GhazzyTV - Beginner's Build: Lich Queen Skeleton Summoner [AWAKENER FARMABLE]

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Ghazzy wrote:

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SammySavage wrote:

I have a question looking at your gear and stuff and certain big nodes you say dont get unless i have this much Life or ES well, how do i use purity of elements, clarity, disciple, hatred when it litteraly reserves everything? and i cant cast stuff.

With the combination of those keystones you will move your Energy Shield to cover your mana pool which is also being used as your source of mana for your spells. Which means, that if you reserve all your mana you'll still be able to cast spells via the cost of your Energy Shield instead!

Before getting all keystones you'll have to skip 1 aura :)

im really interested in this build im at lvl 56ish right now, following your tree and guide completely i only have 200 Energy shield sadly and only 2.5k health which global has told me is really low, is there any other specific items you recommend? or any other tips or advices, i managed to get myself an escape along with grips of council and army of bones so i have the required uniques, is the only way to get those keystones is after quote "have atleast 4000 health and 1800 ES without reserved" isnt having alot of ES like pricey? also i noticed commander of darkness doesnt proc if i have generosity on hatred. Any tips on certain items to grab would be really nice thank you, for this amazing build

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SammySavage wrote:

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Ghazzy wrote:

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SammySavage wrote:

I have a question looking at your gear and stuff and certain big nodes you say dont get unless i have this much Life or ES well, how do i use purity of elements, clarity, disciple, hatred when it litteraly reserves everything? and i cant cast stuff.

With the combination of those keystones you will move your Energy Shield to cover your mana pool which is also being used as your source of mana for your spells. Which means, that if you reserve all your mana you'll still be able to cast spells via the cost of your Energy Shield instead!

Before getting all keystones you'll have to skip 1 aura :)

im really interested in this build im at lvl 56ish right now, following your tree and guide completely i only have 200 Energy shield sadly and only 2.5k health which global has told me is really low, is there any other specific items you recommend? or any other tips or advices, i managed to get myself an escape along with grips of council and army of bones so i have the required uniques, is the only way to get those keystones is after quote "have atleast 4000 health and 1800 ES without reserved" isnt having alot of ES like pricey? also i noticed commander of darkness doesnt proc if i have generosity on hatred. Any tips on certain items to grab would be really nice thank you, for this amazing build

Commander of Darkness is connected to each aura activated so the Generosity Hatred still works just not for you :) It is amplified to your allies/minions instead.

Getting "okey" ES gear is super super cheap as you'll still want to see a high life roll as well as Strength wherever possible to further increase your life gain. If you feel that you have "too low" HP before you can transition into the Keystones and/or lvl 69-70 where you are able to equip all gear pieces in the game that you might want for the build (rare pieces that is). I would suggest speccing in to a bit more life nodes prior to the end-game gearing of the character.

I was looking at a zombie calculator ( i think is valid also for skeleton) and it seems that poison gem gives higher dps increase than empower lvl3 . Did you test with poison ?

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arisgigi wrote:

I was looking at a zombie calculator ( i think is valid also for skeleton) and it seems that poison gem gives higher dps increase than empower lvl3 . Did you test with poison ?

Poison is a strong way of playing though it requires them to all hit the same target and stacking the poison for it to be stronger than Empower lvl 3. Empower gives you direct dmg from each zombie compared to Poison which needs to get the dot in there before scaling above. My personal approach is still Empower but for single target boss fights I would absolutely use Poison for obvious reasons. :)

I now have 4k health and 2k Energy shield is it time to get the nodes? or is there a higher energy shield or mana pool that i should be getting, i also noticed you only had a max of 960 something mana in the video but how are you using hatred,discipline,purity of elements,clarity im able to use 3 of those but not all 4. so i tried getting eldritch battery node to see if that was the problem but i still couldnt use discipline.(aka the 4th aura)

EDIT:i just looked at your finish skilltree and see that you took influence and leadership, which has reduced mana reserved which means the 3 nodes should not be taken until level 80ish? till you have those other nodes? because if i dont have those nodes i dont think i can use hatred,clarity,purity,discipline together at best i can only have 3 auras not all 4. because on the 75 point tree you didnt take any of those reduce mana reserve nodes so im horribly confused trying to wonder how those auras are being used.

