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Hemanse wrote:

I might also just look into going back to the normal build with Zombies, they do add a nice meat barrier.

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Orbu wrote:

Sorry for the dumb question but for Spiders & Spectres, noticed that the PoB doesn't take Sovereignty so can't use two (50% mana reserved each) auras -- either Hatred+Haste for SO or Hatred+Zealotry for Snow Rhex, right?

Or am I missing something else in Kay's S&S PoB where there's some mana saved?

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TheHeadsmasher wrote:

Hi,
I have a character is SSF standard that is geared for Slave Driver (SD). How much better is the Syn Operative (SO) compare to SD?

If SO is only slightly better, it might not worth the switch.

Thanks

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egg911 wrote:

What jewels do you use for the base build? I should be using Slave Drivers as spectres, correct? Also would love any advice on my gear!

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kayella wrote:

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Orbu wrote:

Sorry for the dumb question but for Spiders & Spectres, noticed that the PoB doesn't take Sovereignty so can't use two (50% mana reserved each) auras -- either Hatred+Haste for SO or Hatred+Zealotry for Snow Rhex, right?

Or am I missing something else in Kay's S&S PoB where there's some mana saved?

I think the POB has Hatred + Haste + Enlighten 4. If it's too expensive. You can just take 3 passive points some somewhere and get Sovereignty instead.

*Enlighten 3 might not be enough mana reduction.

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barathustra wrote:

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TheWizz87 wrote:

Hello,

I'm trying to end my build ( lol ) but I'm a bit lost. Dont have much currency, got a lot of worthless..ex.
I want to kill boss faster or / and have more survavibility. I realy have problem with single DPS...

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What should I focus for? Jewel? Belt? Cluster?
And if I have to use cluster, what should I pick? Never used them, dont even know how to buy them

I'd try a different approach. While I love kay's builds, every one of them endgame variants are glass cannons tailored for melting bosses in 2 seconds and relying on player skill and boss knowledge not to get hit in case the spectres do not melt the bosses in 2 seconds.

But, real world scenarios for the vast majority of players is quite different, mostly for currency limitations or player knowledge. Kay is an advanced necro player. We often run rippy maps and will simply die by surprise dps spikes that you will not even know where came from, if we use this diadem and cluster jewels approach.

So the below suggestions will be mostly aimed at your request for more tankiness and damage. Tankiness for me, in this league especially, is way better than min maxing tooltip dps.

-You are not using animate guardian so I advise that to be your next top priority. You will not go too far without animate guardian so waste a little time learning about it, and setting it up.

- You dont need a 6link animate guardian to make him tanky.

- Wath this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5GQBhmirc4 and check the most expensive variant. It is something that if you cant afford right now, should be your next goal. Believe me, with the 90k life and regen of 18k life per second, the guardian is unkilable, Nothing ever touches it. You just put it in your helmet that may contain ONLY minion life of 18 or more, so pretty cheap. Check my gear in my profile for reference. I'm now at lvl 99 and I practically dont die unless to really crazy stuff.

- If you try to go for a helmet that is worth around 100ex which is damage based, pseudo 7link or 6link for spectres, it will be a freaking waste of cash, because first, minion damage is not too useful for S.O. and hypothermia also not super useful, because you will be casting frost bomb manually to destroy the boss cold res, and the guardian will be debuffing the boss with elemental weakness too.
Another bonus that these 100ex helmets do have is minion life, which is a waste too, for spectres. Believe me , they will not die unless you run elemental reflect maps without using pantheon for reduced reflect damage.

- The top setup i found for operatives which is versatile (map and boss) without having to swap gem is spectre> spell echo > feeding frenzy > elem damage with attacks > volley > vicious proj. Amazing clear speed and nice boss kill speed while you can focus on a more defensive tree.

- like another fellow suggested above, get rid of the proxy ring and put bonechill on the skitterbots. Armagedon brand and frost bomb being casted manually will make you melt bosses pretty fast while not instantly.

-if you can, get 3 minimum endurance charges and get the block nodes on the tree and Glancing blows notable. Blocking is really good and preferrably you dont wanna rely on a flask for blocking because you can get killed instantly most of the times without knowing where it come from, before you can use a flask. So preferrably, for safe builds, go with shield passives. This will make you incredibly durable, kind of a game changer actually. You can have +2 on shield and +1 in one ring or +1 in shield, ring and ring. It is that cool! Also, you can run chaos golem on top of all that for an extra 5% reduced damage which works pretty nicely with the tankiness synergy.

-upgrade your amulet for one containing +1 to all intel skills, it is a cool little bonus!

I hope sharing my experience of success with this build helps you or other people reading the thread! Let me know of anything else you wish to know.

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kayella wrote:

I have uploaded a new build guide to youtube :)




One-Shot Crabbies is my ultimate boss killer build. It can insta-kill any endgame boss! (conditions apply).
In the boss kill showcase, you will see Darnaw, Unbreakable, Hydra, Chimera, Mino, Phoenix, Shaper, Baran, Veritania, Drox, AlHezmin, Sirus and the Twins*.
The Key mechanics explains how the build works, plus I outline the major limitations of the build.
The Gear and Gems shows my actual gear in Heist league.

You must use POB Community build to open my POB Pastebin.
https://github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding/releases

POB Pastebin:
https://pastebin.com/Z0LmbLZK

Pastebin account:
https://pastebin.com/u/Kayella