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Hey guys,
I just had a practice run. I followed your leveling instructions, but instead of zombies I've used a pure SRS-setup mit Cannibal Fire-Eaters. Merc Lab, all skill quests and A10 Kitava were finished after 6 hours on lvl 63. Insane! I will be faster next time, because I think that focusing on SRS was a mistake. I will try to follow your instructions now completely. Another mistake: I've used Armageddon Brand all the time with CFE...completely stupid. But anyway: 6hours for reaching maps. :D

So, I've played for exactly 24 hours. Got into red maps , spawned the first sirus - rip ofc. Progress was damn smooth. 6k life, 1k ES, changed to redemption sentrys as fast as possible, so first of all my focus was an spawning redeemer.

Now I've migrated all and tried out some stuff. I managed to get a 5l +1 spectre chest and I vaaled my 20/0 spectre gem, which turned out to be a lucky 21/0. Elder guardians were not a problem, even Shaper was a walk in the park.

In my 24h run I've found a few blighted maps, T9 was the highest. It was no problem at all. Now after the migration I tried T13-T16 and it was really hard. One page before you've said, that we should try pierce and feeding frenzy. I've done that. I think, that more meat shield will be a good Idea.

What do you think about my thoughts:

Changing Dash - Second Wind - Convocation - Frost Bomb to ----> Flame Dash - Curse on Hit - Brand - Projectile Weakness. This way we have a movement skill, the pierce will come from our brand, which could be casted to three positions. Enough pierce I think.


AG - Elemental Army - Minion Life - Feeding Frenzy ---> AG - Raise Zombie - Minion Life - Feeding Frenzy

Holy Flame Totem in the shield or Spell Cascade in the Weapon could be changed to Vaal summon skeletons for more minions on the board. I don't even know, why we are using spell cascade. Could you explain?

Cheers

edit: Reading will help a lot. Now I know, why we are using spell cascade. So, HFT to Vaal Skeletons would be the only way I think. We don't need HFT in blighted Maps anyway

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kayella wrote:

Don't forget it's 16% with Glancing Blows. So Bulwark + 5% spell block craft + Glancing Blows = 75/75. I'm planning new Base Build now, so I think I will recommend this. If you are lucky or play trade, then it's pretty easy to upgrade and change things :)

Unfortunately we are going back to old school crafting. But for shield, the most important mod is life recovery. Just spam pristine fossil until you get it. Maybe get lucky with good life roll too. Then craft spell block.

Well, i would argue that +max all res becomes more important with divine flesh, thats so much reduced dmg but also very hard to get all those mods on a shield that i decided spell block is the least important mod.

Getting a shield better than what i used in Harvest is incredibly expensive, i havent finished crafting and getting a slot for spell block.
And that was with Harvest crafting, dont even want to know how expensive it is going to get with good other rolls.

And i think using an Awakener Orb to craft a shield like this with %life recovered and +all max res is going to be cheaper than trying to hit it with pristine fossils or at least more deterministic.

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ElCatti wrote:

And that was with Harvest crafting, dont even want to know how expensive it is going to get with good other rolls

It's a very nice shield!

I think you said it right. It will be very difficult to make a nice shield like that without harvest crafting. I don't even know how to do it without harvest because life recovery is suffix and all max res is prefix with no tag.

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ententrainor wrote:

Hey guys,
I just had a practice run. I followed your leveling instructions, but instead of zombies I've used a pure SRS-setup mit Cannibal Fire-Eaters.

Spoiler

Merc Lab, all skill quests and A10 Kitava were finished after 6 hours on lvl 63. Insane! I will be faster next time, because I think that focusing on SRS was a mistake. I will try to follow your instructions now completely. Another mistake: I've used Armageddon Brand all the time with CFE...completely stupid. But anyway: 6hours for reaching maps. :D

So, I've played for exactly 24 hours. Got into red maps , spawned the first sirus - rip ofc. Progress was damn smooth. 6k life, 1k ES, changed to redemption sentrys as fast as possible, so first of all my focus was an spawning redeemer.

Now I've migrated all and tried out some stuff. I managed to get a 5l +1 spectre chest and I vaaled my 20/0 spectre gem, which turned out to be a lucky 21/0. Elder guardians were not a problem, even Shaper was a walk in the park.

In my 24h run I've found a few blighted maps, T9 was the highest. It was no problem at all. Now after the migration I tried T13-T16 and it was really hard. One page before you've said, that we should try pierce and feeding frenzy. I've done that. I think, that more meat shield will be a good Idea.