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SammySavage wrote:

I now have 4k health and 2k Energy shield is it time to get the nodes? or is there a higher energy shield or mana pool that i should be getting, i also noticed you only had a max of 960 something mana in the video but how are you using hatred,discipline,purity of elements,clarity im able to use 3 of those but not all 4. so i tried getting eldritch battery node to see if that was the problem but i still couldnt use discipline.(aka the 4th aura)

EDIT:i just looked at your finish skilltree and see that you took influence and leadership, which has reduced mana reserved which means the 3 nodes should not be taken until level 80ish? till you have those other nodes? because if i dont have those nodes i dont think i can use hatred,clarity,purity,discipline together at best i can only have 3 auras not all 4. because on the 75 point tree you didnt take any of those reduce mana reserve nodes so im horribly confused trying to wonder how those auras are being used.

Mana doesn't matter as we are reserving it all which is % based. ES must be around 50% of your actual life or the MoM effeciency isn't being used to it's full potential. To calculate your actual effective HP with all the nodes and 50%+ ES of your life you take your

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Ghazzy wrote:

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SammySavage wrote:

I now have 4k health and 2k Energy shield is it time to get the nodes? or is there a higher energy shield or mana pool that i should be getting, i also noticed you only had a max of 960 something mana in the video but how are you using hatred,discipline,purity of elements,clarity im able to use 3 of those but not all 4. so i tried getting eldritch battery node to see if that was the problem but i still couldnt use discipline.(aka the 4th aura)

EDIT:i just looked at your finish skilltree and see that you took influence and leadership, which has reduced mana reserved which means the 3 nodes should not be taken until level 80ish? till you have those other nodes? because if i dont have those nodes i dont think i can use hatred,clarity,purity,discipline together at best i can only have 3 auras not all 4. because on the 75 point tree you didnt take any of those reduce mana reserve nodes so im horribly confused trying to wonder how those auras are being used.

Mana doesn't matter as we are reserving it all which is % based. ES must be around 50% of your actual life or the MoM effeciency isn't being used to it's full potential. To calculate your actual effective HP with all the nodes and 50%+ ES of your life you take your

You stopped your reply halfway btw :P but if 2k ES is not enough whats the amount needed if i have 4k health? also at the 75 skill point tree i should be able to use all 4 auras right? or no. build is working fine its just that im at the 75 point mark and cant use all 4 auras and im trying to look at the guide multiple times to figure out what im doing wrong i even tested using all 3 keystones and it still wouldnt let me use the 4th aura.

@SammySavage:

You're right, must have fucked something up there, my bad!
The differences are the aura reservation nodes not being taken in the 75 skill point mark. You will be able to run all auras when you have all aura reservation nodes taken from the tree. You can now chose to either grab them sooner or simply unactivate 1 aura till you can reserve them all as you grab more aura reservation nodes.


You should strive to have 50%'ish ES of your actual life pool as with basic algebra you can calculate that the 30% Mind over Matter keystone provides you with 42.3% actual mitigation.

3/7 = 0.4287 = 42.3% (I usually go for 50% as you'll be spending ES for your spells as well)

You calculate your actual life pool like this (assuming you have at least 42.3% of your life as ES):
Life * 1.423 = actual effective Life
Example:
5000 HP * 1.423 = 7115 HP (assuming that the energy shield pool is AT LEAST at 2115 with the example given)

There is a MoM calculate in the guide thread as well that you can easily use to calculate by adding the numbers in it.


Hope it helped!

Love this build! Got to 70 on my first attempt. One question -- why have you allocated 2 int nodes above the Mind over Matter keystone? (on the final build tree)

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ADFuel wrote:

Love this build! Got to 70 on my first attempt. One question -- why have you allocated 2 int nodes above the Mind over Matter keystone? (on the final build tree)

Awesome!
Thank you for pointing it out, I sorted it now.
It was an issue following the latest changes to the skilltree, must have slipped through the cracks when I was updating all my build guides.