[3.9] Pure Phys Skeletons & Friends Necromancer — Beginner/SSF/Budget Build

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Hm, got some hunter amu with +1 to all int skill gems, but seems like PoB doesnt count damage boost for skellies.. anyone else with this issue?

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Zan2415 wrote:

Hello there, and thanks for the build. First time playing a pet build and it's rocking way better than I anticipated.

I'm taking it slow right now, I want to enjoy the trip. I'm using 4L boots with +2 to socketed minions gems as my dps setup at the moment (Skel - Minion Damage - Impale - Splash), no luck with the fusings on my body armor.
Still kicking ass in t13 maps without much trouble though :)

Anyway, I was looking at the talents since I love tinkering theses, and I was wondering why no one was talking about "Grave Intentions".
I may be missing something but that wheel seems pretty good to me. Lots of resists for the pets, especially chaos, and basically a 10% more modifier on pets' life. I don't know about the Unholy Might proc, I didn't really pay attention to it for the time beeing but I guess it doesn't hurt to have it.

Also, I saw someone talking about using the Pain Attunement node for the doryani jewel instead of Resolute Technique and I imagine that Grave Intention would be even better in this setting since it would only require 3pts since you're already passing by.

Any thought on that ?

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Ceefyra wrote:

I cant kill Sirus, so my question is what should i change/improve
I have around 15exa to play with, appreciate all help.
Been playing for around 2 month so explain to me like im 5 :P

Thanks


Edit: Here is my PoB
https://pastebin.com/AXRfAkXr

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Shifty11 wrote:

Anyone using any other 3 link setup instead of Raise Spectre - Meat Shield - Blood Magic?

I honestly can't figure out how to keep my spectres and ready to try anything else with it.

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Dragomirov wrote:

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Hm, got some hunter amu with +1 to all int skill gems, but seems like PoB doesnt count damage boost for skellies.. anyone else with this issue?

Not getting that issue here.
To answer the other question about amulet: yes after a certain number of +1 skeletons it becomes less relevant since the hitbox of the boss limits the number of skellies that can attack anyway, so the +1 int skill on amulet is way more valuable than another +1 skelly.

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Zan2415 wrote:

Hello there, and thanks for the build. First time playing a pet build and it's rocking way better than I anticipated.

I'm taking it slow right now, I want to enjoy the trip. I'm using 4L boots with +2 to socketed minions gems as my dps setup at the moment (Skel - Minion Damage - Impale - Splash), no luck with the fusings on my body armor.
Still kicking ass in t13 maps without much trouble though :)

Anyway, I was looking at the talents since I love tinkering theses, and I was wondering why no one was talking about "Grave Intentions".
I may be missing something but that wheel seems pretty good to me. Lots of resists for the pets, especially chaos, and basically a 10% more modifier on pets' life. I don't know about the Unholy Might proc, I didn't really pay attention to it for the time beeing but I guess it doesn't hurt to have it.

Also, I saw someone talking about using the Pain Attunement node for the doryani jewel instead of Resolute Technique and I imagine that Grave Intention would be even better in this setting since it would only require 3pts since you're already passing by.

Any thought on that ?

First of all good luck with the fusings.
PoB doesn't take the damage from Unholy Might to minions into account, even with LocalIdentity's fork. I guess that's part of the answer why nobody looks at it. When they get the buff (which is pretty common in clearing), they have +13% raw dps or +9% total dps including impale in my setup (impale doesn't magnify non physical damage), which is great. If you have Brutality in your setup that's 0 dps though (no elem/chaos dmg). For those of us that gave up on Brutality and Flesh Offering in favour of a permanent Spirit Offering it's cool. My issue with it is that on many bosses you don't benefit from it as they don't have ads, or not enough. Given the 4s duration you would need a boss with near constant ad spam. Cool on metamorphs but on most other bosses no effect.
And for clearing I would argue we don't need that extra +9% dps, even if that's a pretty good figure. I mean as mentioned previously in my clearing setup I'm running my 6L sword with only 400k dps per skelly instead of the 1.5m dps Staff lol.
As for the defensive aspects of Grave Intentions and the 2 small nodes leading up to it... frankly not needed I think. Get more life on yourself lol. More life means more ES as well with Doryani.

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backtoback1337 wrote:

Thx for this guide. Also thx to boys in this thread for improve build with impale things :D
Faceroll all content. KEKW

My SIRUS, AWAKENER LEVEL 8 deathless kill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3iT_gh1OyE