Imho, impale is just too strong to pass by.
I also think SRS is better on a 3L than skellies in any circumstances.
Let me explain why impale is a thing:
A skellies with impale and multistrike will apply a lot of impale stacks that will be insta consumed by zombies for insane burst of damage. And it happens after every skellie hit...
I dropped Arakalli to 0HP in 2 seconds, I actually used a chronometer, lol
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
So you keep skele all the way to maps?
It's a lot of linked minions to keep and has gear pressure though.
So I was thinking of something like skeletons or SRS as main until 3 spectres and some lab so the spectres are tanky and don't die.
Maybe use delve spectre beacause they have 500% life. Cannibal Fire-Eater has nice damage but early level spectres have low life and it's too difficult to raise spectre in middle of boss fight.
btw, Kay, i dont think Infernal stacks, so once you get infernal skitterbots there is not point in other infernal minions?
No stack. So just use one infernal support.
So I did a fresh SSF run and I was able to have 4-4 links by act 7 (with +1 Helmet) and running Fire-Eaters still. Currently using Zoms, Holy flame totem (w/phantasms), skitters, skellies, Stone golem, and SRS.
It's all kind of a personal preference I feel between SRS and skellies because bosses melt regardless, and the skitterbots destroy everything else. I'm using combustion on the HFT, and have used it on both SRS and the skellies for the debuff. I'm kinda leaning towards skellies with Feeding frenzy for leveling, just because they are awesome little homing rockets =).
So I did a fresh SSF run and I was able to have 4-4 links by act 7 (with +1 Helmet) and running Fire-Eaters still. Currently using Zoms, Holy flame totem (w/phantasms), skitters, skellies, Stone golem, and SRS.
It's all kind of a personal preference I feel between SRS and skellies because bosses melt regardless, and the skitterbots destroy everything else. I'm using combustion on the HFT, and have used it on both SRS and the skellies for the debuff. I'm kinda leaning towards skellies with Feeding frenzy for leveling, just because they are awesome little homing rockets =).
I think Flame army until maps works great.
Thanks for feedback!
How did you feel about Act 1 - 4 with the guide? Did you change anything to make it easier for early levelling?
It seems like some people have trouble with Dominus and act 4 Piety killing all the spectres. Sometimes I can't judge because I played summoner for a long time.
I think flame army or flame focus spectres will be good for mapping too (use SG/CFE) and can transition to lightning (SD) or cold (RS/RK) depending on gear and personal preference. Lots of choices. ^^
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I was curious about slave driver vs redemption sentry with the basic starter build. I noticed in the PoB there were cluster jewels used but I was wondering if they are still a viable over slave drivers with very basic gear. I tried to go through PoB and make adjustments but I just don't know quite enough to do this as effectively as I would like to at this moment. I am looking to do this as a league starter to harvest and maybe going for my first 100 this season. Thanks much!
So I did a fresh SSF run and I was able to have 4-4 links by act 7 (with +1 Helmet) and running Fire-Eaters still. Currently using Zoms, Holy flame totem (w/phantasms), skitters, skellies, Stone golem, and SRS.
It's all kind of a personal preference I feel between SRS and skellies because bosses melt regardless, and the skitterbots destroy everything else. I'm using combustion on the HFT, and have used it on both SRS and the skellies for the debuff. I'm kinda leaning towards skellies with Feeding frenzy for leveling, just because they are awesome little homing rockets =).
I think Flame army until maps works great.
Thanks for feedback!
How did you feel about Act 1 - 4 with the guide? Did you change anything to make it easier for early levelling?
It seems like some people have trouble with Dominus and act 4 Piety killing all the spectres. Sometimes I can't judge because I played summoner for a long time.
I think flame army or flame focus spectres will be good for mapping too (use SG/CFE) and can transition to lightning (SD) or cold (RS/RK) depending on gear and personal preference. Lots of choices. ^^
The leveling guide is great!
The only suggestion I might make is substituting skeletons and hold off on
zombies until act 4 when you have all the minion life and defense passives.
After that just depends on the amount of links available. I just leveled zom's in the offhand.
Dominus I lost a few of the dead army, but very manageable.
Piety...ouch! Just have to stay alive and spam skellies and SRS while
zipping around her beam. Pretty sure I lost my spectre's on her, but
after that never lost them again.
I'm not sure if the HFT helped against later boss survival, but I kept it in my links along with Fire-Eaters currently in act 9 and haven't had any problems with minion deaths.
Any thoughts on getting an elder bone helm for min maxing the base build? you can get an ilvl 100 one from nooks crown cards and if you use bound dense and pristine fossils it blocks all the prefix mods except the minion and gem mods making it easy to get essentially a 7 link helm.
It's more like 6L because minion damage and conc effect are only elder damage mods. If it's minion life + dmg, then the damage is just 5L.
Minion damage + conc is good for aoe spectres only. So SD, and fireball spectres like SG. RS can't use it. Better for SG/RVA because SD with reduced aoe has very small hit area and makes mapping slower.
You can also use aetheric fossil to get +3% crit to socketed spell (gives minion +3% base crit).
7L needs horror essence for 30% ele damage. (more like 6.5L).
I guess for SD, minion life helps a lot, though!
For best RS helmet, you need shaper/elder for minion damage + hypo. It's not a bad option actually! Buy high life +1 str body armour (much cheaper than int). Then buy elder with minion damage + helmet with hypo and awakener orb.
Minmax RS/RK (also good for other spectres if you can apply chill for hypo).
1. i86 elder/shaper bone.
2. spam horror essence until hypo 20 + 3% spell crit + 30% ele (3x suffix)
3. craft suffix cannot be changed
4. exalt slam -> get minion damage 20
5. if you don't get minion damage, scour -> go to 3
if you get minion damage -> slam again -> get +3 minion gem
if you don't get +3 minion gem, scour -> go to 3
+3 minion gem
minion damage 20
hypo 20
+3% spell crit (gives to minion)
30% more ele damage
1 empty prefix
you're probably going to have a hard time making a helmet like this with horror essences
Hi kay, I'm just a newbie playing poe... I'm here to to just say thank you! I'm really enjoying your build... I'm playing HC/SSF and it's working pretty well with the base build...
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