some inspiration,