{3.10} Speaker for the Dead | The Mass Minion Summoner | League Starter, Leveling Guide 💀

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CWDT is unreliable, and melee hits exclude archer and spellcaster mobs/bosses.

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...being able to get enough reduced mana reservation to use a pride aura as well.




replacement for charity ... Any suggestions?

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Hercanic wrote:

@ Kirian42:

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Hercanic wrote:

@ everyone:
Here's an sneak peek at the 3.9 build!

PoB link: https://pastebin.com/KCm171Na



I still have more to do, such as tinkering with the items and adding the leveling trees.

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Kirian42 wrote:

A couple of mistakes in here, I think:

(a) You give the minions 16% more cold damage from Bonechill and 18% more damage from shock. Aren't both of these *increased* rather than more? (In one of the POB forks, you can add in the shock effect directly in the Config. I think the Bonechill still has to be manual though.)

(b) Elemental Army only uses the *largest* hit, so the enemy doesn't get -10% Fire Resist, only -10% Cold Resist. (This is kind of a paltry damage change, though.)

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This league I'm playing with a rather tweaked version of this (like, it's recognizably the same build, but some of my choices are quite different). Things that might be of interest to some...

Fortress Covenant: Yeah, you kinda have to hide it in a corner, but it's quite a nice boost to damage *and* that block for the AG is great.

Convoking Wand: With fossils (Corroded, Metallic, Shuddering, Jagged), cash, and luck, one can create a Convoking Wand with +1 to all Spell gems and +1 to all Minion gems... plus multicraft for minion damage and attack/cast speed. This gives us an extra Spectre at the cost of some Zombie power, but subtracting the cost of a Lvl 4 Empower.

I've been hating the Cyclone playstyle, and for the moment I've dropped EE, which means I'm actually running around without an "active" skill other than Skellies. It's kind of amusing. I may try running around with SRS in addition for the meme value. Either that or use Lightning Tendrils for EE and CWC.

POB here for the two people intereste3: https://pastebin.com/ATgCi2tY

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Hercanic wrote:

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Kirian42 wrote:

[In PoB] You give the minions 16% more cold damage from Bonechill and 18% more damage from shock. Aren't both of these *increased* rather than more?

Increased Taken is additive with other sources of Increased Taken, but to anything else it's effectively a More multiplier. That's why I added Shock and Bonechill together as 34% More Cold Damage (= 18% + 16%).

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Hercanic wrote:

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Kirian42 wrote:

Elemental Army only uses the *largest* hit, so the enemy doesn't get -10% Fire Resist, only -10% Cold Resist.

It's my understanding that an enemy can have one of each type of Exposure, but cannot stack the same type. "Highest Damage taken" should refer to the ratio of damage types taken from a single hit, like with Wave of Conviction. A single Solar Guard (or other Fire Spectre) would be providing the hit of high fire damage.

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Hercanic wrote:

Just as an FYI, you can also get +1 to all Spell Skill Gems on a dagger, enabling you to still use melee skills.

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Kirian42 wrote:

I'm like 95% sure this is wrong, but I should probably check with Reddit. I'm pretty sure "increased damage taken" and "increased damage dealt" are added together before any "more" multipliers are... multiplied.

And according to POB itself I'm wrong; it multiplies it into the resistance. Color me surprised.

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Kirian42 wrote:

I don't think you can get the +1 to all Minion Skill Gems [on dagger], meaning no level 25 Raise Spectre.

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I'm not following. I'm not aware of any shield that solves that problem for me.

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OGBalrog wrote:

Hey so just a quick update as I've been testing out a few different things:

As many have discovered, skellies are probably the best skill in the league, so I wanted to put as much as I could into them.

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OGBalrog wrote:

The only thing now is I should probably find a replacement for charity, since I've got chieftains for the charges. Any suggestions?