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Naedingur wrote:

Did my very first uber elder with your build. Bricked the first set and did it with the second on the last portal. Intense, but only a matter of learning the mechanics properly. I consider this however a very special moment in my time in PoE as I tried to finish Zanas questline since War of the Atlas was released (That's 3 years ago if I am not mistaken).

I don't know how to link items in the forums but I got this to show. Awesome build, thank you Kayella :)

Grats!

First kills are always memorable.

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Eyse-V wrote:

damn, im havin issues lol... i do feel auls onyx amulet would help but its pretty much impossible to get seeing as noone owns one on console lol.. any other options for uber elder?

ive given uber elder a crack 4 times and i can only get them both down to 40-25% hp left. tried switching to stone golem and also yugul on pantheon for less cold dmg,
got 5k hp and about 2.7k ES.

any suggestions or tips? lol

I think your gear is fine & 5.5/2.7 is acceptable. Soulwrest shouldn't be a major problem, either, as I've done UE with a 4-link.

How familiar are you with the fight? It really could just be a lack of expelience doing the fight with a summoner build. It's not a tank characters, so the only thing I can really suggest is to play it cool. Make sure that you're avoiding Elder's ice spear while you're kiting Shaper's attacks. DPS the bosses only when it's safe. Don't try to force the DPS or you'll get hit by something instead.

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CantripN wrote:

I must say, I'm not convinced the Staff version is much better, if at all. Unless the AoE increase from Greater Spell Echo matters that much?

DPS appears lower overall, and you lose Acrobatics (with the possibility for Vaal Acro), so I'm not even sure if defenses are better. 6k+ life with Acro is better than ~8k total ES+Life pool.

The wand build is definitely the best in terms of cost and raw DPS output. But, I would say that Greater Spell Echo adds an x-factor to the build due to to its repeat mechanic both for AOE and damage. And this x-factor isn't represented in PoB. In a recent UE kill, even though I forgot to use Vaal Haste and swap Inc AOE for Conc Effect, the fight was over in 2 minutes. PoB gives me 500k DPS per spec.

The increased aoe does seem to make mapping smoother as well.

With regards to survivability, I'm pretty certain it's possible to crack 10k eHP with GG gear. I'm currently at 9.4k eHP.

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kayella wrote:

Update to Pledge of Hands build

I have optimised the build to improve survivability while still having good DPS. The passive tree is unchanged. I've taken off Aul's Uprising, but there are other expensive items, so the cost is not significantly lower.

This latest iteration of the build is amazing.
Those blasphemy + temp chains and frost wall make a huge difference for mapping.

I'm now running 5 auras: Wrath + Zealotry + Flesh and Stone + Temp Chains + Clarity (level 1, to trigger the elemental resistance bonus from ascendancy).

I feel much tankier than before, I can destroy T16 maps (It feels like running through a T1), and I've been able to defeat Uber Elder!

I'm so glad I found this build, this is probably the most enjoyable build I've ever played in 3000 hours of PoE. Thank you!

This might've been asked already, but I happened to get a 4 link Vis Mortis and im planning to go the cheap route and using helmet as "6" link. So from what I understood I just put the spectre gems in the helmet, but what would I put into Mortis? Thanks :)

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Jakubi wrote:

This might've been asked already, but I happened to get a 4 link Vis Mortis and im planning to go the cheap route and using helmet as "6" link. So from what I understood I just put the spectre gems in the helmet, but what would I put into Mortis? Thanks :)

For your Vis, I suggest getting 2 red sockets and 2 blue sockets in the 4-link.

Then use Animate Guardian, Empower, Chaos Golem, Minion Life.


The guide suggests Stone Golem, but that assumes you're using a Bone Helmet which can easily get red sockets compared to the Vis Mortis.

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Kinir wrote:

This latest iteration of the build is amazing.
Those blasphemy + temp chains and frost wall make a huge difference for mapping.

I'm now running 5 auras: Wrath + Zealotry + Flesh and Stone + Temp Chains + Clarity (level 1, to trigger the elemental resistance bonus from ascendancy).

I feel much tankier than before, I can destroy T16 maps (It feels like running through a T1), and I've been able to defeat Uber Elder!

I'm so glad I found this build, this is probably the most enjoyable build I've ever played in 3000 hours of PoE. Thank you!

Grats!

I've also really enjoying tweaking the build. It really feels like there are no weaknesses.

As being fairly new to the Summoner side of things, was wondering if it would be wise/okay to level with SRS and switch over to Spectres? Felt tedious leveling with Zombies as they're pretty squishy early game unless I'm doing something wrong XD.

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As being fairly new to the Summoner side of things, was wondering if it would be wise/okay to level with SRS and switch over to Spectres? Felt tedious leveling with Zombies as they're pretty squishy early game unless I'm doing something wrong XD.

I'm working on this build myself in SSF HC. (Lookup Miserable_Lib_Spice)

I've not even switched over to the Slave Drivers yet, as I only have a 5-link... SG's (Solar Guards) I think are a bit better when you don't have the Drivers on a 6-L (I did the same on SSF, and I felt that the drivers really shine on 6-L, but on 5 they were a little under powered)

I leveled with SRS, and I still use them at this point as I'm still working on gear (SSF takes a bit longer)

You can use one +1 socket fire gem for a wand, with the SRS, and put another on a spell totem, and you'll have a pretty clean leveling experience.

I'm currently unclear if I will swap to the pledge of hands build, been farming the cards, but still don't have enough yet.

Made level 89 just this morning, so I'm feeling fine. Even with sub-optimal gear I've been able to do T6 or so maps pretty easily.

I'm also not using a wand due to something I found that had good dodge and chaos res.

Good luck!

Where do you get the minion info ( hp, damage , resist ...)?