What do you think about my thoughts:

Changing Dash - Second Wind - Convocation - Frost Bomb to ----> Flame Dash - Curse on Hit - Brand - Projectile Weakness. This way we have a movement skill, the pierce will come from our brand, which could be casted to three positions. Enough pierce I think.


AG - Elemental Army - Minion Life - Feeding Frenzy ---> AG - Raise Zombie - Minion Life - Feeding Frenzy

Holy Flame Totem in the shield or Spell Cascade in the Weapon could be changed to Vaal summon skeletons for more minions on the board. I don't even know, why we are using spell cascade. Could you explain?

Cheers

edit: Reading will help a lot. Now I know, why we are using spell cascade. So, HFT to Vaal Skeletons would be the only way I think. We don't need HFT in blighted Maps anyway

Oh. I'm changing the levelling guide actually. I'm testing new gem combinations and trying to find a smoother play through. My newbie friend will test it this week (her first league was Harvest!).

Mostly some people have trouble with early spectres dying in Dominus fight or Piety Act 4, so I'm trying a different idea to make it super easy even for newbies.

I will also have a new video guide for Act 1 - 5! It looks like this:



I have a plan to change Base Build and Pure Spectres as well, but it really depends on balance manifesto and patch notes. So not sure what I will do yet. The main idea is to make more tanky and then give people ideas for more DPS. This league was DPS focus but many people complained about dying too much :(

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Crapgeezer wrote:

Kay, great guide, best I've seen yet. Trying out the leveling process right now. It's a breeze and so much fun! Just switched to SD Spectre and I "whip it, whip it good".

I will def use your SSF guide for my league starter in Heist. Thanks so much <3

PS, your Fist of the animated guardian video is HILARIOUS! XD

Thank you! I laughed a lot when I made it too :D

Please check youtube for the new levelling guide! My plan is to finish Act 1 - 5 around the weekend...

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grootoo wrote:

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kayella wrote:

If you want to go faster, you need speed boots: 35% ms + onslaught + 10% ms enchant. Kind of like this:

I like phase run instead of withering step because withering has 'blink' tag so it shares cooldown with flamedash/dash. You can link phase run + inc duration + second wind.

How do you get the spectre damage and onslaught into the implicit?

Legacy boots :)

Put 3 boots into Synthesiser. Total movement speed must be 100%+ So use 35% + 35% + 30%. Each boots must have +1 raise spectre. Each attempt cost 15ex in 3.6 Synthesis league. Then pray for good implicit!

It also has +1 raise spectre, but you can only get it on elder base now. So I think these are the only boots in the game.

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kayella wrote:

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grootoo wrote:

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kayella wrote:

If you want to go faster, you need speed boots: 35% ms + onslaught + 10% ms enchant. Kind of like this:

I like phase run instead of withering step because withering has 'blink' tag so it shares cooldown with flamedash/dash. You can link phase run + inc duration + second wind.

How do you get the spectre damage and onslaught into the implicit?

Legacy boots :)

Put 3 boots into Synthesiser. Total movement speed must be 100%+ So use 35% + 35% + 30%. Each boots must have +1 raise spectre. Each attempt cost 15ex in 3.6 Synthesis league. Then pray for good implicit!

It also has +1 raise spectre, but you can only get it on elder base now. So I think these are the only boots in the game.

So the spectre damage was a synthesis league implicit that is no longer available?

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grootoo wrote:

So the spectre damage was a synthesis league implicit that is no longer available?

You can still get it with Harvest crafting.

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Harvest/bM6EwRcL

Mirror + 20ex.

I think for self craft you need:
int or hybrid int base boots
correct i level
synthesis craft (T4 seed)
pray.

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kayella wrote:

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grootoo wrote:

So the spectre damage was a synthesis league implicit that is no longer available?

You can still get it with Harvest crafting.

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Harvest/bM6EwRcL

Mirror + 20ex.

I think for self craft you need:
int or hybrid int base boots
correct i level
synthesis craft (T4 seed)
pray.

Oh I see, but you cannot have + 1 to spectres because that requires influence now

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grootoo wrote:

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kayella wrote:

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grootoo wrote:

So the spectre damage was a synthesis league implicit that is no longer available?

You can still get it with Harvest crafting.

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Harvest/bM6EwRcL

Mirror + 20ex.

I think for self craft you need:
int or hybrid int base boots
correct i level
synthesis craft (T4 seed)
pray.

Oh I see, but you cannot have + 1 to spectres because that requires influence now

That's right. But I people who can pay 1 mirror for the boots in league (or even the self crafting is expensive~) can make +2 wand easily, so it's no problem for them :)

I don't spend much currency in league so I just use cheap +1 boots and temple wand without +1. :)